Help! Berkeley Unit Cap

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Hi! I'm a UCSD student who is interested in transferring to Berkeley's Letters and Sciences College for Fall 2011.
But I'm worried that Berkeley will automatically reject me because I will have more than 80 semester units/120 quarter units.
I ended my freshman year with 54 quarter units.
I am studying abroad for the fall quarter, and I will accrue 31 units.
When I return to UCSD, I will be taking 24 units each quarter for winter and spring.
So I will have a total of 133 units by the end of spring quarter. Do you know of any exceptions to the unit cap? I can't stand UCSD!
Should I even bother to apply for transfer?</p>

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<p>Call UCB on Monday. They will answer your questions.</p>

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<p>I’m studying abroad. Calling the States and being put on hold would be really expensive.
Anyone know?!</p>

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<p>No, Berkeley doesn’t care how many lower division unit you take. The only cap is that no more than roughly 75 transfer.
I have no idea how one could ‘anticipate completion of 31 units by end of fall quarter’. I don’t even buy the hard work argument because one would not be able to absorb or reiterate back to the professor the depth of knowledge in a 12 week time span.</p>

<p>Either this person is crazy or a genius or maybe has extra independent study type units. What perplexes my mind is if they are genius level why would they be here asking such a rudimentary question?!?? I would not think the quality of education or the quality of the students work would be very good if even was able to complete 31 quarter units.</p>

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<p>[Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You”>LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You)</p>

<p>3rd topic and oh look it’s on college confidential too</p>

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<p>My program requires students to talk 27 quarter units–3 of which is from orientation. I made a successful petition to take an extra 4 units for an independent study. Yes, I feel that the level of coursework here does not reflect the level of coursework at my home institution.</p>

<p>kmazza,
excuse me for asking such a rudimentary question when you are not able to provide me with a satisfactory answer. I did not ask about lower-division units, and there is a unit cap for Berkeley so that senior transfers would be disqualified from transferring.</p>

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<p>bellabell,</p>

<p>I think you are out of luck.</p>

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<p><a href=“https://students.berkeley.edu/myberkeley/myberkeleyapp.asp?todo=cms&id=89#6[/url]”>https://students.berkeley.edu/myberkeley/myberkeleyapp.asp?todo=cms&id=89#6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You did not state you were a senior if that is the case. There are some extreme cases of UC to UC reciprocity but most UC’s are not fond nor encourage senior transfers in any shape or form. Transferring is primarily for juniors and if they have to use the junior or senior year unit cap limit to discourage people from attempting to switch schools so be it. Students need to finish what they started and accept responsibility for their decisions.</p>

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<p>Do NOT worry about the UC B FAQ’s thing on having more than 80 units. I have talked to a UC B counselor (I’m also applying to L&S) about the same issue and she said that as long as most of your units are in-state it does not matter if you go over 80. But, not all of them will transfer, probably.</p>

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<p>That’s such a relief.
Thanks!!</p>