U.C. Transfer from a Private School

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<p>Hi! I’m a newbie here, and I was just hoping to get some help from you guys! :)</p>

<p>I just had a question concerning transferring to a U.C., hopefully Irvine.</p>

<p>I have a certain situation and I do not know how what to specifically do, so I was wondering if I can maybe receive some help and information that can help me.</p>

<p>Last year, 2009-2010, I attended my first college as a freshman in a private school named Dominican University, and I was able to receive a total of 32 units with a 3.7 GPA. But, this year, my second year of college, I was not able to attend and register for Dominican university. So, I am currently attending a community college named Skyline College, and am planning on taking classes there from the 2010-2011 school year. My advisor from the private school told me to take classes in the community college, and then transfer the units that I received back to the private university. So right now, I am still a private school student, but I am taking the classes at a community college to transfer. But, instead of transferring back to my old private school, I was thinking of just transferring to a U.C., hopefully U.C. Irvine, instead.</p>

<p>The problem is, since I spent my first year at a private college, I do not know which of the classes that I took from my first year of college in the private school is U.C. transferable. So, I do not know if I am going to be able to complete the 60 units in two semesters so that I am able to transfer to a U.C. by next year, my junior year. I do not know how many exact units, out of the 60 units that is required to be completed, I have completed and still need to complete. Also, I do not know which classes I have taken already and which classes I should still be taking. Because even if I have already taken them in the private school, I do not know if it is U.C transferable, so I do not know if it I should still take same classes in the community college or not. So, is there any way I can find out if my classes from the private school is transferable to a U.C.?</p>

<p>Also, I am confused because an advisor from the community college that I am attending right now showed me a paper concerning U.C. transfers that said sometimes, a student might only have to take a minimum of one year of college in a community college and a minimum of 30 units. Would this apply to me?</p>

<p>So am I going to be considered as a transfer from the private school? If so, would I still need to complete the 60 units minimum requirement? Or will I be considered a transfer from a community college, even if I am only going to attend the community college for one year?</p>

<p>If I am not able to transfer as a junior in U.C. Irvine, am I able to transfer there by next year as a sophomore instead of a junior? Would I still need to complete the 60 units required to transfer? What would I need to do?</p>

<p>Who should I talk to or am I able to talk to a specific person concerning this problem?</p>

<p>Is there ANY chance I would be able to get into a U.C. by my junior year?</p>

<p>Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. :D</p>

<p>Thanks in advance to those who help :).</p>

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<p>Oh yeah, the private school that I attended, Dominican University, is in Northern California. Same with the community college that I am attending right now, which is Skyline College.</p>

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<p>If you really want to transfer to a UC you should immediately withdraw from and cut all ties with Dominican University so that you can be considered a full time community college (cc) student. Transfers from ccs have the highest priority for admission for transfer to UCs while transfers from private four year schools have very low priority, only transfers from CSUs are lower.</p>

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<p>Since there isn’t articulation agreements between private schools to UCs, a lot of knowing what will or will not count depends on what your community college will take into consideration for fulfilling the requirements of IGETC certification. If your community college certifies you as having completed IGETC, then you really don’t have anything to worry about.
What you need to do, is go through your Dominican transcripts, look at courses that are equivalent or seem like they’d be equivalent to classes that your community college offers. (ie classes like English Composition, Calculus, Literature, Astronomy, Chemistry, etc) Once you’ve picked them out, go to your CC and petition to have them count for the equivalent of what the CC offers. You should talk to a CC counselor about this. You’ll need to bring your transcripts with you, and possibly the course description/syllabus of the Dominican classes. Your CC will let you know if they accept it or not, and if they don’t accept it then chances are that UCI won’t accept it. After doing this you should know where you stand and how many units from Dominican will count in your 60 unit requirement. It might be all 30, it might be 15 it might 24. In the meanwhile, I’d recommend you take classes that you know you haven’t taken at Dominican and that will still count towards your GE/IGETC requirements. If possible play it safe. and try to take a heavy courseload each semester. Its better to have taken more units and be more sure that you didn’t miss the 60 unit mark than to end up realizing that you missed the mark by 3-6 units. </p>

<p>I remember when I was applying to transfer I used to worry about whether or not I’d be short in units or not because frankly I didn’t know which of my private school units would count or which would not. Surprisingly a lot of my private school units did end up transfer over to my current UC.</p>

<p>Last words of advice, the math and the English requirements are definitely the huge ones you need to have fulfilled.</p>

