Should I wait another year and apply to UCB?

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<p>Okay, here's the lowdown: I'm a student at a CCC with a 3.4 GPA. So far, I've only been accepted to a couple of CSUs and UC Riverside, but rejected to my first choice (UCSC). I'm assuming that this means that I'll be rejected to UCI and UCSB as well. While I do plan on appealing at UCSC, I'm just not sure how likely acceptance will be and if I'm really dead set on my proposed major anyways (Sociology), especially since I plan on grad school. By the end of this semester, I'll have 63 units and will have completed IGETC.</p>

<p>I'm just asking for opinions on whether or not it'd be worth it to wait, apply to Berkeley or UCLA with a major that might be more beneficial to me, work on volunteer work/ECs, and just work on improving my GPA and taking classes at a CCC until 2013 rolls around with a TAG to UCSB or UCSD just in case. By the end of this semester, I'll have just above a 3.6. I have yet to earn a B on any assignment or exam in any class, despite taking 7 academic courses and 2 athletic classes.</p>

<p>Has anyone done this before? How many credits are considered too many for CCC-UC transfers? I'm aware that anything over 70 doesn't really count, but do they reject you if you have too many? I think that I can get my GPA up to a 3.8 if I continue to go to school and it might be beneficial to work and save up for school. Any thoughts? Should I just suck it up and accept admission as a Sociology major to UCR or UCSC if my appeal is accepted? I should probably add that I'll be 21 in September and already took a whole year and a half off from school after I graduated high school.</p>

<p>One last thing: when you go over the 60 or 70 credit limit for UCs, do the courses you take still affect your GPA? If I change majors, I'll obviously need to take the prerequisite classes. Before you flame me, I'd like to add that I know that I'm the one that ultimately has to make this decision, but it's just nice to have some insight or suggestions from others.</p>

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<p>If you started at a CCC and haven’t attended anywhere else, your unit cap is limitless. They will only transfer in 70, however. 3.8+ makes you competitive.</p>

<p>For instance, a friend of mine two years ago applied to UCB (did not want to attend UCLA) had a 3.8, but he had gone to DeVry and didn’t care about those classes, so he had a bad GPA there. However, they overlooked this fact because he was working four jobs, president of a bajillion clubs, and had a great GPA, etc. He did have over 120 units at my CCC alone, though. He always took 20+ units per semester and was triple majoring. He had way too many units between both colleges he attended and thus was not able to get in. UC Davis he told me accepted him but also made gripes about his amount of units. He did get into Columbia, though.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>