Options to transfer to UCLA

aunt_bea
Tue, 16 May 2023 06:07:45 +0000

tsbna44:

To me, giving up one or two years of the four year experience is crazy. That’s an important social year. But that’s me.

I absolutely agree that the first year, at a 4-year college, is crucial, for social and developmental growth. Each new, raw, 18 year-old is learning together with other, new 18 year-olds how to be freshmen, together, at their new college. From your previous experience at your CC, you know that a CC runs the gamut of diverse ages and people. It will not be the same as a freshman at a 4 yr campus.

You will miss out that newness. As a transfer, you wont ever “get it back”. You will miss out on that whole experience that each of my kids, as well as, my former students, were able to experience as Frosh. If you were planning on rushing, it will very hard as a transfer. Things like: experience on campus, where you lived freshman year, who knows you, and who you know, which profs you had, etc., affects your social standing.

By Spring, the Freshman are looking at their fall sophomore housing options, as they’ve already selected prospective roommates for the Fall term.

I don’t wish to be cruel nor harsh but, I personally don’t think you will get in next Fall because you will only have 1 quarter/semester of recorded grades from the CC to submit. The UC’s want to see how a student performs outside of the protectiveness of the high school schedule. Some AP courses will only be for general credit. Each UC’s status, on courses previously taken during high school, may or may not count for transfer from the high school record, and from the CC record. The CC counselors will know how their former students faired in transfer success and CC coursework.

It does matter that you applied 1 year prior, and were waitlisted (basically a soft reject).

I agree that there is a limit on how many credits you can garner. During campus visits to the UC’s and CSUs, our son (recruited by UCLA) met with the Chair of the Engineering department who was describing the courses available. I half joked to my son that if he were to take all of the courses available, that he would be a “permanent” student.

That’s when the Chair (who knew that I was joking) stated that all of the California public universities received a mandate requiring that students be advised to graduate in a timely manner. Funding of indecisive, high-unit students was costing the State a lot of money. Any student going over the permitted amount, would no longer be subsidized by the California State budget and would be required to pay OOS fees. I knew this was true because my brother went over the limit and asked why his tuition and fees were suddenly ridiculously high, and they told him. Graduated the next semester.

We don’t know what the future holds and we don’t know if your efforts to get into UCLA will return a desired outcome, but what we do know is that you have to plan for other options.