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<p>Thank you both so much for taking time to help me.</p>

<p>@liek0806- So, were you in the same position as me? You went to a private school, then went to a community college, then tried to transfer? When did you find out which units from your private college transferred to the UC? Also, what kind of classes were they?</p>

<p>These are the classes that I took in my private school:</p>

<p>(All FYF’s are First Year Foundations- they were required (3) for all freshmen, so I doubt they will be transferable):</p>

<ul>
<li>FYF: Art & Society- 2 Units - Learned about different types of artwork (statues and paintings) and their history. (Grade: A-)</li>
<li>FYF: Science & Society- 2 Units- Learned about problems with society concerning science like global warming, use of pesticides, etc. (Grade: A)
-FYF: Human Cultures - 2 Units- Learned about cultures of different countries, talked about racism and minorities, etc. (Grade: A-)</li>
</ul>

<p>-Christianity & Art- 3 Units - This is sort of a introductory religion class about Christianity. It was required for all students to take 2 religion classes. (Grade: A-)</p>

<p>-Introduction to Psychology- 3 Units - An introductory psychology class. Would this count as a “General Psychology” class? (Grade: B)
-Foundation of Critical Thinking - 1 Unit - This was a required class for all Psychology majors. All we really learned was how to write a psychology experimental paper. I doubt this too will be transferable. (Grade: B)</p>

<p>-Abnormal Psychology- 3 Units - We learned about different psychological disorders such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, autism, bipolar disorders, etc. (Grade: B)

  • Organizational Psychology- 3 Units - We learned about how psychology affects the business workplace like in offices and big companies. I doubt this will count as a transferable class though. (Grade: A)
    -Language Acquisition- 3 Units - We learned about the different ways how different children from different cultures learn language in different ways. We learned about different psychological theories of how children develop their languages. (Grade: A)</p>

<p>-Information and Research - 1 Unit - We learned about how we can use the library databases like SAGE, PSYCHinfo, etc., to help with our research. (Grade: A)</p>

<p>-College Algebra - 3 Units - Learn about algebra in college level. Would this count as my math requirement for the U.C.? (Grade: A)</p>

<p>-Materials of Music - 3 Units - THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ONE. Would this count as my “arts” class for the IGETC requirement? We learned about basic music terms. Learned about clefts, basic music terms like arpeggio, legato, etc. We also learned about scales, major/minor triads, augmented/diminished notes, keys, etc. (Grade: A)</p>

<p>-Expository Writing - 3 Units- THIS TOO IS AN IMPORTANT ONE. I do not know if they would count it as one of the two English classes that I needed to take. If not, then I don’t know if I should take a class similar to this or not. This class was a college level composition class, and it was required for everyone to take it. In this class, we learned to read different articles and stories, written by different authors, which varied from debates, persuasion, etc. , and we had to write about them, voicing our opinions, writing styles, etc. We also discussed a few different writing styles. Would this count as one of the English classes I need to take for the 2 English class requirements for U.C.'s? (Grade: A-)</p>

<p>So this is a total of 32 units.</p>

<p>The classes that I am currently taking in the community college are:</p>

<p>SPCH 100 - Public Speaking - 3.00 units
MATH 222 - Precalculus - 5.00 units <---- Would this count as one of my other math requirement?
PSYC 201 - Child Development - 3.00 units <---- Would this help at all?
MATH 200 - Probability & Statistics - 4.00 units <---- Would this count as one of my other math requirements?</p>

<p>These are the only classes I could register for because I didn’t know that I was going to a community college until a week before class started. These are also the closest I could get to what an advisor from the community college told me to take for a “college plan,” which has classes that has about 49 units of classes.</p>

<p>The reason that I am worried about the English and Music classes that I took from the private school is because I don’t know if I should take the same classes, but in the community college.</p>

<p>I know this would be a bit too much to ask for you guys, but can you guys look at the classes and let me know which you guys think would be transferable to a U.C., or U.C. Irvine to be specific. I know you guys don’t know for sure, but what do you guys think?</p>

<p>Also, do you all know if I am taking the right courses in my current community college?</p>

<p>Also, who should I contact to get a more definite response? I already tried asking my private college and my community college, but they haven’t been able to give me a definite response. Should I contact U.C. Irvine through phone or email? I don’t know how to contact them because as much as I want to talk to an advisor from U.C. Irvine face to face, I can’t because classes are starting here now, and I live in Northern California, while U.C. Irvine is in Southern California and is about an 8 hour drive.</p>

