<p>Hi, I'm a senior in HS. I just got through all my admissions/rejections. I was accepted to UCR and UCD but I chose UCR because of location. How do I transfer from UCR to UCI? UCI is my desired school because of its strong(er) science programs, everyone I know is going there, and I know I'll fit in UCI a whole lot better than I would at UCR.</p>
<p>I searched the web for answers but most say it's INCREDIBLY difficult (near impossible) to pull off an intercampus transfer (that makes me really sad).</p>
<p>I really need help. How can I transfer? What do I have to do? When can I transfer?</p>
<p>It’s not impossible, it’s just more difficult since get stuck behind all the CCC transfers. </p>
<p>If you plan on going to UCI, don’t go to UCR. Go to a CC, spend 1/10th of what you would at UCR while still being able to work and virtually guaranteeing you’ll get into UCI (unless you completely screw up, getting into UCI from a CC is cake.) </p>
<p>There’s absolutely no benefit to going to UCR if you don’t plan on staying, outside of the “social” aspects. The negative is that transferring is much harder and it’s a lot more expensive. </p>
<p>As for HOW you transfer, you fill out the UC app just like any other transfer.</p>
<p>I’m curious about this too. I’m currently at Riverside and my GPA is currently 3.567 for Mechanical Engineering and I was wondering what are my chances. I hope it’s decent considering most my other ME friends are in the upper 2.x range.</p>
<p>just to give u guys hope.
Im a sophomore at ucr right now, poli sci major, 3.83 gpa, good number of ec’s and I was just accepted to transfer to UCSD, still waiting on ucla (fingers crossed). So there you go, not impossible, quite difficult, but not impossible.</p>
<p>@Grimes: yeah I considered the CC to UC but my parents REALLY want me to stay in the UC system instead of going off into a CC. </p>
<p>Really just apply as a transfer after my 2nd year? Or can it be earlier?</p>
<p>@jkess: You have no idea how happy that news made me! And CONGRATS! I really hope you get the option to transfer to UCLA~
What did you have to do? Did you do anything special in trying to beat others to the spot (anything besides keeping your GPA up)?</p>
<p>@joon
u just have to work hard (obviously). I worked for the police department on campus, interned at the district attorneys office, and am a board member of a student club. So, basically make yourself stand out. Join a club, get involved on campus and work hard to keep a high gpa. I have 2 friends who have already transfered from ucr to ucla, and a friend who also just transferred from ucr to uc davis. So, if you put the work in it IS possible! good luck</p>
<p>@joon: I don’t get it… if you have no intention of staying at UCR, what’s the point of going there to begin with? Your final degree will look identical regardless of whether you start at a UC or at a CC. You’ll be spending more at a UC, have a much tougher time transferring to another UC and your GPA will most likely be lower. There’s really no benefit if you plan on going to another UC.</p>
<p>Some UCs take senior transfers, but there’s a unit cap. UCSD, for example, won’t allow senior transfers at all. UCB does, but only up to a certain unit amount. Basically, you can’t transfer in with one class left to take and leave with a UCB degree. You’d have to check with each UC on their individual requirements.</p>
<p>@grimes: I want to do it the easier and less costly way by going from the CC to UCI but my parents don’t want me to go to a CC because they feel I will let my grades slip. And they want me to stay in the UC system. I want to go to UCD rather than UCR and stay there but apparently it’s “too far” so my goal is to transfer into UCI which is a bit more popular than UCR and [I think. From what I’ve heard and read] has better science programs than UCR.</p>
<p>Yeah that’s ■■■■■■■■ but I guess your parents don’t completely trust you and they have cash to burn. If you have to go to UCR, you need to learn how to study. Not the way you did in highschool, but actual studying. It’s not gonna be a cake-walk going to a low tier UC and trying to get a 4.0. That’s the first thing you gotta get over. You don’t have to spend 8 hours a day in the library every day, but you should give it effort and learn what works.</p>
<p>While you will be given dead-last priority in UC transfers, out of state and in-state private schools treat you like anyone else. And don’t go to UCI because you think you’re gonna “fit in.” That’s a ******** reason. Your end goal should be landing a job after graduation or getting into grad school, which you can do from any top 100 university. So either find a better reason to write about or make one up.</p>
<p>@joon: I would let your parents know that there is absolutely no difference in the final degree whether you start at the UC, transfer from a CC or transfer from Baghdad University. It doesn’t matter. At all. There’s seriously no benefit at all to “staying in the UC system” if you plan on transferring. AND you run the very legitimate risk of not getting into UCI from UCR. It’s not impossible, but you’ll be in the back of the line behind all CC transfers (who will, more than likely, have higher GPAs anyway.)</p>
<p>just my opinion
i am glad i went to ucr before transferring to a higher up uc (did not intend on transferring out originally)
i do have to agree with grimes, community college then transferring is a great path to take. My little brother plans on doing just that. Good luck joon with whatever you decide on doing.</p>
<p>What you want to do is called “intercampus transfer.” To be competitive for intercampus transfer and to minimize delays in graduation, you should complete the general education and major prerequisite requirements at your campus (in your case, UCR) prior to the end of your sophomore year. The UC reciprocity agreement allows you to use the requirements from your campus (UCR) to fulfill the requirements at the other UC campus (UCI).</p>
<p>UCI admit rates for intercampus transfers are about 50% less of the CCC transfer admit rates (so if the admit rate for a certain major is around 60%, then the intercampus transfer admit rate ends up around 30%). So it’s fairly difficult, but certainly not impossible.</p>
<p>I got accepted to UCI, but I really want to transfer to UCSD. I’m an upcoming freshman and my major is Pharmaceutical Sciences, but my desire is to take Pharmacological Chemistry at UCSD. I went on the assist.org and saw that some courses matched up. So should I just finish all my general ed and pre-requisites for UCI and transfer to UCSD? And do I have to take ALL of UCSD’s pre-requisites as well?</p>
<p>@smiley!: Take your general ed, and whatever pre-reqs you can. You’re not required to finish all your pre-req, but the more you have the better you look as an applicant. </p>
<p>I still don’t get why all you people are intent on going to a UC if you’re also intent on leaving it after two years. Go to a CC!</p>
<p>^ @Grimes, I think that with the recent news of massive budget cuts to the CCCs and the potential extreme difficulty of getting the courses needed to transfer from a CCC to a UC or CSU, students who have offers of acceptance from four year universities, even if they are not their top choice, are very reluctant to give them up. With the possibility that it could take three, four or even five years to earn the credits needed to transfer and with transferring to UCs and CSUs becoming more difficult, the CC to UC track does not look as good as it used to and it is not surprising that students may want to stick with an acceptance in hand from a four year school rather than take the chance of being trapped indefinitely in the CCC system with no chance of getting a BA/BS.</p>
<p>@Lemaitre1: Yes, I get that, but they don’t seem to be interested in staying at their initial UC at all, but rather using it as a springboard to transfer to the other UC. Yes, there will be CC budget cuts, but you won’t be staying at one for “4 or or 5 years” before transferring. It’s simply not going to happen. You might have to take a couple extra summer courses, but come on, let’s not get hyperbolic here. </p>
<p>And regardless, it will ALWAYS be more difficult to go UC to UC versus CC to UC. So in that sense, while CC > UC might not look as good as it once was, UC > UC is still much more difficult.</p>