Forgot to mention foreign transcripts in my UC application.

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Hi everybody,

I am currently admitted to UCSD as a transfer student in Bioengineering from a local CC and I forgot to mention that I had studied for a couple of years in Hungary, I called them and told them about my mistake and now they want me to send those transcripts directly from the Hungarian University. My grades from the university in Hungary aren’t that good and they will drag my GPA down if they are combined, many of the courses overlap since I only studied general science courses like BIO I , General Chem I, etc but if we combined them all without the overlap the overall units would be around 85.0. I heard if i am more than 80 units and stand at senior level the UC will revoke my admission also I don’t think UCSD will ever accept a GPA of less than 3.3, is this correct? do you think I will get kicked out?

any comment is appreciated.

Thanks.

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Well I don’t know. You have bad grades from the university and forgot to include it. It’s pretty clear in bold to add all colleges, so they might wonder how you forgot. Forgetting one obscure class is one thing. Forgetting two years or more of study is another. They must have asked about the gap. They always do. What did you say? Anyway, they take that stuff seriously. Hopefully they aren’t transferable. Is the university listed on your CCC transcript? Is that why you called them? I’m sorry if I sound intense but that’s a big “I forgot.” Hopefully it works out.

The 80 ceiling only applies if you have upper division - in your case 10 units of upper division could put you at 80 depending on your LD count.

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Hey @Ohm, Thanks for the response, I really didn’t expect to be transferred this semester, and I finished my UC application at the very very final moment ( like the application would have been closed at 11:59, & I finished my essays at 11:55) that’s why I forgot to include that, when I called them the admission officer didn’t sounded so harsh about it, she asked me a few questions such as how many units do you have? or are your grades good? and finally she told me that they will check the requested transcripts and if your grades aren’t good there is a chance that they revoke my admission, later on I called and talked to another person who wasn’t a admission officer but worked there said they wont revoke your admission since you don’t have upper division. I told about my past university to My CCC but they told me they do not have it on their transcript, I’m pretty sure the classes I’ve taken are (90% of them) above lower division, since I only studied the general science classes and dropped out to move to the US.

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That’s good news. A lot of international courses don’t transfer anyway. Let us know how it goes. Good luck!

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thank you @Ohm888, I made a little bit of research on UC website after your comment on UC usually not accepting international records of transfer students. I believe the system is the same for all the UCs, here is the description for determining the transferability of courses to UC Davis (it shouldn’t be that different for the UCSD):

                      Determining Course Transferability:

" Check to see if your school is recognized by your country’s Ministry of Education (or the appropriate government agency) or a U.S. accrediting agency. The school must be well recognized in order for us to accept any credit.

You must also be enrolled in a university level academic degree program comparable to a U.S. Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree. Terminal vocational or technical programs are often not transferable to UC Davis even if taken at recognized institutions.

Get descriptions of all of your subjects and the UC Davis catalog, available online at registrar.ucdavis.edu.

Determine if your subjects are similar to any subjects offered at UC Davis. We will only consider transfer credit for subjects that are similar to those offered in the UC system.

If you cannot find a comparable course at UC Davis, then look in the catalogs of the other UC campuses. A course may also be transferable if it is offered somewhere in the UC system.

Remedial academic subjects, such as English taught as a second language and high school level math, are not transferable. Although there are some remedial subjects offered at UC Davis, you will notice in our catalog that they are also worth no credit toward a degree.
Whether or not you believe your coursework will be transferable, you will be required to report ALL college and university coursework undertaken in your application. No final decisions on transfer credit will be made until you officially apply and enroll at UC Davis."

link: https://www.ucdavis.edu/admissions/undergraduate/transfer/international-records

do you think based on the information above the accepting of the international courses is still very easy for a UC university?

sorry i know it is very lengthy and boring, just wanted to provide you with all the content

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Colleges won’t accept credits for failed courses. If courses are for the major they may require a minimum grade to transfer the credits. At our state schools the minimum grade for those courses is C-, but you’d have to check UCSD to see what their policy says. How many colleges have you attended? If there was only one, it shouldn’t take too long for UCSD to go through your transcript. If you attended a community college in the US, it will take longer.

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I’m sorry, i don’t have a lot of information regarding how they calculate international courses. I just know it’s a tougher process than courses from a U.S. institution. You need to contact the UC’s international division and submit your transcripts. They have a service that examines them. None of us up here can give you an answer. Good luck.

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@austinmshauri honestly, I attended both community college & the university in Hungary, they told me they consider the courses that were taken first, therefore, there is a high chance that they will accept my Hungarian courses (with my bad grades) over my US courses which is very unfair because I fulfilled the requirements by US educational standard (like other regular American transfer students) but somehow my foreign transcripts might make me unqualified for the admission process.….

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Not to sound harsh but I don’t think submitting your app last minute is a valid excuse for forgetting to report all grades. Also, whether the classes are upper division or not, if the grades are transferable and they bring down your gpa, you technically got in w/ a false gpa. Depending on what the difference is, it might not be fair to other students, the ones who did report every single grade and didn’t get in cuz of a lower gpa. Hopefully the classes aren’t transferable and they’ll be okay w/ it. This isn’t the same thing as just forgetting to report a few Ws tho, it might be a bit more serious depending on your situation. Good luck

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If you weren’t in school for two years after high school (I mean you were but you forgot about it), they always ask in January about any gap. Always. For one thing, they want to know exactly this - are you leaving a school out? They want to give someone the option of a refreshed memory. I can’t imagine you didn’t get that standard “explain your educational gap” email.

If you have a bunch of transferable grades that are really bad and you didn’t report them, I think it probably will not end well, and possibly you will be red-flagged across the entire UC system. I’m not trying to scare you but leaving out two years of bad grades is not good. But maybe you will get in. I assume the UC has your transcripts to examine. Please let us know. Good luck.

And, by the way, if a course repeated matches an earlier one, they will count the second course, not the first.

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I am currently going to my classes at UCSD, they luckly they didnot accept any of my foreign courses.