Leaving UCSC as a frosh

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For many reasons, (financial, mental health, etc.) I want to leave this university and transfer to community college (LA Mission most likely or one in that system) at the end of the school year and complete sophomore year in a CC and then transfer to CSUN.

I was wondering if this was possible to do and still be in the same path for graduation in 4 years.

Also given that the reasons I want to leave are so strong i’m wondering if there was a way I could go into a CC for winter semester and how that would work given that I am currently in a quarter system. What are my best options here.?

I also want to know the best way to approach this topic with my parents. My sister was somewhat in the same boat and she ended up completing one semester in college and then dropping out and starting all over from scratch at community so I don’t know how to tell my parents that I will be doing the same because given that we are first gen students, I dont want to dissapoint them especially when I can’t tell them how bad my mental health has gotten because I don’t want to burden them for lack of a better term with another daughter who needs professional help given that a a main phrase when applying to college from them was “you don’t have your sister’s issues, you can go anywhere near or far and we won’t have to be constantly worried about you”

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It may be possible but the quarter/semester disconnect is working against you. 3 quarters equals 2 semesters, but 1 quarter plus one semester may leave you some units short. You need 60 semester units to transfer and while CSU could accept lower-division xfer students it is up to each campus and currently CSUN is not (see https://www.csun.edu/admissions-records/apply-lower-division-transfer-student). Perhaps if you do summer school this summer you’ll have enough. Note that the summer after your soph year won’t help in meeting the minimum; you have to have earned the 60 by the end of spring the year you will xfer.

If you are able to enter CSUN after 2 years with 60 units then it is likely that you can graduate in 4 years total. Some majors require more units to graduate, so if you have some majors you are interested in you can look up the requirements in the CSUN catalog.

As for how to approach this with your parents, you have counseling available to you at UCSC. See https://caps.ucsc.edu/ and they have a “Let’s Talk” program that is free. Don’t worry about the counselors being mad you want to leave UCSC; the administrators and counselors at college want what is best for the students and if it happens to be going to another college I think you’ll find people are willing to assist.