UCR to UCLA Transfer

virtuscience
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:51:06 +0000

^ Lemaitre1 nailed all of it.

211 students from other UCs were accepted to UCLA in Fall '10, with an average GPA of 3.62 and an acceptance rate of 23.31.

While this is MUCH better than the dismal 6.58% acceptance rate for the 37 people that were accepted from ALL other California 4-year schools (this is including, but far from limited to CSUs), it also shows that it too is an uphill battle.

Before giving unsolicited advice though, I’ll answer your question. Assist.org is usually the best source for determining the classes that you need to take, but UCR does not have any articulation agreements with UCLA (this highlights the “uphill battle” part). So what I would do is pick a CCC to act as an intermediary, and see what classes a student coming from there would need to take for UCLA’s mechanical engineering program. Then check out what those classes articulate as with UCR. For GE requirements, definitely aim at taking basic classes like Bio 101, English 101, Physics 101, Calculus 101, etc. These have the greatest chances of articulating v.s. classes like Renaissance Literature: Focus on The Divine Comedy.

If you’re transferring after your second year, you need a very compelling reason to transfer and stellar academics. If you’re transferring after your first, you need that and something much more than that. What is that something? You need to define that. Why would UCLA want to take such an strange and risky transfer student? For all they know, you just have issues with college and your reasons for wanting to transfer from UCR will translate into reasons for disliking UCLA.

Honestly, if you are absolutely dedicated, then I think your time is much better put into going to a CCC for the remainder of your time between now and UCLA. This shows your dedication to the transfer process and puts you with the group of people that the UC transfer system was designed for.