<p>The bulk of your first 2 years are GE courses, so you won’t miss not being in your major. If you transfer to UCR in your Junior year, it will be fine. It is not impossible to transfer from CPP, but it is harder than from a CC. You definitely have to keep your gpa high. You have the advantage that you want to go to UCR, not a UCLA or UCB. Your chances of getting accepted to UCR, provided you’ve met your prereqs, GEs, and have a good gpa, aren’t as bleak as some would have you think. It’s going to be fine :-)</p>
<p>I agree @CollegeDropout1 that the CC experience is what you make of it. But sometimes what can happen is that students become the product of their environment. Motivated students can sometimes be derailed by less than motivated students. It happens. Hell it happened to me. I’m not saying it would happen to the OP, I’m just saying it’s possible. </p>
<p>@2016Candles He wants to go to UC Riverside now, but that might change after s/he matures. Keep in mind this person is probably 17 or 18 and just graduated high school. Did you really know what you wanted to do or where you wanted to go? For all we know, Berkeley or UC San Diego could be the dream.</p>
<p>I hear what you guys are saying, and you’re not wrong @collegedropout1 @calbro , but I have 2 main points.</p>
<h1>1 - I am a huge believer in a traditional freshman year experience in dorms, and cheesy freshman mixers. I think you make great friends, and really learn what you’re made of. CC doesn’t offer that.</h1>
<h1>2 - I am also a big believer in people having to follow their own path in life. However, as much as we think that everyone she would do their own thing, at 17 or 18 years old, your parents still get a say in what is going on in your life. The likelihood of the OP’s parents allowing them to go to community college is not very high. I’m just being realistic about the situation as it stands today.</h1>
<p>@2016Candles If it is going to happen to him at community college, then it is probably also going to happen at CPP. Besides, he has a very good track record, and even if he does lose motivation, UCR is not very hard to get into. He only needs a 3.0 to get in.</p>
<p>@2016Candles I get your point, but I also think that you have to be clear as to why you are advising him to go to CPP. If you are telling he to go to CPP, because you’re a big believer in the dorms experience, then say so, Don’t tell the OP that community college makes people take a long time to transfer, because by doing so, you’re reinforcing a stupid myth. Community college is what you make of it. The OP is going to read this, and you should not give him faulty advice on which he is going to make a HUGE decision. How do you even know that the OP wants to have the dorm experience? Maybe the OP doesn’t value that. His main goal is to work in government, and UCR is the best way to reach that goal. However, he can’t go to UCR right, now, but CC is the best way to reach UCR. His main goal is not to dorm, and we have to remember that.</p>
<p>As to your second point, the OP is probably around 18, and parents should get some say, but this is also a time when young adults have to start making their own decisions. If he listens to his mom, and goes to Pomona to major in engineering, then he is essentially letting his mom pick his career. Don’t you think he should get to pick the career that he is going to do until he retires? I don’t think that is unreasonable. He is also going to have to take out loans to go to college, doesn’t that give him a say on which college to go to? This is what he has to explain to his mom. Also, if he goes to CPP with the intention of transferring, then he is really just using CPP as a really expensive community college. Someone should not go to a 4 year university unless they plan on graduating from there. If someone wants to transfer, then CC is the best way to do it. </p>
<p>I’m going to be commuting so…
Tonight I’m going to bring up the issue with my parents</p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 I hear what you. Point taken. </p>
<p>I think I was taking for granted that CC wasn’t really an option based on what the OP said. I was just going on the presumption that CPP was going to happen, and I was just offering suggestions on how to make it work either short or long term. </p>
<p>@2016Candles CC was never off limits, he just needs to stand up to his parents. That was my main point, sometimes you have to fight for what you want. This is one of those cases. Yeah, I see now why you were telling him that. </p>
<p>@HeTheLostOne What are you thinking of doing, in terms of talking to your parents and where you’re going to start college? </p>
<p>I would just like to clarify</p>
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<li>transferring from CPP to UCR is not impossible, but definitely more difficult.</li>
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<p>Its like being in LA and deciding to visit NYC. The direct route (CC) would be to fly across the USA and land in NYC. The CPP route would be like flying to Hawaii, through Asia, into Europe, and then landing in NYC. It is completely possible (and likely) to still end up at UCR, but like the other posters have said, but the route is not as direct. It will involve careful planning on your part.</p>
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<li>This is not a major mistake. To be honest, its not even a mistake, its an opportunity for you to realize that this is your life, and you have to do what works for you. Its a good lesson to lean now, instead of after 4 years of CPP. This is also the smallest mistake you will make as a college student. But that’s okay! Its supposed to be about learning how to deal with life as a new adult. Don’t feel like a failure because of one little hiccup in you life!</li>
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<p>@CollegeDropout1 @luckie1367 </p>
<p>Well it didn’t go as planned and I have to go to cpp. I think I will drive down to ucr and ask to speak with a transfer adviser about the issue. I am just deeply bothered bIy the situation I am in…</p>
<p>I have my orientation for cpp next week. Do you think I should bring the issue up with the advisor I am given? Or what should I do to plan this out as best as possible? Thanks for all the help everyone btw</p>
<p>@calbro trust me I know how UCR stacks up against other UCs and personally do not want to attend a school like UCSD or UCLA for undergrad. </p>
<p>I don’t think you should bring it up with your advisor at CPP orientation. Their job that day is to prepare you for success at CPP, so bringing up that you want to transfer in 2 years, is probably not going to get you anywhere on that day. </p>
<p>I think you should talk with an advisor at UCR, and let them know what you’d like to do. They may be able to help you layout coursework. You also need to be mindful that you may not end up transferring, so make sure the courses you take will be beneficial at both CPP and UCR.</p>
<p>UCR advisors are likely busy at this time if year helping out all of the incoming students going to UCR, so you may get more helpful answers later on once the school year begins. </p>
<p>@HeTheLostone You don’t have to go to CPP, if you go there, and you regret it, then you may grow to resent your mom. But putting that issue aside, I would bring it up it up with both of UCR and CPP. This is going to be a difficult transition, and you need as much help as you can get to get this to go as smoothly as possible. You should also go talk to UCR first, before you go to orientation. I say this because UCR will be able to tell you how your chances.</p>
<p>@collegedropout1
The OP said he didn’t have anything against CPP, other than he didn’t like that he felt like he was tricked into going. He doesn’t know enough yet, to like it or dislike it. You can’t drill it into his head that he’ll regret it- he may grow to like or even love it. </p>
<p>@2016Candles I never said that he was going to hate CCP, and just said that IF he ended up not liking, then a problem COULD develop between the OP and his mother. This is why a student is better off picking his own college. But you never know, he may grow to love CPP, he could hate it, or even be indifferent about it. </p>
<p>I think it might of past that point …</p>
<p>Read my statement within the context of the conversation, especially the last 4 comments 
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<p>The public policy major at UCR is really interesting and one of the few undergrad pub pol majors in the country. I suggest you stay two years at Cal Poly (if they have the pre-reqs you need), or go to CCC. I understand your thinking.</p>
<p>Interesting that I just wrote the above and it says I wrote it yesterday. Whatever…</p>