<p>what exactly are the uc looking for in a transfer student? do they care about ur high school past, ur ap's? is it advisable to finish ur igetc and then preparing for ur major or doing both at the same time? if my school does not provide sufficient courses on my major of interest, and i do what i can and end up taking few courses to prepare for my major will the big schools like ucla frown upon me? my situation is thus: i am about to go to a small california community college and apply to ucla under art history. just a general answer needed.</p>
<p>"do they care about ur high school past, ur ap's?"</p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>'is it advisable to finish ur igetc and then preparing for ur major or doing both at the same time?"</p>
<p>Do the Required core courses for your major FIRST
then share between IGETC courses and Major Prep courses.</p>
<p>"if my school does not provide sufficient courses on my major of interest, and i do what i can and end up taking few courses to prepare for my major will the big schools like ucla frown upon me?"</p>
<p>As long as you get the required major courses, done, UCLA wont frown upon you. </p>
<p>"i am about to go to a small california community college and apply to ucla under art history"</p>
<p>UCLA has accepted 66% of the students that applied for Art History, and the average GPA admitetd was 3.5. It's easy.</p>
<p>Straight from UCLA Art History Major site:</p>
<p>Required Courses are: Four Art History survey courses, two western and two non-western, from the following eight courses: 50, 51, 54, 55A, 55B, 56A, 56B, 57- these survey courses are sometimes prerequisites to upper division courses. These courses entail enrolling in both the lecture and discussion section. Enrollment is through the discussion section and not the lecture itself.</p>
<p>Second foreign language (through level 2 or equivalent) - this is in addition to and seperate from the foreign language required by the College of Letters and Science. </p>
<p>Go visit your school counselor and ask what the equivilent courses are, and take them FIRST, and make sure you get at least 3.8 cumulative GPA for those.</p>
<p>talk to the counselors at your CC; they may be more informed than you suspect.</p>
<p>And take advantage of what's on the web (and thank your stars how lucky you are! 10 years ago you were at the mercy of what the local folks knew or made expensive long-distance calls to talk to the school). </p>
<p>wow, u guys replied really fast. that's cool. now, does my ap art history course count as one or two survey courses? does regular history classes count toward major preparation? now, i passed ap statistics. but do i have to take ANY math class in ccc?</p>
<p>I'm doing the same thing(applying this fall to UCLA, GO BRUINS!) and be sure to check out the <a href="http://www.assist.org%5B/url%5D">www.assist.org</a> website which will help with structuring your courses. Go after the major requirements at the <a href="http://www.assist.org%5B/url%5D">www.assist.org</a> site as soon as possible because it gives the adcoms a feeling of what your capabilities are in the specified major, art history. In addition, IGETC should usually be done the spring prior to transfer. I'd recommend taking as many premajor and prereq to premajor courses as possible then finishing the IGETC the following year. In addition, choose courses carefully and try to stay away from courses where you'd do poorly in, and by choosing courses carefully, choose the right professors, <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com%5B/url%5D">www.ratemyprofessors.com</a>. It usually helps and the peer reviews are somewhat accurate, most of the time. Also, counselors tend to call, "english composition, critical thinking, and math" as the golden three. In otherwords, try to get A's in all those courses or take honors level courses. Another thing to look into also is the school's connection to UCLA. Does your JC participate in UCLA's TAP(Transfer Alliance Program) which gives students priority consideration over students from schools not participating.</p>
<p>Finally, if income is a matter in your college education. Try to finish up at a JC in two years. Otherwise, if three years are taken, your grants may not cover your 5th year and the cal grant awards up to $5,600(somewhere around there) per year at a four year institution.</p>
<p>Hey how hard would it be to transfer to the college of engineering at Berkeley or UCLA?</p>
<p>sfboy: here are the stats of 2005 transfer admits to ucla
<a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof05_mjr.htm#SEAS%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof05_mjr.htm#SEAS</a></p>
<p>looks like stiff competition. It would certainly help if you were to go into a jc with a good amount of ap credit. check out the assist.org site for requirements for your cc to ucla/cal transfer</p>
<p>Oh wow...the average GPA's for admitted students are sooo freaking high, oh well I could probably pull that off if I go to a jc</p>
<p>sfboy987: Yeah grades have a lot of emphasis in whether a student is admitted or not to the uc system. Its a difficult major, requires a lot of units. It seems like the average admitted student has taken nearly 80 units at the college level or roughly 2.5 to 3 years. Its somethign to think about.</p>
<p>once u transfer, can u change ur major to something similar? for example i'd like to prepare for history at ccc(with some courses of art survey and music survey) and apply in history major, but change the major to art history once i go to the school. can a class fulfill both igetc and core major requirement? for example can ap art history class fulfill igetc and major requirement at the same time?</p>
<p>sauronvoldemort: It depends on the department. For instance, economics students can only be admitted by transfer junior year or as a freshman. And that admittance is only prebusiness or pre economics sort of speaking. After a student completes the premajor requirements then the student must apply to the major of economics. Students transferring in as history majors cannot change to economics if admitted as a history major unless the student was admitted in the freshman year and decided to change majors before it had an impact on course recomendations. So to answer your question, can you change from history to art history, check with the department at the ucla's art history department.</p>