<p>I was accepted at UCLA as a Linguistics and Anthropology major for Fall '12 transfer and by the end of this spring I will have 121 quarter units. However I am planning to take 10 units of classes (Sign Language and Korean) in the summer just for fun. I was wondering if that will do anything to my admissions and if I should not take on those extra classes? Since I understand that the uc's only take up to 105 quarter units, what happens to the rest? </p>
<p>Also, any Linguistics majors out there? I would appreciate any information on Linguistics upper divisions!</p>
<p>I have over 200 units from 4 different cc’s and am transferring to UC Davis this fall. They will only take the 105 units but there is no penalty for being over that AS LONG AS they are all units from community colleges. The extra units may count towards language or other prerequisites but other than that they just don’t count. You will need about 75 UCLA units earned at UCLA to meet the 180 needed to graduate.</p>
<p>As previously stated you can’t have an excess of community college (CC) units. If you reported you were going to take those units for summer when you applied and UCLA admitted you, you have nothing to worry about. When I applied I had a total of 138 quarter units from CC and I was accepted, so UCLA admissions clearly didn’t have a problem with that. There’s only a problem if you already attended a four year university and you accumulate over 135 quarter (90 semester) units from both CC and your four year university, in which case you’d reach senior standing. Typically UC’s don’t allow senior level transfers, they want you to attend for more than just one year. Because CCs don’t offer upper division coursework you can’t ever reach “senior standing” coming from the CC level and you have no unit maximum. Also as previously mentioned you start with a pre-determined limit of 105 units at UCLA regardless if you’re transferring with 110 or 3000 quarter units. Any units that go over 105 limit, do still count as subject credit to fulfill any pre-requisites. As far as want happens to your “leftover” units, the answer is: nothing. UCLA doesn’t specifically determine which classes are extra, or leftover, because all of your units are grouped together. So there are no extra units, it’s not as if you reach the 105 limit and then everything after that is “extra”. Everything is counted together and they take your GPA from all your transferable units, including those over 105 so the distinction between what’s “extra” and what isn’t, is never made. You get one transferable GPA on your UCLA transcripts that shows your transferable GPA from ALL transferable classes, regardless of how many.</p>