I have taken all of the courses at my community college that articulate to UC Irvine’s requirements for their Computer Science major. However, only 5 courses from my cc actually articulate to UC Irvine’s list of required classes. The rest is listed as “Not articulated”, so I am worried that if I were to TAG to UCI, I would have to take a ton of classes that I wasn’t able to at my cc because none of the courses articulated. I have 3.7 GPA and I have all of the classes for UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine (and all the other UC’s), but Irvine is the most attractive school to me. I just hate that I would have to stay longer. So should I just TAG to Davis, and forget about Irvine? Or should I just hope for UC Santa Barbara, TAG to Davis and apply regularly to Irvine?
ALSO! If you have had the worry before and know how many years on average a student spends at UCI after transfer, please let me know! Thank you! I attend Cosumnes River College if you want to see what kind of assist agreement I am facing.
UCI has a lot of requirements the other UCs don’t. If they aren’t there there’s not much you can do about it. I assume you have the others for the other UCs. The TAG should be OK, but you may have more to do at UCI.
UCI CS has lots of lower division courses that are different from those at other UCs, CSUs and community colleges. Transfer students to UCI CS typically have to take lots of "catch up courses, which may delay graduation.
Try to have all other requirements, including general education, complete before transfer, because you will not have schedule space to take them if you transfer to UCI CS and want to graduate in 6 quarters.