<p>--I meant to post this thread here, but accidentally posted it in the Transfer Student section. Sorry for the repost--</p>
<p>I am an out-of-state student and would like to transfer to either a UC or CSU after obtaining 60 transferable units. At this point, I am not sure which California University I would like to transfer to, so I pretty much have a wide variety of options. Since each UC and CSU have different transfer admission requirements and credit evaluations, how do I go about picking classes in my community college that would transfer to all Universities? I am worried that if I pick out classes that is solely to meet the requirements of one University, it might not be transferable to another University (if I don't get admitted to my first choice, which may be a high rate because I would be an OOS.)</p>
<p>I do not want to be taking classes and lose those credits along the way in the transfer process because it might not even be transferable to a college that I get accepted to. I would appreciate some advice with this as I've been talking to counselors in my community college but none of them really helped me...</p>
<p>For out of state, it’s pretty much a guessing game. Sorry. You can try using assist.org to see a list of pre-reqs for each school, though that’ll only show comparable courses for California schools. Far as I can tell, there’s really no easy way to tell what’ll transfer over, and it will be different for different schools. Heck, I’m admitted and transferring next fall and still don’t know about some of my credits. Either try calling and asking a counselor at the schools you’re interested in, or compare the course descriptions and assume that similar courses will be considered the same. If you’re doing mostly gen ed, you shouldn’t have too much trouble, but if your major has a lot of pre-reqs you should probably do some research.</p>
<p>Oh, and if any of the courses you plan to take are sequences (ie calc 1, 2, and 3) try to finish the sequence before you transfer. Most of the UCs are on quarters, they don’t line up quite the same as semesters.</p>
<p>Unless your loaded with money, it makes no sense to come to a UC from out of state - You’ll actually have less debt( this assumes your not rich of course ) if you get your BA from a school in your home state and come out here as a grad-student . Assuming you can get a TA job your tuition would be covered .</p>