<p>I heard that after we transfer to a UC, our priority is pretty low, and getting into classes is very difficult..and perhaps some of the crappy teachers are the only ones available...anyone with any experience on this?</p>
<p>I just heard a guy said similar things today. Is this true?</p>
<p>This is unfair.</p>
<p>its probably the same thing if u transfer to other school</p>
<p>transfers have probably registration days to those incoming freshmens, that being said, if you're a transfer and going into a upper division class, all the non transfers would probably have earlier registration dates and thus fill up the upper division classes before it gets to your registration date.</p>
<p>if that makes any sense?</p>
<p>AdamantineX- I've head great things about gettin classes at the other school I applied to. They go by year. Seniors, Juniors etc.,</p>
<p>That sucks if it's true. :/ :P</p>
<p>I've heard the same thing all.</p>
<p>My current CCC puts you in different priority categories based on how many units you have completed. You start out at priority D (of the dates open to register, you are basically on the last days). I've worked my way up to priority A (as have all of you) and get first crack now.</p>
<p>I hear that when you transfer to UC, you're basically in "priority D" again.</p>
<p>Arnold recently signed a bill that gives veterans priority registration. It applies to all CCC's and CSU's, but they were still working with the UC's on it last I heard.</p>
<p>So the lesson is: find out how you can get priority registration at the UC you'll attend (sports, music, EAOP, etc)</p>
<p>thing is, sometimes it doesnt really matter how early you register (or at least for me). for example, at my current school there are less people in the major than can fit in the class so most of my classes have room for additional people.</p>
<p>ill miss my super early registration windows though. :(</p>
<p>so i guess it depends on the major and the subject rite?</p>
<p>at my ccc the EOP&S students get priority registration. I tried applying for that just to get the priority but i couldnt. Im gonna try again after transferring. =)</p>
<p>This is just my speculation, but I think it's that most transfer students have fewer units than regular students. Especially since that some courses don't transfer from CCC to UC.</p>
<p>How can you be low priority when you are a JUNIOR though?regardless of major and the fact that you are a transfer, we all will have completed 60+ units, doesn't that work count for something?</p>
<p>Most classes should transfer though, surely placing us above Freshmen. (?!!?)</p>
<p>i sure hope so, i remember my first semester at a packed community college, i was thinking of doing the 3 days a week things, but by the time i got to register in august, whoa! all the classes were closed and i got stuck taking crappy classes with a crappy schedule. 5 days a week, one day mourning class, and another day night class. It didn't help that there was no parking and schedule of classes sucked anyways even if you did get priority. Some students i knew had like 6 days of classes a week and some student would have like 6 hour gaps between classes where they had to go home and come back. And other students had like 12-13 hour days.</p>
<p>Even if we had priority over freshman, compared to the other non-transfer juniors, we should have lower priority into getting into upper division courses. I'm worried that we cant even get into a required course...........</p>
<p>Just petition the classes... I'm sure you'll be able to get in if you speak with the professor. If he says no, just keep going back and stay through the lectures even if you are not registered in the course. The professor will see that you're determined and persistant. Thats how I always get into all my classes I want.</p>
<p>"How can you be low priority when you are a JUNIOR though?regardless of major and the fact that you are a transfer, we all will have completed 60+ units, doesn't that work count for something?"</p>
<p>Most freshman-admit students have well over the normal range of units for their class standings. For example, many freshmen at Cal have junior or senior standing in terms of units. This puts them well ahead of other freshmen for registration. And to put this in perspective, this is only the freshmen, not to mention sophomores and juniors with advanced standing.</p>
<p>Basically, the point is, most of the regular students at UC's got into UC's as freshmen because they had plenty of AP units along with CC credits during their high school careers. In addition to regular school year units, they will, on average, have accumulated more units than junior transfers. And since registration priority is based on the number of units taken, regular students, on average, will be slightly favored.</p>
<p>In my experience it's pretty much true. All the transfers I talked to had registration dates similar to sophomores. However, I had no problem getting into the classes I wanted by just showing up and trying to be added.</p>
<p>its 100% true that once you transfer into the UCs, you will not get priority registration. In fact, your registration will be the worst.</p>
<p>Around orientation period, this is how people pick their schedule for classes:
First seniors, then juniors, then sophomores, then freshmans, then entering freshmans (their orientation is first in most cases), and lastly, transferring juniors!</p>
<p>Eww, then I better get into my first choice, lol. This is ridiculous.</p>