Transferring from California community colleges? It’s a tough road, EdSource survey finds
Ashley A. Smith and Michael Burke
July 24, 2023
Jacob Beeman’s transfer goals were pushed back by about a year because he was taking the wrong community college classes to transfer.
“I had been jumping through all these hoops to try and get the right classes I needed to transfer and going off the advice of people who I trusted to know what they were doing,” he said.
Except Beeman, 26, who was interested in transferring into the University of California system to study chemical engineering, said he was incorrectly advised by three different advisers while attending Fresno City College.
“Different advisers thought I needed one particular class — a communications class,” he said. “And then I found out later that that particular class UC didn’t accept, so I had to sign up for another one. And then I was told the UC doesn’t actually require a communications class at all.”
