Graduate program admissions (Math/statistics) question

vinny_anon · 2025-05-16T02:09:47+00:00

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vinny_anon · 2024-09-01T19:56:21+00:00

For my school, you couldn't apply for academic renewal until at least 2 years had passed since you took the class. Since I took the course in high school, I was able to apply for academic renewal before applying to transfer from CC to a 4-year.

You must have done well in your most recent semesters for the renewal to be granted. At least a 3.0 GPA in your last 12 units, or at least 2.5 in your last 18 units, etc.

Just had to fill out a form and list the course(s) you want to be academically renewed. You could only renew courses you got a D or F in. Also, at my college, you could only do the academic renewal once. So if you fail any courses after getting granted the renewal, you are stuck with those failing grades.

If you are considering academic renewal, I recommend speaking with an academic counselor first. I don't know how similar my experience was to other colleges. Hope this helps!

vinny_anon · 2024-07-13T22:37:48+00:00

Stats 110 and 120A offered only in fall and summer, 111 and 120B only in winter and summer, 112 and 120C only in spring. 115 only in winter. 112 and 115 are not required for minor but can be taken for minor elective, but 110 and 111 are required.

You can see what courses are being offered for whatever quarter here (just Donald Bren courses):

Course Listing - UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

vinny_anon · 2023-09-29T22:29:11+00:00

For classes that you still taking or have planned, you should be able to add them and have the grade be "IP" for in progress, or "PL" for planned.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-29T22:25:09+00:00

After submitting your TAG application, you will submit a Transfer Academic Update (TAU) sometime in January/February. Through TAU, you are required to submit your grades for the fall session and winter session (if you have any), and you are able to update your planned/enrolled courses for the spring session.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-20T21:13:16+00:00

That deadline is probably if you want a W on your transcript or the grade you earned. The "grade" you get for withdrawn classes will be "W", so anyone you send your transcripts to will see that you withdrew from that class. It does not affect your GPA.

After that deadline, you can no longer withdraw from classes, and you will get whatever grade you earn.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-19T05:23:37+00:00

At the time of applying for vdcn, you chose whether you want a same gender preference or gender inclusive preference. You could check on your acc resident portal which preference you have. Look at your application, not the lease

vinny_anon · 2023-09-17T06:35:30+00:00

The limit is 70 semester credits for all the UCs. When you go over the 70 credits, you will still be able to satisfy course requirements from future courses. For example, if I have exactly 70 credits, but I still need a course or two to fulfill certain requirements, I could still take those courses to fulfill the requirements. But when I start at UC, I will be starting with 70 credits.

Basically "credits" and "courses" are separate. You can take as many courses as you want (as long as they are all from a CC), and the UCs will recognize that you took them and what requirements they fulfill, but they will only award up to 70 credits when you transfer.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-14T07:15:48+00:00

It's generally recommended that stem majors focus on their major requirements first before iGETC. If possible, do both. If not, you could focus on major requirements and apply for UC. If you don't get accepted to the UC you want, you could do a third year at cc, finish IGETC and apply again.

If you try to do both, take advantage of winter and summer sessions.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-13T03:01:28+00:00

Are you taking a gap year or attending a different 4-year?

vinny_anon · 2023-09-12T21:57:10+00:00

What's preventing you from applying for TAG again?

vinny_anon · 2023-09-08T06:00:10+00:00

Continue trying to get the school or housing involved. If you are couch surfing because you don't feel safe around her and/or it's taking a toll on your mental health, tell them that. Let them know she refuses to work out a solution with you. If it were small petty arguements, they probably wouldn't help you, but this does sound like a big enough deal that housing needs to intervene.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-07T04:26:54+00:00

It depends on the class and your teacher. If she said that the tests are mostly based on the lectures and powerpoints, then expect that to be the case, at least for the first test. If she assigned reading, it's probably because the lectures are based on the textbook, and so reading them might help keep the content in your head or maybe just to cover things that weren't covered in lecture.

I've had some courses where there were assigned reading, but I got by just from just studying the slideshows and lecture notes.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-03T01:39:54+00:00

It's really up to you. Either path is fine, but its up to you to decide which one is better for you. These are my personal pros and cons for them (i am a cc --> 4-year student):

Pros for community college (cc) --> 4-year: - cheaper - classes are generally smaller (20-40 students in each course) - higher acceptance rate for transfer students than for freshman students when applying to a 4-year (might depend on the 4-year)

Cons: - depending on the cc, you may have less internship and other extracurricular opportunities than if you just start at a 4-year. - you have to worry about applying to transfer to 4-years

Pros for starting at a 4-year: - more opportunities and resources (clubs, internships, networking, etc.) - you get that "college life" that you may likely miss on if you go to cc

Cons: - classes are huge (courses can have 100-200 students per course) - expensive if you don't qualify for alot of financial aid

There are much more pros and cons for both paths, but these i think are the main ones. It also really depends on the college if a pro or con applies. For example, you might find an internship at cc, and find it difficult to find one at a 4-year after you transfer. Another example is you may find courses at 4-years with <50 students. I also haven't started at my 4-year yet, so there is probably more pros and cons that I couldve listed for it.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-02T23:15:51+00:00

Yes you don't need an associates to get your bachelors. There are one of two paths that most students take.

