Help please. I need advice badly.

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Hi. I'm a student at a community college and I'm in an awful predicament:</p>

<p>-I'm in my 4th year at PCC (personal issues took a toll on me).
-I have a 4.0 GPA and I've gotten Dean's Honors, but I don't really have a goal and haven't really decided on a major.
-I feel like it might be too late to explore majors at this point.
-I completed all my general ed, but I don't have any coursework for any major.</p>

<p>-I applied to a bunch of UCs last November as a Computer Science major (a CS major seemed like the practical choice--STEM, good job security and pay, less coursework than Engineering). I've been hoping that UC Admissions would be lenient on students like me and that I'd be able to get out of my college as quickly as possible.
-I'm taking a bunch of basic STEM classes this Spring semester (Chem, Physics, CS, Linear Algebra).
-I've been feeling more and more that hardcore STEM fields aren't really right for me.
-I've been to my college's career center and I've taken the MBTI and interest inventories. It turns out that I'm an ASI. Also, I tend to enjoy Humanities and Liberal Arts classes more.
-I always hear a lot of talk about how you're not going to have an easy time finding a job with an English/Humanities/Liberal Arts major. Landing a job is very important to me.
-I've been having a hard time in my CS class. I feel like I'm not tech-savvy and I've thought about dropping the class. My CS class also takes up my entire Monday and Wednesday nights, so I have very little free time throughout the week.
-I'm worried that dropping the class would jeopardize the already small chance I have of getting into a UC.
-I'm worried that a UC might accept me if I don't drop, but reject me if I do drop. So, I'd basically be causing myself to have to stay another year at my college.
-I'm worried that, if I drop, I might turn around and go with CS again after finding out that it was the best major for me after all. So, I'd be wasting time.
-The deadline to drop without a 'W' is tomorrow midnight.</p>

<p>-I also have 87 units, not including the units from the classes that I'm taking this semester (10 of my units came from high school AP exam scores).
-There's a new California state policy, effective Fall 2014, that will cut your registration priority once you reach 100 units.
-I live out of district, so I already have low registration priority, but if I lose additional priority because of this policy it's going to be near impossible for me to get those popular classes (Chem 1B, Physics 1B, etc.). So this might make it even harder to transfer.</p>

<p>Can anyone help me, please? I'm really concerned about the direction that I'm heading and I don't know what to do. Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks.</p>

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<p>It sounds like you don’t want to drop. Don’t drop at this point. Wait to see if you get conditional acceptances based upon that class, if that is the case you definitely will regret dropping it. One W is not the end of the world if you end up wanting to withdraw after the deadline. Based upon what I have read on these boards UCs are very forgiving with respect to Ws, but a conditional acceptance can not be changed. Good luck </p>

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<p>At the end of the day getting a job is 60/40. 60% you as a person, 40% the degree. If you are directionless in life it won’t major you do; the result will be the same. </p>

<p>“My CS class also takes up my entire Monday and Wednesday nights,” big red flag IMO. With engineering or CS be prepared to have 0 free time 24/7. Plus you are taking an intro basic level cs class, it’s nothing compared to what you’ll face at a good Uni.</p>

<p>87 units? I hope you are taking general chem 2, calc based physics 3 and you’ve already done differential equations. You won’t get into a UC without having most of those courses completed. With 87 units you only have 1 semester’s worth of classes before my priority is gone. </p>

<p>Honestly you have a 4.0. Look into UCLA and Cal and what majors you have pre-reqs done or close to done for and then just apply to them. I would say the STEM ship has long since sailed. </p>