<p>Ok, so I'm a transfer student. And my gpa is not competitive. Since I am persistent on going to a UC, I was wondering if anyone had any info on transitioning from a state to a UC after I transfer.
Staying in a cc another year wouldnt be great for me since I finished everything that I needed to finish. I did complete my 60units. And I know about the unit cap that UC's have.
Is there a site other than assist.org with information regarding the transition from csu to UC? Any help would be awesome(: What's ur opinion on this?</p>
<p>CSU to UC is significantly more difficult than CCC to UC. UCLA puts CSU transfer acceptance rates at about 9%, compared to about 30% for CCC transfers.</p>
<p>Furthermore, if you attain senior status at a CSU, you are barred from transferring to a UC entirely.</p>
<p>If you want to go to a UC, attending a CSU might be the worst possible choice available. However, you mention that your GPA is not competitive. What exactly is it? If your GPA is really low (2.75 or lower), you should attend the CSU and forget about transferring to a UC. At some point, a GPA cannot mathematically be redeemed within the limits of college credit. For instance, if you have a 2.75 backed by 60 units, it would take an additional 60 units of perfect 4.0 grades to raise your GPA to a middling (for UC applications, anyway) 3.4. If you only planned to spend an additional year at a CCC, a theoretical 60 unit 2.75 could only be improved to a 3.16 with 30 units of perfect 4.0 grades.</p>
<p>I used to have a 3.57 but after fall of 2011 it fell to a 2.8. After Iwinter it went up to a 3.0 which is my current gpa. I messed up in fall because of a language class I should have dropped. My major is communication. And I applyed to 4 UC’s I can appeal but I’m afraid that it won’t work although they may look at the gpa after spring 2012. </p>
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<p>The language course was 5units and I completely failed it. I’m hoping to get an academic renewal because I know that I won’t pass it. I regret taking the class I also recieved two c’s that semester which contributed to the gpa downfall.</p>
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<p>Officially, spring GPA is not a ground on which to appeal an admission decision, and probably won’t be looked at. </p>
<p>If you do exceedingly well in spring 2012, summer 2012, and fall 2012 quarters at a CCC, you might have a shot at the lower tier UCs (UCM, UCR, UCSC) for next year’s application cycle.</p>
<p>Good luck. Someone got rejected from SB with a 4.0 from Somona State. Which UC did you apply to?</p>
<p>Yeah I know . I spoke to a UC representative and they said that for UCSB they would look at the spring gpa if it would go up significantly. I also asked about the csu to UC and they said it is possible but it would be difficult. I’m not sure what to do. Staying at cc wouldn’t really help because I finished all of my units and my major courses. So Idk.</p>
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<p>Lawlkin: I applyed to UCSD UCSB UCD and ucla.</p>
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<p>I would do the appeal on the academic renewal.</p>
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<p>As an honest prescription, I would recommend attending a CSU and learning to enjoy that school. Your GPA is far too low to be considered for UCSB, UCSD, UCD, or UCLA, even with another year of CC work. If attending UCR or UCSC sounds appealing to you, you can stay another year at a CC and try to raise your GPA. If UCR and UCSC don’t interest you, attend a CSU and try to attend a UC for grad school.</p>
<p>You know you can take the language class as P/NP Credit</p>
<p>Well right now I’m taking a diff language class that is better. And the other class language class I know I won’t pass. I completely failed. I do regret taking it but what is done is done. </p>
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<p>Is their any site that would help me see any transferable courses from csu to UC if I end up making that descicion?</p>
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<p>No. The UC’s have no agreement with CSU’s so there’s no way to know if a course transfers from CSU to UC beyond looking through each respective course catalog and matching up similar course descriptions.</p>
<p>I would not be surprised if there is an understanding between UC and CSU that not only will UC schools not attempt to recruit high performing students (with the possible exception of athletes) from CSU schools but will also severely restrict the number of transfer students they will accept from CSU schools.</p>
<p>CSU does not attract nearly as many really high performing freshman students as UC does, particularly top tier UCs like UCLA. The loss of a significant number of their best students to UC schools would degrade the quality of the CSU student body and hurt the CSUs. </p>
<p>UCLA took 10 transfers from CSU schools last year and if all the other UCs accepted a similar number it would add up to less than 100 students, which CSU can probably tolerate. On the other hand, if each UC campus accepted several hundred transfers from CSU campuses resulting in CSU losing about 2,000 of its most capable students each year that would probably become a major source of friction but UC and CSU.</p>
<p>That may why there seem to be so many barriars, such as the lack of articulation agreements between the two systems, for CSU students trying to transfer to a UC.</p>
<p>Yeah I can see that. And I really hoped to go to a UC after cc but I messed up last fall; otherwise, I would be ok. its a bummer but ill try and hope to get some assistance along the way. Or I could stay another year at a cc which I really don’t want to do. Unless I change my major. 
I hope to find a good solution.</p>
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<p>Academic renewals are not an easy process–with many stipulations. 5 years need to have passed from the semester in question.</p>
<p>Jyoungs: for academic renewals it depends the school. Where I go I only need to complete 24 units with atleast a 2.0 for it to be granted.</p>
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<p>@OP: as others mentioned, look into your CSU school’s academic renewals policies, because all UCs accept academic renewal, and will not count the “F” into your GPA. Another way is to repeat the course you received the “F” with and get a better grade, UC will only counts the better grade, and discard the “F” from GPA.</p>
<p>Moon: yeah I’m leaning more to the academic renewal. And right now I’m in a cc so the process may be a bit easier. Hopefully I transfer out.</p>
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