Official Thread for One-Year Transfers

<p>Oh I see, then you don’t have to worry about it because you are junior standing</p>

<p>During my first year at UCR I applied to transfer and got accepted by UC Santa Cruz; someone I know got into UCSD through a first year transfer (!)</p>

<p>@the poster at Merced, is it really that bad there?</p>

<p>I just had a quick question about transferring in one year. I’m a first year CC student and I’m applying to a few UCs and Cal Poly. I know this is a UC thread but you all seem pretty knowledgeable about one year transfer stuff so I came here for advice about Cal Poly.</p>

<p>I didn’t take any CC courses during high school, but I came into college with 30 AP credits. I’ll be taking 18 units this semester and 18 next semester, which will complete my IGETC and my prereqs. I know UCs have no problem with one year transfers because you update them with your fall grades, giving them a GPA, but I emailed the admissions office at Cal Poly and they said they don’t do that and that since I hadn’t taken any CC courses before this fall, I’d be applying with no GPA and I won’t get in.</p>

<p>Is there anything I can do? I’d be happy with a UC but Cal Poly is my first choice. I have A’s in all my classes, without too much effort. Would it be possible to just put my anticipated grades on the application just so I can have a GPA? Because apparently no human actually looks at the applications, just a computer. If at the end of November I were 99% sure of the final grade I would be getting, it would be possible just to put those down, right?</p>

<p>My other option include waiting till I get my final grades, then emailing them and asking them to change my “in progress” to the grade; this is the process they use for mistakes on applications.</p>

<p>The other option is to just apply, get rejected, then appeal the decision with updated grades.</p>

<p>Could anyone help me out on this? It’s almost unfair because the only thing limiting me is the fact that I’ve only been in CC for one year. Otherwise, my current stats would be good enough to make me a qualified applicant.</p>

<p>does anybody have any information on lower division transfers to UC davis?</p>

<p>@klee306
“If you were eligible for admission to UC when you graduated from high school—meaning you satisfied the subject, scholarship and examination requirements, or were identified by UC during the senior year as Eligible in the Local Context (ELC)—you are eligible to transfer if you have a C (2.00) average in your transferable college coursework.”
[UC</a> Davis General Catalog | Admission as a Transfer Student](<a href=“http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog/admission/transfer.html]UC”>http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog/admission/transfer.html)</p>

<p>Bumping this up for any one-year transfers like me on here. Anybody? What are the stats this year for one-year transfer applicants?</p>

<p>My stats:</p>

<p>Transferring from: CCC
Applying to: Cal, UCLA, UCI, UCSB
Major: Psychology
Current Cum. GPA: 3.73
Units Completed so far: 11
AP Credit: 13.3 units
Fall schedule: 15 units
Spring schedule: 21 units
IGETC: Will be complete after Spring 2012 semester.
Pre-reqs: 2/5 completed; 4/5 completed after Fall; all before transfer
Extra Curricular: Volunteering at high school’s College & Career Center, Facebook page</p>

<p>Can anyone chance me? There isn’t much going on here so let’s revive this thread
Major: Economics
From: CCC
Schools applied: UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCD
Current GPA: 4.0 (Macroeconomics is IP, done with the rest of prereqs)
24 Units completed
18 AP Units (Major related: Calc BC 4, Stat 5)
18 Units: Spring Semester
Will the AP units show that I am a strong student, or will lack of CCC units mean I have a short track record and therefore discount my 4.0
Essay: 7-8/10 I mean I don’t think it will help too much but it won’t hurt.
IGETC: Done by Spring
ECs: Not much honestly. 200 hours non-major related comm service (100 of which I did senior year in hs), business club at ccc, also did 4 years of marching band in hs but I don’t think it will help much. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>@nyc_dream1
How many colleges did you attend and how did you space out your classes (How many classes you had a day/week etc.) And how does the Maxing out (17 credits) work?
I might be a bit clueless but I want to get away from CC asap</p>

Hope its okay for me to bring this thread back to life. Could someone help me out? I’m a prospective one year transfer student from a CCC.

I’m attempting to transfer to UCLA for business econ and have 22 units from AP credit. My plans are to take 19 units this fall, 17 in the spring, and 5 in the summer which adds up to 63 units. By the end of spring 2016 I will be done with my major prereqs and by the end of summer 2016 I will be done with my IGETC. I cannot get TAP certified because of my higher level courseload at my CCC.

I was planning on being honors certified, and I know it makes me a better candidate, but is it necessary? and are the classes that much harder/more work? I’m asking this from a one year transfer’s prospective as I am overloading my schedule with 5 classes this fall, 3 of them being honors. I know that UCLA’s business econ major is extremely popular and thats why I was going to get honors certified by the time I transfer to be a better candidate. Will UCLA even know I’m on track to be honors certified? I’m not sure if they would even care if I’m a one year transfer.

Was thinking of instead taking all regular classes instead and getting a 4.0, and doing extra curriculars to stand out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Without a college GPA when you submit your ap in November, they won’t have much (other than evidence of your ambition) to evaluate you … Also, i am almost certain that you need 60 units without including the summer before you transfer.

Make an appointment with an admission counselor at your closest UC - sit down with your AP scores, transcripts,course schedule, etc and discuss your plan with them. Listen closely to what they say and adjust your plan accordingly. Also, be honest with yourself about the likelihood you’ll earn straight As in 6 honors courses next semester…

Good luck.

Yep, @NCalRent is right about the 60 units complete by Spring prior to transfer.

@Sctl97 One year transfer to Berkeley Econ here, the above posters are absolutely correct that you CANNOT use summer to meet admissions requirements.

Generally though, 22 (semester?) credits isn’t usually enough for most counselors to recommend a one year track into Econ and I wouldn’t even fathom it if you don’t have a Calc I equivalent done. The successful one year Econ transfers I know had at least 30 semester equivalent units and most had even more than that.

More importantly though, Biz Econ at UCLA is terrifyingly hard and it’s usually better to spend that extra year prepping yourself by spacing out your classes and improving your economical/mathematical maturity with other applicable courses like differential equations. Too many people struggle when they get to Econ at UCLA (or all the UCs for that matter) because they underestimate the amount of math you need to understand to be successful in Econ.

If your adamant on trying as a one year transfer, I recommend considering taking those IGETC courses online with a opposite calendar system based CC instead. (e.g Semester to Quarter) The alternate calendar helps alleviate the all-too-frequent work overloads. Foothill, DeAnza and Lake Tahoe all have a wide variety of courses that can work for you if your semester based and plan ahead.

Please see the following:
5) I took some college transferable class while I was attending high school, do those Unit count in that 60 units?

Yes. They should all count. But be careful though, some community colleges have a maximum cap of how many transferable units you can take in high school that would still count.

Is it correct?

For college credit the courses need to actually be from a college and noted in the college catalog, which means taken in a college setting. If they are courses taken at a high school, they likely will not count. Check with the college that is supposedly affiliated with the courses in question.

Ca community colleges will not put a limit on the number of lower division college courses taken. There is a transfer limit to a UC, but you can take as many as you wish.