Do engineering transfer students have to complete IGETC courses?

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<p>Do engineering transfer students have to complete IGETC courses after they get accepted to a UC ?</p>

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<p>no, in fact its highly not recommended.</p>

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<p>People are always so quick to suggest that it is such as bad idea and I don’t agree. Personally I recommend finishing it, and everyone that I know majoring in engineering is finishing it too. We already have a good portion of IGETC done through what we need to complete for general ed and prereq requirements, so you might as well take the few extra classes to finish it. I finished all of them online and they were the easiest classes I took (not to mention good for the gpa). If you finished your foreign language in high school you will be even closer (I hadn’t). You don’t want full loads of only technical classes every term anyways. </p>

<p>Besides the fact that you will be completely done w/ your lower-div requirements, it also will benefit you if you are rejected by the engineering school but still evaluated for admission to the university. For example, I’m applying for engineering at UCSD, but if I get rejected by the engineering school I can still be evaluated for my non-engineering alternate major (math/econ). To be competitive for your alternate major you will need to have IGETC done.</p>

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<p>No, you don’t need to complete IGTEC for transfering. I copy this message for you from assist.org. You can check it out from there.</p>

<p>The College of Engineering does not consider for admission purposes the
Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) and strongly
discourages students from following this option due to the number of
major-specific technical courses required for engineering transfer admission.</p>

<p>The College of Engineering requires six humanities/social studies courses, two
of which must be reading and composition.</p>

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<p>guys, i meant after they get accepted in a UC, do they still have to complete all the IGETC subjects in the UC</p>

<p>PS: i am sorry if i could not explain my Q properly and i appreciate ur replies. srry lol</p>

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thnx it helped</p>