Rejected? Possible way for 1 year at a JC, 3 at UCLA

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<p>UCLA was fine with my 124 units. They just excluded 19 of the units. But it's weird because I had senior standing the first time I registered for classes...</p>

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<p>I am very interested in this, I have a couple questions especially for people who have gotten in this way.</p>

<p>Does this have to be at a JC or can it be at any UC school?</p>

<p>Will you have a good chance (with good GPA) even though you've only spent 1 year in college?</p>

<p>Can you have the 90 quarter-units for application, but choose to only apply 45 towards your degree?</p>

<p>This idea seems great for people who are guaranteed transfer, but seems impractical for the average person who has a lot of AP credits. I mean, the average units for an admitted junior transfer is 105!</p>

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<p>You should appear to be a Junior Standing student if you apply after one year with that many units, so I would imagine it wouldn't make a difference. </p>

<p>I wanted to do the 1 year transfer because I was so depressed about attending CC. I realized that I didn't have enough AP classes under my belt so I just went the usual two years. I think 1 year would have killed me considering I was working on school days from 2AM to 7AM and 2AM to 12PM any day I was off (helping family).</p>

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Does this have to be at a JC or can it be at any UC school?</p>

<p>Will you have a good chance (with good GPA) even though you've only spent 1 year in college?</p>

<p>Can you have the 90 quarter-units for application, but choose to only apply 45 towards your degree?

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It doesn't have to be a JC, but your chances of acceptance are best if it is. By policy the UC schools favor transfers from JC's. See <a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof06.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof06.htm&lt;/a> for a chart showing accepted transfers based on where they were transferring from.</p>

<p>As for your chances after only a year at a JC, once you have the units to apply my guess is your chances are as good as anyone's. After all they cap incoming units at 105 and you need 90 to be eligible to apply, so what's the sense of expecting people to spend another year earning units they can't use?</p>

<p>As for having the 90 units but only applying 45, the answer for sure is no if the 90 are all from the JC. In my first post I pointed out that it may be possible to disregard AP units depending on how the rules are interpreted, but I'm not sure about this. You'd have to check with ucla admissions to find out for sure.</p>