Transfer to UCLA

Transfer Students
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<p>My granddaughter is currently attending a private college in New York. She wants to come back to California and plans to apply to transfer to UCLA (she was accepted for this year but decided to go out of state). She has been a resident of California for all but 3 months of her life and in legal guardianship until she turned 18 (so has independent student status). She has a California driver's license, votes in California, and has a checking/savings account in California. My husband and I are both residents of California and have been all of our lives.</p>

<p>Since she graduated from a high school in California and will have only been out of the state to attend college for the 2014-2015 academic year will be be eligible for Resident tuition at UCLA and Cal Grant?</p>

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<p>For state resident tuition purposes, the residency of her legal guardian is where she pays resident tuition. She is NOT an independent student in that matter.</p>

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<p>She might consider increasing her chance of transferring by coming back and attending community college to complete all the requirements. CC students have priority for transfer acceptances.</p>

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<p>You need to look at UCLA’s resident tuition guidelines. Are you her legal guardian?<br>
If she graduated from high school in California, and only went OOS for school for the year, she will probably qualify for resident tuition. </p>

<p>Cal grant status is something separate through the financial aid office that she needs to qualify for after filling out the FAFSA in January.</p>

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<p>We were her legal guardians until she turned 18. In California the day they turn 18 the guardianship ends so she qualified to be an independent student. </p>

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<p>I am hoping that since we were her legal guardians until 18 (that is when guardianship automatically ends in California) that will still be the case. Thank you for the post.</p>

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<p>Because of all of the AP course/test credits she will already have the units necessary to transfer as a Junior. I think attending a CC would have to be her last hope. Thanks for the post - it gives me something to talk to her about as an option.</p>

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<p>UCLA is highly selective for transfers from an out of state school, regardless residency. They reserve openings from Community Colleges first then everyone else. They may even give priorities to instate public schools such as CSU or other UC students.</p>

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