Am I over my Transfer Units Limit for Berkeley

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I am a little confused about whether Berkeley’s 80 sem transfer units limit applies to community college courses.
I am currently in San Jose City college. My unit count is going to hit 83 by end of Spring 2017.

(I ended up having to take two additional courses as I found out pretty late that Berkeley and UCLA required them)

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I read somewhere that this 80 unit limit only applies for other university to berkeley transfers, not community college to Berkeley transfers. Is this true?
All my units are from community college.

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College of Letters and Science: A student who has accumulated more than 80 transferable semester units from a four-year institution is considered to have excess units and will not be admitted. A student who has completed 80 or fewer UC-transferable semester units at a four-year university and then transfers to a community college will not accrue excess units and will be considered for admission.

Students who have only attended a community college will be granted subject credit, but not unit credit, for appropriate two-year college coursework taken in excess of the community college 70-unit limit; such subject credit may be used to satisfy/complete requirements.
College of Environmental Design: This college follows the same unit accumulation policy as the College of Letters and Science (see above), except that its limit on transferable coursework taken at a four-year university is 86 semester units.
Other colleges: UC Berkeley’s other colleges total both university units and a maximum of 70 community college UC-transferable units. The limits on combined transferable university and community college work are as follows:
• College of Chemistry: 80 semester units; applicants with more than 80 units require special approval.
• College of Engineering: 89 semester units.
• College of Natural Resources: 90 semester units. Though the College does not have a specific unit limitation, it carefully reviews applicants with 90 or more.
• Haas School of Business: No maximum limit.

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Thank you .
So this is what I understood from your response

  • if you are a student transferring with only community college credits like me, then the 80 unit limit does not apply for Berkeley’s College of Letters.
  • Only thing is that post admission, Berkeley will only give subject credits, not unit credits. But this all happens only after admission anyway. Right now I am working towards that transfer.
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Correct. That is also my understanding based on what I found on the UCB website. If you need more clarification, I would contact UCB directly.

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I also wanted to ask if all courses you take at a community college are considered to be lower division courses.

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Yes, courses at a CC are lower division.