<p>I'm about to be a sophmore at a private 4 year Univ. here in CA, and I'm attempting to transfer to Cal or UCLA for Psych.
I have a 3.8 GPA, Freshman/Sophmore President of the Psych club, and a trained peer counselor. I have also been working part time for two years now.
Now I'm not a CC or UC student so I know I don't have priority, but what are the chances I could get in?</p>
<p>Any good transfer/admission contacts to have?</p>
<p>If, (and this is a BIG IF) I went to a CC for sophmore year, would that increase my chances? But if I do go, I lose the peer counseling program and the club presidency.
Advice? Please?</p>
<p>i am in a similar boat to you, though i am in engineering, there seems to be very little info on this readily available so it would be great if someone knew about it.</p>
<p>i have a friend who went to USF a private school and the transfered to a CC, and she got into berkeley. She also had like a 3.5 so i would say It would put you in a better position for transferring. Since you kinda have to at a CC to get a BA or BS. Unlike a 4-year where you don’t have to transfer to get a 4 year degree.</p>
<p>You have to take into consideration major. It’s hard to give you advise because no one can know except the admissions people at either school. I will say that if you expect to go for the impacted majors at either schools(which i believe psych is), your best bet is to do community college, and get done all the major pre-reqs etc, because at least there will be equivalencies for your major.
Both cal and ucla don’t accept anything below a junior level transfer, and when you transfer in they expect you to be out of there in 2 years. Reason why you need to have your major pre-reqs absolutely completed before you transfer into impacted majors because you having to complete general ed requirements or even pre-reqs for your might take more than 2 years.</p>
<p>I attended a private college in CA, applied to transfer, got rejected, and don’t blame them. i was attending art school which isn’t the same as attending whatever X school you attend be it USC, Loyola, Pepperdine, USF, etc. Even though i was at junior level at my former private college, i dropped out and started from scratch at community college(because the curriculum at art schools generally don’t have “traditional general ed” classes). 1.5 years later completed 69 units including pre-reqs for my major(might be missing one) and got accepted to USC, Cal, UCLA, and Irvine. Rejected at SB because i had too many units(weird).</p>
<p>Also, there are some technical things you will have to deal with like your private school units etc. There is a limit of how many private school units you could have taken and still be eligible for admissions. I think if you go past 80 private school units, and then start at community college, you won’t be eligible for admissions to the ucs. Luckily with me I had done about 75-78 so i barely made the mark. </p>
<p>If you do decide to go into community college, be very proactive, community college counselors are not always helpful. The first thing you should do is order your transcripts from your private school, take it to your community college and look at classes that seem like they would be equivalent at that school so that you knock out the general ed requirements, ie English, Sociology 1, Anthro 1, Art History, etc… make sure that they count towards something so that you avoid being at the community college than you need to.</p>
<p>for the unit requirement do they only care about units that count for requirements or does that count all units? if you count 8 units of APs, 6 units from a summer program i did in high school and 8 units from classes this summer i will be over 80 by end of sophomore year, but if you only count classes that would fill Cal major requirements i am safe</p>
<p>i don’t think high school stuff counts including aps etc for the unit count. its the college coursework you do in college. i took about 75-78 art and design units in college, about 90 percent which don’t count towards my major or general ed, and ucsb still held it against me.</p>
<p>well my concern is that i should end next year with 68-70 units from current school, 9 total from local state school and online class i’m taking now over summer and 6 units from a summer program i did at another university during high school which were full university credits.</p>