<p>To be more specific, my top choice is UCLA. I just want to hear insight from students who have dealt with the admission process. </p>
<p>I left CC, for now, and started working. I've done two part-time semesters and one full-time. I am considering returning next year as a refreshed motivated student. The reason I flunked out is because I was suffering from a debilitating anxiety disorder. In my arrogance, I didn't receive help until I seriously damaged my grades. I was hoping, now that I fixed the issue, to return and get A's, like it did in my first semester. I'm also hoping to use this life experience to make a killer personal statement.</p>
<p>My intended major is Nursing. I know ten transfer students are usually admitted into UCLA on that major. I know the odds. My GPA is currently below 2.0. </p>
<p>I am also considering my CC's ADN program, and doing the RN to BSN thing in another university. Although, I'd prefer earning a BSN first.</p>
<p>I hate to break this to you but there is no chance on getting admitted with a 2.0 GPA.
You need to have a 3.0 to apply towards UCLA and Cal. You need higher than a 3.5 to be competitive. You’ll need to have at least a 3.7-3.8 to be a good applicant for the nursing major. </p>
<p>However, don’t give up. There are other great UC colleges - if you improve your GPA greatly, you can have a chance. Also, if you’re seriously considering Nursing you need to look into the CSU’s. They are more hands-on and that might be the best fit for you since the UC’s are more on a theoretical and research focus. As well, you don’t need to have a 3.0 to be accepted to a CSU.</p>
<p>You may not want to retake your courses actually, although Hoping’s advice is still solid. There is a more strategic way to potentially go about it. Find a CC that participates in the TAP program. Plan out every single general ed. and major prep course you will need. You can use Academic Renewal on two semesters. You MAY want to use this tool if there are C’s/B’s in classes that semester if you KNOW you can get A’s in them. AR allows you to wipe all classes out from that semester. By using this method, you can change your F’s/D’s to A’s AND your B’s/C’s. The worst possible grade you can receive in college is usually a C, as you can never remove it…except by using AR. AR can only be used in a semester that has below a 2.0 average, so if you repeated the course for an A that could effectively move it above a 2.0 and remove your option of AR’ing that semester later. </p>
<p>Your counselor will most likely not take the time to tell you this or help you plan this out. You have to take the time to put a strategy like this together.</p>
<p>Also, look at YOUR specific CC’s rules regarding AR. They may vary slightly from school to school.</p>
<p>*Oops, forgot to answer your first question. Absolutely possible to get into UCLA still. TAP has 88% to 96% acceptance rate, depending on major.</p>
<p>My GPA was crap too(< 3.0). After retaking a few classes and getting straight A’s, I was able to transfer to a UC. There’s still hope. You absolutely have to retake those classes you got Fs and Ds in or else you won’t have a chance.</p>
<p>2.0 is bad but you can apply with below a 3.0 and get admitted, it’s not something I would bank on though, it’s called a special action admission for UC’s, UCLA primarily:" 2 percent for adults, veterans, students with special talents, and for other special circumstances. " two percent of admissions reserved for people that meet that criteria with above a 2.0 GPA so you just need to stand out from the crowd by far, be exceptional and show them why you deserve to go there.</p>
<p>If not all the above posters’ advice is good for retaking classes and stuff.</p>
<p>Academic renewal is not for only D’s and F’s. It is, as I said above, for semesters with less than a 2.0. That is also not technically written in stone. In rare circumstances I have heard of semesters with higher than a 2.0 AR’d as well, but it was because the semester was shown that it wasn’t a true reflection of the student’s abilities. Alos, the Senate rules for the UC’s don’t care for the reason - they only care if it was AR’d.</p>
<p>So how many credits do you currently have? If you still have another year (or more) of preliminary courses you need to take, I’m sure your GPA will bump right up! My best advice would be to retake the classes you earned bad grades in, but organize your schedule in such a way so that you don’t have too many “hard” classes at once. For example, I took calc, o chem, and molecular bio with some labs all at once. This is might be easy for some people, but I’m terrible at math and chem, so it was extremely hard for me. If I were to do it over again, I wouldn’t have taken calc and chem at the same time. Instead I would take another “easy” class in addition to bio and save one hard class for summer or something. </p>
<p>But to answer your question, you can definitely still transfer to a UC!</p>
<p>Well then your CC is different.My CC district allows you to choose classes that you’ve failed and have them AR’d, keeping in mind that there are certain restrictions to that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. I currently have three measly units. Two P.E classes, and Personal Development course. Two easy A’s, and a Pass. I won’t be taking P.E anymore, or classes for Pass or Fail.</p>
<p>I failed 10 units of remedial math courses. (I didn’t do so well in high school) I was acing my Algebra II before I started getting serious anxiety, I’m talking about a panic attack. I couldn’t even sit down and take a test that I knew the answers to. I was taking a Algebra I/II combo class worth 10 units. (Non transferable, obviously) If I didn’t have anxiety, I would have been in college-level math by now. I also placed in a remedial English course, just under English 101. I passed it with a C. I’ll just leave it as is, and get an A in English 101.</p>
<p>I continued going to school with anxiety issues , and tried to play them off. The result, two failed college level courses, Cultural Anthropology and Psychology 101. I will retake them. I also got a ‘W’ in Philosophy 101. I’m not planning to retake that one. Again, thanks for helping me with my decision. I have decided the CSUs are the way to go, and I will be studying toward an ASN and transferring to a BSN program at a CSU.</p>