Need some advice, please tell me your major and where you transferred and what its like transferring from a community college to a university as an engineering major. How much harder is it for you than for those who started at a university? Will you have to take an extra quarter or semester or something like that to make up for engineering classes which are not articulated at a lot of community colleges? Any information is appreciated. Thanks
I’m a new transfer student to UCD and I’m only missing one Matlab class.
The funny thing is, my friend is CS major and going to transfer to UCI, but he is missing a lot of class…In order to transfer his c++ class to UCI, he needs to take a exam at UCI. The problem is, he needs to drive 6 hours to UCI and the day of exam is our final week lol
@MS0500 Hi, would you mind sharing your stats and major? Thank you!
I want to go from golden west college to either ucsd ucsb or cpslo for mechanical engineering
Im gonna have all the possible prereqs done too, but there are still tons of no course articulated for cpslo
same here, my ccc doesn’t offer any engineering courses. I will still have the ones that are required for uc’s though, (math, physics, and chemistry) just not the “recommended” ones.
EE major, 3.4-3.5 ish gpa
I just transferred to UC Irvine as an EE major. I completed all the prerequisite classes (including a couple of engineering classes like circuits and MATLAB), had a 3.6 GPA at the time I applied, and left my CC with a 3.7. There is an academic advising session coming up for me in less than a week, and they will tell me then if I will need to spend more than 2 years at the school to finish my degree - I’ll come back to this thread and follow up afterwards.
I would say that on average most transfers are probably one to two quarters behind a four-year track, but a lot of nontransfers don’t actually finish in four years anyway. If you want to finish in two years, then you will have to take some summer classes and take four to five courses every quarter.
I strongly recommend looking at what courses you’ll take at specific universities before choosing a target school.
Update to my previous post: with the schedule that my adviser planned out for me, it would take me 3 years to finish my degree. I’m honestly not too thrilled about that fact since it would mean spending 6 years total in undergrad, but I do plan on just taking 12 units during my first quarter to adjust to the faster pace of the quarter system.
Recently I’ve been seriously considering switching majors to CompE instead, both because I seem to be a better fit for the program and have a few more of the prerequisites completed for it from prior classes. Now with this piece of news, I wonder if it would take me less time to graduate in CompE than in EE. I actually submitted a change of major request but am not sure if it will be approved. Still, given that it’s also in the School of Engineering, perhaps I might have a solid chance.
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let me know how that goes and what they are like when you say that you want to switch majors after transferring. thanks for all the info
@randomguy99 So this is the newest update… I just got approved by my adviser at UCI to switch majors from electrical engineering to computer engineering! 
I was quite surprised that they allowed it to happen so quickly, but I personally think one huge factor was the fact that there is a lot of overlap between EE and CompE, to the point where both majors have many of the same core classes. I don’t think I would have been as successful if I were to have switched to a different engineering department (e.g. MechE or ChemE).