<p>I am a Mechanical Engineering sophomore at Ole Miss, and I just don't enjoy it here. I know most the reason I went here is because my dad went here. Well now that my dad has moved to Orange County, California, it's just really turned to a **** show here. My GPA isn't the best ever. I've been wanting to transfer since freshman year. Would it be smart at all to just completely start over. I don't want to be in Mississippi in general I want to be closer to my dad. Could I just start over at CC in CA then transfer to a College there after I prove my GPA could be so much better? Is it logical at all? Thanks for any feedback.</p>
<p>well you can’t just “start over” at a CC…your GPA from your current school will still count and so will your units, granted they’re transferable.</p>
<p>Since only 60 credits are transferable, could I go to a CC raise my GPA with 60 credits there and only transfer those? Then “start over” or would the classes I took here still count?</p>
<p>Noo, you need to submit your transcripts from all the schools you attended :/</p>
<p>You need to report all college work so that includes your current coursework. Your grades at the university are tied to your social security number anyway so they can find out if you choose to ‘start over’ and no report them.</p>
<p>You can’t “start over” since you have to report all coursework at all campuses you’ve attended, but you can go to CC for a year or two and raise your GPA up.</p>
<p>if you ask me, you should indeed just come out to california and start going to school at a CC with the intention of transferring to a UC from there. though you cannot start completely over, your transcripts will show whatever improvements you have made as your GPA goes up. just get very organized and map out all of your classes and prerequisites before you start registering for courses. california is really a superb place to attend college. and i would bet that the UC system is a better public school system than mississippi because it is ranked very high nationally. if you can attend santa barbara city college, that is the number one ranked CC in california and you can do all your registration, applications, financial aid, and orientations online. they have a superb website and when i applied to study there they had my entire financial aid package posted online within ten days. </p>
<p>though you cannot erase your past school history, you can indeed start over with a better attitude once you get to california. why not? sounds like a good idea. good luck.</p>
<p>look carefully into whether you’ll be able to qualify for in-state tuition. I don’t know the answer, but the answer makes a HUGE difference in what it would cost to attend a UC school.</p>
<p>I’m surprised no one has mentioned the 90 unit cap for applicants that have enrolled at four-year universities. As a sophomore already at a four year, it might not even be possible to transfer to a UC. If you’re finishing your sophomore year, chances are that you’ve accumulated close to 60 units already at Ole Miss and because you can’t just start over at a CC those units will be included when you transfer. All transfer applicants with units accumulated from a four-year university, even if they later enroll at a CC, have a unit cap of 90 semester (135 quarter) units or else they reach senior standing, which 99.9% of the time admissions don’t allow. You’ll have to consider that unit limitation as an applicant. If you can complete your core requirements, IGETC, and major prerequisites without going over that limit then you should be able to transfer if you can bring your GPA up. However, if it’s going to be difficult or impossible to meet those requirements without accumulating 90 total units from CC and Ole Miss together, you may just be wasting valuable time and money trying to transfer.</p>
<p>@dilapid: “All transfer applicants with units accumulated from a four-year university, even if they later enroll at a CC, have a unit cap of 90 semester”</p>
<p>That’s actually not true. I spent years at a CC, then went to UCI for a quarter (12 units) and then re-enrolled at CC for a quarter, took one class (1 unit) and transferred with well over 90 units (126 on my transcript, UCSD accepted 105 of them.) When I was planning that whole cluster**** out, the UCSD counselor told me I had to have less than 20 units from another (non-CC) college, otherwise the 90 unit cap thing would kick in. Weird, I know, but I’m here at UCSD right now.</p>
<p>whoever mentioned sbcc… just fyi they’ll ding you for not being a resident and it’ll be extra $$. I’m from sb and applied to take summer classes and even though i grew up there, did dual enrollment classes through high school at sbcc and have every single documentation that im a california resident i basically had to have a professor there go and talk to admissions and vouch for me cause im at an oos university. so be ready to fight if you wanna go to santa barbara. berkeley city college didnt even once question my residency so not sure about the disparity there.</p>
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