<p>I go to UCLA, and I will be graduating 1 year early (3 years) as a neuroscience major with a completely unrelated minor tacked on as well (philosophy). I will go as far as to say that it is virtually impossible to not graduate on time if someone is proactive about it. Usually, the people that don’t graduate on time only start taking class scheduling seriously their 2nd or 3rd years and think their first year they can pretty much take classes in any order without worrying about things. It’s not that way at any school. From the very beginning, go see your advisor, as for a standard degree schedule tailored to your needs and transferred credits/APs and follow it from the first quarter. You might not get 1-3 classes here or there, but it’s pretty much impossible to not graduate on time unless you came in severely handicapped (like it was mentioned above, having to take a lot of remedial or intro classes) or have a total disregard for scheduling. </p>
<p>Like it’s been said before, the rumor mills surrounding the UC are hilarious at times. I can’t count the number of times that I hear people saying “I don’t want to go to a UC, their graduation rates have been plummeting recently due to budget cuts and everything” and see the surprised look on their face when I point out that UCLA/Cal grad rates have been rising and are pretty much the same or higher than local privates (ie USC etc)</p>