Graduate in 1 year after transferring?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Is anyone considering this? I'm mainly interested in doing it to save money on tuition and rent.</p>

<p>Here's the breakdown: 180 units required to graduate minus the 90 units I'm transferring from CC = 90 units in one year, 60 of which must be upper division.</p>

<p>I plan on taking a minimum of 15 units during the summer session, which leaves me with about 75 units for the fall, winter, and spring quarters. In other words, 25 units per quarter which if I'm not mistaken is 5 classes per quarter?</p>

<p>Keep in mind I am an English major so I'm confident I can handle the work load. Obviously if I was in the sciences this would not be feasible.</p>

<p>Does this sound sane/possible?</p>

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<p>will you be working?</p>

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<p>i think you have to be in the university atleast 2 years before graduating.</p>

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Proof? I’ve never heard that.</p>

<p>You might run into the maximum units/quarter problem though. You’d just need to get a petition I think.</p>

<p>Keep in mind you can go another summer session and petition to commence the prior spring.</p>

<p>If you do that,</p>

<p>Summer 16
Fall 20
Winter 20
Spring 20 [You participate in this commencement ceremony, you degree will be for this year]
Summer 16</p>

<p>Something like that would work if you want an easier load.</p>

<p>Keep in mind you can transfer up to 105. Do you have any APs or additional coursework?
If you transferred 105, you could do
Summer 16
Fall 16
Winter 16
Spring 16 [You participate in this commencement ceremony, you degree will be for this year]
Summer 12</p>

<p>Which is very reasonable.</p>

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<p>Most classes are 4 units iirc so 25 units a semester is near 6 classes and thats… killer.</p>

<p>If you feel your up for it try it but most counselor advice against taking more than 4 upper division classes</p>

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<p>I knew a chick that did that. The only way it’s possible, in my opinion, is by transferring the max 70 units (or 105 quarter units) and having some AP classes. The girl I knew took like 3 summer classes and then did 5 or 6 Fall and Spring classes I think. She was a history major though.</p>

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<p>The max you can transfer for APs and CCC courses is 105 quarter units.</p>

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<p>it really depends on major engineering/bio/econ majors will have alot of trouble doing this and the post above is true 70 units is the max so 105 quarter units </p>

<p>needing 75 for graduation split that up among 4 quarters 16/20/20/20 looks about right </p>

<p>4/5/5/5 classes</p>

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<p>^^^ not econ.</p>

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<p>@kernlsanders: na, work would not be possible lol.</p>

<p>I didn’t know I could transfer more then 90 quarter units, that’s good news because I actually spent 3 years in community college and have well over 60 units heh (another incentive for me to graduate early, because it would actually mean graduating “on time” and I’d get to graduate with my friends).</p>

<p>I’m confident I can do this, it’s gonna take discipline and time management though. I won’t be going out every friday, some of them will be spent writing papers and I’m O.K. with that.</p>

<p>My major only requires 48 upper division units, so spread apart in 4 quarters that’s 12 units of English per quarter, and the rest will be easy electives like “human sexuality” or
“21st century film”… you get the idea</p>

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<p>@rpicton i was under the impression that AP units don’t have to apply towards the max of 105 units to transfer from cc to uc…applying AP units towards any maximum limit is always optional (the max to transfer and the max to graduate), basically you can add them to meet a minimum unit limit or subtract them to not go over a max unit limit :]</p>

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<p>I don’t know which school you’re planning on attending. I’m at UCLA and based on my experience (I’m a history major): </p>

<p>Look, and I’m not trying to be a downer here, but I think that’s a realllllly bad idea. </p>

<p>It’s hard to get into good classes. Really. And you don’t want to just jump into whatever crap class you can take in order to fulfill requirements because that can very likely kill your gpa, your mind, and your soul.</p>

<p>I’m also worried you are underestimating the workload. 15 units is time consuming, but manageable. 25 units… It will eat up all your time. Really. No joke. Not just Fridays. Every moment of your life. EVERY MOMENT. You will eat less and sleep less. You will be slightly unstable by finals week. har har… but really, the loss of a social life and free time is nothing to gloss over… although I suppose this is the norm for the premeds…</p>

<p>AND… you will barely have time for internships, research, etc. </p>

<p>How about you shoot for graduation two quarters earlier? Two years summer school, one full year school, and an extra winter quarter. I think that’s a more sane idea…</p>

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<p>Sopheee how many classes do you take per quarter on average? And how severe is the workload/reading for each class?</p>

<p>I will def take what you say into consideration, I don’t wanna kill myself…</p>

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<p>Which skool do you want, GreenTea? I’m sure that will affect your plan.</p>

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<p>@lomkh
I asked this question to a rep at UCSB and a rep at UCLA. Below is my question, and their responses.</p>

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<p>I’ll be @ UCSB</p>

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<p>My honest advice is to remember the reason for going to school: to learn and to have access to better jobs. However, once you get that job, your knowledge will play a big factor in keeping you in it.</p>

<p>I would say relax and enjoy school while taking the time to learn. Believe me, I used to be the same–always going just for the grade–and I not only disliked school, but have forgotten a lot of stuff today. Recently, I have started looking at school as an opportunity to learn and am really enjoying it now.</p>

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<p>Hmmm the more I think about it and read these responses the more I think this isn’t a good idea lol.</p>

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<p>GreenTea,</p>

<p>I was actually planning to do the same thing for the same reasons. Since I am transferring in the max amount of units and taking 2 courses over the summer, I only need to take 16 courses to graduate. </p>

<p>However, after giving it more thought and receiving lots of advice from current transfers, I decided I am just going to shoot for graduating a couple of quarters early. The main reason I reconsidered my grand plan is because of class availability issues (as Sopheee mentioned above). I really don’t want to settle for courses just to finish early. I would rather try to take courses that I’m really interested in with a professor that I really want. </p>

<p>Although graduating in one year would be awesome and cost-efficient, I think the higher quality of classes would make up for the extra quarter(s). </p>

<p>One more thing – although a large course load is manageable, I would rather not spread my energy and efforts so thin that I am turning in half-ass work. If you have aspirations for grad school, I would recommend you consider this as well.</p>

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<p>I am a transfer student who transferred to UCLA starting Fall 2009. I entered UCLA with 105 units (Becuase of credit limitations, there is pretty much no way around this).</p>

<p>I am walking at graduation this June 2010. I do have to take summer classes though, but UCLA lets you walk as long as you are a degree candidate.</p>

<p>I needed: 75 units minimum (need 180, entered with 105) 60 must be UD</p>

<p>Fall: 18 units (13 UD) (3 4 unit classes, 1 5 unit, 1 1 unit seminar)
Winter: 21 units (16 UD) (4 4 units classes, 1 5 unit)
Spring: 21 units (21 UD) (4 4 units, 1 5 unit)
Summer: 23 units (13 UD) (2 4 unit classes, 3 5 unit classes)</p>

<p>Basically, it can be done in one year, but it was very tough. I had to stay on top of everything constantly, no slacking off ever, and was able to maintain a 3.9+ thus far.</p>

<p>I am also a Biochemistry major. Sooooo someone has done it…but it was not easy. Took a lot of planning/strategizing in course planning, but good luck to whoever attempts it.</p>