How important are gen eds?

Transfer Students
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<p>I live in Virginia and our community college system has a guaranteed acceptance agreement with schools here. I am on an AA degree plan to fulfill the UVA agreement and I don’t think I will have all the general eds completed for the schools I am applying to in California: UCSD, UCLA, USD, Pepperdine, USC. I plan on applying as biochem or neurscience major and will have taken, my year of bio, chem, orgo, phys, psychol, and calc + stat. Will I be automatically rejected to any of those schools for not having general eds? BTW when you apply to transfer, do you pick two majors (1st and 2nd choice)? </p>

<p>Thank you, if this was discussed before and I missed it, sorry in advance and I’ll search harder.</p>

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<p>Yes, it will be a problem. At CSUs there is no hope of getting in without the gen eds they require and I believe the UCs are pretty much just as strict these days. There are basically more qualified IN-STATE transfer students with all their gen eds done than spots for them, so OOS students without their gen eds done are pretty much canon fodder.</p>

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<p>dang that sucks :confused: I guess I’ll just screw the guaranteed agreement with UVA since my top preferred school is UCLA or USC. Are the other schools besides UCs as strict with their gen. eds?</p>

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<p>Why would you screw a guaranteed acceptance to UVA just so you can have a shot at the UCs? Is there any compelling reason? The UCs are great, but UVA isn’t exactly second tier.</p>

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<p>imjjjaee - A lot of schools are strict with Gen Eds for transfer students. They want to see that you will be able to transition to what any other sophomore or junior student would be taking. I agree with the post above though, you may be shooting yourself in the foot if you don’t do GAA to UVA just so you have a better chance to get into a UC (and your chances still won’t be high)</p>

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<p>yea it seems insa ne to drop the agreement but i have a personal reason why I cant go there. (no its not campus or people or school.) I would love to go there but I just can’t at the moment.</p>

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<p>nvm just got it figured out. thanks for the replies guys!!!</p>