Hi all. I’m wondering about my probability to be accepted to UCs as an Econ major.
Here’s the summary about my situation:
-I graduated from a CC 4 years ago and transferred to CSUF to study Art but I dropped out after 2 semesters.
-Now i’m going back to my CC to study Econ and I want to transfer to UCLA, UCB, UCI, CSUF, CSULB.
-By the time i finish my CC i will have 110 units and 18 units from CSUF. Will this put me into a Senior standing with UCs?
-I have a couple Ws and Fs from CSUF. Will they badly affect my application?
I really want to become an econ professor. I wished I had figured out what I wanted to do sooner.
Thank you in advance!
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/preparing-admission/transfer-credit/index.html indicates that no more than 70 semester or 105 quarter units of transfer credit will be given for non-UC lower division course work when transferring to UC. Upper division or UC units are added. All courses count for subject credit (e.g. an economics course can fulfill an economics course requirement if listed as such on ASSIST).
Assuming all semester units, your 110 community college units would be capped at 70. If the 18 units from CSUF are lower division, they fall under this cap. If they are all upper division units, they would be added so that you would have 88 units. If (for example) 10 of them are upper division units, you would have 70+10 = 80 units.
Note that having too many total units to be counted as a high unit junior or a senior could make it more difficult to be admitted as a transfer student to some UCs.
If you want to become an economics professor, that presumes a math-heavy path. In addition to the typical economics major prerequisites, take math courses like calculus (for math majors), multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations at community college; then choose the math-heavy economics courses at a UC (UCB, UCSD, UCI, UCSC may be of particular interest; UCLA’s math/economics major may also be of interest) and upper division math and statistics like real analysis and probability theory at a UC.
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major can give you an idea of how difficult transfer admission to UCs may be.