Can you transfer from a state University to a private college?

If I attend a community College in Texas will it be easy for me to transfer to an out of state university?

• I want to get my basics done near home and then move on to a university that fits my goals. I just need to know that, will attending a community college in the state of Texas affect my chances of transferring/getting excepted into a university out of state such as UC sandiego. What does Texas law require of their students after community college? I'm a senior in high school. with a GPA of 3.6 and in AP english and calculus. also in student council, habitat for humanity, and YMA. what would you guys suggest to me? i would much appreciate the help. THANKS! PS: I'm interested in informational technology.

• Answer:

  The situation in Texas is special. Public colleges, such as all community colleges, all branches of the University of Texas, and all colleges which get operating money from the state are required to allow transfer of credits, use the same course numbers and content, and organize courses the same way. This means that English composition (ENGL 1301) is the same course no matter where you take it, and it is automatically recognized and accepted anywhere within Texas. But as soon as you look out of state, all bets are off. The University of California has an entirely different system for naming courses, deciding what they will cover, and deciding how many credits they are worth. The result is that UC will look at your transcript and accept some credits while rejecting others. (They would do exactly the same with transcripts from a community college in any other state as well. It would not matter whether the credits were from Texas, New York, or Nebraska. The problem is that the system from which the credits would be transferring is different from the UC system.) Bottom line: Be prepared for some of your credits to be rejected when you transfer out of state, and be prepared to have to take the course twice. The issue of getting accepted depends, of course, on how well you perform in your community college work, but even if you have grades of "A" in everything, UC may still require you to repeat classes you have already taken and passed. The only way you can avoid that is to transfer to a university in Texas.