<p>Hello, I am currently a high school senior, and I got rejected to most of the universities I applied to. I got accepted to SFSU, but that's kind of too far in my opinion (I live in San Diego). I'm gonna have to spend a lot for housing, transportation, etc. Also, UCSD is my ultimate dream school, cause I got to know it a lot from field trips hosted by my school district and the Filipino outreach organization there, and I wanted to take advantage of the Education Abroad Program (EAP). But I go rejected. ): So I was wondering if I go to a community college around my area (San Diego City or Grossmont), would I be able to transfer within a year through the UCSD UniversityLink transfer guarantee agreement? I am ready to take some classes over the summer, preferably 6 credits this summer [or maybe even 9 if I feel diligent enough].</p>
<p>I am also taking six AP tests next month, and I'm pretty confident that I will get at least a 4 on four of them [probably a 3 in Phys B and EngLit lol], and that counts as UC-transferable credit, right? What are your thoughts about this?</p>
<p>By the way, I'm not looking for responses that are like "what's wrong with you, you're not even done with high school and you already want to transfer.. yadda yadda" as I've seen from other posts regarding transfers after the first year. LOL. Kay, thanks. </p>
<p>If it helps any, I do want to major in Chemical Engineering, but since it isn't offered in CC's, I'm going to declare Pharmacological Chemistry for the mean time since it has the same GE's, minus the CEng courses. But when I transfer that's when I'll apply for the CEng major.</p>
<p>You would need to look at UCSD’s policy on accepting lower division transfers. Typically the UC’s only accept junior level transfers; meaning you’d need to attend the community college for two years, or for 60 transferable units. From wht I understand there are some instances where lower division transfers are accepted, but it is usually because the student was UC eligible right out of high school but lacked a few courses. Anyhow, check it out for yourself to see what category you fall into. Most of us fall into upper division transfer.</p>
<p>It is entirely possible if you can meet 60 unit requirement at the end of spring. I have a friend who took many courses during her high school years and she now applied just after one year. The catch is that SD does not give one-year transfers TAG (Fall 14 is the last one anyways)</p>
<p>I tagged at UCSD this application round and got in after just one year of community college. You can fulfill your IGETC requirements or engineering pre-reqs depending on your AP tests. Definitely try to pass all of them, that will help. You will need to get summer and winter classes, as well. Start planning now, try to get priority registration so you don’t fall behind and take as many units as you can. As an engineering major, you will probably have a lot of pre-reqs so look at assist.org and start planning your schedule. Good luck!</p>
<p>Its a possibility, but the system is against you.</p>
<p>Community college is crowded, very crowded. Your school will probably give preferential class registration dates to returning students, meaning you’ll be one of the last to pick as a freshman (it’s units completed at that school, AP’s don’t help there).</p>
<p>UC wants you to complete 60 units, but they don’t give you a time frame to complete it. So yes, theoretically you can transfer. But being an engineering major (you’ll have pre-reqs, and those pre-reqs will have pre-reqs), you’ll be taking an insane amount of classes that one year.</p>
<p>If you want my advice, I would transfer in two years. I took 5 AP exams, and got 4’s and 5’s on all of them, but I only got 18.7 units of the 60 I needed. So I only took 12 units a semester for two years and worked. It’s a great way to save money and you’ll get a better GPA (very important), which will help you get into better schools.</p>
<p>It depends on what the prerequisites are. It’s going to be tough to meet those requirements in a semester system where a lot of the classes are only offered once per semester.</p>
<p>First of all, I think you’re pretty confused about the process of transferring as you seem to think you can just take courses for Pharmaceutical Chemistry and then just apply as a Chemical Engineering major and take ChemE classes when you transfer. That’s not necessarily how it works. Applying from community college is not the same as applying from high school; you can’t just choose any major you want regardless of the classes you’ve taken and get in just because you have a high GPA and great ECs. In community college since you’re transferring essentially as a junior, you have to take the courses equivalent to the same courses you would be taking for the major as if you spent your first two years at that UC. Those specific set of courses are called major prerequisites and they’re equivalent to the lower division requirements for that major at that UC. Often you have to complete all of, or most of, that set of courses to be accepted for that major at a UC or you won’t even be eligible for admission for that major. To find what those CC courses you need to complete as major prereqs go to the website Assist.org and select the tabs for UCSD (or any other UC you may transfer to), your CC, and your intended major at UCSD. </p>
