Help me find a school that is more affordable.....

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<p>This is per someone in UCR’s admissions office who is a long time friend of my family:</p>

<p>What I mean, is that I have 28 units of courses that the UC’s would have accepted for transfer had I passed them. I flunked a number of these and withdrew from the rest.
The flunked units are counted into my UC GPA and CSU GPA which is a 2.6 calculating all attempted courses that aren’t developmental courses. This is below the required GPA for an OOS transfer for UC’s. I have 57 transferable units now, and need 60 to finish my AA. If I apply to a UC, I will be denied because my GPA is below the cutoff. If I re-take the courses that I flunked in order to raise my GPA, it will put me above the maximum 64 credits that they will accept for transfer. </p>

<p>Hence the issue. </p>

<p>I’m also running into SAP issues at my current CC because of all of those courses counting towards the “maximum” attempted units. The FA office isn’t playing nice because they say that I’m close to an AA and that there is no reason for FA to fund courses just because I’m trying to gain admission to schools that are OOS by retaking previously taken courses. Then there are 2 units that are not transferable to either any UC’s or CSU’s or UNR but count toward the 90 credit limit. </p>

<p>So, I feel stuck.</p>

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<p>Can you ask your CC if they will replace the F’s with the new grade, or average the two grades together, for retakes. It’s unfortunate you didn’t resign instead of failing, but most schools have some sort of policy on retakes. Otherwise, it sounds like you’ll have to matriculate at UNR at least until you can pull your grades up to UC’s transfer standard. </p>

<p>Even though UC will only accept 64 of your credits, I’m fairly sure they don’t mean that they won’t accept a student who has accumulated more than 64 credits! Think about it, that would mean they could never accept students pursuing a second bachelor’s degree! I would email the transfer admissions office at the UC and ask for their guidance.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure that UCLA had a policy AGAINST admitting students for a second bachelor’s degree – I’m not sure if that was UC wide or specific to UC, though.</p>