<p>^^awesome stats, thanks!!</p>
<p>@pw</p>
<p>what’re you taking at OCC this sem?</p>
<p>holy crap. Los Angeles City College has a higher admit rate to UCLA than Irvine Valley College. woah, i’ve attended both colleges and never would have thought that’d be true.</p>
<p>SMC
But many of the most motivated students are from out of state or international and come here to transfer .
Its half community college, half UC prep for international students . But heck, you get people like me who aimlessly take classes after getting laid off , then wake up ready to transfer to a great school in 2, 3 years </p>
<p>However, it is what you make of it ,</p>
<p>Want to save a bit of money going to CC first, even if you had a 3.6 GPA out of high school, your welcome . Did you screw up miserably in high school to the point you barely graduated , come on, here’s a second chance !!!</p>
<p>Im taking physics(thermo, optics, etc.), statics, history, and music.
seriously, I want to get out of this school as soon as possible.</p>
<p>I’m taking Phys285 
it sucks</p>
<p>rofl. someone from my class. good luck with the final.</p>
<p>Sucks to be from Compton… I’m pretty sure they lost accreditation a while back.</p>
<p>I think it also depends on your major. I went to Las Positas College, majoring in engineering. Those students who were not motivated in my engineering classes did not last long. Of my “graduating” class (of I think 12 - small class size, I know), three of us transferred to UC Davis, three to Cal Poly, a couple to Sac State (boo), and the rest to San Jose State.</p>
<p>Most people in my physics/math classes at SMC seem to be much more motivated than people i’ve seen in my easier GE classes (poli. sci, english etc).</p>
<p>Most of the “feeder” schools have motivated students because, like thisislife said, there tends to be a large number of international students who are attending the CC with the sole purpose of transferring to UCLA, UCSD, or UC Berkeley and then returning to their home country. According the the stats the chailatte posted earlier, the “feeder schools” would be:</p>
<p>UCLA feeder schools
- [<em>] Primary: Santa Monica College (by way more than 200 students!)
[</em>]El Camonio College
[<em>]Glendale Community College
UC Berkeley feeder schools
[ul]
[li]Primary: Diablo Valley College (by about 50 students)[/li][</em>]City College Of San Francisco
[li]De Anza College[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>It also depends on what you’re studying. Engineering, computer science and physical sciences tend to have more motivated students because the material is really hard for most people, so most people have to be pretty motivated to get through them. Combine engineering classes and physical sciences with a feeder school, and you’ll probably have a large number of motivated students. As an aside, I’m a Computer Science student at Diablo Valley College and I know a lot of students who got into Berkeley.</p>
<p>Citrus College definitely no.Well…depends.In my science courses they are eager to learn and do tend to transfer.That’s what I like but unfortunately, on the liberal arts classes, about a handful take the course work seriously.</p>
<p>collegeconfidential should be a school in itself, ■■■■■.</p>
<p>@amsstory I think that your “feeder” school predictions are way off base. First of all, you’re not even utilizing the data in an appropriate (or logical way) unless you’re looking at some CCC to specific UC table that I’m unaware of? Especially with UCLA since you essentially just picked some random schools with more than 200 admits into the UC system in general and listed the ones that were somewhat closer to UCLA or UCB. </p>
<p>At the southern CA reception for UCB, the speaker gave various statistics on the admitted class to Cal for Fall 2011 and though SMC, DVC, and De Anza were on there, CC of SF was definitely not. Included in the top community colleges for transfer admittance of more than 200 students were also Pasadena CC and Santa Barbara CC. My school (Orange Coast College) trailed at the bottom of this list with ~1XX acceptances. Though this doesn’t factor into who will actually accept admission, I don’t think you can randomly throw in a school like CCSF with mediocre acceptance rates and claim it’s a top feeder without any proof of the actual matriculation into UCB. I also think that you didn’t take into account the volume of students that actually come from southern CA and do accept admission. For a local UC (like UCR versus Merced), you’re going to have generally more socal students at UCR and more northern CA students at Merced or even UCSC. I don’t think you can assume that with schools like UCB and UCLA.</p>
<p>On a personal note, when looking at closer schools to UCLA, I’m a little bitter that you would list Glendale and El Camino as some of the leading transfers when OCC transfers way more into the UC system than them in general (500+ compared to 300 - by more than 200 students!) and I think this would generally reflect the UCLA transfer rate also. Not to mention, OCC is under an hour away from UCLA, so a lot of people choose to go there. Also, I’m pretty sure that Pasadena and SBCC have higher transfer matriculation rates to UCLA than Glendale or El Camino.</p>
<p>Overall, I think it’s obvious that the schools who have the top transfer rates will generally have more motivated students, but I do disagree with your feeder school lists. Though more international students will probably pick a school that is in close proximity to the UC, I don’t think that it’s enough to significantly increase the motivation consensus beyond a school that has a top transfer rate. If you have any proof of the actual numbers of students that matriculate into each UC, then by all means post it.</p>
<p>generally, the harder the class becomes the brighter your peers become.</p>
<p>…you guys realize that there are over 100 community colleges in the CCC system alone, right?</p>
<p>
@killmyentourage: I was looking at this (which is a CCC to specific UC Table):
For UCLA: [California</a> Postsecondary Education Commission - Transfer Pathway Charts](<a href=“http://www.cpec.ca.gov/OnLineData/TransferPathwayChart.asp?Inst=A0004A]California”>http://www.cpec.ca.gov/OnLineData/TransferPathwayChart.asp?Inst=A0004A)
For Berkeley: [California</a> Postsecondary Education Commission - Transfer Pathway Charts](<a href=“http://www.cpec.ca.gov/OnLineData/TransferPathwayChart.asp?Inst=A0001A]California”>http://www.cpec.ca.gov/OnLineData/TransferPathwayChart.asp?Inst=A0001A)</p>
<p>If you want to see similar data for other schools:
<a href=“http://www.cpec.ca.gov/OnLineData/TransferPathway.asp[/url]”>http://www.cpec.ca.gov/OnLineData/TransferPathway.asp</a></p>
<p>As you can see, City College of SF actually sends a large number of students to UC Berkeley (one of three with 100+ students). This is not based purely on its location – if it is was I would have included schools like Berkeley City College and Laney College – one in Berkeley and the other in Oakland. Also, I want to clarify what my definition of feeder school is in this instance: it is a school that is considered a “major pathway” or a school that sends 100+ students to a particular UC. Also I didn’t list all of the schools that would be considered feeder schools to UCLA (there are 6). Orange Coast is one.</p>