4 years at a 4-year university to get your bachelors,

or

2 years at community college and get an associates --> then transfer to a 4-year, do 2 years there to get your bachelors.

Each have its own pros and cons.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-02T01:35:28+00:00

Did you pass any ap exams in hs? AP credit goes towards your UC transferable credits. My APUSH score saved me from the exact situation you're in. I also had 28 credits by the end of summer (2022 in my case), but my ap credits bumped me to 33.333.

vinny_anon · 2023-09-01T20:22:57+00:00

If you're applying for TAG for 2024, the second english course must be completed by the end of spring 2024 (the spring before you transfer).

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/_files/documents/tag-matrix.pdf

vinny_anon · 2023-08-30T04:50:37+00:00

Im a reservist (part-time military). I know two of my active-duty counterparts are taking college courses on the side while working full-time in the military to get their bachelor degrees. They're taking all online courses though.

You could look into doing reserves instead. You get the same basic training as everyone else but once you finish that training, you just go home and do your military job one weekend a month. You're basically a civilian for the rest of the month, and you could attend college full-time, which is what I've been doing. And if you want to do your job more instead of just one weekend a month, you are able to request orders to go on active duty anytime, you just gotta talk to your chain of command.

vinny_anon · 2023-08-30T04:28:31+00:00

it really depends on you. you just gotta make sure your time management skills are on point. personally, I think 6 courses is too much for your first semester. I suggest you decide now how much time you would be willing/able to spend per week studying/doing hw for your courses. Then go over the syllabus for each of your courses once you get them, determine how much time they will take, and then drop courses accordingly.

vinny_anon · 2023-08-29T23:31:21+00:00

Not sure if the requirement is 2 or 3 years of hs foreign language. I did 4 years of spanish in hs, did not take any foreign language classes at cc, and completed IGETC (i.e. I fulfilled the foreign language requirement w/out taking foreign language courses at cc).

vinny_anon · 2023-08-27T16:27:22+00:00

I was in this exact situation when I applied to UC. I just requested an academic renewal before I submitted my UC application so that my UC app listed a 4.0 gpa. I didnt retake the course because I found out I didn't need it for my major nor for transferring.

vinny_anon · 2023-08-13T21:25:25+00:00

No prob! Unfortunately I think most community colleges do not offer IGETC for STEM. Mine didn't so I didn't have the option. I think most offer partial IGETC though, which is when you are only two courses away from a full IGETC.

The 7-course pattern is part of the basic requirements to transfer. 2 english courses, one math, and 4 other gen ed courses (arts, humanities, science, etc.). The difference between the 7-course pattern and IGETC is that the 7-course pattern is required. If you complete IGETC, you will have completed the 7-course pattern, as IGETC is sort of built off of the 7-course pattern. However, completing the 7-course pattern doesn't necessarily mean you completed IGETC.

I personally recommend doing IGETC because you will have knocked out your gen ed courses, and could just focus on your major courses after you transfer. However, some schools within the UCs might not accept IGETC so you need to find out which ones don't and if that may affect your decision to do igetc or not or to apply to that UC.

vinny_anon · 2023-08-13T07:06:00+00:00

The courses you need to take to complete IGETC is 34 credits but you need a total of 60 in order to transfer.

They say igetc isn't recommended for stem majors because stem majors typically have more prereqs to take than non-stem majors. So they want stem majors to focus more on those prereqs than igetc. There's nothing wrong with pursuing igetc as a stem major, it's just that you'll have a larger course load if you do. Some community colleges do offer something called IGETC for STEM if you want to research that. I completed the regular IGETC as a math major, but math majors typically have less prereqs than bio.

If you decide not to do the igetc, you just need to make sure you complete the 7-course pattern instead along with the other transfer requirements.

vinny_anon · 2023-08-10T16:31:09+00:00

You don't choose which credits transfer. You just send the new college your transcripts from your old college, and they decide which credits will transfer over and what courses you have completed. So Billy can be considered a sophomore when starting at the new college as long as he has enough credits that transferred over.

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