College Boosted Transfer Rate to UC Campuses
Santa Monica College, known for sending many students on to four-year universities, especially UCLA, last year raised its transfer rate to all University of California campuses by 32%.
College officials credit the increase, which was well above the 9.6% record growth last year for such transfers statewide, in part to a larger counseling staff, more courses transferable to UC and aggressive efforts to attract well-prepared students.
In 2001-02, officials said, Santa Monica sent 938 students to UC campuses, up from 709 the year before. About 1,000 more headed to Cal State campuses. Those figures made the college the year’s overall leader in sending students to the state’s two public university systems.
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