<p>for uc's, you can't transfer as a soph. well, la or cal won't even consider you if you have less than 60 units. so i dk wth you are talking about "doing a soph transfer"</p>
<p>immm trying to transfer within a year too! sigh but i don't think i did too well in my calc class :[</p>
<p>You apply for a transfer to schools that accept sophomore transfers (private schools do).</p>
<p>chibi: not to rain on your parade, but I believe that Cal & UCLA expect you to graduate in four semesters. I don't think you would be able to spend three years there without good cause ("joining a frat" or being a "sports junkie" is not a good cause). You may wanna check on that first.</p>
<p>You can work out with Cal to get an extra semester, but I haven't heard of a sixth semester being given. It has to do with other circumstances (double majoring, excess of classes you need to take, etc)</p>
<p>I transferred last year to Cal after one year at UCSC. Best choice I've ever made.</p>
<p>l84ad8,
People are allowed to take an extra year to finish their studies; it's normal to do at UC's. Look at it this way, it takes 120 semester units to graduate from the school. That means, on average, you have to do 15 units per semester if you want to graduate in 4 years. However, the UC's only require 12 units per semester. Since I'll have 60 units going into my junior year, 12x4 = 48 semester units which means i'll be 12 short. That's another semester so essentially, I'll be able to graduate after 3.5 semesters. I intend on minoring so that gives me another semester to get a minor degree. Hence, 4 semesters (2 years) which would totally lower the amount of stress in getting a degree, resulting in more time to have fun, get involved on-campus, etc.</p>
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<p>Cal requires 13+ units/semester. I don't know about UCLA.</p>
<p>Cal Units and UCLA or any other UC except for merced are different. CAL is on semester and UCLA is on quarter. </p>
<p>For financial aid UCLA requires at minimum 12 unites which is 3 courses.</p>
<p>There is no limit to how much time you can spend at UCLA but you can only take 216 units, so once you take that many in total including what you transfer in, you better be done with your degree because you do not get to take any more. </p>
<p>You have to make minimum progress toward your degree which if you are a freshman requires MORE than 12 units a quarter but for transfers this doesnt apply as most transfer in with more than the units needed for ECP (estimated college(?) progress)</p>
<p>Then UCLA rules are different from Cal's. 216 units : 12 units per quarter = 18 quarters (4.5 years)</p>
<p>yup yup. i dont really want to go to cal so im shooting for UCLA.</p>
<p>i'm doing the 1 year transfer too.</p>