<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>
<p>Oh yeah, I know I have to work, it's just the last few years there were some family problems that seriously took priority over school, so now that they're over I'm totally focused on school. However my grades from the last couple years only averaged to about 3.33, so it's too late to make up for the lost time (since I'm a senior in hs).</p>
<p>If you don't mind me asking, do I need to take SATS or anything like that over again to qualify for a transfer?</p>
<p>But its simply untrue that CC takes longer. (Unless perhaps you work full time...) Alot of people actually transfer in 1 year so if you are going to stay in school for the whole time, there is no reason why you can't finish in 2 years. A cc is cheaper, can actually be easier and the intellectuals in the honors program often surpass those in the lower UC and you actually get smaller classes instead of listening to 200 people lectures taught by some grad student...</p>
<p>Actually I live in SF and if I go to CC or State it would be in the city (so I could get a good job as well, plus live at home), and the school is REALLY overcrowded. And it's generally hard to get classes, my brother, cousins, and friends go to state. My friends from previous years who go to city have ended up staying for three years. One particular girl I know, some of the credits wouldn't transfer over, so now she has to retake the classes, probably a rare case though.</p>
<p>i don't think a 3.5 will get you into cal or LA, even as a transfer, but it will give you a really good shot at anywhere else. i applied with higher than a 3.5 UC transfer gpa to irvine, sb, sd, and la, large personal circumstance that involves moving back to souther california, awards/honors, ec's, etc, and i was still told that i had a minimal shot.</p>
<p>in at irvine definitely and SD i'm pretty sure..still waiting on SB (wouldn't go there...it was only a safety) and LA (i have a little bit of hope...but thats it haha)</p>
<p>yeh i've always been really good at writing, and i got sick of the biology thing wayyy fast.</p>
<p>Yeah I love writing, but I'm sort of scared to major in it, everyone tells me it's a challenge to find a job when your an English major (a job that uses the major) , unless you want to teach. Otherwise I would do it in a second. Good luck for LA!</p>
<p>KatieeJr, the only reason why your chances are lower for a school like UCLA is because you're transferring from UC to UC; don't discourage the ccc transfers!</p>
Yes this post is about transfering between UC's, but I just thought he was asking about CC's at first glance when I replied, now reading over it again I don't think he was.</p>
<p>But in his later post he said that there was a possibility of him attending a CC.</p>
<p>Dudes I posted this as TRANSFERING BETWEEN UCs, which IS the topic.And the topic did not change to transfering from CC, I simply stated that hypothetically, "if I go to CC or State it would be in the city", I did not say I WAS, nor did I ask how my chances were from a CC. So don't jump on KatieJr who was BOTH staying on topic and trying to help me.</p>
<p>well the advantage about us intercampus applicants versus the CC students is that our uc overall gpa DOES transfer over, whereas the cc students have to start a whole new gpa.</p>
<p>yay for us and working out butts off!! getting a 3.0 is hard enough at a uc campus, let alone a 3.4 or 3.7, where the average undergraduate gpa (well for my campus) is a 2.5-2.7.</p>