<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>I've been accepted to UCSC and UCSB for Fall 2012. I've reported all of my past grades correctly, and I've also notified both schools of changes for the Spring 2012 semester at my CC (I withdrew from one class). However, I've been on "progress probation" at my CC since the Fall 2010 semester, in which I enrolled in 13 units and withdrew from all of them because of extenuating circumstances (was forced out of my apartment and briefly moved to another city). Since then, I moved back to my current city and re-enrolled in classes, but I will not complete enough to be automatically taken off of progress probation.</p>
<p>One of the conditions of admission at all UCs is that I have to be in "good standing" at my last college, and being on progress probation means that I'm not in good standing. My guess is that my admission will be automatically rescinded when I submit final transcripts. To remedy this, I obviously need to do one of the following:</p>
<p>1) Try to have the progress probation cleared by appealing to the counselors and administrators at my community college. To me, it seems that it's in both my and their best interest to clear me, because so few students at my school end up transferring to UCs, and it'll make them look better. I also had extenuating circumstances for the Fall 2010 semester. However, the only information I've found is about "academic renewal", or clearing bad grades to fix GPA, but I have a 4.0 across all the community colleges that I've attended. Also, CC people tend to go by the book with everything, so I doubt they'll help me. I've tried contacting the VP of student services by e-mail, with no response, and I'll try to go to her office in person on Monday to make a heartfelt plea.</p>
<p>2) If the CC doesn't clear me, then I'll have to appeal to UCSC or UCSB if they rescind my admission. I've thought less about doing this since I'm hoping that option 1 works. On one hand, it seems that a UC will be more likely to listen and be nice. On the other hand, my academic record is so sketchy, and they're offering me so much money from their own pockets, that I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't bother.</p>
<p>Do any of you have any experience with this? I found one thread from last year with the exact same problem, but no one responded to it.</p>
<p>EDIT: One further caveat: If I were to stay in CC a year longer to clear my probation the proper way, then I'd end up going over 80 units (with some from an out-of-state 4 year institution) and would therefore not be eligible to transfer to most programs at most UCs.</p>