And I’ll add to UCB’s fine post- most CC students I’ve known who successfully transferred to a four year engineering program did NOT “accelerate” with the engineering courses. They excelled at statistics (with programming, not just “here’s what a standard deviation is” type intro stats course for non math people), they improved their writing skills with a rigorous humanities class (literature or history, etc.) which required writing papers, not just taking multiple choice tests, and they broadened their understanding of the physical world with an intro course in geology or astronomy or environmental science, etc.
A successful pivot involves more than checking boxes off a list.