community college vs. University

ucbalumnus
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 02:32:58 +0000

You can use http://www.assist.org to find what courses at various community colleges will fulfill frosh/soph requirements to transfer to UCs and CSUs in your major. Since biology is a common major that does not tend to have a lot of requirements that vary by college, it is likely that most community colleges will cover most or all of the needed courses for whichever UCs and CSUs you target.

The list of reasons that a student may be ineligible for a Cal Grant are listed at http://www.csac.ca.gov/pubs/forms/grnt_frm/g-20_disqualificationfactsheet.pdf .

Be sure that you and your parents do everything needed to re-establish California residency as soon as you move to California, so that the one year waiting period finishes before you need to start college. This may include changing driver’s license, vehicle registrations, voter registrations, bank accounts, etc. as soon as possible after arrival in California.