<p>I am currently a freshman at UCLA, finishing my first year here. When choosing colleges, I chose UCLA out of respect for my parent's decisions over my preferred choice of UCSD. While I am doing well academically at UCLA, I find that I have not really been happy here and wish to transfer, preferably by start of my sophomore fall quarter. I face a problems in my current dilemma:</p>
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<li>This would be a very late attempt to transfer</li>
<li>I have found very little information on "sophomore transfers"</li>
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<p>So in other words, I would have to find a very very good reason to convince the school to allow me to transfer.</p>
<p>What I do have right now is:</p>
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<li>~3.7 GPA, below my own standards but it is not completely terrible</li>
<li>~60 total units completed after two quarters (I dropped the spring quarter for health reasons)
you would need 90 quarter units to transfer as a junior</li>
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<p>Does anybody have any possible ideas to offer?</p>
<p>Unfortunately there are 2 main reasons you can’t transfer for fall 2014:</p>
<h1>1 - the deadline to apply for fall 14 was November 2013. But this means you’re on target to apply for fall 2015.</h1>
<h1>2 - you can’t transfer with less than 90 quarter units or 60 semester units. Good news again is that you will have enough units by the end of your sophomore year.</h1>
<p>If you are accepted to UCSD for fall 2015, you have 1 more year at UCLA to see if it feels better to you. If not, then you can transfer for your junior year.</p>
<p>UC schools only accept junior transfers. That means you have to have 90 units to transfer to another UC, there is no way around it. You’re going to have to spend another year at UCLA, unless you go to a community college. I don’t know why you would want to go to UCSD. To tell you the truth, it has absolutly no social scene, and the people there are socially awkward. However, If you really want to go to UCSD, then you should go to a community college. UCSD gives priority consideration to community college applicants. It will be much easier to get into UCSD that way.</p>
<p>Let me try to put this into perspective. There are hundreds of people who have been on UCSD’s waitlist for weeks, and still haven’t received a decision. They all applied by the final date over 6 months ago. </p>
<p>The ONLY exception that I personally know of, was a student at a UC who had some trouble at her initial school. She was bullied- I believe it was racially motivated bullying. I THINK they allowed her to switch to another campus. Exceptions just because you’re unhappy are not likely.</p>
<p>@S8on95 I hate to bring you bad news, but there is no way around it. The uc system is not going to grant an exception. However, while you cannot transfer to UCSD, you can take classes there. Your friends can also take classes at UCLA. I think you can do it for one quarter every year. You’re friends could also do it too. If you were to both do it, then you would go to the same school for two of the three quarters. Follow these links:</p>
<p>I don’t understand kids who allow their parents to dictate their future. They’re 18 and should take their lives in their own hands. </p>
<p>I joined the military despite my mother’s objections, which if I say so myself, wasn’t an easy feat. I wasn’t exactly a hard charger or a kid with a can-do-anything mindset, but I still had a spine and some self confidence. So if I can make a decision that is life changing and very, very serious, why can’t these kids do the same? This is 4 years of their lives they’re allowing someone else to determine. What the f’ing hell? There’s no way I would’ve allowed a recruiter to change the branch of service I wanted to join, and yet, these kids let their mommies and daddies to change their preferred school of choice? Wow. What’s next? They’re going to let some homeless man pressure them into changing into a pair of lacy panties and give them a lapdance? Grow a freaking spine.</p>
<p>Just stay at UCLA. You earned it. UCLA is a more prestigious school. Not saying UCSD is bad by any means, but UCLA has more recognition and it may open more doors for you in the future. Is it because your friends are at UCSD? I am assuming you are just 18 or 19 since you are going to be entering as a sophomore. You have 3 more years, 3 years normally goes faster than you think. I know it may feel like an eternity, but it really is not. And as others have pointed, by the time you can transfer, you will be a junior, you will be halfway finished. My 2 cents, is stick around. </p>
<p>@S8on95 the one thing you need to do this upcoming year at UCLA is make sure any prerequisites for your major are finished, but they need to be the perquisites listed on UCSD’s major page (at assist.org) and they need to articulate. They cannot be the requirements that UCLA requires for the major.</p>
<p>This might not be necessary as you can enter UCSD undeclared - but if you know your major, I think it would behoove you to get those done to be more competitive. Feedback?</p>
<p>The best you can do is trying to meet the transfer requirements, apply for UCSD and then decide then what to do. Who knows you might like to stay at UCLA after 2 years.</p>
<p>After a bit more research on my part as well, I believe that a loophole will be hard to come by. I will now move on to considering other options</p>
<p>@BurntCorpse
It was my choice. They did not choose it for me, but I knew that their opinion was that UCLA was better and they would be happier if I chose UCLA so I did. It ended up however that I really did not find much meaning in my choice and it was not until after the fact of seeing of how unhappy I was they changed their opinion.</p>
<p>They did not change my choice. I changed my choice for them. My wish to transfer now is my failure to deal with the consequences of that choice.</p>