Transfering between UCs?

Applying to College
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<p>I know many people say to attend a city or state then try to transfer to a UC after one or two years. </p>

<p>But my question is, how hard would it be for me to transfer between two UC schools? Such as attending a "considered lower" UC, like Riverside, Merced, or Santa Cruz (Not knocking these at all) Then transfering to UCLA or San Diego (Because these two have the majors I want). </p>

<p>I know a lot of people will tell me to just go to the local community/state college, but from the handfuls of people I've known who've done this, a lot of them tell me they get easily sidetracked or it ended up taking them way longer than two years to even get enough credits to transfer. I don't want to deal with that.</p>

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<p>It's very hard to transfer from a UC because community colleges get first pick and UC schools don't like to trade students.</p>

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<p>^^ I've never heard that UCs don't like to trade students. In fact, I know many who have transferred from one UC to another; I don't think it'd be very difficult (as long as you have good grades in college).</p>

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<p>well, it's still true that cc students from cali have priority over even other uc transfers.</p>

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<p>^^ indeed, but the UCs have no visible reluctance to allow transfers between them...</p>

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<p>What these people say are wrong. If you look at any of the UC websites, they specifically say they give preference of transfer from CCs AND other UC campuses. You might just have a chance.</p>

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kyledavid writes: ^^ I've never heard that UCs don't like to trade students. In fact, I know many who have transferred from one UC to another; I don't think it'd be very difficult (as long as you have good grades in college).</p>

<p>^^ indeed, but the UCs have no visible reluctance to allow transfers between them...

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According to the UCLA website in 2006 they admitted 45% of those applying from a community college, 32% from other UC campuses, and 15% from all other Calif schools. See <a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof06.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof06.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>So I don't know who's telling the OP to go to a CSU school instead of a CC, but they're clearly steering them wrong. As for "not very difficult" and "no visible reluctance" to transfer between UCs, I think a 32% success rate seems to imply at least a <em>little</em> difficulty and reluctance ;)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies everyone! </p>

<p>And mikemac thanks for posting statistics to back it up. That info definitely helps.</p>

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<p>Odd, I've seen tons of people transfer from one UC to another without any difficulty. (I'm guessing that UCLA isn't an anomaly.) I'm wondering, however, whether the stats for UC-transfers are a bit low because those applying tended to be from the "lower"-tier UCs. Thus, if you were going to Berkeley, you'd probably get in, as opposed to UC Riverside. If that's the case (it seems more likely -- why would you want to go down in terms of quality?), then the percents would be a bit skewed.</p>

<p>Thus, I can see Berkeley/UCLA/UCSD or UCSB/UCD/UCI or UCSC/UCR/UCM trading students more, within their respective tiers.</p>