<p>My situation:</p>
<p>Originally I attended UCSD and completed 2 years, but I pretty much blew that out of the door with bad grades</p>
<p>I decided to take time off to recollect myself and start my own business which is about 4 to 5 years out of school, and realized that I always still had this void of accomplishment because I never got my degree</p>
<p>Now here I am finished with my first year of community college with a 4.0 Gpa and very ambitious to apply to UC Berk and UCLA. My questions are:</p>
<p>Will they only consider my CC transferrable grades? Or my UCSD grades as well even though it was a super long time ago?</p>
<p>What are my chances to get into tho schools with my current situation? And how can I better my chances?</p>
<p>I have one stupid F for not dropping a course, but its not a transferrable course for UCs will it hurt me?</p>
<p>Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Was your F during CC? Then you certainly would not have a 4.0? If the bad grades were long ago then they will still look at them I believe but if you tell them what happened and that you turned it around and all that then they would still be impressed I would think.</p>
<p>@mrandall even if the F was a nontransferable course? I thought UCs only look at transferable ones?</p>
<p>What is your intended major? The F from the non-transferable course will not affect you.</p>
<p>This can answer some questions on unit limitation
[Starting</a> on page 14](<a href=“University of California Counselors”>University of California Counselors)</p>
<p>Also would my GPA start from scratch when i transfer?</p>
<p>@mermaker most likely business or poli sci</p>
<p>Oh! It’s nontransferable my bad. Yes you are good then. I think your old classes would be included in your GPA. Like I said though just write about what happened and you should be fine. Not sure if you’ll get into Berk or LA but a good school is doable.</p>
<p>Your UCSD GPA stays with you forever even after you transfer to another UC. You don’t get to start with a 0.00 like other transfer students. You will start out with whatever you had at SD. They will also use your UCSD grades in combination with your CC grades when calculating your GPA for admissions. What kind of “bad grades” did you get at SD? If those grades left you in poor academic standing with SD, there could be some issues.</p>
<p>Do i have a better shot at a CSU or a private? That would reset my GPA no?</p>
<p>I can’t speak for CSU’s or private schools, but you can definitely still have a good shot at UC schools and potentially even UCB or UCLA. It really is important to explain to them what happened at UCSD (just so that they understand why you did poorly there), and there are 2 personal statements + an additional comments section where you can write about it. </p>
<p>I had 2 F’s and 1 D in CCC, but none of them were UC transferable. If the F was not UC-transferable, I wouldn’t worry about it. Frankly, if you do maybe another year of solid (close to straight A) work, you’d be admitted to UCLA or UCB, if not both. They just want to see some consistency in your grades. Your UCSD and CCC GPA’s will be combined, but the upward grade trend will attest to your commitment to academia as of now. </p>
<p>In my opinion, I’d apply when you’re ready, and try your best to get as many A’s as possible, and you’ll probably get in. Not to mention that there are TAG (Transfer Agreement Guarantee) programs to any other UC outside of UCLA and UCB, pending you have a 3.5 GPA and your prereqs completed.</p>
<p>** 3.2 GPA for TAG to most UC’s
** 3.5 GPA for TAG to UCSD</p>
<p>What do you mean by “reset” your gpa? You will be required to report all of the grades you got at UCSD when you apply to any UC, CSU, or private. When someone says “reset” here they are talking about AFTER you transfer, not before. They are refering to the fact that if you get into a new UC your old UCSD grades will be on that transcript and will negatively affect your chances for honors, etc.</p>
<p>Regardless, after you graduate if you apply to any grad schools (and possibly jobs) you will be required to report every single class you have taken. Your gpa then wilk include all of the old classes.</p>
<p>And even if a class is not uc transferable, you will still be required to list it and the app readers will see it.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’re going to get into UCB or UCLA without first clearing up any issues at UCSD (since I’m assuming bad grades = below 2.0). It’d be a stretch to get into there right now unless you apply for a completely unwanted, undesired major given your academic history.</p>
<p>You can’t reset your GPA either. Your GPA will more or less follow you, and don’t try to report that you didn’t go to UCSD either since they will find out (especially since you’re a former UC student) and that will definitely ruin any chance you have.</p>
<p>I think UCSD is a fantastic school and I would go back there if permitted if you don’t get into UCB or UCLA, unless you hate the school.</p>
<p>@CCkid1234 @Shannon13</p>
<p>I know there’s no such thing as a clean slate.</p>
<p>All I was asking is when I enter a new school, will it be a whole new GPA or do I start with the GPA I currently have/had at UCSD</p>
<p>I already know I have to tell them when I apply to grad schools and jobs too.</p>
<p>You might be ineligible for admissions since you said you attended UCSD for two years. There are unit limitations for admissions to Berkeley and UCLA. If I remember correctly, something around 90 semester units for both schools.</p>
<p>I know this is a UC thread, but would transferring to a CSU or a Private be in my top priority rather than a UC? It seems to me that there are many guidelines and obstacles preventing me from reapplying to a UC with my current situation.</p>
<p>You should email counselors at UC’s CSU’s and privates you are interested in and maybe even get a meeting with your JC counselor. No one on here seems to be sure and it doesn’t seem right that you could not transfer at all. There must be something you can do.</p>