<p>Thank you all so much for the help. I really appreciate it! :)</p>

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<p>Yes my situation was like yours. I was at a Private College, then went to Community College, and then transferred. I found out which classes transferred over once I was already accepted, and was enrolling in classes at UCLA. I remember I used to have the same concerns as you, especially regarding the English requirement. I emailed different UCs and they all basically said the same thing. They wouldn’t confirm if it would transfer or not until I was already enrolled. They just kept referring me to the same old guidelines that are available on the UC transfer website. Which is this:
[University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_adm_reqs.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_adm_reqs.html)
If you look at the guidelines for transfer admissions it doesn’t specify which type of 2 english composition classes, they just state “Two transferable college courses (3 semester or 4–5 quarter units each) in English composition”, and so on for the other requirements. Just so you know, IGETC is a “recommended” path not necessarily a the “required” path into getting in.
Because my private school was an art school, the classes that transferred over and “counted” for my general education where the art history and english courses. Other lower division work like drawing, design, etc also transferred but it was as electives. Prior to being accepted, I did what I advised you to do. I had my private school transcripts sent to the community college I was attending. Once they had received the trancripts, I petitioned(at my CC you had to submit a form for each class) classes that seemed to be the equivalents of classes offered at my community college. I went to my counselor and then found out from him which did end up being “equivalents” and how they would fit into fulfilling my IGETC requirements. Classes that weren’t offered at my CC could still count for general education requirements. I’ll use an example. At my art school, i took an art history department class that was on contemporary art. At my CC, they didn’t have a “contemporary art” class that would be the equivalent to my private school’s class. But because the class is part of “art history” the class counted for the area 3 requirement of IGETC.</p>

<p>-I don’t think the FYF classes will count for any of the areas of IGETC, but they may count as “electives” just like some of my art school “foundation(drawing, design)” classes counted as electives. </p>

<p>-Christianity and Art I think will count for area 3. If its offered through the religion department it will most likely count for the humanities area, if it was offered through art history department, it would count under Art area of area 3.
-Intro to Psych will definitely count. i think abnormal will also count. I don’t know what organization psychology is, it might count as long as it was a lecture class and was a type of class that was similar to intro to psych or abnormal psych in the sense that it’s a “traditional” class and not one of those major requirements that is specific to your major. Intro to Psych and abnormal I believe will count for area 4 of igetc.</p>

<p>-Language and Acquisition seems like one of those classes that might be “too specific” and not “traditional”. It may count as an elective, but won’t count towards IGETC. Information and Research I believe won’t count at all.</p>

<p>-College Algebra should count, as it’s a “typical” math class probably offered by most all schools, including community college. This class should cover area 2, which only requires one 3 unit math college class.</p>

<p>-Materials of Music should count for the Art part of area 3, it sounds like any Music history/studies class that may be offered at a CC</p>

<p>-Expository Writing, should count for one of the 2 english composition courses. My advise to you is to try to get this petitioned asap at your CC, I had taken like 4 english courses(1 composition, and 3 literature)at my private. My counselor at CC seemed iffy on giving me credit for any 2 of my 4 english classes, he only gave me credit for the one english class that specifically had a title that referred to college writing/composition, and that was because he wanted to play it safe. I ended up taking another english class at my CC(even though it probably wasn’t necessary for UC) just because USC required it, and USC was the only school that actually took a look at my classes from my private school and told me that my english class wouldn’t satisfy “their” english requirement. </p>

<p>In regards to your current schedule, you should know if those classes count if they show up as transferring over on the website assist.org like i stated above, your college algebra counts for your math requirement, but it won’t hurt you to take that extra math class because it probably fulfills the “60 transferable units” you need. Fulfilling IGETC alone is less than 60 units in total(i think once you add up all the units required as part of igetc it adds up to something in the 40s?), which means that you would still need to go above the (40s or so units)IGETC requirements to fulfill the 60 units. </p>

<p>Also I hope you have a major in mind that you want to major in, and have looked at what is required for your major in terms of requirements. You can find that information on [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) Some of those major requirements, can count double, both for fulfilling IGETC and your major/department requirements. A lot of transferring out within one year depends on your major/department requirements, availability of classes, and the completion of courses. If your CC hasn’t started, I’d advise you to show up to some back up classes on the first day, to see if professors will add students to the class. It looks like you’d need to take a physical and biological class pretty soon to get that covered.
Also if you took foreign language at high school, you’ll have to submit those high school transcripts to your CC.</p>

