<p>A few of my fellow students from my college were talking about our transfer plans the other day and we started talking about the possibility of transferring to another UC after you've transferred to one from a CCC. Just curious if anyone has ever heard of someone doing this?</p>
<p>Maybe if they transferred to a UC as a lower div transfer, then transferred when they were at 60 units to another. But, if you take the normal Junior level transfer case it’s not really that plausible. You would transfer with 60 units the first UC and by the end of that year you’d be a senior and UC’s don’t take senior level transfers.</p>
<p>^That plus it’s just a huge waste of money (unless all of your costs are covered with scholarships/grants) and there’s an element of risk involved. Not only is it harder to transfer from a UC to UC than as a CCC applicant, but it’s also going to be more competitive and thus harder to achieve a competitive GPA to get admitted. Realistically if you had trouble getting into the UC you wanted taking CC courses, it doesn’t seem realistic to try again as a UC transfer. Plus what jdom24 mentioned, you’d have to limit the number of units you take so that you don’t reach senior status. You’d basically be wasting valuable time and money, prolonging the time it would take you to get your degree and spending thousands of dollars more to do so just for a year at a UC.</p>
<p>If you’re dead set on getting to a certain UC, your best course of action is to stay back in CC another year and re-apply. For example, I was rejected last year from my first choice and got into UC Davis, but didn’t see it as a fit so I stayed back. After that I got straight As, upped my GPA by 0.2+ and now I’ve been admitted to the highly impacted bio department at UCSD, UCLA, and am awaiting Berkeley’s decisions, which I think I have a shot at. If you’re committed to getting in a UC you didn’t get accepted to, one more year of CC is a much more realistic option than transferring as a junior, nearly-senior level UC transfer.</p>
<p>Not possible, UC’s don’t accept Senior applicants.</p>
<p>Yup, yup, to what everyone has said. </p>
<p>The easiest way to “transfer” after already transferring to a previous UC would probably be getting into a Grad program at a different UC.</p>
<p>I technically did this a couple years ago.</p>
<p>I was at CC, applied to UCSD on the TAG program as well as UCI (non-TAG) and didn’t get into UCSD because my math wasn’t completed in time. So I went to UCI for one quarter, took 3 classes, dropped out, went back to CC, took a class for one unit to regain my CC standing, then transferred to UCSD on TAG where I’m set to graduate in June. </p>
<p>Weird, but it worked.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. I don’t plan on doing this myself I start at UCSD next fall and I cannot wait. Definitely have no plans of leaving there I was just curious. Grimes99, thanks for your story that’s the kind of thing I was expecting to see when I asked.</p>