Getting into the UCs

Transfer Students
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<p>im a freshman right now
i'll be applying to UCs as a sophmore
if i'm not accepted as a junior transfer student</p>

<p>I can stay at CC and reapply the next year (in other words take 3 years at CC).....</p>

<p>Let me get this straight: I can take as many units at CC as I want, but the UCs will only accept a maximum of 70 units? So my UC GPA will count ALL the UC transferable courses I take at CC...</p>

<p>so theoretically, can't anyone just stay at CC long enough to raise their GPA high enough, and eventually get into Berkeley (or UCLA)? I mean, its an obessive plan, but i'm wondering if that option is there....</p>

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<p>are you FROM california?</p>

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<p>ya, but it is not as easy as it sounds. and if you take 10 years at a cc im guessing they wont be as apt to take you</p>

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<p>Try your best to get out of there after 2 years. At most schools, students with more than 2 years are discouraged from applying and will get lower priority.</p>

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<p>ooh interesting...i didn't know this and yes i am in california...</p>

<p>thanks for the info...</p>

<p>more input is welcome</p>

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<p>i took 5 years.</p>

<p>i dont think they look at how long it took.</p>

<p>also, depending on who you were in high school, its highly possible that it should take you more than two years. most people enter CC not ready to go the college transferable math and english courses and thus have to take extra time at CC anyways.</p>

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<p>what do you mean discouraged?
Lower priority?
Your going to give me a heart attack, im on my third year.
A lot of people have told me on cc and other places it dosn't matter, even a uc berkeley counselor. I have also read a couple other people say the same as you. I dont know what to think???</p>

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<p>ok for a california cc student applying to a UC/CSU, time is not of the essence. I took 5 years ia m at UCLA. a lot of people took 3+ years. </p>

<p>Maybe if your applying to privates or out of state schools it would matter.</p>

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<p>For my CCC, UC-transferrable courses are courses numbered from 1-49 (ex: english2, math 49, bus10..)</p>

<p>As long as you will have COMPLETED 90+ UNITS BY SPRING 07 (NOT summer 07), you should be eligible to apply. </p>

<p>If you won't have at least 90 quarter units, than I recommend you stay another year instead of skipping sophomore year. </p>

<p>Also, make sure that the UCs you're interested in accepts sophomore transfers because I think that most of them requires junior transfers (90-120ish quarter units)</p>

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<p>oh ok good bc i'm going for UCs....so i guess it feels better to know that if worst comes to worst (i dont get into the top UCs) i can always stay another year and boost the GPA...worst case scenario though..</p>

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<p>good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks baylivin (nice username = )</p>

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Maybe if your applying to privates or out of state schools it would matter.

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<p>Yeah, sorry I dunno how those crazy UCs work. They may be different. For every school I've looked into (all privates except UT-Austin), they've all discouraged people with 3 years or more from applying. UC may be different, and if you've spoken with the counselor at Berkeley, you'll obviously have a better idea.</p>

<p>But if you do plan on applying to certain OOS or private unis as well, I'd check to make sure.</p>

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<p>You only need two years ILC. I'm sure you'll be fine...just keep your GPA as high as possible since you've a clean slate.</p>

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<p>i wish i had a clean slate = (</p>

<p>i took a chem class as a sophmore in high school and got a C = (</p>

<p>and what sucks is it is uc transferable BUT it doesn't fulfill igetc. how annoying is that?</p>

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<p>so does that mean If I got a C in INTRO to CHEM which is a UC transferable. Am I obligated to transfer that?</p>

<p>or lets say you took 85 UC transferable courses and the 15 of them are C's. Can I just leave them out?</p>

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<p>ibrain, yes you have to transfer and acknowledge that, everything that is UC transferrable must be shown on application, regardless if there are C's, F's or A's. There is no cheating in the system.</p>

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<p>yea never leave anything out...its a dumb, sneaky move lol</p>

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<p>I don't think cc stduents have any restriction regarding transfer policy. All those "junior transfers gets highest prioirty" or "we don't accept any transfers beyond blah blah units" only apply to those transferring from other 4 year institute such as CSU/UC. The only thing that will apply is that no matter how many units you have taken at cc, only 70 of them will go toward toward the degree requirement. However, your chance of admission will not be hindered whatsoever.</p>

<p>Yeah I know. They should have a completely separate Transfer Policy section for Community College Students in their website. It gets really confusing the way they have put up currently.</p>

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<p>Don't trip chocolate chip. Theoretically, you can't bring up your gpa by staying there longer unless a student were taking some fun courses with only 1 transferable uc course per semester. But ucs do look at courseload and if it took you 10 years to complete because you were only taking one transferrable course and no prereqs to major courses then... it would certainly be discouraged. Most people take about 3 years to transfer. Depending on who you are and the mindset you have while entering in college. This is my third year at a ccc but I wasted 1 year by taking CSU transferable courses and in the second year, i have decided to go to a uc.</p>

<p>I guess, just take your time until you find out what it is that you really want.</p>