Current GPA: 3.68
After this semester: 3.84 (assuming I keep my 4.0)
After this current semester and the next spring semester, I plan to have 60 credits finished. I currently have 31 and will have 44 after this semester.
The problem is, applying from an out of state community college means that I have no guarantee of my credits transferring. Because of this, I’m not able to choose my classes for spring semester. I’m not sure how many credits won’t transfer so I won’t know how many EXTRA credits I’ll be needing in order to fulfill the 60 to be eligible for the 2016 transfer.
Aside from needing the 60 credit requirement, I won’t have all of the prereqs required for the business major because I switched back and forth a few times. Will this be an issue? I’ll have most, but I may be missing one or possibly both calc classes required.
I emailed a few counselors and am planning on calling them for more information on what classes transfer.
More questions:
What are my chances of getting into schools like: UCLA, UCB, UCI, UCSB, and UCSD as a Business Major with an emphasis in Finance? I have decent extracurricular activities like dance and clubs and have a few leadership camps/church mission trips I attended.
Is there a way to figure out what will transfer and what won't other than contacting the UC admissions offices?
Are all the pre-reqs required when applying? Or is it just beneficial to have all of them?
If everything does NOT work out, would the best-case-scenario be to take an extra semester (to finish pre-reqs/60 transferable credits) and apply for a spring-2016 transfer? I want to get to get to a UC asap.
Every CC has different names for coursework and what those courses cover.
Your job is to get your college catalogue description of each class. Then you have to try to match each of those courses with a course offered at one of the UC’s and hope that the description is a match. That’s what the counselors have to try to figure out.
The UC’s don’t have articulation agreements with every community college in the country, so if you want your courses to count, you had better do some serious research. After all of that, the UC’s can choose to reject your courses.
UCLA and UCB will be reaches since instate CC students are getting close to 4.0 GPA’s.
Oh, and there is the minor issue of paying full fees. As an OOS transfer, you will be paying $55K per year, so you need to make sure you are ready for that. There is little to NO financial aid for OOS students.
Appreciate the reply! Well… that’s quite a bit I didn’t know.
I wasn’t expecting to get into UCLA or UCB, but I thought I would apply anyway.
“Your job is to get your college catalogue description of each class. Then you have to try to match each of those courses with a course offered at one of the UC’s and hope that the description is a match.”
Would you mind elaborating on this process? I have no idea how to do that.
“As an OOS transfer, you will be paying $55K per year, so you need to make sure you are ready for that. There is little to NO financial aid for OOS students.”
Why is that the case? Is this only for UCs? I have a friend receiving $8,000 in grants for University of Washington.
Another question, do you think I would have a better chance of getting into USC? Also, if I attended a private university, it would be easier to get financial aid, correct?
You can get some federal for standard tuition, but no cal state grants. You usually get no aid at all for the OOS supplemental part, which is about $24,000.
Each college has a catalog with a description of the teaching goal for each course. Your CC has a catalog, usually on sale in the bookstore or in an online version. You look at your description of your Economics 1 and see what the course description describes and what it is supposed to cover.
Then you look at a similar description for an econ course at UCSB.
If the course descriptions match, then you will probably get credit. My dd had to do this when applying to grad schools for some of the prerequisites.
UC’s are California public schools which are funded, in part, by California taxpaying residents. They are not going to fund OOS students when so many instate students would love to be admitted but can’t afford the fees. You will qualify for limited loan money. State-funded scholarships are non-existent to OOS students.
Yes, privates have more money; they also cost more, but you have better chances of getting your fees covered. USC looks good, apply since you never know!