<p>Hello all! I am currently at california college of the arts in oakland and so far my experience there has been less than satisfactory. I have a lot of complaints, but this is besides the point. I have decided to not stay after this semester and transfer to a cc where I can get all my GE credits out of the way while getting a broader education since I now know I do not want to focus solely on art. </p>
<p>I have two questions though:
1. do you think art school credits will transfer to a UC?<br>
2. will this gpa be blended with my future gpa at a cc for when I will be applyng as a transfer to a UC (or any other school)? </p>
<p>note that the gpa from this school will probably not be good considering that I have w's and f's for not pleasing my art teachers' tastes (which is complete bs, i've worked very hard) </p>
<p>any thoughts? thanks!</p>
<p>I attended art school as well. I just happened to go up to my junior year at my art school and realized I hated my design major and wanted to get a “real” or what you call a “broader” education. I am completely happy to have been through the same experience and now be able to advise or help you out, because I know I didn’t have anyone, and it was a very stressful process. </p>
<p>I also had a low gpa, below 3.0 Initially I tried applying straight out of art school. I was rejected because of the art school curriculum which isn’t like other 4 year schools. You know what I’m talking about(foundation classes, and maybe 1 or 2 liberal arts).</p>
<p>So I ended up starting from scratch at community college, not counting on the art school classes because I wouldn’t know if they would count towards anything or not until I was actually at a UC. Needless to say, I ended up doing IGETC curriculum with the exception of the English requirement. I just took one english class at CC, because at my art school I had taken up to 4/5 english courses, and imagined something had to transfer since the titles of those english classes were similar to the ones at my community colleges, ie Composition and Critical Thinking. What I would advise you to do now is to take your art school transcripts to your community college, and ask your counselor what would count, and petition it to count at your community college. This will help you cross out IGETC requirements, and at the end when you’re ready to transfer this will all be on your transcripts and IGETC certification. once the community colleges creates that IGETC certification and sends it off to your UC, you are waved from taking any general ed class for the UC(exceptions for your majors/minors etc).
Also regardless if your classes will or wont count, I would personally just focus on getting IGETC done if you can. Its not required, but it is the recommend path for transferring. As long as you have 60 transferable units you can apply for transfer admissions to any UC.
Also dont rely on my experience for your experience, I ended up taking an additional class in english(even though I already had so many english classes done) because USC required it, and they were a school I was seriously considering and they had gone through my art school transcripts and had said nothing would transfer over, but that my english needed to be done at my CC(which happened to also count for igetc and college level english at UCs).
After the long journey, I’m at UCLA now. It is possible, you just have to keep your GPA up. I doubt UCLA, or Berkeley(who also accepted me), and USC(also accepted), counted my art school gpa into my application. I think this is because I had done over 60 units(i think) at community college. My gpa at community college was a 3.4-3.6</p>
<p>MY UCLA degree progress report does show about 8 classes from art school transferring in. But they don’t really count towards anything, they’re just “Transferable courses” kind of like electives. Lower division electives don’t fullfill degree requirements, which is what you are trying to do at community college. sorry for being all over the place. but pm me if you’d like.</p>