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Originally Posted by Barrin6
More information can be found here
http://www.ics.uci.edu/ugrad/degrees...cs.php#general
As you can see, if you aren't a former UCI alum, you can only apply for fall admissions.
It be hard to apply by November 2015 since you need your prereqs done before they can review your applications.
I don't think the GPA matters as much as the grades that you get for completing the prereqs for the computer science degree. The minimal to transfer in is Calc 1 & 2 and two CS courses. If you do that, you will come into UCI with 3 more years to go. On the other hand if you go through and complete all the preqreqs you can come in with just two years to go.
As for letter of reqs, you could just get them from the community college professors there after you take their classes. I find them more approachable since it's a smaller class.
I would recommend taking a few classes at your local community college to see if continuing education, whether masters or bachelors is a right choice for you. You might decide that UCI won't be the best choice because of their timing of applications, however you can leverage those courses you taken to apply for other master programs.
Oh man, that's a lot to take into consideration.
If I'm understanding it correctly, it's more realistic for me to aim for fall 2017 (yikes!). I can take a few beginner courses during the late spring and summer sessions and use those courses to get a better handle on whether programming or web development is for me. It's gonna be tricky trying to get a better handle on what I'm getting myself into using only city college, so it's probably best if I look into online courses, even ones that aren't guaranteed to get me transferable units.
Assuming I decide programming is for me, I should probably take the fall 2015 quarter and subsequent quarters seriously and start aiming for top grades in the pre-reqs. I should be able to get all the pre-reqs done by fall 2017.
One person recommended Coursera. But the problem I is many of those courses simply aren't really recognized. Plus I'm probably going to have to talk to an admissions counselor at UCI to see which courses transfer from say, Fullerton College.
EDIT:
The only two courses I can currently fit into my shedule are Computer Information Systems with a great prof and Python Programming with a prof who's known for being not so great.
Python seems to be more relevant to my interests, but I'm always open to a beginner's course like CIS exposing me to other fields.
Last edited by jackcode; 03-02-2015 at 12:48 AM.