For example if i took three every semester and 2 in the summer
@imveryworried It depends… Are you doing anything else with your time? Some schools state flat-out that they prefer people who have shown that they can take a full-time courseload. Others will make exceptions if you’ve been working full-time and need to take fewer courses due to life circumstances/financial necessity.
I agree with @thetransfercoach. It depends, but in general when you’re taking such a light course load, you should explain your reasons why.
It also isn’t so much the number of courses, but rather the number of credit hours. If your three classes together come to 15 credit hours, it is very different than if they come to 9.
Also, where you are applying to for transfer will play into this. If you are coming from a CC that has an articulation agreement for the program you are headed to, finishing the courses required by the agreement with the gade it requires will be what matters.
It’s not easy to tell you what adcoms will do. I personally enrolled in 15 or more semester units, and 16 quarter units or more at ucla. Only 3.2 average gpa. UCSD has a top finance ms program and they’ve said they would take me. The reason I state this is it is an example of holistic admissions. They know ucla is a difficult school, said that. And consider that I’ve completed enough math. You have to ask the admissions counselors if they give extra points for taking a higher unit course load.
I’m going to point this out for the original poster.
When you apply to graduate school, there are schools which use calculators to admit students, such as 200times gpa + test score(gre general test). Most of the desirable universities don’t use basic calculators like that. They usually state “holistic admissions process.