<p>So I’m a tranfer. Will be entering UCLA as junior next fall.
I’m a Business Econ major.</p>
<p>I have two options that I like:</p>
<p>1.) Take all the relevant courses and take 3 years to graduate (total 5 years in college)</p>
<p>2.) Take the “easiest” required courses and graduate in 1.5 years (total 3.5 years in college)</p>
<p>Regarding the first option, what I mean by relevant courses is taking more useful quantitative econ courses such as econometrics and financial economics. However in order to take these courses I have to finish various upper-division math courses, so it’ll naturally take me more time to graduate. If I take this pathway, I’ll be graduating on Spring of '11.</p>
<p>Regarding the second option, what I mean by the easiest “required” courses is taking just the basic econ courses such as “Money & Banking” and other theory-based courses (which don’t require any math requisites besides the very basic calculus and statistics) and fill the graduation unit requirement. If I do this, I can graduate by the Fall of '09.</p>
<p>Which would you recommend and will look better for recruiters? Someone with important courses but taking longer to graduate, or someone with easiest courses and just “getting things done as quickly as possible” while graduating on time (4 years)?</p>
<p>I’m sure I can stay more than 2 years.
I asked the counselor at UCLA and she said as long as I do not go over the unit cap (216 quarter units), I can stay there as long as I want.</p>
<p>She could be. I should double-check too see if what you are saying is true.
But assuming that I CAN stay more than 2 years, which pathway do you suggest?</p>
<p>first check on the length you can be there. I know there is a max and it is around the 2 year period.</p>
<p>Otherwise i would pick a happy medium between the two, one is overdoing it, the other is under. Take what interests you, and subsequently take what you can actually get into</p>
<p>oh nvm, now I’m SURE that it’s possible to stay over 2 years because along with my admission package I received this sheet that contains data telling me how long it takes for transfer to get a B.A. and according to the data it said around 55-60% graduate within 2 years of transferring, around 70% within 3 years, and around 80-85% within 4 years. I’m not sure of the exact number since i dont have the sheet with me right now, but seeing from that sheet, it looks like it’s pretty common for a transfer student to take more than 2 years to graduate. :)</p>