So I am currently at a community college. I plan on transferring to UCLA or UCSD to get my bachelors in Biology, and then go to UCLA School of dentistry. My counselor at my community college gave me a list of classes she said I need to take before I transferring and its something like 140 credit hours in total. Is this going to affect my chances of getting accepted to dental school, I am so worried and she said I need to stay at the community college for 5 years in total, please help.
Transfer students have a maximum amount of credits they can transfer to UC’s. Did she mean the units including the coursework at the UC’s? Five years sounds funny.
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/uc-transfer-maximum-limitation-policy-chart.pdf
From UCLA transfer applicants page
Find another counselor. You need a minimum of 60 semester or 90 quarter units made up of major prerequisites and GE courses.by the end of spring before fall start.
Are you looking at an IGETC matrix?
Read and post here http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/
Ya it is the IGETC, she wants me to work my way up to cal 3, organic chemistry 2, and she wants me to take like 5 physics classes… if I take all that, I am like what will I take when I transfer. I feel like im completing my major at a community college.
Except for all that math, sounds about right for UCLA Dental School https://www.dentistry.ucla.edu/learning/pre-requisites-requirements-admission
You will take upper division Bio (your major) classes.
Would I have to take statistics? my counselor didn’t say I have to, but I saw is on assist
If your CC and UC agreement says you need Stats, then yes. You probably need at least 1 year of Calc though, not sure if Calc 3 is 2nd year.