Do past colleges (before the community college) count toward your GPA?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Hey everyone,</p>

<p>I went to a state university for 2 years (outside of California) where I accumulated a 2.90 GPA. I left school for about a year, moved to California, and I'm now attending community college. I just finished my first quarter and my community college GPA is 4.0. I sent in my previous college's transcript to the CC and now I have two GPA's listed: my CC's and my CC's combined with my previous college (3.22).</p>

<p>Will my first college's GPA negatively affect me? I'm assuming this will be the case because I have some generals that will be transferring regardless (for eg. intro's to sociology and psychology).</p>

<p>I also have quite a few W's my first shot at college. I know the universities I apply to will see these, but how much will it weigh against my CC transcript?</p>

<p>Also, I plan on transferring as a Computer Science major. I was a declared business major at the first university. No idea if this matters, just thought I would mention it.</p>

<p>Thanks everyone for your insight.</p>

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<p>The UC-transferrable credits from your previous college courses count.</p>

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<p>Becareful. Depending on how many credits you got at your previous Uni, you might hit the unit cap and be denied transfer.</p>

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<p>What?! This is the first time I’m hearing about this (no counselor has ever mentioned this). What’s the cap and why does this even exist?!</p>

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<p>Here is a link to the unit limitations for the the UCs. It depends on the school, but some schools don’t accept senior transfers (like UCLA).</p>

<p><a href=“University of California Counselors”>University of California Counselors;

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<p>Coursework at a lot of colleges is the same. Universities don’t want people to take advantage of this as a loop-hole. They don’t want someone to do 3 years at some low-ranked university then transfer into a top-ranked school and graduate with that schools diploma. </p>

<p>Private Schools like USC are well-funded, so they just gap transfers at 64 units.
Public Schools like the UCs aren’t so well-funded, so they more likely to straight up deny entry.</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone for this important information. As I understand it, this would only apply to the UC transferrable classes only? I have quite a few classes that I do not think will be transferrable (the community college has labeled many of these classes as only CSU transferrable). </p>

<p>Also, for the table on page 2, they state “Yes” for “admits high-unit Juniors” for a few colleges: </p>

<p><a href=“University of California Counselors”>University of California Counselors;

<p>Does this mean that UCSB, UCSC, and UCSD do not care if students exceed this cap? Or will it carry weight in their decision to accept students?</p>