<p>Hi ya'll</p>
<p>I transfered to UCLA as a Junior and I want to graduate in one year. I know that I need to take 90 quarter units to do this.</p>
<p>How many classes should I take per semester?</p>
<p>Is 15 units too much?</p>
<p>Can I take some CCs to add to the units?</p>
<p>One year is Fall, Winter, and Spring. unless you take 30 units every 10 weeks (and that assumes you’re able to get every class you want, and pass it) it’s pretty much impossible. Also, the grades you’d get by taking 30 units would probably be so bad it wouldn’t be worth it if you go to grad school.</p>
<p>Also, UCLA has a non-dual enrollment clause or something in your DPR (you can check it out on ursa) it means that if you’re enrolled in any other college, including community college, while at UCLA, you won’t receive credit for the classes you took there at the other school. So you can pretty much only get credit for classes when you’re not actively taking classes in UCLA (i.e. summer)</p>
<p>honestly graduation in one year doesn’t seem feasible to me, especially since you’re going down from 16 weeks to 10 weeks and classes will probably be way harder. But best of luck to you.</p>
<p>why the f would you want to graduate in one year, UCLA is awesome!</p>
<p>Yeah honestly I agree with both of the above- it’s very difficult and UCLA is too great to only stay one year. Transfering within a year out of community college is different, UCLA classes are much more accelerated and difficult</p>
<p>Wow. That does seem impossible. Thanks for the help guys! :D</p>
<p>@ Beyphy</p>
<p>Doesn’t the academic school year end in the Fall of next year?</p>
<p>So I have from now until Spring of '12 to take classes, right?</p>
<p>it’s possible.</p>
<p>assuming you came in with 105 quarter units(70 semester) you’d only need 75 more units</p>
<p>15 summer
15 fall
15 winter
15 spring
15 summer</p>
<p>you’d be counted as a spring graduate.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend this and it’s not possible for every major. Assuming you’re going into a competitive job market(we all are) this would be a better plan</p>
<p>Summer - internship(for academic credit if possible)
Fall - 12 units
Winter -12 units
Spring -12 units
Summer - internship
Fall - 12 units
Winter -12 units
Spring -12 units
Summer - internship</p>
<p>Fall is the beginning of the academic year, not the end.</p>
<p>Also, spring '12 is two years, not one year. Here are the quarters and years they start on:</p>
<p>summer '10 (generally off)
fall '10
winter '11
spring '11
summer’11 (generally off)
fall '11
winter '12
spring '12</p>
<p>i included summer as off because even in UCLAs official calender for the academic year it isn’t included. you can see it here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/calendar/acadcal10.htm[/url]”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/calendar/acadcal10.htm</a></p>
<p>as you can see, it’s technically slightly under two years. staying two, or even three years over as a transfer student isn’t seen as that big of a deal. I might spend three years (especially if i decide to double major in linguistics) at UCLA but i don’t mind much. I’m pretty young (21) and being a year or two older than other grad students won’t be the death of me.</p>
<p>Ooh I see. Thanks for the help guys.</p>
<p>The problem with me is that I still need to take all of my science classes in order to apply to grad school. I was thinking of finishing my degree in one year and then take my science classes after I graduate.</p>
<p>Why exactly do you have to do this in 1 year?</p>
<p>I think I have to take 90 quarter units as a History major.</p>
<p>I’m doing it in 1 year. I entered with 121 quarter units (105 CCC Max + 16 units of AP) and took 17 units this summer. When I start this Fall I will have 138 quarter units, making me a senior. In the Fall I’m taking 18 units, Winter 2011 I’m taking 16 units, and Spring 2011 I’m taking 13 units. In total I will have 185 units. 60 of these are upper division, and I entered with the IGETC. I’m a Math/Econ major at UCLA.</p>
<p>And to answer the anticipated question of “why?”
<p>@ Rpicton,</p>
<p>Do you plan to apply to grad school afterwards?</p>
<p>No, I’d like to get a job.</p>
<p>i thought ucla had a ‘residency requirement’ for transfers that states you can’t graduate in only three quarters. i think i read it somewhere on the website.</p>
<p>^i also thought that AP classes = community college classes if you transferred, and hence, he could still only have 105 qu (or 70su) when he transferred. but i assume that rpicton already talked to a counselor to make sure it was cool, so i’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>@HigherHopes</p>
<p>There are two Academic Residency requirements. (1) You must earn 35 of your final 45 units in residence at UCLA and (2) a minimum of 24 upper division units must be completed in the major while in residence in the College. I’ll satisfy both of these without an issue.</p>
<p>[Residency</a> Requirement](<a href=“http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/counseling/regulations/residency.htm]Residency”>http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/counseling/regulations/residency.htm)</p>
<p>@beyphy
I emailed/spoke to various UCLA representatives (counselors, admissions, orientation), some say you can only transfer 105 max, some say you could only transfer 105 from all your CCC work but APs go on top. </p>
<p>However, my DPR (Degree Progress Report, like a transcript) has been finalized and my credit looks like this: </p>
<p>
Total Non-UC Units 127.8<br>
Excess CC Credit 6.8<br>
Total Non-UC Transferred 121.0<br>
Total UC Transferred 0.0<br>
</p>
<p>In addition, it states on the official website that “the University will award graduation credit for up to 70 semester (105 quarter) units of transferable coursework from a California community college” It does not mention it will limit AP courses.</p>
<p>[University</a> of California - Counselors](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/adminfo/transfer/advising/credit.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/adminfo/transfer/advising/credit.html)</p>
<p>I’m going with the DPR because the people who really know what’s right finalized it. The people who told me you could only transfer 105 were wrong. </p>
<p>Either way, if for some reason I can only transfer 105, I would need 11 more units. In that case I would take 17 in the spring instead of 13, and 8 units in summer session A. You can petition (easily) to graduate in the Spring commencement if you are finishing up a few classes in the following summer. So it would add an extra 6 weeks to my graduation, but those units I take can be anything I want to take that I am able to enroll in. So it would fun nonetheless.</p>