<p>I'm currently a freshman, but I already got over 30 credits. But most of these credits gears toward one area of requirement like I had taken algebra 2, precalculus, trigonometry, when the requirement for mathematic section is 1 course of math. So that means I will need to take more courses on other areas to fulfill the general education requirement. But I will end up having excessive credit like over 60 credit to 80 credit. And I plan to apply to University of Irvine, do they accept excessive credit?</p>
<p>Can you clarify your question.</p>
<p>Are you asking … if you take a lot of math and science in high school, would you get credit for that at your college of choice, and will you then place out of the introductory courses, and start with more advanced courses?</p>
<p>Or, are you asking … if I take lots of math and science … much more than the minimum, would your college of choice look negatively on that?</p>
<p>If the first … it all depends on the college, and their guidelines. With the possible exception of some public state universities/colleges … it’s likely that the college would limit the number of required courses that you can place out of. And for those that they may allow you to place out of, they probably require an AP exam grade, and possibly their own internal test. In practice it’s rarely wise at selective colleges to place out of science and advanced math courses (with the exception of introduction calculus), since the level and depth of the high school course rarely matches that of the college.</p>
<p>If the second … it depends on whether or not you shortchanged other core courses to take the math and science courses. So if you have the recommended number of years of language, history, etc – and if the courses you’ve taken for these are rigorous, then the answer to your question is that they’ll be impressed by your transcript in terms of its depth.</p>
<p>No, I mean I’m a freshmen in my community college. And I already have over 30 credits, but like most of those credits are geared towards one area like I have over 12 credits for math even thought IGETC only requires 4 unit of math. So this is bad since I want to be a bio major. And I don’t have any biology courses or chemistry courses. So If i fulfill the rest of IGETC. I will end up over 60 credits. Will I be able to transfer to a UC school with excess credit (more than 60 credits).</p>
<p>Yes, you can. It’s very common for science, compsi, math, engineer, and other majors from CC to have over 100 units by the time they transfer. Most UC’s will transfer around 70-80 units, and have the rest count as subject credit.</p>
<p>So in my case, I’m planning to transfer to UCI or UCLA or UC Santa Cruz. Would this hurt me if I have around 70 units and transferring into junior upper division. Will the school accept ?</p>