I am about to immigrate to the United States and want to apply to the University of California, Los Angeles.

TOEFL is required because it has nothing to do with immigration. It only has something to do with your nationality and your first language.

So it is necessary to take the college entrance examination. For UCLA, TOEFL and SAT scores are definitely required. TOEFL score is higher than 600/677 full score. The SAT must have a perfect score of 2000/2400.

If you are not sure that you can directly enter UCLA due to your grades, it is a wise choice to choose an alternative school.

Two years may be redundant. Try to apply for transfer through half a semester or a year based on the GPA of the courses you choose this year and your application and essays for transfer. The odds of success depend almost entirely on your first-year grades. So as long as you have good grades in the first year and choose a few simple courses, you can transfer to UCLA, which is a good school. You will get much less in this way than through direct competition.

I don’t know if there is a counterpart school to UCLA, but you can go to their website to check where most of the students who transfer each year are from.

You should know.