A couple of questions (please help)

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>First some background:
I'm attending a CC and am hoping to transfer as a geography major to UCLA or UC Berkeley.
I'm going to apply this fall for the 2010 school year.</p>

<p>First question:
Do these UC's (LA & Berk) care about the unitload I take each semester? I was thinking of only taking 8 units for upcoming fall, but am worried that it won't look too good on my transcripts if I don't take a full load each semester. Does this matter at all to them as long as I keep a high GPA? And I am working (part-time on campus).</p>

<p>Second question:
I am thinking of doing credit-by-exam for two Spanish classes. That would be an easy way to earn 8 transferable semester units. I've spoken to transfer counselors and they've told me that the UC's are fine with transfering credit-by-exam units. However, I do want to go to grad school and I heard that they factor in credit/no credit courses taken as an undergrad as "C" grades when calculating GPA. Would this also include credit-by-exam units?</p>

<p>Thank you!!!</p>

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<li> i would take a full time student course load- 12 units at least</li>
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<p>I can’t answer the second question but for your first one, I don’t think they’ll care how many units you take per semester because it’s common for people to be working full time and only take 2-3 classes per semester. (I think there might be a problem with you being a part time student however with financial aid/insurance if that applies.)</p>

<p>The only thing though is that you have at least 60 semester units done by Spring '10. And it’s advisable to have as much of IGETC and pre-reqs done by Fall '09.</p>

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<p>I took one class for last fall and still got into UCLA.</p>