Foreign Language & US History Req's

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Hi. I’m a mom who homeschools my 4 kids and I’m trying to figure out the transfer system. My oldest is 15 (freshman). He’s thinking of UCLA comp sci.</p>

<p>Since we homeschool privately (ie. not through a charter school), UCLA will not accept his high school transcript, so I’m looking into having him take CC classes, hopefully enough to transfer to UCLA as a junior when he’s 18 (ie. after finishing his high school senior year). He’s taking one this semester and it’s going fine.</p>

<p>My question: Freshman applicants have a foreign language and US History requirement. Does that apply to transfer students as well? I’m under the impression that when you transfer, you don’t show them a high school transcript at all. So it seems the for. lang & USH don’t matter as a transfer.</p>

<p>Any thoughts?</p>

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<p>If you do IGETC, there is still a foreign language requirement in CC.</p>

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<p>Good point, purpleube. But he wasn’t planning on doing IGETC because the Engineering school doesn’t accept it.</p>

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<p>history is not a requirement for every school. I believe (if correct), it is a requirement for berkeley letter of science . but it can can be done by IGETC.</p>

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<p>I just want to say…You are such a wonderful mom!!! I hope I had a mom just like you…</p>

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<p>LiveOakHome,</p>

<p>Personally, I would contact UCLA about this one. If I understand correctly, joint highschool/CC students can sometimes be treated a bit differently than “proper transfers”…although you can probably get around this by awarding him his diploma at 16. I say that supposing your home schooling in California. Better to talk to the school rather than get blind sided.</p>

<p>With that in mind, it looks like he’ll have to fulfill this set of GE’s:
[HSSEAS</a> OASA | General Education Requirement](<a href=“http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/GE%20requirements/HSSEAS%20general%20education.htm]HSSEAS”>http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/GE%20requirements/HSSEAS%20general%20education.htm)</p>

<p>I don’t see foreign language on there. Assist has the following to say about being considered for transfer:

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<p>Hope this helps,
Joe</p>

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<p>I’ll be calling UCLA asap.</p>

<p>I realized afterwards my OP wasn’t too clear… I’m specifically asking about the a-g requirements for freshmen (of which for. lang and USH are 2). I believe these d not apply for transfers but I want to make sure.</p>

<p>…and Hongda, you can come to my house for cookies and milk and help with your homework any time.</p>

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<p>Can’t homeschooled kids take AP tests?</p>

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<p>Thank you LiveOakHome…^o^…</p>

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<p>I failed my language requirement at high school, so I had to take one semester at my cc to complete it. You need only one semester of a foreign language, which is equivalent to one year of high school foreign language class. Of course it depends on the major, but generally, the requirement is only one semester. </p>

<p>As for US History, I don’t even think it is required. I am in that major, so I had to take three US history classes for transfer, but if your major is different, then I don’t think it’s a requirement.
Taking one (like HIST 110) won’t hurt though. In fact, I think it would complete the humanities category requirement if I remember correctly.</p>