Today at 3:56 pm in Community Colleges
Hi guys,
I am trying to attend community college and transfer to USC.
I will use my G.I Bills ( military benefits ) so school tuition or living cost won’t be matter much I think…
because if I go De Anza, they will pay me 3,600 monthly for housing and if I pick Santa Monica or Orange coast, Gov will pay me 2,600 per month.
So if you look at just school for transferring, which school would you guys recommend and why?
thank you for your time
https://camel2.usc.edu/articagrmt/artic.aspx may help you find out which community colleges have articulation listings with USC, so that you know what courses transfer and are equivalent to what USC courses. Use these listings in conjunction with the pages describing USC’s requirements for your major and general education.
Note that USC has no listing for De Anza College, but does have listings for Santa Monica College and Orange Coast College. This means that transfer credit for courses taken at De Anza College will not be known until after you are admitted and matriculate as a transfer student, which entails some risk of not knowing beforehand whether a given course will transfer or fulfill a requirement. Also, De Anza College is on the quarter system, so the courses may not align as well to those on semester system schools like USC.
If you also want to apply to UCs and CSUs, see http://www.assist.org for similar listings for UCs and CSUs.
^^^ Excellent advice from @ucbalumbus, you should be able to determine exactly what will count as credit by looking at the articulation agreements.
I stumbled across this when looking up transfer guide to link to you. I have not seen this before and am pretty familiar with many things USC. Pretty cool and it does include DeAnza here, allowing you to put in major, I tried it with Business just out of curiosity and it provided course equivalents for that major:
https://camel2.usc.edu/TPG/SelctPgAgrmnt.aspx
Try to get a lot of the core requirements taken care of, that is what they are looking for. The USC transfer guide is excellent, and don’t hesitate to find out who your transfer advisor is if you have questions. Good to connect with them with valid (not obvious things that can be found on website). Thank you for your service!
https://admission.usc.edu/transfer/applied/transferbrochure.html