I am currently applying UC- UC transfer. I was in a dual enrollment program when I was in high school so I have a lot of community college credits. Thus, if I include the credits I took at CC when I was in high school, I am over the unit cap of 130 (for UCLA). At my current UC (UC Davis) I only took ~64 units so far. Does this make me ineligible to transfer? My counselor at UC Davis said they won’t penalize me for taking classes during high school, but I called an admissions lady at UCLA and she said I would be ineligible however I’m not sure if she was so confident in her answer. Does anyone have advice or know whether I’m ineligible for sure? @Gumbymom I am tagging you because I always see you comment, and would like your advice in addition to the others I get.
@Cayton You also seem capable of answering this. Sorry for tagging, but I kinda feel that my last 2 years just fell to waste cause I planned my schedule around on this. Really bad planning.
Page 33 of the UC application information counselor quick reference states which campuses will accept Junior and Senior level transfers and their unit caps. It looks like UCLA will not accept High unit Juniors or Senior transfers but some campuses do but may require a Dean’s review or approval on a case by case basis.
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/quick-reference-2016.pdf
Units earned at any UC campus (extension, summer, cross/concurrent and regular academic year enrollment) are not included in the limitation but are added to the maximum transfer credit allowed and may put applicants at risk of being denied admission due to excessive units.
I cannot give you any real advice other than look over the link I gave you and call each UC of interest and speak with their transfer admissions officer.
Good Luck.
@Gumbymom Thanks… seems like Berkeley might be my best bet…
The community college courses cap at 70 semester (105 qtr) no matter how many you take. But all UC courses are added to that number.
@Ohm888 Yeah I know that – I only took 68 quarter credits ad CC, but adding that to my current UC credits would surpass the 130. I thought that because I took the CC courses in HS, they wouldn’t count them… thats what my counselor said atleast – guess everyone makes mistakes.
Perhaps some are non-transferable? You do appear to be eligible for some UCs.
I’m not a UC->UC transfer but I similarly completed a lot of CCC credit as a dual enrolled HS student:
Berkeley had my HS/CC dual enrollment courses exempted toward any unit limits (Unit Ceiling / Class Standing / Academic Progress) since they were all taken before I graduated HS. They counted them in a separate category labeled “Supplemental Education” that was separated from my other courses CCC courses taken after graduation. UCSD and UC Davis have the same modus operandi.
I’m not 100% sure, but I suspect admissions will treat this similarly since the registrar generally supersedes admissions when dealing with transcript anomalies.
@SDGoldenBear Where do you think I should mention that I took this before I graduated high school? Do you think they would be able to catch that automatically? Because all those courses are on my unofficial transcript for UC Davis because I transferred them here… Should I mention it somewhere in the application?
I think the issue here might be more of how many upper division classes have you taken / are taking? How many of your ~64 UC Davis units are upper division? UC Davis classifies all upper division courses with course numbers of 100+.
If that answer is more than 30, then a transfer is improbable regardless of when/where you took your lower division courses due to UC residency requirements more than any transfer credit limitation.
Otherwise…they’ll figure it out from your academic timeline. The respective dates on the UC Davis unofficial transcript for those CCC classes are before your date of UC Davis admitted date correct? If yes, then simply stating in the additional comments section of the application that “X amount of units were taken as supplemental education / educational enrichment at Y community college prior to graduating from Z High School” would suffice.
@SDGoldenBear Only 4 units are upper div. By the end of spring I will probably have at most less than 20 upper div units.
for future people in this situation: You are ineligible to transfer if you are in this situation. I just called berkeley and la.
So sorry to hear that. Best of luck to you.
@Gumbymom thanks