Yup, I have 3 AP classes with a score of 4
and I’m currently in AP stats where I’m pretty sure I can get an easy 4.
I can manage a lot of classes, I think I have pretty good time management skills and I definitely can stay dedicated to the task.
thanks again man for the advice and confidence!
Have you looked here https://www.wiche.edu/tuition-savings/wue/wue-savings-finder/?degreetypes=Bachelor's&studentStatus=Freshmen%20Only&majors=Computer%20Science. You can get in-state tuition or close to in-state going to a college out of state. There are still some colleges that have rolling admissions. With your great grades, even if the school isn’t accepting applications, maybe you can email them and explain you just stumbled on WUE as an option to apply to an out of state school.
Like I said to @maora34 I think I got what it takes to get in for Fall 2022.
I’m definitely planning on starting this Summer.
Side note: Thank you for the confidence booster!
Use https://www.assist.org to check which nearby community colleges have the best coverage of lower division course work for your major at your target UCs and CSUs.
UCSC’s housing is notorious. And housing around there is super expensive. Students cooped up in very small rooms. If you complain to the landlords, they just can replace you with other students. I heard that students are so stressed with the housing issues.
awesome! I’ll check it out!
Thank you very much.
Awesome, but tbh, I don’t believe most CS programs actually require stats so it’s not gonna be of much help. Most will either require or strongly recommend the completion of the calculus series, or at least 1 and 2. From looking at assist, UCSC isn’t so bad for major courses. For my CC, they just need the first two programming courses, discrete math, and data structures.
Familiarize yourself with assist, a website us transfers use to see transfer requirements, and your CC’s IGETC course catalog.
Check your target UCs and CSUs to make sure that a score of 4 is sufficient to get subject credit, if the AP credit could be applied to a major requirement. Also, some AP scores, like physics 1 and 2 and statistics, are unlikely to be accepted for a CS major (if such courses are required, the calculus-based ones are likely required).
Also note that UC policy is not to give credit twice for similar material (i.e. if you take a college course covering similar material as an AP score represents, you do not get credit for both).
Note that UC and CSU give different numbers of credit units for AP scores.
Yea I got screwed for calculus, due to COVID some teachers quit (including our calc teacher) and we didnt get a teacher in time so I couldn’t even take the class…
And in addition @LilFruch, each UC and CSU campus and sometimes also each college within each campus will give different credit for AP exams. You have to be very thorough with transfer stuff.
Your CC counselors will be able to help, but DO NOT rely on them. Many CC counselors are straight trash and I can attest that I have hardly met any transfer students with positive experiences from them. Go into every meeting knowing exactly what you need and just use them to confirm your findings, and if they say anything you don’t know about, always trust but verify.
A great deal of CC students get screwed into taking extra, unnecessary courses. Do not be a part of that.
Thank you for the heads up!
I’ll keep that in mind when choosing a CC as well.
@LilFruch super happy for you. You seem like a good kid with a purpose and focus. I sincerely wish you the best of luck moving forward. Your future is bright.
thank you!
I do not want to cause you anymore issues but you might want to look at UCSC’s TAG requirements very closely since I have seen at least 1 TAG applicant get rejected this year and still figuring what went wrong and several the year before due to the CC courses not specifically articulating to UCSC’s requirements.
This can be seen here: AP credits | UC Admissions . While all UCs have the same policy for credit units (which is different from CSU), they all have different policies for subject credit, as can be seen in the links to campuses on that page. Note that the campuses may have different AP policies by division as well. In addition, for UCB L&S majors, you need to go to the web site of the major at berkeley.edu to find the major’s AP credit policy.
thank you for the heads up! I’ll pay close attention to the fine details of the requirements!
Thanks again for the tips and advice btw!
UCSC will be getting some new housing for students:
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/student-housing-west-approved.html
That’s nice to hear. I kept hearing horrible stories about housing there. We were wondering if we should visit there over the spring break. How did you come up with your name? Are you a Sushi lover, is that it?
A local food truck made these delicious burritos of sushi with the outer shell not being a tortilla, but with nori seaweed sheets. I was eating one when I registered for this site. 
So many people view community college as a place students “end up”, but that’s just not true. Community college is a place where students can flourish, and I’m living proof of that. I failed high school, but now I’ve got a 4.0, a job I adore, several publications, a handful of awards, and acceptances to some amazing T20 universities for Fall thanks to my time at cc. In fact, I’ve loved it so much (and I came in thinking I would hate it here), I plan to teach English at the cc level someday. 
I was rejected from every school on my list when I was 17, and I hated it. I felt angry at the world, angry at life, and I just wanted there to be some way I could still attend a four-year right out of high school. Those weren’t the cards I was dealt at that time, though, and that ended up being okay, because I wouldn’t trade what I have now for the world. Ultimately, the choice is yours, but I really cannot recommend community college enough–especially here in California. They’re affordable, they provide a high quality education, and some of them even have student housing/residence halls if you’re really craving a full college experience.
Best of luck, whatever you end up pursuing!