<p>Guys, I'm freaking out over here.</p>
<p>My stats are: ~3.9 gpa, igetc, all prereqs completed, with an interesting personal experience to boot (dropped out of school to move to Israel and be with my boyfriend, he abandoned me there, ended up volunteering full time on a collective farm for a year before moving to Jerusalem on my own) that I wrote about in my PS.</p>
<p>BUT</p>
<p>I went to a four year for one year straight out of high school, and completed 32 units there. As of this semester I'll have completed 58 semester units at my cc. (I have a few AP units as well). If you do the math that means that I'm at exactly 90 semester units, which is the unit cap for junior transfers.</p>
<p>Now, I went up to UC Berkeley to get a preliminary evaluation done, and the awesome admissions counselor assured me that it's highly unlikely that all of my 4-year units would be transferable. But, if that ends up being incorrect, I'm so completely totally and royally screwed out of admission for any of the 4 UC's I applied to.</p>
<p>SO basically I'm just looking for comforting words while I await the UCLA decisions this evening. There's really nothing to be done except wait at this point, I guess. Is anyone else in a similar situation? Have you heard of anyone dealing with similar issues? And can anyone tell me why I still can't see my major in myucla?!? :P</p>
<p>hey hrosent. happy Friday/UCLA admissions day :)</p>
<p>okay, to be quite honest, I think you have answered your own post: “There’s really nothing to be done except wait at this point, I guess.”</p>
<p>when you say that you want comforting words, I’m fairly certain you mean that you want people in the know, or people in a similar situation, to quell your anxieties by telling you that the unit cap won’t affect you and that you’ll definitely get in. unfortunately, no one here can do that. we aren’t the admissions officers who reviewed your application. there truly is nothing that you can do but wait, and I’m sorry we don’t have enough information to help you out any more than that :(</p>
<p>HOWEVER, you DO have information from someone “in the know:” you spoke with a Cal admissions counselor. if they told you not to worry, don’t worry. they know FAR more than all of us here combined. trust me, far crazier things have happened in UC admissions than a transfer with 90 units being accepted :)</p>
<p>now, there are two reasons for not being able to see your major in myUCLA. what are you showing instead? a blank bar, or summer session student?
trends from the past few years show as that students who were rejected showed summer session student in myUCLA. HOWEVER, the two are not mutually exclusive. there have been students who showed “summer session student” right up to decision time, simply because their system hadn’t updated yet.</p>
<p>seeing an indicator = good sign
NOT seeing an indicator = neutral sign</p>
<p>Ohh wow! That must have been an amazing experience. Yeah, I believe not all of them will transfer! I think you’ll be fine! &nd, I have no indicators whatsoever. I have a 3.73 Psychology major…if anything I need words of encouragement!</p>
<p>Here are my words of encouragement: You’ll know soon enough.</p>
<p>The evening is mere hours away; try to take your mind off things; watch TV or go for a walk. :)</p>
<p>@justine I know you’re right, it’s just that the waiting is making me crazy. I go from being confident that I’m going to be admitted to being sure that I’ll be rejected once every five minutes. And looking at myucla isn’t helping. I still have the ‘unsure’ pop up for housing, and I’m showing as a summer session student. But I only realized I needed to mess around with the summer classes this morning, so I didn’t even have myucla access up until a few hours ago. I guess it’s possible that it hasn’t had time to change?</p>
<p>@hrosent, we sent out a little disclaimer on the boards last night: if the UCLA tricks are discouraging you or making you anxious, DON’T DO 'EM. seriously. do not do them. decision time is so close, there’s no point in wasting the time making yourself anxious over the little URSA games. </p>
<p>briceies offered some really good advice. get offline and go distract yourself! watch a movie, go out for some food, go for a walk - anything. but don’t stick around here if it is worrying you so much! :)</p>
<p>EDIT: and yes, what pysch said below is correct. myUCLA updates at 3AM, so if your status was going to change from “summer session” to your major, it won’t do so until 3AM tonight, by which time you’ll already know the answer</p>
<p>@hrosent1: did you say you just got a myucla? if so it takes 24 hours to update itself. I got mine about 12 hours ago.</p>
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<p>Phew, ok! That makes me feel better. I thought myucla was updating for people in real time, not just at 3am. I appreciate all the responses. I’m going to try to not check anything for the rest of the day. Maybe I’ll catch up on all the Mad Men episodes I’ve missed while studying for exams this past week? :)</p>
<p>Real quick…for people who might have gotten a myucla thing last night or yesterday might not update as quick as it should be because decisions are being posted and the server is slow and is not processing the system fast enough, might be a possible explanation?</p>
<p>well seeing as some people who got into myUCLA last night have found their majors this morning after the update, I don’t think that’s an issue</p>
<p>I always thought that it didn’t matter how many community college units you had, you could literally complete 300 if you wanted, and you could still transfer at the junior level. You obviously wouldn’t get credit for all of the units, but they wouldn’t disqualify you from transferring, because they aren’t considered upper division courses. In fact, I know I have been told this by transfer counselors. I was worried about the same issue at one point since I’m currently at 93 units, but I was reassured that it wasn’t a problem. I realize that some of your units are from a four year, but if they were all lower division and you never went over 90 units at the four year, it shouldn’t matter. Did you talk to anyone besides the Cal counselor about this?</p>
<p>@newchapter, that’s only true if you have ONLY EVER attended a CCC. if you have taken even a single unit at a 4-year university, you are most often subjected to a unit cap</p>
<p>Wow, that’s a pretty lame rule. But if the OP’s right at 90 units like they said, that just means they’re at the cap and not over it. I think they should be fine, either way!</p>
<p>@newchapter, as with any UC requirement, the admissions offices reserve the right to bend the rules in various cases. I know one person on this board who attended an entire year at a CSU, then two years at CCC, and the UC to which they applied considered them a CCC transfer. but that’s a single person in years of CC board history, so it’s best to keep to the rules unless we know we have a special case.</p>
<p>and yeah, I agree, being at the unit cap and being over it are not the same thing! :)</p>
<p>@newchapter Yeah, justine is right. I’ve confirmed it with multiple counselors. If you have only ever attended a CCC you can take an infinite amount of units. But if you have ever attended a four-year you’re automatically subjected to the cap. It’s pretty dumb, imo. I mean, I decided to go to a four year straight out of high school (I was 17) and was a musical theatre major. Now I’m an econ/math major. I’m older and I’ve been through so much and my initial college career is so totally irrelevant to what I’m doing now. I just wish I could discard all of the old coursework or not report it, but that would definitely get me disqualified for admission. Lol.</p>
<p>@justine From what my counselor told me, once you hit 90 units you get senior standing. So I guess the rule must be ‘at or above’. I’m not totally sure, to be honest. I’ve gotten a lot of conflicting information from my counselor and the admissions people I’ve talked to at various UC’s. I tried to avoid 90, just to be safe, but ended up needing an extra speech class for CSU’s this semester that pushed me up to 90.</p>
<p>@hrosent i’m trying to transfer from a four year right now and I think i’m in a similarly “screwed” situation. I’ve already been rejected by sc and sb so things look bleak. I’m pretty sure I’m under units because few will transfer 
I know this isn’t so helpful but misery loves company? We’ll get through this!</p>
<p>@hrosent, oh oh oh, gotcha! thanks for clearing that up, about the “at or above” information!</p>