89 unit limit?

<p>The UCs say they generally don't accept transfers who have completed more then 89 semester units. I'm wondering how this policy works and why it exists.</p>

<p>I just finished my second year at a California community college, and I have 70 UC transferable units. I intend to apply this november to transfer in Fall 2008 as a Physics major.</p>

<p>I still have to pass one more English class to meet the minimum UC requirements, and since I don't know if I will get into a UC I also need to take Speech to meet the CSU requirements, so that will put me at 76 units. If I were to complete all the IGETC requirements I would need to take at least 19 more units on top of that which would put me at 95 units. I don't think I would actually be able to take all of the IGETC classes, because it would involve taking classes I probably won't be able to pass, but it still would be good if I could go over that 89 unit limit, because there are also a few non-required classes that I would benefit from taking.</p>

<p>Why exactly is that limit in place? And if they flat out deny admission to anyone with 90 units, does it hurt your chances of getting accepted if you have close to that amount? Will they also reject me if I apply with 89 units? Thanks for your help.</p>

<p>From what I understand, there is no unit cap if your units came from a ccc. If you have units from another school ,say a state school, then that is when the unit cap comes into play.</p>

<p>And i'm still confused how it works, but for me, i found out that only 105 Quarter units will transfer, and any units after that will counted for credit.</p>

<p>Where is it stated that CCC transfers are exempt from that? I've searched all over the UC sites and all I find are mentions that the rule exists with no explanation.</p>

<p>I'm not that concerned with units transfering. I'm not in any hurry to graduate, and I wouldn't even mind retaking classes if they were physics or math (in fact, I'd enjoy retaking a good number of them). I actually sort of wish I could start over with all of it anyways since the college I'm going to is significantly less then decent.</p>

<p>I'm really only concerned with getting out of this embarrassingly horrible school and into a UC. If the number of units I have doesn't affect that in any way (as long as it's over 60), then that's awesome.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_info_ccc/tr_planning.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_info_ccc/tr_planning.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Also I would generally contact admissions, at the specific schools, rather than ask about them on the forums especially when its about whether your application would be thrown out etc..</p>

<p>Anyways maybe 'UCD Admissions' will chime in..</p>

<p>The unit limitation can be different for the UC campuses. For example, at Davis we place the unit limitation at 80 semester transferable units. All UC campuses should only place this limitation on students who have enrolled at any four year college, a college that offers bachelors degrees.</p>

<p>The maximum units a student can have from a community college is 70 semester units, therefore, two year college students cannot reach this limitation. Any further questions should be directed to the UC campus you wish to attend.</p>

<p>There is no limit on number of transferable units if all your units were completed at a community college. They'll give you a maximum of 90 units for degree credit and any excess units will be for subject credit. The 90 unit cap is for students attending four-year institutions since once a student has 60 units, they're considered a junior; but at community colleges, no matter how many units you earn you will never be a junior since all the classes are lower division!</p>

<p>I think that you can have over 90 semester units, however, they won't accept all of the classes you have taken towards your total degree requirement. So that would only mean that you have taken some extra classes for fun.</p>

<p>if you're a community college student, and take 1 upper division course at community college...does that make you need to watch out for the limit</p>

<p>:(</p>

<p>???????????????</p>

<p>anyone know?</p>

<p>now i'm scared :( :( :(</p>

<p>academic08: Are you close to the 90 mark?</p>

<p>One of my CCC classmates (an excellent applicant) was accepted to Berkeley, Davis, LA, Irvine, but NOT SD. When she called UCSD admissions to inquire why, they said it was because she had too many units. She was a Chem major and in addition to taking all chem pre-reqs she also completed IGETC, so she had a lot lot of units. Almost 90 or 90+, I'm not sure, but I guess if you wanna go to SD you shouldn't have too much.</p>

<p>So do what others said, contact each campus that you want to apply to.</p>

<p>California Community Colleges do not offer upper division courses so you would not need to watch your units. This limitation is only placed on students that have enrolled at any four year college or university. If you have only enrolled at a CCC you do not need to be concerned with the unit limitation.
However, as explained before you will not enter with more than 70 semester (105 quarter) units if you have only enrolled at CCC. You will get credit for all transferable courses you have completed, in other words we won’t be picking courses to erase and you won’t have to retake any transferable courses. You just won’t have more than 105 quarter units.
Again, if you are at 70 semester units and you still have one required course to complete for admissions, or you prefer to complete before you transfer maybe to complete IGETC please feel free to do so. Just understand that even if you have 73 transferable semester units at your CCC you start at the UC campus with only 70 units completed towards your minimum of 120 semester units required to graduate. If you are still confused please contact an admissions office at a UC school. I, of course, recommend (530) 752-2971.</p>

<p>Is there a link somewhere explaining requirements for UC to UC transfer? I have heard that there are certain things that are a bit different, but I don't think I have seen it in print yet</p>

<p>UC to UC transfers need to meet the same admissions requirements as all other transfer students as determined by the campus. Please check the admissions information for the campus you wish to attend.</p>

<p>hm, so if you're a CCC student that decides to take a single summer course at a 4-year university, you are then subject to the unit limit?</p>