<p>Lastly your Community college counselor should be able to help you and get you settled. If he or she seems clueless, go to another counselor, or if your school has a transfer center, where they are suppose to help you with transferring, go there and seek their help instead or in addition to the regular community college counselor.</p>

<p>You can contact the UCs if you want, but they’ll probably end up telling you the exact same thing they told me. They can’t give you a definite answer until once you’re accepted or rejected. If you plan on applying to transfer for fall 2011, i recommend you complete classes in the igetc areas that you know you need to complete, like that of biological and physical sciences, and maybe a second english class, and those of major/deparment requirements. Its going to be impossible to complete 60 units by next spring or summer since you obviously got a late start on enrolling, unless of course you can take alot of units in the spring semester and winter, but i wouldn’t worry about it, aim for completing as many, that might total up to 60 units with the classes from your private school. worst case scenario you’ll get rejeceted, and realize that you won’t be able to transfer into fall 2011. and if that’s the case, it wouldn’t have been any different than had you started igetc from scratch and had opted to wait for 2 years to transfer.</p>

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<p>Maybe these have some useful info</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.faccc.org/images/FF2010_College_Stats.pdf[/url]”>http://www.faccc.org/images/FF2010_College_Stats.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.cccapply.org/FAQ/[/url]”>http://www.cccapply.org/FAQ/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“Understanding UC transfer | UC Admissions”>Understanding UC transfer | UC Admissions;

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<p>Thank you to all that helped so far. Especially you liek0806. You have been nothing but such a great help :).</p>

<p>I just had a few more questions though. Do the UC’s care WHEN you take the required courses, like the English class? Because I couldn’t get any of the English classes anymore because they were all full. Do they give priority to the people who completed it in the fall semester, or do I still have the same chance even with just taking the class at the spring semester.</p>

<p>Also, for the units that you said that will turn into electives from my private school, does that count as UC transferable too? </p>

<p>Lastly, do the electives that I take matter, as long as I finish most of the IGETC requirements? Because the only classes I was able to take right now were:</p>

<p>SPCH 100 - Public Speaking - 3.00 units
PSYC 201 - Child Development - 3.00 units
MATH 200 - Probability & Statistics - 4.00 units
PSYC 200 - Developmental Psychology - 3.00 units
MUS 202 - Music Appreciation - 3.00 units</p>

<p>I’m planning on taking an English class, General Physics with Lab, and Physical Anthropology (For my Biological IGETC section) next semester, plus some other units that I need to take just to try to get more units to try to hit that 60 transferable units mark.</p>

<p>Is this a good schedule for me to still have a chance at getting into UC Irvine by fall 2011?</p>

<p>A counselor told me to drop precalculus for Child development and Music Appreciation because he said that there might be prerequisite conflicts and he said I won’t really need it because if I go do well on the placement test, then I would place in a class higher than precalculus. But if I do poorly, then I would have to take several math classes, about 5 semesters worth, of math classes. So he said it would be better to take these classes. </p>

<p>What I am afraid of, though, is that I might be taking too many electives, and the Music Appreciation class might be useless, because the Materials of Music that I took in my private school might already count as an Arts class. If this is the case, would the UC’s mind if I have two Arts classes? Or would it just not matter as long as I have 60 transferable units.</p>

<p>Again, thank you SO MUCH for helping me with this problem. I know I’ve been so much trouble lately. I just want to say thank you for taking the time to help out a stranger =].</p>

<p>PS: Oh yeah, for liek0806, how many units did the UC accept from the private school, and were any of them from the IGETC? How did you know that they were transferable and will they still tell you how much they accepted from your private school EVEN if you get rejected? </p>

<p>Thank you so much again for all the help. You are the person that I can relate to the most, and have been the biggest help for me so far. Even more than any of my counselors lol.</p>

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<p>And also, for liek0806, what type of classes did you take that were accepted by the UC, and what was your GPA?</p>

<p>And did you fully know that you completed the IGETC requirements and the 60 units before applying? Or were you also just hoping that your private school units were going to be accepted by the UC?</p>

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If you’re admitted for Fall 2011, you need to have completed the required courses generally speaking by the end of the Spring semester, which would be the end of Spring 2011. You don’t need to have your requirements finished by the time the application for admissions is due(in November of this year). You will however need to write on your application your projected class schedule for the Spring term. Even though you won’t have completed your Spring semester by the time admission decisions come out, it is expected, and it is your responsibility to notify the UCs of any changes in your application or projected schedule, whether the adding or dropping of classes. Not notifying them or updating them with your schedule(assuming there are changes) might result in you getting your admissions rescinded(assuming you get accepted).

