<p>^ I am sure we are all aware of that. Facts can be life experiences which is just as important as published articles, something that you seem to forget most times.</p>
<p>Hmm…guessing from your username and posts that you are class of 2018 someplace? Guessing you just graduated from high school. So life experience might be in short supply.</p>
<p>LOL…
Interesting how poking your nose to where it does not belong can mislead you. Like I said earlier, your attitude in this forum really solidifies my believe that maturity does not come with age to many.
Again, my pleasure.</p>
<p>Thanks , but I am sorry as I forgot to state my situation.
I moved from India to San Diego last year and did my senior year here. I didn’t apply anywhere because I didn’t had time to do everything for a good university like a good SAT score (or ACT ) and SAT 2 in just 4 months since I came here in august 2013. Now since I am graduated I have two options either I go to community college or I take a gap year and apply this year for Fall 2015. If I take a gap year I might be at risk because if I don’t get accepted to college of my choice I would be simply wasting a year.
I gave one ACT and got 27 in May ( at that time I was studying for AP Chemistry , AP calculus BC , AP physics on my own and I got 4 on everyone of them) so I hardly had time for ACT and 790 on SAT Math 2 .
The thing with UCs is that they don’t accept any SAT or ACT score after one graduates from high school. So my highest Score for any UC currently is 27. But if I apply out of state I would have chance get a good score in ACT. like for Mchigan , Illinois, Texas (Austin) or Purdue ( these are my main choice if I go out of state) .
I can go o CC and have a fairly good chance of going UCB or UCLA. Which I can’t go as a freshman. I don’t know if going to CC for 2 years will harm my future or not as compared to a 4 year University.
I bad thing is I have junior year GPA of 3.5 which is class rank 14 according to Indian standard.
Plz help me decide
I really want to go to a solid school.</p>
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<p>Where does it say that?</p>
<p><a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/examination-requirement/index.html”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/examination-requirement/index.html</a></p>
<p>Also, what major(s) are you considering? The CC->UC path feasability does depend on your major. Some majors are easily to fulfill the prerequisites at CCs, but others may have prerequisites that differ among UCs, so it may be difficult to find CCs that cover them for all of the UCs you are considering. You would still be admissible as a transfer if you did not take the prerequisites because they were not available, but then you would have to take a lot of “catch up” courses after transfer.</p>
<p>Out of state admissions for Michigan, Texas, and engineering/CS at Illinois are probably quite difficult.</p>
<p>I have personally met with admission head of UCSD and she is the one who told me that I take to take ACT before high school graduation.
I want to major in engineering
So what should I do </p>
<p>The UC web sites say that tests should be taken by December of senior year, but that appears mainly based on the assumption that the applicant is a high school senior and needs to get the test scores in by then so that the admissions readers can see them. They do not say anything specific about getting them in before high school graduation, nor do they say anything specific about gap year frosh applicants, although they must get some. So you may want to ask her specifically in the context of a gap year application.</p>
<p>The other thing to look at is what you and your family can afford to pay.</p>
<p>Engineering is usually harder to cover all of the prerequisites at CCs (see <a href=“http://www.assist.org”>http://www.assist.org</a> ). CCs often have better coverage of prerequisites at local UCs and CSUs than more distant campuses.</p>
<p>Engineering majors are often more selective for both frosh and transfer admission.</p>