Ask SpicyRoll: UCLA PolSci/Anything Hopefuls

Transfer Students
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<p>Lately, I’ve been asked for a lot of advice from people who are starting community college for some reason or another. I’m actually kinda infamous at my high school for my story and how I really messed up in high school. Anyways, I’m going to follow in the trend of previous posts and open up an advice column for all you transfer hopefuls. Before I do, let me give you a little background on myself.</p>

<p>Well like some of you, I goofed off in high school… more specifically my senior year. I got sick, lazy, etc… and my senior year GPA went to a borderline 3.0. In May 2005, I got accepted to UCLA as a freshman and felt like I was on top of the world. Unfortunately, two months later, UCLA rescinded my offer of admission and left me high and dry… I wasn’t going to college… or so I thought.</p>

<p>After beating myself up over my screw up for a few weeks, I got my act together and decided to go to community college… afterall, what else was a kid like me going to do? It was late so I had to settle with a horrible schedule along with a friend who suffered the same fate as me but with Berkeley. I attended LA Pierce College and the rest is history.</p>

<p>Less than a year later, I was accepted to UCLA after a year of study (Advanced Placement units from high school) and my friend got into Berkeley. I transferred as a Political Science major (not that hard requirement wise) and completed Pierce College’s Honors TAP with a 4.0 GPA. It took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to get it done but it happened and now I’m a Bruin… for the second time. This time though, it’s so much sweeter and I’m going into it with a much more motivated attitude.</p>

<p>So that’s basically the gist of how things went. I’ll be honest, I’m not necessarily the smartest guy out there but a little determination and ambition definitely helped me along the way.</p>

<p>Community college is confusing, absurdly bureaucratic, and the transfer process is a bit of the same. Ask me anything you want and I’ll do my best to give you the right guidance that your CC counselors won’t. Just doing my part since this board helped me out so much.</p>

<p>Advice #1: CC classes can definitely be easier than your high school ones. Don’t get caught in the trap of your newfound freedoms and slack off. Getting an A can mean the difference between acceptance and rejection so study like your life depended on it. CC is your second and last chance for a lot of you. Think, “It’s A or nothing!”</p>

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<p>i have question.</p>

<p>Will i get my admission revoked for failing to do alcohol ed. </p>

<p>JK</p>

<p>nice thread. congrats.</p>

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<p>I think I remember you asking stuff on the UCLA LJ community. Neat. </p>

<p>And yeah.</p>

<p>CC counselors are worthless. I knew my transfer plan a hundred times better than they did and I wasn’t being paid to memorize the assist.org lists. I still have some rage about that.</p>

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<p>Hahahaha @ <strong>allie</strong></p>

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<p>Dude… it’s so true. </p>

<p>One of them told me that it wasn’t humanly possible for me to have as many units as I did at that point in time. Except, it was.</p>

<p>Another one flat out told me that I wouldn’t get into Comm at UCLA. Just because. He was wrong. </p>

<p>And yet another didn’t understand how to calculate GPAs and tried to send the UCLA honors department a TAP form that said my GPA was a 3.4 (was actually almost a 3.9), which is below the absolute minimum requirement for my major. Almost screwed me over royally. I had to show him the correct way to calculate it, and then sent him to double check it with his superior since he doubted me. </p>

<p>I could go on. And on. And on.</p>

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<p>hey <strong>allie</strong> this may seem like a stupid question but the gpa that you’re talking about that the counselor screwed up, is there some special way to calculate a gpa other than the A=4 B=3 C=2 D=1 F=0 method? Your comment brought up in my memory something about some separate “UC gpa” someone told me about when I was a senior in high school a year ago… and like i want to make sure my gpa is calculated correctly as well =)</p>

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<p>No. It wasn’t UC gpa or anything remotely special like that. He just honestly didn’t understand how to DIVIDE. </p>

<p>I’m not kidding. </p>

<p>/And he was a full fledged transfer counselor.</p>

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<p>lol… so have you transferred now?</p>

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<p>Yeah I got into Comm at UCLA. Almost just to prove that one guy wrong. Except not. </p>

<p>I’m almost graduating. Omg.</p>

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<p>heh… thats awesome =)</p>

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<p>LOL no questions?!</p>

<p>And yeah… AlcoholEdu was soooo freaking long… I just left it on in the background while I chatted with friends and stuff.</p>

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<p>Wait 'til October and post again. </p>

<p>You will be inundated and will feel very, very CC popular.</p>

<p>But by then you’ll be in school and will have forgotten that you were ever anywhere else and won’t want to answer redundant questions from all the kids who have no idea what major pre-reqs are. </p>

<p>/kidding. mostly.</p>

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<p>super nova, UCs basically respect your CCC GPA, so if you get a 3.5 in your community college, you should have the same in which ever UC you enter.</p>

<p>In highschool its different because the AP classes weigh in your total GPA, etc…</p>

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<p>Hey Spicyroll, well I don’t have much questions for now, I am applying this fall for the fall 2007 and I really really hope I get into UCLA. anyways, I know I WILL be asking you questions sometime soon, just not any for today or maybe the next few week :wink: Hope you’re still around then</p>

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<p>Spicyroll- Unrelated, but the internet is WEIRD, yo. I am terribly, terribly bored now that I have no finals to stress over and I went to the UCLA Livejournal community and I clicked on friends and your brand new entry was the very second thing I saw. </p>

<p>And I was spooked. </p>

<p>/Not really. But kinda.
//And yo, not to mix two intranet worlds, but stocks ARE gambling. Hold onto the Exxon, though.</p>

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<p>I’m terribly bored too, should be studying :)</p>

<p>Livejournal rules! I have one as well :p</p>

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<p>Heh… awesome… well if the post dies… I’ll bump it back up in October I guess.</p>

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<p>bump bump… just got a pm from someone and app time is coming around.</p>