<p>For those like smewshie who forgot to make sure of a safety school you liked…take your best option and plan for a transfer application to a school you really like for 2014 transfer admission. In California, the UC’s have very active transfer programs and many top-ranked graduates of UCB, UCLA, UCSD, etc. are transfers from SU’s and even CC’s. </p>
<p>If community college is your only option, most of the UC’s (Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz) have a GUARANTEED transfer program! With help from your CC counselor (and they are the BEST!) you could be prepared to move up (and save your family a TON of money). Read up on the programs for each specific UC and make your choices on that basis (some limit to “local” CC’s, some limit applicable majors, each have different academic requirements)</p>
<p>For instance:
[Transfer</a> Admission Guarantee: Fall 2013](<a href=“http://www.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/transfers/prep-programs/tag.html]Transfer”>http://www.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/transfers/prep-programs/tag.html)</p>
<p>Stanford is way better as a grad school, anyway.</p>