<p>they have plenty of english 103’s at laccdistrict, even online for spring. You can maybe take it for summer.</p>
<p>And this is why you don’t leave core admissions requirements until your last semester of CC. 3-4 years in CC and just taking English 1C now = no sympathy from admissions.</p>
<p>^^Agreeing with Bruins somewhat. Core classes (English and Math) are always competitive because they are mandatory and there are less selection available over the other branches (For example: You have the wide variety of different classes available to satisfy your art and humanities branch, and etc.)</p>
<p>@BruinsRule Everybody has different circumstances and different situations, you can’t just assume that you should of finished your core admission requirements earlier, as much as we wanted to and need to, some situations change and prohibits us in some ways that we can’t take it in the “appropriated allotted time frame”. This means personal family troubles, family financial burdens, work, and etc. </p>
<p>I had the same mindset like you did BruinsRule that I never thought I had to take English 1C this spring and would finish it way before, but the reason why I am taking this now is how dynamically the CC’s change over the course of three years and amount of cut classes and etc. (I dont want to repeat the budget issue, everybody knows). Plus we go by registration dates and seniority (got the 2nd day after spring registration started but I couldn’t, my time at that date was too late</p>
<p>-There are fortunate people that has already finished this or are currently taking it
and there are unfortunate people who are doing everything they can and once they finally got to that same level as everyone else and so close to transferring, life just delay/prevents you on moving forward to the next stages of your future. </p>
<p>Now its sad for me to say this or experience this importantly but it happens not only myself but others around me and I’m thinking about those who are already in UC’s ready to graduate with a BA/BS and moving on already at the stage where we are now in trying to transfer and you notice time is getting shorter and shorter by the minute (your age) and your peers already has gone to graduate school or have a career already and you barely or are in process of transferring just to finish your BA, its daunting and its not good for me (I’m already getting disappointment and feelings of being a “failure” within my family relatives and even my own family is starting to doubt, all because of the time I spent just trying get to a 4 year university and trying to make up for not able to get in to a 4-year university and experience the full university life like everyone but within the “right age”). This is just based on from my cultural background and family ‘prestige’ or legacy if you want to see it like that. family is not the problem here, they are correct, its all on yourself and there are things that are out of our control</p>
<p>Sorry for telling you what my belief about this situation is, you probably didn’t want to read that or hear that or even know that but I just had to speak out </p>
<p>But I disagree with your statement.</p>
<p>Your situation isn’t any different than anyone else’s, so I can’t really sympathize with you. It would be different if you had some unique extenuating personal circumstance that was completely out of your control and prevented you from taking that specific course, but frankly you don’t. </p>
<p>The budget cuts hit all of the us hard, we’ve all seen how drastically funding has been limited and the effects it’s had on course availability and how competitive it’s made registration. Your situation and your community college aren’t really any different than what anyone else has experienced and the fact is that you had what maybe 9-12 semesters/12-16 quarters (not even including summer/winter when there was actually funding for them) to meet the most basic requirements, English and Math, as a UC transfer? That seems like more than enough time to take the only three absolute requirements, two english and one math course, to be eligible to transfer. It sounds like instead you put your priority on other classes that you were able to register for and left English until the end, which is, suffice it to say, completely your own fault. </p>
<p>You can try to make an excuse about your priority registration date, but it’s something you could’ve easily changed. There are a plethora of ways around priority registration to get a better one that you obviously didn’t look into or didn’t care to take advantage of. You could’ve joined your school’s honor society, a sports team, student government, etc. and you would’ve went straight to the top of the priority registration list and been in a better position to take that one English 1C course in those 3-4 years that you were in CC. You also could’ve tried registering at another CC, I’ve taken courses a 3 CCs at once when I had to last year, or you could’ve tried it online through another CC. The are limitless options available to get around the “budget cut” situation that we all had and did face. So trying to use that to justify the pitiful “everything’s out of my control” mentality is just ridiculous. </p>
<p>You’ve even said there are other people that you started attending CC with that have already moved on and are seemingly accomplishing life goals that you feel like you should be, which indicates it was entirely possible in the extended scope of time you had. You kind of assumed there are just those that are lucky and those that aren’t in CC. But there are also those that are self-motiviated and determined, that will take whatever means they have to transfer and those that are irresolute, self-defeating, and don’t take responsibility for the decisions they make to put them in the positions they’re in. </p>
<p>So, sorry if I disagree with your statement. I apologize if there’s something personal you didn’t mention that affected your CC experience drastically more than everyone else. If there is I hope you wrote about it in your PS on your application. However, as it stands if your whole excuse is “my priority registration date and the budget cuts”, then your situation is completely on you.</p>
<p>@BruinsRule yeah sorry to act all defensibly there, yes I do have some extenuating personal circumstance which I did said in my PS but I don’t know how they would react to it though if I couldn’t get 1C, but I don’t know (I still got time 2 more weeks so hopefully I do get the class) </p>
<p>your right, whatever situation it is, the only thing you can blame on is only on yourself</p>