They SHOULD(i didn’t say WILL-or at least didnt intend to) count as UC transferable, because those classes that you took at the private school sound or read like classes that are probably offered at community colleges in California.</p>

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They don’t matter as long as they’re considered UC/CSU transferable. Usually in your community college course catalog, it will say whether a given class is UC/CSU transferable. Even if it doesn’t provide that information in the catalog, you can double check on Assist.org and look up your community college. However, it’s just more ideal to take electives that fulfill either IGETC or your major departments lower division work(the ones listed on assist org). Speaking of which, have you looked up the requirements for your major’s department? You NEED to complete most if not all of them to have a better shot at getting in. I can’t speak for if it will be absolutely necessary to have them all completed, because again I’m not UCI, and I don’t know what major you’re applying for, and I don’t know how competitive that department is at UCI.</p>

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Make sure, like I wrote above, that if you can take classes that count for your major’s lower division requirements. you can find what is required and the equivalent on assist . org </p>

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I won’t really comment on this, because I feel like this whole “math” issue can easily be avoided if you were to do what I recommended and get your Dominican transcripts and petition for certain classes to count as equivalents at your CC. You could save yourself time by not taking additional classes if you were to find out that you already have the IGETC math requirement fulfilled because of Dominican. Secondly, I’m assuming your whole math issues are in regards to completing the IGETC requirement, not because your major department at UCI expects or requires you to complete a certain level of math(ie Calculus, or what have you). “College Algebra”, at least at my community college, counted for the IGETC math requirement. If you were to, again, have your dominican transcripts at your cc and petition for it to count as the equivalent then you wouldn’t have to worry about taking any more math at all. But I don’t know your major, or what requiremetns you’re trying to fulfill. </p>

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Again if you had your dominican transcripts at your CC, and found a class whose course description at your CC matched that of Dominican, you could have known or could know if you’re wasting your time or not. In the end what matters, regardless of what classes you take(including excessive electives) is having at least 60 transferable units, your major department’s requirements completed(this is where it would have been smart or would be smart to pick your electives wisely so that you can kill two birds with one stones), IGETC fulfilled and IGETC certified(if you plan on using Dominican classes to count for IGETC, like the English course, YOU NEED NEED NEED to do the whole taking your Dominican Transcripts and petitioning for the equivalencies ASAP, so that YOU can know what to plan for in the spring and what you do or don’t need, so that you don’t waste your time).</p>

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I’d have to look at my degree progress report, and I’m not going to because it takes to long to count, i know they accepted basically all the ones that were considered part of a liberal arts curriculum, and ones that were basic studio art classes like the drawing, painting, etc. What ended up counting for IGETC were the courses that I had petitioned at my community college to count for IGETC, ie English Composition etc. THis is the reason why it’s important for you to do the same thing ASAP and petition dominican classes to count for IGETC. your community college certifies you for IGETC, not the UC you transfer into. Your community college transcripts once sent to UCI or wherever will have an IGETC certification. </p>

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At my CCs(i attended more than one) i only took classes that were considered uc transferable, all of those transferred over, even if they counted for igetc or not, they were taken in as electives or fulfillment of my major department’s requirements. At my private, I already stated which ones counted above. My GPA at CC was around 3.3-3.6. my gpa at my private was somewhere below a 3.0. Because my private was an art school, the ones that didn’t transfer were ones that were too major specific. I’ll compare those non-transferable classes to the equivalent of say of classes like “baking 101” or “hair styling” or “carpentry 101” or stuff like that.

On the UC application it asks you if you will have IGETC finished or be certified, you check off yes, assuming you will be by the time you transfer. I wasn’t at the time I applied in Novemeber. I was certified only after I finished the spring semester and they were ready to send my transcripts to UCLA. I knew I would be certified and would finish IGETC because I had petitioned my private school classes at my community college(what I keep telling you to do ASAP, so you know where you stand and so you know if you actually will have IGETC done or not by the Spring), and was told by my CC which ones would and wouldn’t count for IGETC. </p>

