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<p>What about all night? Just to clarify, there will be classes during the day and his time spent on studio projects will frequently go into the wee hours of the night.</p>
<p>He would prefer that, actually. His natural sleep schedule has him waking late and staying up late into the night. I think it would work well should he decide to be a cellist, since they can often work late hours. It sounds like it would work well for working late into the night on studio projects, too. What he’s not good at doing is getting up early without a great deal of effort.</p>
<p>My S started out thinking he wanted to design bikes or something structural. He considered engineering and industrial design but in the end settled on getting a BFA in Graphic Design. My S had multiple learning disabilities and attention issues and I think he made the right choice for him. Even with Graphic Design he had long studio hours. For many disability kids they do have the ability to hyper focus.
I also would not discount a school that offers some merit aid and need based aid based on the posted rewards. With all of my kids they had at least a couple of schools that somehow offered them better aid then we expected. We did have a clear understanding with them that the final decisions would be part based on finances.
With the UC’s and CSU I think the transfer units is 60. I know of several students turned down for transfer to a UC because they had too many CC units. Also for engineering and some majors the UCs don’t want you to follow the IGETC. </p>
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<p>60 (semester) units is the minimum for junior level transfer to UC or CSU. Where students have “too many” units to transfer would be cases where the students have units from four year schools as well as from CCs.</p>
<p>However, at most 70 units from CCs will be counted toward the 120 units needed for bachelor’s degree graduation, though subject credit for all courses will be counted.</p>
<p>I know at this point, my son really wants the full four year experience, so we’re going forward with that presumption.</p>
<p>The meeting at the disability office was good. She did say for my son to wait until he’s 18 to get retested on his math disability. She also pointed him to the career center where he can take a 1 1/2 hour personality/career inventory and then they’ll go over the results with him, so he’s excited about that.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the good suggestions on this thread. This has been so helpful and it’s really motivated my son to pursue his animation and art with gusto. He’s been doing a lot of drawing on his own but will have to wait until the fall to take an art class. Still, I think since fall semester starts in August, he should still have some work to add to his portfolio by October.</p>
<p>I am hoping with his test scores (assuming he’ll get over 700 on his 3 subject tests) along with his good gpa at the CC and his portfolio, ECs and awards, he might be competitive for some scholarships.</p>