<p>I will be attending UCR this fall and want to transfer to UCI or UCLA after 2 or possibly 1 year(several ppl said that you could do that in 1). say that i work my butt off and get a 3.8 gpa, would i get in? Also will they ask for a excuse to transfer to another campus? is it good enough if i say that i want to apply to med school and both uci and ucla have top notch biology department? any input welcome</p>
<p>Yes, it's possible. However, it is also much harder than transfering from a community college. If you intend to transfer, CC is definitly the way to go.</p>
<p>yea but its a lil bit late for that now.. i know that its not as easy to get a high GPA in UC as in a CC but i still intend to work really hard</p>
<p>Then work hard :) You might end up liking the campus. If you plan on going to med school, why don't you go in our BioMed Program? Though that program is hardcore, if you can hang with it and present yourself well in the interview, you'll be on your way to UCLA and out of college and med school in 7 years; however, 300 apply each year, only 24 make it in the end. I'm going to be a second year at UCR but your chances of transferring to another UC is slim. JC -> Cal State -> UC, UC being the bottom of the list.</p>
<p>i thought UCs were on the same level as CSUs in transfers to UCs?</p>
<p>It's definitely harder for UC's -> UC's because the UC Regents or whoever oversees the transfers feel that all UC's have the same education so they feel that your application is pointless (it's what I heard).</p>
<p>"JC -> Cal State -> UC" Where are you getting your information? Everyone says csu's get last priority...</p>
<p>Well if what I heard is correct (the post above you), then it would make the UC's last. If not then I supppose CSU's would be last. The question was, is UC to UC possible and yes it is, but it's slim. I presented my perspective and it's just a comment, nothing official.</p>
<p>i heard that priority goes to CA CC -> CA public (csu and UC) -> all other schools, out of state or private</p>
<p>According to articles I have read, for UC transfers, priority is always given to community college applicants. After that, it is relatively split concerning whether UC transfers are given priority over other 4-year insitutions or not. For most UC campuses, transfer applicants from UCs and other 4-year institutions are given equal secondary priority(Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, SB, Riverside); but UCLA, San Diego, and Santa Cruz actually give priority to UC applicants over other 4-year college applicants.</p>
<p>Also, this topic may be of interest: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=53344%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=53344</a></p>
<p>Do incredibly well.</p>
<p>My friend whose attending UCSB applied for a transfer/scholarship to UCB and UCLA. She got the full scholarship to both schools, but she turned them both down. UCB and UCLA turned her down originally -- she was just trying to prove she could get in.</p>
<p>Yen, was your friend trying to transfer after 1 year or 2? And what was her GPA?</p>
<p>It was her second year, and she was accepted for Fall 2005. I can't remember when she applied, but the results were back by mid Spring where we talked about it. If I remember correctly her GPA was 3.6-3.7 during this time.</p>
<p>It is not impossible, nor even in the case of Cal and UCLA too significantly more difficult, to transfer to a UC from a place other than a CC. See the universityofcalifornia.edu table for yourself: <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_select_criteria.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_select_criteria.html</a></p>
<p>I don't know if you're trying to call my friend a liar or not. But I assure you, she was accepted as a transfer student ALSO with a full scholarship to both UCLA and UCB, while she was a full time student at UCSB. Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No.</p>
<p>On a follow up, I got my facts a bit skewed. She didn't get the full scholarship, but was on a list of potential half scholarships. But she was still accepted into UCB and UCLA.</p>
<p>Also, i've been told another two people my gf knows transferred from UCSB to UCB with a 3.6x GPA.</p>
<p>Er, no? I wasn't calling anyone a liar -- I wasn't even particularly responding to you. </p>
<p>I just get tired of seeing people go all over CC telling people that it's "pretty much impossible" to transfer from UC to UC unless they've got a hook. It's true the UCs prefer CC students because that's part of their mission statement, but they don't completely disregard UC-to-UC kids. Just, as with any other transfer, be sure to show compelling reasons (without bashing your own school) why a different UC would be better.</p>