<p>Overall I wasn’t expecting for my private school units to be accepted by the UC, I did hope that the English one would count because that was the main one I was worried about. But because I took my private school transcripts to my CC, and petitioned classes(hint hint, i keep mentioning this because you NEED to do this so that you can have a ton of your questions answered ), and my CC confirmed the petition and told me the English one would count for IGETC, I had some peace of mind. I still had my doubts, but in the end more than just the English ended up counting.</p>

<p>Overall, I just want to reiterate that I don’t work for a UC, and my answers are not definitive, and they’re not what you need to hold like some do religion. They’re just my opinions/advice from my experience. My experience was different from yours, because frankly we went to different schools and we aimed for probably different goals. Unlike you, I wasn’t “rushed” to try to transfer over, and I knew that I wasn’t going to settle for anything less than a mid tier UC. I personally think you’d be settling and spending your money unwisely by going back to Dominican. I’d rather see you be in a worst case scenario situation, and end up staying at a CC for an extra year so that you can for sure transfer to UCI or a better UC. I can’t think of anything Dominican is well known for that is comparable or superior to than a UC education, unless of course its the small environment that matters to you.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much once again for your reply liek. It is helping me a bunch :D. </p>

<p>As of right now, though, after talking with transfer advisors, I’ve finally accepted that its going to be close to impossible for me to get into UC Irvine by next year. I really doubt that I will get in UC Irvine because of the year at private school. BUT, I did talk to one very helpful counselor (most helpful and nicest counselor I’ve met so far), and he said that we do not know for sure yet unless I send my transcript to my community college, and that we will know which are transferable 1-4 weeks after they receive my transcript. He said that the chances of me getting into UC Irvine by Fall 2011 was pretty low, but he said “you never know, you might get in.”</p>

<p>So now, I’m thinking, since I probably have 1 semester, after this year, of schooling to go before I am able to transfer, I am thinking about switching my major to chemistry. Would I be able to TAG for that next year or not?</p>

<p>IF, for some miraculous reason though, I DO get into UC Irvine through the psychology program by fall 2010, is switching majors this late advisable, or even allowed, or not? </p>

<p>Or should I just wait until I get into UC Irvine by applying as a Psychology major, then switching my major to chemistry once I get in? Is this even allowed or would it be TOO hard to switch to Chemistry major once I get into UC Irvine applying as a psychology major because of a waitlist.</p>

<p>OR, should I just major in Psychology and minor in chemistry. </p>

<p>Or even, maybe, is there a way I can take a PreMed program in Irvine?</p>

<p>Because I’m starting to lose interest a bit in psychology and am starting to want to be in the biological/physical science instead of the social sciences.</p>

<p>Thanks once again!</p>

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<p>A lot of your questions/answers can be done by doing some research on both UCI’s website, and google.
I don’t know anything about TAG. Ask your counselor</p>

<p>Psychology has a higher acceptance rate for transfers than the Biological Sciences at UCI. This you can look up on UC Stat Finder, you run the tables and criteria and it should tell you what percent of applicants where accepted per major.
If you haven’t done so, please look at <a href=“http://www”>www</a>. assist . org to see what lower division requirements each major requires. I did it for you and apparently UCI states for psychology that "This major does not require completion of prerequisites for admission as a transfer student. " and for biological sciences it states "Junior-level applicants with the highest grades overall and who have<br>
satisfactorily completed course prerequisites will be given preference for<br>
admission. All applicants must complete one year of general chemistry<br>
(with laboratory) with grades of B or better, complete courses equivalent to UC
Irvine’s BIO SCI 93, 94, 100L with a C or better in each course and have a<br>
cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. "
Based on the above you won’t have one year of general chemistry to even be considered for the Biological Science major if you were to apply and be considered for it for Fall 2011. I guess your only options for a major if you apply for the Fall 2011 term is Psychology, or any other science major whose requirements(as stated on assist) give some leeway with the pre-reqs, lower division work.</p>

<p>Secondly, there’s no point in you trying to rush things if you’re going to end up getting in and finding yourself unhappy with psychology. Apply for Fall2011, and if you get in, then make the decision, but if you’re still debating majors, maybe the idea of staying at a CC an extra year just to figure “things out” is not such a bad idea. That extra year would basically be the same as the extra year you’d probably spend at UCI if you were to change your major once there. The only difference would be that you’d save yourself a lot more money. </p>

<p>PS please look at Assist . org It breaks down everything required for a prospective major including whether or not they’ll allow you to enter or if it will be worth applying without having your requirements fulfilled by the time you transfer, it will also give you an indication of what classes you should probably aim at taking during the spring that count both for your major and the completion of IGETC</p>