Hello, I have a question regarding the “UC Transferable Courses Summary” section.
My situation is that I did 1 year at a UC and my 2nd year at CC. Since I’m transferring from CC + completing at least 30 units by spring, I’ll meet the definition for a CC student.
But I’m confused by two statements in the instructions, which say (back to back):
“Complete this form using coursework from ONLY California community college(s).
[ ] I have completed other college-level coursework outside a California community college.”
Right below the “Complete this form…” is a checkbox asking you if you did courses outside of a CCC. Right now, I have something like this:
Semester Units (my CC units): 31 // Quarter Units (my non-CC units): 45
I read that this is how they might count if you even meet the 60 semester-unit minimum. I feel like the instruction “from ONLY CC” should be obvious but I can’t help but worry (and the check box right under it confuses me a little too). My guess is that I should NOT count my non-CC units (so I’ll only have 31 total), and just checkmark the “I have completed…outside a CC.” Anyone in a similar situation with non-CC BUT UC-Transferable units? Or even if not, any help would be great.
@luckie1367 Thanks, I will once business hours open up again since it’s the weekend (dang if I only I checked earlier). Good thing it’s still early at least
On another note I ran into another worry regarding course changes. According to the UCB FAQ site:
"Q: I added (or dropped or changed) my coursework after submitting my application. Do I need to let you know?
A: AFTER NOVEMBER 30: Once the filing period ends on November 30, the University of California distributes applications to each campus. If you have grade/coursework changes after November 30, in addition to notifying UC, you also must let UC Berkeley know about any changes to your courses or grades by emailing us with the following information: full name (UC application); UC application number; grade or course change and course name as it appears on your application.
NOTE: You must use the same email address as you listed in your submitted UC application. Email your request to: application@berkeley.edu
You can expect a decision via email within 5-7 business days."
This worries me because I am changing my coursework for the spring, but I feel like that’s such a minor thing to have to go through the entire process of emailing admissions. After all, TAU should take care of that right?
Then again I could be reading into this too much, they’re just referring to FALL changes right? Because like I said TAU should take care of Winter/Spring changes (which should be quite common shouldn’t it?)
Anyways I guess I kinda answered my own question as I was writing this, but any confirmation would be appreciated.
Sort-of related, but the course I am adding is just a 1 unit tutoring class because I am taking a job as a campus tutor. Should I mention this in my comments? I know you can’t update ECs/jobs in the TAU, but it’s like a side-explanation arising from my reason for adding this 1 unit class in my coursework change.
Oh that’s a big help, yeah I winter/spring courses are totally changeable in the TAU, it makes more sense now that I only need to email if there’s a change I can’t make but would like to notify them. Thanks both of you!
I’m not 100% sure, only because berkeley seems to require more info than any of the campuses, even when it seems redundant. While I don’t get why they need it, they do seem to be saying any changes made after Nov 30 should be sent. So let’s say you added a course to TAU. It is still a change from what you wrote as IP and PL in the November application.
To be on the safe side, I would still email it. That’s what I would do anyway. It’s not going to hurt anything and like I said, it’s one course and takes a minute to email.
@lindyk8 I actually planned on calling UCB admissions this week to ask questions regarding the myBerkeleyApp and I’m going to bring that up as well, thanks for your concern!
They said that if it is UC-transferable, I should include it. Even though the form says “ONLY from CC…” (which is kinda confusing/misleading), what’s important is the number of units that are UC-transferable, and since I took courses at UC, they would count as that. As a side note, I feel like that does probably determine your transfer eligibility because you can be denied for either having too little (not meeting junior transfer level since Berkeley doesn’t accept sophomore transfers) or too much (exceeding transfer unit cap).
They said that we didn’t have to email for coursework changes made in winter/spring, as long as you make the change in the TAU (and explain it if you need to), then you’re good to go.
Well with this new-found confidence, I’m pretty much done with myBerkeleyApp update. Now to wait!
For anyone NOT coming from a CCC, do you have this table where you list total transferable units? I’m applying from another UC and the only table I have are ways I satisfied the breadth requirements. Anyone else in the same boat?
Hmmm, there are four, the last being the TAU. Because it’s uc to uc it’s all transferable, so first is really unneeded, and they can perhaps ascertain major req. So I guess just fill out the breadth.
I dont even have those forms available to fill out, only got breadth and TAU. Hopefully it was done on purpose and not because it’s some glitch or something.
I’m sure that’s it. I mean the uc transferable is definitely pointless. And maybe they can figure out major stuff. I think it has to do with your coming from a UC.
I’m just overall confused because I asked a transfer counselor about this issue about if I should add 12 units to the IP section of the UC-Transferable form incase they are checking if the applicant has 60 units, and she had no clue. My spring semester is not until February.