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<p>I’ll take a shot at some of your questions.</p>
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<p>Priority is given at the UCs to transfer students from the state community college system over the CSU system. It’s not impossible to go from a CSU to a UC (the son of a friend started at Cal Poly SLO and was accepted as a transfer to UC Davis after one year of college, but decided to stay at SLO), but system is definitely set up to make the transfer easier for the CC student. If you want to go to a UC and you didn’t get accepted during your senior year, the safer play would be to go to a CC and transfer to a UC rather than go to a CSU and hope to transfer.</p>
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<p>The UCs and the CSUs may have agreements with local CCs (or all California CCs) that will promise admission to students who take so many credit hours at the CC level, classes within certain categories (gen ed type classes) and a certain GPA (for example, 3.0 or 3.2 and above). I’m more familiar with UC San Diego since it is the UC in my backyard. But each university may have different qualifications and agreements with the CCs.</p>
<p>[Transfer</a> Admission Guarantee: Fall 2011](<a href=“http://www.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/transfers/prep-programs/tag.html]Transfer”>http://www.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/transfers/prep-programs/tag.html)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.elcamino.edu/academics/honorstransfer/docs/TAGandTAPAgreements.pdf[/url]”>http://www.elcamino.edu/academics/honorstransfer/docs/TAGandTAPAgreements.pdf</a></p>