<p>Yeah, the reason why no one is answering is because many have given you good advice and you are asking others how to direct your life. Don’t expect a bunch of twenty-year-olds on a college forum to plan your life out for you. That is for you to decide.</p>
<p>TaLLLuDWiG718,
You need to get your priorities straight. A lot of the reason why it might seem like no one is helping you out is because there is a level of immaturity, or at least lack of good reasoning/education in your post. This can be read by blaming UC rejections on the economy, wanting to transfer to UCI because of a perceived environment on a day(out of the whole year), Halloween, when things traditionally are not the norm on all college campuses etc. You also aren’t sure what you want to major in, and seem to also only value transferring with the hopes of being at a school that is a “UC”, when frankly, Cal Slo, is generally regarded on the same level as a midtier UCs(including UCI)and better than lower ranking UCs(santa cruz riverside merced). </p>
<p>If the main reason for you really wanting to transfer is because you don’t like Cal Poly, fine. That is a valid reason. But don’t expect any sympathy when somehow you’d be willing to put up with it for two years just to see if you can end up transferring after you’ve completed general ed there. If you really hate/dislike/don’t want to be at Cal Poly, then simply stop attending. Don’t stay because of what other people will think of you etc if you “drop out.” The thing to do, if you are seroius about transferring and leaving CAl Poly, is to finish your quarter or semester at Cal Poly(since you already payed for it or at least financial aid did). Once you’re finished with your first quarter or semester at Cal Poly, enroll at your local community college. Take your Cal Poly transcripts(after the grades are recorded) to your community college counselor, and they will tell you what counts towards general ed as part of IGETC. IGETC is the transfer preparation program california community colleges have with the UCs. When you do IGETC, this will tell the UCs that you finished all your general ed classes, and can transfer in as a junior without having to take any more general ed classes once you are there. Cal states nor UCs have “transfer preparation programs” with other UCs or Cal States, because the point of enrolling at one of these schools is for you to finish your degree with them, not use them as a means for another school. This is why no one can tell you if your classes at cal poly are going to transfer over to another school, regardless if you do general ed there for two years. Because the point of general ed at cal poly is for cal poly only, not for ucs, not for other cal states. If you really want to transfer or leave cal poly, best advise is ENROLL in your community college, and start taking IGETC classes. It will be a lot easier and the best way to get into a UC. Easier than even attending Harvard and trying to get in from Harvard into a UC. Also you might need your high school transcripts or SAT(depending on the community college you attend) so that you can use them as placement tests for math and/or english class. UC’s have a language requirements, part of IGETC(i think) that you could have waived or fulfilled by showing them that you took 2 or 3 years of a foreign language in high school(the reasons why you should take your high school transcripts to your community college). </p>
<p>When you are enrolled at your community college, you will also need to look at assist.org which will guide you in picking classes for your lower division requirements for whatever major you’re interested in transferring into. You will apply to transfer to a UC, the school year before you seek to transfer, kind of like how you did in hs. November application date, so that you can transfer in the following year in September. You don’t need to have all of your 60 units finished by november, but it’s a good plan for you to know how many units and what cllasses in advance you plan to take the year you transfer, so that it can be a smooth transition, and you don’t end up missing one class and find yourself staying at community college one more semester or one more year just because you missed 3-6 units or one class or two, which could have been avoided with planning.</p>
<p>I agree with liek0806. I am an student in SLO too. Like you, I have consider switch back to CC ever since first year as well. I know how hard it is. But the reason wasn’t because of the people, I wanted to switch because I feel that I was rushing myself too much. In the end, I pulled it together, and now I have one more year to go before graduating. Going to SLO is not the smartest choice I made, but I don’t regret sticking to it because it does taught me a lot about life. </p>
<p>College is not a club. It is a place of education. The level of their major program should be your foremost concern. You can always find friends. You are basing your school preference on a Halloween weekend? When you don’t want to hang out with part folk?</p>
<p>SLO do have party folks - but they also have a lot of serious studious people. I would say its 50-50, with a higher percentage of serious folk in competitive major (Pretty much all my friends are in competitive major. The others are from volunteer works.). However, you have to realize that the studious people wouldn’t be looking to find friends anymore - they are here to study, and they are still adjusting from their high school. They are also working to adjusting to the work load that college provides. Besides, it is freshman year, the first year without parents. It’s standard to go nuts and party (I didn’t do that, but…), they should quiet down after freshman year. It’s culture shock, learn to deal with it, and it will benefit you when you go to work in the real world. You are not always to work in places with the perfect social life or atmosphere - so you will have to learn how to make it work for you.</p>
<p>UC is not always better, depending on the major you apply. Cal Poly SLO isn’t know for Earth Science and Anthropology, so I wouldn’t complaint about you switching. But UCI isn’t know for it either. CC… depends, are you talking about CCSF? I attended summer classes there. Their cultural class was pretty good. I don’t know about Earth Science though. But if you are switching back to CC because you are unsure, then I think it be beneficial in the sense that you can slow down and figure yourself out. But then, you could end up delaying your decisions even more because there’s not the same pressure to determine a major, like in Cal Poly.</p>
<p>By the way, I stayed because the program I majored in was architecture. There are very few undergraduate school that is better for it - even more so for public schools. So my decision does not apply to you - there are plenty of school with better anthology and earth science program. Switch to UC or CC if you want to, but research about it this time - from resource other than your friends and family, whom probably know nothing about anthology and earth science majors.</p>