<p>Do they look up the course at the college you are attending or do they just assume?</p>
<p>Assist.org </p>
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<p>That is an interesting question. If you’re wondering about the criteria they use to determine if a course is transferrable vs non-transferrable, I have no idea. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen any information about what qualifies a class as being transferrable. </p>
<p>That being said, for the courses that have already been approved as being transferable, such as those listed on ASSIST.org, at some point they evaluated the curriculum for each course at that CC and determined whether or not it met the transferable criteria and whether the curriculum was equivalent to any similar courses at the UC (for pre-reqs). Then from there they’ll award it as transferable for every student coming from that CC until at they re-evaluate that CC. I’m not sure how ofter they actually re-evaluate the articulations, but I know it happens because I’ve seen classes at a CC go from being UC transferable one year and then non-transferable the following year. </p>
<p>If a course hasn’t ever been evaluated by the UC’s at the time they’re reviewing an application then they usually use the course description in your CC’s class catalog to determine if it meets the transferable criteria. This usually happens more often with OOS students and other applicants from four year universities because there are no formal articulation agreements that are maintained between those institutions and the UC’s.</p>