<p>Yo, I'm recently admitted to UCLA under architectural studies and have been contemplating whether to stay or change my major. So just in case, I want to prepare myself with lower division courses into engineering so during my junior year(or first year as a transfer), i was thinking of taking some city college courses to get by faster and i would like to know if there is a city college easy to commute to from ucla?</p>
<p>possible? give me some inputs whether is a good idea or not</p>
<p>Do you want to take classes there WHILE you're at UCLA or during the summer? UCLA doesn't allow concurrent enrollment, but summer school is a good idea. Everyone here does it - just make sure the units transfer.</p>
<p>I was going to take it concurrent when im at UCLA
I dont think my load will be that extraneous(knock on wood) so I want to start racking up in other lower division courses for other majors</p>
<p>i dont think summer offer as many courses during its regular fall/spring courses.
and how would they check if im taking it concurrent?? lol..</p>
<p>soo whats the city college near UCLA?</p>
<p>Well, have fun trying to transfer your CC units for your fall/winter/spring quarters. </p>
<p>"So, this kid wants to transfer his Fall 2007 units from City College...but look at this, he was also taking classes at UCLA for Fall 2007 at the same time. Ruh-oh."</p>
<p>How would they check??? :rolleyes: You've to send them transcript...:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Santa Monica College is the nearest one. </p>
<p>I think you need to ask academic counselor in UCLA. I remember some UCLA students did take SMC classes in regular quarter. My lab partner went to UCLA while she was taking lab course in SMC.</p>
<p>^ hm..i will think over this one</p>
<p>whats the city college?</p>
<p>EDIT: thanks shirleyXY</p>
<p>how far is it from UCLA? on bike? bus?</p>
<p>i think ill do that. I want to ask for permission if i can take the lower division courses at a cc.</p>
<p>I think you can take big blue bus. Bike is too far. I've never take bus from there myself. It's about 15 to 20 minutes from UCLA.</p>
<p>^ awesome, thanks</p>
<p>There are a couple of bus lines (<a href="http://www.bigbluebus.com%5B/url%5D">www.bigbluebus.com</a>) that a few of my friends living in Westwood take to Santa Monica College. Wait til after fall quarter to see if you can handle it...what's the hurry? Unless you want to graduate in three years, I don't see the reason to rush through college. You could, but your non-academic life would be pretty much nonexistent.</p>
<p>definitely ask and get permission before you do that. you dont want to waste your time and effort and find out they wont take your units. i'd say most likely they wont let you...</p>
<p>^ bastards for making me pay uc prices!</p>
<p>theres online courses i was thinking about. Ill ask anyways.</p>
<p>Once you've transferred, UCLA prefers you not take classes elsewhere but there's nothing they can do to stop you. If you decide to simultaneously take classes at UCLA and a CC, assuming you are over 60 semester units = 90 quarter units transferred, UCLA will give you the credit for lower division coursework as long as it fulfills major prerequisites (check <a href="http://www.assist.org)%5B/url%5D">www.assist.org)</a>. But UCLA will NOT give you units. Transfers must finish a minimum of 75 units AT UCLA.</p>
<p>West L.A. CC is closer to UCLA than SMC. You can get there directly via Santa Monica Big Blue Bus. I think the CC is somewhere near Pico and Overland. If you can enroll into online courses to fulfill pre-reqs at a CC, you're better off doing that.</p>
<p>Transfers do not have to finish a minimum of 75 units at UCLA.</p>
<p>The rules are:</p>
<p>the last 35 of your last 45 units must be completed at UCLA.
and most majors require that you complete 24 upper division units in the major while at residency at UCLA.</p>
<p>But the 24 upper div can easily overlap with the "last 35 of your last 45 units"</p>
<p>you can't take classes at a CC during the regular academic year unless you have a very compelling excuse (wanting to "speed things up" will not cut it).</p>
<p>also, if you are a transfer student, there is a maximum amount of units you can transfer in (i think) so double check on all that.</p>
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dont think my load will be that **extraneous<a href="knock%20on%20wood">/b</a> so I want to start racking up in other lower division courses for other majors
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<p>I hope you realize that you said that it don't think it'll be irrelevant. Is that what you meant to say?</p>
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You're wrong. I got rid of a bunch of GEs at a CC all throughout my 1st year while simultaneously taking classes at UCLA. And that's without an "excuse".</p>
<p>^really?? if you in fact got these onto your DPR and have fullfilled GE's then i stand corrected.</p>
<p>What's the difference between a city college and a community college? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^ rushrules, you talk to counselor or what?</p>