Moving from CSU to CC

qwe2qwe
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:36:31 +0000

Thank you all for the responses, reading these things puts me more at ease.

Yes, as of now I’ll have 20 or so WASC accredited credits, so I am well below the 90 credits. The trick of now is trying to get into the Community College, I applied for Fall a few days ago. It’s a shame that I am so far behind, but I am happy I finally know what to do.

From my own research on the side, if anyone is interested. The admission rates for Californian transfer applicants in Fall '09 for the engineering department at UCSD was: 55% for 2 year institutions, and 25% for ‘other’. Similar rates are seen at other schools, at UCD it’s 43% 2 year and 33% ‘other’. At these two colleges alone it appears that simply attending a 2 year increases the likelihood of getting accepted between 10-30%; of course this is not indicative of GPA. These are odds that I am not willing to take by attending an ‘other’ school, as you said engineering is a tougher program to get into, I need the best odds I can get. (All this taken from [University of California: StatFinder](http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder/) BTW)

Oh, and about the CSU and UC debate; honestly the only thing I know is I want to do engineering, the other stuff does not really matter to me. But the fact is this - either way (since i’m at CSU that does not offer engineering), I am going to have to get through the General Education requirements and if I could end up at a school that is actually more subsidized by the government (the UC system), why not? Cal Poly is an extremely viable option for engineering, but I won’t get my hopes up :)

It’s interesting that you mention Orange County, it is one of the larger cities in California (compared to mine at least), so perhaps I won’t have too much trouble at my CC, but we’ll have to wait and see.

My next issue is finding out how to get some of my major classes done (since my CC does not offer engineering) to make myself a more attractive candidate, back to the drawing board! /le sigh