I hate where I am. Please help.

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>I am currently a freshman at the University of New Mexico. I am only here because I was offered an academic full ride for being a National Hispanic Scholar. An accomplishment that sounds a lot more awesome than it really is. Anyway, I cant stand it here and would love to go back to my home state of California, UCSB preferably. As a senior in high school, I did get accepted to UCSB and UCD and a few other state schools. </p>

<p>My question is, what is the process for transferring to a UC after I finish up my freshman year at UNM?</p>

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<p>Why do you hate it?</p>

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<p>it’s new mexico?</p>

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<p>I would say just stick it out. You can go to a community college next year, but who knows if you’ll end up with a scholarship if you even get accepted to UCSB. A full ride academic scholarship is an amazing thing, not very many people get it, I say try to stick it out. Whats so bad about it?</p>

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<p>Seems like a good school. Be thankful for being there. Why don’t you like it?</p>

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<p>Adrianxc… Adrian Cervantes!!! Ahahahahahahaha, damn dude. Sorry to hear things aren’t going well. </p>

<p>Anyway, transferring to UCs really depends on these things: </p>

<p>1) Your major. If you’re majoring in something that has a ton of pre-reqs, you’re unlikely to get in. You basically need to have all the pre-reqs done, and I heard UCSB was especially dickish about pre-reqs this year (people got into UCSD but not UCSB cause of that). </p>

<p>2) Your GPA, for obvious reasons just keep it as high as possible. </p>

<p>3) Since you’re coming from another 4 year university, you’re gonna have the lowest priority. Community college has the highest priority, then followed by UCs, then other 4 years. I would suggest going to DVC or something, the only problem is since you will have completed a significant amount of coursework at another university, they will consider you a 4 year university transfer. You might wanna consider trying to start second semester at DVC, cause then you won’t have a significant amount of coursework. </p>

<p>Anyway, good luck. You can PM me or something if you need more advice.</p>

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<p>Isn’t it like the first week of school? Try and give it a chance, if I could go to college for free I would definitely do it.</p>

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<p>Ill be attending Drake in Iowa next year. Thanks for the help everyone.</p>

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<p>Once you take even one class at any institution you cannot transfer into a UC as a freshman anymore. You also absolutely cannot transfer to a CSU or UC as a sophomore. You can only transfer as a junior and on the VERY rare occasion as a senior.</p>