What is TransferRoute?

TransferRoute is a transfer planning tool for California community college students. It helps you find the right 4-year university, track your articulation agreements, discover scholarships, and plan your finances for the transfer process.

How does school matching work?

TransferRoute compares your GPA, major, activities, and background against 60+ universities to estimate your admission likelihood. It accounts for where you are in your academic timeline and projects your chances at transfer, not just today.

What is an articulation agreement?

An articulation agreement specifies which community college courses satisfy requirements at a specific 4-year university. TransferRoute links directly to ASSIST.org, California's official articulation database, so you can see exactly which courses transfer and satisfy which requirements at your target school.

TAG stands for Transfer Admission Guarantee. Six UC campuses (UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC Irvine, and UC Santa Barbara) guarantee admission to eligible California community college students who meet specific GPA and coursework requirements and file a TAG application between September 1 and November 30.

Built for CC transfer students

Know exactly
where you stand.

TransferRoute is a planning tool for community college students who want to transfer. Fill out your profile once — get your school matches, course gaps, scholarship fits, and budget all in one place.

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Why this exists

2.1M

community college students are pursuing a transfer to a four-year university — most without a dedicated tool to plan it

$3.8B

in Pell Grant aid goes unclaimed each year — most because students never file the FAFSA

1 course

a single missing prerequisite can delay your transfer by a full semester — and most students don't find out until after they've applied

Sources: NCES IPEDS & NSC Research Center (transfer), NASFAA (unclaimed Pell). The prerequisite line is a framing example, not a statistic.

What this is

A planning tool,
not a service.

TransferRoute doesn't apply to college for you or write your personal statement. What it does is give you a clear, honest picture of your situation: which schools are realistic given your GPA and major, which courses you're still missing, what your finances look like against real cost-of-attendance numbers, and which scholarships actually fit your background.

Most of that information already exists somewhere — scattered across ASSIST, a counselor's filing cabinet, scholarship databases, and your school's transfer center. This puts it in one place, organized around your specific profile.

Built by a community college student who couldn't find a tool like this. No account required to start, and your planning profile stays in your browser.

What's inside

Four tools. One profile.

Fill out your profile once — everything below updates automatically from your data.

School Matching

30 universities ranked by your real admission likelihood — based on your actual GPA, major, activities, and background flags, not a generic formula.

Coursework Planner

Track your completed units, see the GPA targets for each school on your list, and get a clear view of what still needs to happen before you apply.

Budget Tracker

Your monthly income and expenses next to your target school's real cost of attendance. See the actual gap and start planning around it now.

Scholarship Finder

Ten scholarships matched and ranked by your profile — first-gen, Hispanic, DACA, transfer-specific, STEM, and more. Deadlines and direct apply links included.

How it works

Four steps. About ten minutes.

Fill out your profile

GPA, units completed, activities, internships, financial situation, and where you want to go. The more complete your profile, the more accurate every result below it.

See your school list

Every school in the database gets a calculated admission likelihood score based on your specific profile. Your dream school goes to the top. Filter by state, cost, type, or major.

Review your gaps

GPA targets, unit requirements, missing extracurriculars, and the financial gap between your current situation and your target school's cost of attendance — all in one view.

Check your scholarships

Matched scholarships ranked by fit with your background. Deadlines, award amounts, and links to apply. Update your profile anytime and your matches update with it.

Who this is for

CC students who are serious about transferring.

You don't need a 4.0 or a clear plan already in place to use this. You need to be thinking about transfer and willing to spend ten minutes filling out a profile.

The tool is built with California students in mind — the school database and articulation data skew that way — but it works for anyone in the US.

This isn't a replacement for a transfer counselor. It's what you use between counselor appointments to stay on top of things yourself.

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→ You're at a community college and planning to transfer in the next 1–3 years
→ You're not sure which schools are realistic given your current GPA
→ You've heard there are scholarships for CC students but don't know which ones apply to you
→ Your counselor is great but has 400 other students and limited appointment time
→ You're the first in your family to go through the transfer process
→ You want one place to track everything instead of twelve separate websites

Start building your
profile today.

No account required to start. Your planning profile lives in your browser. Takes about ten minutes to complete.

No spam. No credit card. Just your route.

Skip ahead — build your profile now →

Know exactly where you stand.

A planning tool,not a service.

Four tools. One profile.

Four steps. About ten minutes.

CC students who are serious about transferring.

Start building your profile today.

Know exactly
where you stand.

A planning tool,
not a service.

Start building your
profile today.