<p>I am in my last semester of high school and may likely earn a D+ in one class, though all my other grades are A's. I am going to attempt transferring to UCR as a freshman, so high school grades will be acknowledged. Though not all my high school grades are the greatest (3.3 GPA) I should earn all A's in my local jc. (I have already taken several jc classes there during high school, all of which I earned A's.) Can I get into UCR during winter quarter? It is an option.</p>
<p>screw UCR, go to a JC for a year or two and get a 3.0+ and you’re in at UCD, UCI, UCSB, or UCSD.</p>
<p>you need 60 units including APs and you need to knock out your prereqs. If you take summer classes and have some stuff accrued, you can spend a single year and transfer as a junior if you do everything right. worst case scenario you spend 3 years after you transfer, but you’d technically be a junior.</p>
<p>I live in San Diego and quite familiar with the school, but what’s so bad about UCR?</p>
<p>^It’s one of the low ranking UCs. But it’s not a terrible school or anything, it just has a bad reputation among the UCs</p>
<p>I don’t see that as a reason not to attend. If anything, it made rational sense to me to at least try getting into UCR as a freshman.</p>
<p>UCR have a really really hight freshmen and transfer admit rate, it just waste of money going to UCR… if you live in the San Deigo, then why not consider transfer to UCSD or UCLA?</p>
<p>I can’t be too far away from San Diego, so it’s UCI, UCSD, or UCR. I primarily considered UCR because it offers lower-division acceptance.</p>
<p>Hey EASD, is it possible for you to obtain 60 semester credits (UC-transferrable) at your jc? If you can do that, you’ll be able to transfer to most of the UC’s with a 3.0+. </p>
<p>I can tell you that: As a former high school dropout (twice) - with a 1.0 GPA in high school, CCC is an amazing system that, when taken advantage of, provides some great options for your last two years of undergrad.</p>
<p>I’d recommend doing summer courses, a bunch of fall courses (~16-20 units), and spring units (~16-20 units) to nab those 60 units. If you keep up that GPA in CCC, you’ll probably be at one of the top UC’s. </p>
<p>Your high school grades won’t matter when you transfer to the UC’s. UCR may be an exception; I honestly don’t know. However, as a transfer with 60 units (doesn’t matter if you transfer 1 or 2 years after high school), only your CCC grades will matter. </p>
<p>My point is that you can transfer by next year to an even better UC or school of your choice if you can get those 60 units done.</p>
<p>It sounds to me like UCR might accept HS classes towards the 60 unit requirement (maybe in college-transferable courses)? If so, that’s news to me, but in that case OP might already be there.</p>
<p>Depending on what you want to do as your major, I would say definitely consider UCR as a freshman, especially if you get to live in the dorms. Something that you won’t be able to experience as a CC transfer is dorm life, and if you’re planning on majoring in something like sociology or anything like that, it really won’t matter if you graduated from a slightly more prestigious school. The dorm experience alone is worth it, especially if you like that kind of thing.</p>
<p>getting into UCI is a joke if you transfer from a community college.
again 3.0 and a few prereq classes and you’re in. a 3.0 at a JC is VERY easy to get.
even UCSD is within reach. 3.3+ GPA and you’re basically in at all the UCs except LA and Berk. 3.7-4.0 gets you into LA and berk assuming you have some background in the area.</p>
<p>UCR accept lower-division students, meaning you can apply for the Winter Quarter. Because you will be short of 60 units, they will look at both high school grades and the units so far completed at your jc. The advantage is that you only have to go to a jc for one semester before transferring. That’s why I was considering UCR. </p>
<p>I am a psychology major and in a tossup between UCR, UCI, and UCSD. The main advantage imo is that my boyfriend attends UCSD, so if I go there, I’d get to be with him more often.</p>
<p>Whatever route I choose, I am taking the max units possible this summer and I’ve already planned out 60 units to take over the next two years. I have to take some pretty tough math and computer science classes, so I’d rather not risk finishing in one year.</p>
<p>The thing about UCSD is that their psych department has a TON of requirements. I mean the prereqs are numerous. UCI has much less prereqs, and easier ones in my opinion. </p>
<p>Why don’t you take a look at UCSD’s Human Development major? It’s interdisciplinary, and extremely similar to the psych major with WAY less prerequisites. I applied psych to 3schools, human development to UCSD, and philosophy to Cal. You can apply to different majors at different schools pending you have the prereqs done by the end of your last semester.</p>