<p>I took 38 credits at a 4 year but I did horrible my first semester for personal reasons. I have completed 12 units at community college and am enrolled in 18 for next semester. I know for a fact my CC classes will transfer but I have no clue about my four year courses. Its important though since, if one of the classes I didn't do well in doesn't transfer, my gpa would be high enough to do a TAG. Any way of knowing for certain what will or won't transfer to UC?</p>
<p>try assist.org to see which are and are not transferable to a UC from the 4 year institution.</p>
<p>^ assist is useless most of the times when determining which courses from a 4-yr are transferable…</p>
<p>@OP: I suggest you check the name of the course and compare the syllabus with that of the UC you want to transfer to. Usually, your counselor at the UC and the articulation office will ask you to submit all the syllabi, and they will then determine which course is transferable. Your best bet is look at the course description and see if it is similar to the same course at the UC.</p>
<p>Your community college should evaluate your courses and see what they can give you credit for.</p>
<p>Furthermore, you can backtrace off of assist.org by doing this:</p>
<p>1) Pick the course you want to check
2) Set assist.org to your CC but transferring to the 4 yr you already attended (assuming it’s a UC or a CSU)
3) See what courses have direct transfers for, those are the courses that will most likely transfer</p>
<p>If it’s not a UC or CSU, you just have to get your CC to evaluate them</p>
<p>I’ll describe what happened to me.</p>
<p>I had a similar issue: 27 units at a private, four-year liberal arts college on the east coast. I had a 2.0 GPA among those units. It was a pretty goofy institution, and my comparison to the course offerings of the UCs suggested that many would not be transferrable.</p>
<p>In the end, every UC was different. Davis transferred almost none, UCLA transferred them all, and Cal transferred most (I didn’t ask the other UCs).</p>
<p>Maybe I’m being conspiratorial, but my guess is that Davis rejected them so that they’d then admit me with a higher GPA (thereby boosting their average admitted GPA, which can help with rankings). UCLA accepted them all because it dropped my GPA from 3.95 to 3.35, giving them a basis to reject my application (they need excuses to reject applications, after all).</p>
<p>Cal transferred most of them, but then accepted me as a Spring admit. I’m sure it was because of my strong personal statement and major-related work experience. Under my goofy conspiracy theory, Cal would be the only honest participant in the process. :)</p>
<p>Bottom line: You won’t know until after you apply. UCs may be inconsistent, even though they all have similar guidelines.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I was at a private 4 yr so I don’t know how much assist.org can help me, but I definitely plan on both talking to a CC counselor and looking at the UC schedule of classes. @nick_scheu, wow that is really encouraging to know you got into Cal! Our stories sound very similar, thanks for sharing 
It definitely gives me hope!</p>