UC to CC to UC?

Hi,
I’m a sophomore UCSC student wanting to leave the school, because I don’t want to pursue my current major and I don’t really like it here. My current plan is to apply for UC transfer in November, finish my Fall quarter at UCSC and fix my GPA by repeating a class I failed last year, and return to CC for Spring 2018 semester and hopefully transfer to a different UC for my junior year.

Is this plan possible? Will I ruin my chances of transferring if I leave UCSC?
Any insight/advice would be appreciated.

EDIT: Or any school, for that matter. I’ve been looking at schools like SJSU, SFSU, at CSU Hayward. I live in the Bay Area and being close to home would just be better for me.

Well you won’t get priority CCC consideration because you won’t have fulfilled the definition of CA community college applicant. You will save money, but truth be told, you might be better just staying where you are for the last two quarters in case it doesn’t pan out. And if the CCC is semester that can add another wrinkle to the yearly calculation of any sequence courses.

On the other hand, if you want to up your GPA, you could come to a CCC for a year, get priority as a CCC student with 30 semester units, apply and TAG another UC.

Why not change majors at UCSC, re-take the failed class and apply to a couple of UCs for Jr transfer? It may or may not work but, your progress toward your degree won’t stop. Of course, any UC you could transfer to is going to be further from the Bay Area than Santa Cruz. So you won’t solve that problem.

^^^ good point. UCSC is about as close as you can get except for Berkeley (and SC is closer to Silicon Valley).