<p>Pharmaceutical Chemistry and ChemE are likely to have very different prereqs, with ChemE having much more math and physics courses and probably programming as well whist Pharm Chem will have more chem and bio. If you focus on a Pharm Chem curriculum you’ll likely not complete the proper courses and won’t be admitted for the ChemE major at UCSD. In addition, you won’t have the appropriate classes to enroll in upper division classes after you transfer and will spend much longer at a UC as a result. So the important thing to take away is that you need to complete the ChemE prereqs if that’s what you want to study at a UC. You DO NOT have to be any major in CC, you just need to complete the prereqs for whatever major you want to enroll at a UC to transfer. You can transfer to ChemE as an art major in CC if you finish all the ChemE requirements. The UCs won’t know your listed major in CC, just what major you choose on their UC application when you apply. </p>
<p>As far as whether it’s possible to transfer in one year, the answer is yes. However it depends on how many AP courses you receive credit for and if they satisfy enough of your prereqs so that you can finish in that year. You’ll need 90 quarter units (or 60 semester units) to transfer, which generally takes most students two years. However, if you have a decent number of incoming units because of your AP courses it may be possible. Science and engineering majors usually aren’t the most realistic to try and transfer in a year because they have lengthy prereq sequences that usually take longer than one year to complete. For example, most engineering majors usually need to finish a lengthy math sequence in CC – two semesters of Calc, Multivariable Calc, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra. That in itself usually takes two years because you have to take some of them in order and can’t take them all at once. If you finished AP Calc AB and BC in high school though you could start straight away on the higher classes and might be able to finish that sequence sooner. If you didn’t take AP Calc in high school you’d likely be starting at Calc 1 and it would at least take you 1.5 years to finish just the math prereqs. </p>
<p>What you need to do is figure out how many units you’ll have coming in to figure out how many units you have left to get to 90 qtr (60 semester) and figure out what prereqs you need to take. As far as UniversityLink, it won’t guarantee you admission into your major, but it will guarantee you admission into UCSD. If you don’t finish a decent number of your prereqs for ChemE and complete UniversityLink you’ll likely just be admitted as an undeclared major. If I were you, I’d get in contact with a CC counselor as they should be able to help you answer some of those questions and better explain what courses you need and about programs like UniversityLink. In addition, you need to do more research to understand the basic requirements that you need to apply to a UC from a CC using the UC application website, the requirements for UniversityLink on UCSD’s website, and for your major prereqs using Assist.org.</p>
<p>It’s possible. I know someone transferring to UCI after just one year of C.C. Getting into USC after one year is a lot easier though, you only need 30 units, if you have a solid high school background.</p>
<p>Hi. Thanks for all the responses. Actually, I have already checked assist.org and seen all the prereqs for CEng. It is essentally the same classes as Pharm Chem, minus the bio. Well I guess that really doesn’t matter anyway since I don’t have to declare a major in CC lol. </p>
<p>By the way, I am leaning more towards going to Grossmont College, and according to their AP credit chart, I might be able to get 31 units down IF I pass all my tests with 3s (EngLit, US Gov, Calc AB, Psych, Physics B, Chemistry). <em>fingers crossed</em> and will be able to place out of many of the prereqs. With the schedule I have planned so far, I would have 70 semester units (31 APs + 22 remaining prereqs for major + 9 subject reqs) if I were to complete all my prereqs before transferring.</p>
<p>It looks like this coming year will be crazy for me…</p>
<p>I did it (havent been accepted anywhere yet) I was able to get an AA-T in psych and finish IGETC I had 5 classes that i got a 3 or higher on the AP test, its around 15 units then took 7 that summer had 5 from during highschool then took 14 fall and 19 this semester.</p>
<p>As a disclaimer I had priority registration (veteran status) so I was able to get all the classes that I needed. I also had to attend school at multiple campuses in order to not waste time taking classes that were not needed. It would have been impossible if I did not have priority registration.</p>
<p>I met with my counselor about 30 times between last summer semester and the end of fall semester. the only reason i had the units from the CCC before highschool ended was i was taking japanese as a personal thing i didnt expect to not get into uci the problem is you wont be able to tag</p>