<p>I recently attended RIT (hated it) and decided to transfer to a different school. In the mean time, my parents had moved from Illinois to San Diego, CA. Unfortunately, my GPA was terrible (2.5) so I really stood no chance to transfer anywhere to complete my degree.</p>
<p>One of the first things I did when I came to CA was look at the community college system, and I was pleasantly surprised. The CCs I was used to seeing were pieces of crap that didn't really prepare anyone for anything. The one I looked at, anyways, seemed very nice and offered quite an advanced set of courses.</p>
<p>But what really caught my eye was the idea of guaranteed UC admission. With my grades (although a 33 ACT :) ), I stood no chance of ever getting into a UC on merit alone. However, I found out that if I complete a set of prerequisite courses with a certain minimum GPA, I can be guaranteed admission to UCSB, UCSC, UCR, and most importantly, UCSD. If I became part of the honors program, I would get priority admission to UCLA, but not guaranteed.</p>
<p>I've done really well so far, keeping my GPA fluctuating between a low 4 and a high 3. I'm probably going to try for the honors program now to get into UCLA, but if I don't, UCSD is there no matter what!</p>
<p>So who here has heard of this program, or participated in it? It seems almost too good to be true, when considering the low cost of the CC courses and the horrible educational system I'm used to.</p>
<p>Transfer agreements are absolutely awesome. My cousin got into UC Davis with one. The california community college system is very nice. Actually, the community college system in America is pretty awesome; it's one of the few places in the world to offer retribution. The only thing that sucks with transfering is that you might encounter dicks at UCSD who think they're better than you since they got in from highschool.</p>
<p>Willdo: True, I could encounter them... but they probably won't know, and even if they do, they're getting the same piece of paper at the end as me, and I spent less money!</p>
<p>There's a poster on cc right now in the berkeley forum that believes that wa I agreee with him that getting in as a freshman is harder, but he believes this indicates that transfer people are less "intellectually gifted."</p>
<p>oh and welcome to california and college confidential speed graphics</p>
<p>on the note of transfers as not being as intellectually gifted - that is such a generalization. There are many different reasons why transfer students are transferring. Many simply didn't apply themselves in highschool, some have economic reasons for transferring and others just couldn't do well on standardized test. This by no means measures intellect. Also, i've seen posted somewhere that transfer students perform just as well as students that have been at the university since freshman year so there should be no reasons why current students should be pretentious towards transfers.</p>
<p>you would be upperclassmen by then...and for your 3rd/4th year peers, college admissions/prestige crap is ancient stuff.....for one i havent met any such pretentious bloke (who brags 'bout getting in as freshmen) here in Tritonville.</p>
<p>Yea, I've never encountered any blokes that felt that way before. I guess I'm just a little annoyed to find one on cc; a forum where people help each other.</p>
<p>"There's a poster on cc right now in the berkeley forum that believes that wa I agreee with him that getting in as a freshman is harder, but he believes this indicates that transfer people are less "intellectually gifted."" </p>
<p>Willdo, you commit many fallacies in your saying:
1. Proof Surrogate fallacy, you uses "he" (poster on cc right now in the berkeley forum) as to give an assurance to your claim but who is he? </p>
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<li>Hasty conclusion (You have an extremely small sample (1 person) to make a generalization)</li>
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<p>3.Fallacy of anecdotal evidence (taking a story about one case to draw an unwarranted conclusion from it). </p>
<p>Check and see... :D I just point out the fallacies and I don't judge to accept or reject your claim.</p>