Advice on transferring to a UC

HypeYoda · 06-02-2008, 03:19 AM

I am going to San Jose state and I am having second thoughts of returning. I am thinking of transferring to a community college then transferring to a UC or back to San Jose Sate. I did pretty bad last semester. My questions are

-If I go to a community college and transfer to a UC will I be considered a state transfer, or a community college transfer?
-If I got a D in one class at San Jose State, and I take the same class at a community college and do good. Will that D go away? I would like to make up 2 D’s
- I took 16 Units first and second semester

Thnx for your time.

Malishka31 · 06-02-2008, 05:46 AM

the D stays on your transcript but is not factored into your GPA.

If you go to community college now and make most of your units from there and no more from SJS then yes you will be a community college transfer.

What UC are you looking at?

Dam Its Johnny · 06-09-2008, 11:50 AM

He was looking at UC Davis...

Hype throw out so more info on how many units you have taken and such.

annikasorrensen · 06-09-2008, 05:42 PM

If you go to a combination of a 4year (SJSU) and community college, be sure to not take more than 80 or 90 credits total. Once you are over the 80 or 90 credit limit, most of the UCs will reject your application based on having too many units. The only ones that will look at a 4year+com college student with more than 90 credits are UCI and UCLA, and sometimes Davis. This is a fairly stringent rule... I've written to Berkeley to see if there is any way around it (there isn't). I know a person who had more than 90 credits with a 4.0 and was rejected from Berkeley simply because of having too many credits.

Other than that - if you are San Jose based... look at Foothill or West Valley, both have pretty good honors programs. For UCLA, at least from West Valley, if you finish the honors program, you get priority admission consideration... I know LOTS of students from West Valley who have gotten into impacted programs that route. There are also guaranteed transfer programs from these community colleges that you can use to get into quite a few different UCs. There is plenty of time to check out the local community colleges and see which has the transfer program you are most interested in.

Annika

thatgirltoo · 06-09-2008, 06:30 PM

My sister transferred to UCSC from San Jose State. She had started her BA at Utah State University. I think she would fully understand why you don't want to return to SJS. I say give it a shot with taking your remaining lower division/transfer credits at a CCC, the worst that can happen is you end up back at SJS or at some other CSU, right?

HypeYoda · 06-10-2008, 11:35 PM

Heres the classes that I took last year.
CHEM 10 Chem Calculations C 3.00
ENGR 8 Engineering Success CR 1.00
ENGR 10 Intro to Engr A- 3.00
LLD 2 Academic Engl II CR 3.00
MATH 19 Precalculus C

CHEM 1A General Chem D 5.00
COMM 40 Argmnt/Advocacy B- 3.00
ENGL 1A Composition I NC 3.00
MATH 30P Cal I with Precal D 5.00

Would it be advisable to go to a community college? Or go back to San Jose. I live in San Francisco. And CCSF is just down the hill by me. Im afraid of taking to much units and not being able to transfer to a UC.

beardy · 06-10-2008, 11:42 PM

Well, just try to balance out the courses that require the most input from you over the course of several semesters, instead of cramming them all into one semester.

JetForcegeminix · 06-10-2008, 11:57 PM

"I've written to Berkeley to see if there is any way around it (there isn't). I know a person who had more than 90 credits with a 4.0 and was rejected from Berkeley simply because of having too many credits."

This is false.

from a UC berkeley counselor: "If you are applying to any major in the College of Letters and Science, once you have 70 transferable units anywhere (4-year and/or CC) and then continue at the Community College, you will get subject credit but no more unit credit. Therefore, you will not have over 80 semester units unless those units were completed at the 4-year institution. The HAAS School of Business has no unit maximum for consideration."

Also on their website it states: A student who has completed 80 or fewer UC-transferable semester units at a four-year university and then transfers to a community college will not accrue excess units and will be considered for admission.

University of California - Counselors

annikasorrensen · 06-11-2008, 11:10 AM

JetForcegeminix,

Thanks for clarifying. The problem I had was that I had more than 90 credits at a 4year (and I was not aiming for HAAS). I am still out of luck. Hopefully this exception will work for HypeYoda.

I would use this opportunity to remind everyone that whatever information we get on these boards need to be double-triple checked. The same goes for any advice straight from the colleges themselves! I have at times gotten information from college councelors in the transfer offices, that upon further research, was 100% wrong. Frustrating, but true.

Annika