I read on their website we’ll be granted up to 70 units of lower division coursework and anything over that will be granted subject credit, but is going over the 70 units something they will use against you when reviewing applications and possibly reject you for? My goal is to transfer into UCSD’s bio program but I know it’s competitive and by the end of completing all the lower division coursework next Spring I should have around 94 credits, I’ve heard different responses from different advisers- some said GPA matters most, I was looking for some more answers/opinions/advice.
Thank you so much in advance!
look at the answer when you asked the same question a year ago: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/2086489-how-many-units-too-many-for-transferring-to-ucsd.html
@mikemac omg ??
I was hoping for a new more detailed answer since I’d seen more school advisers since then and received mixed responses, some saying they’ll count me off for anything and reject me straight away for it, some saying it won’t matter. I was also looking for an explanation to what my exceeding credits being granted subject credit meant. I was looking to actually understand what would all happen/ what it all meant since my “answer from last year” was only a single sentence long
Having more than 70 LD courses will not affect your chances. They will just transfer 70, so it won’t make any difference to them. Plus the courses are not upper division, so again it won’t have an impact.
@caitlne They are 100% wrong and it’s hard to believe they are allowed to advise students if that is what they are telling them.
Lets set the assumptions: (1) you have never taken classes at a UC (2) you have never taken an upper division class at a non-UC school.
Given (1) and (2) are true, the total number of units you have will not affect your admission.
Every class you have taken will be used to satisfy any requirement they may apply to at UCSD. No limit. If you’ve satisified 94 semester units worth of UCSD requirements or subjects with your classes then UCSD will check each and every one off as fulfilled. How can a subject not be a requirement? Suppose one of the transferrable classes you’ve taken is English Victorian Poetry. Even if its not a requirement at UCSD you will get credit for the equivalent class at UCSD (and can’t retake it for credit). If no equivalent exists but UCSD requires you to take English units as part of your GE, then you’ll get units towards satisfying that requirement. ASSIST tells you what every transferable class will count as. If in the end you’ve taken enough English classes for 16 quarter units and UCSD only requires 8 units, then the remaining 8 are in a sense wasted.
Separately you need 180 total quarter units to graduate from a UC (slightly more for some majors). The UCs cap the credit they give for units transferred from elsewhere at 105 quarter units (70 semester units). So you will have to earn 75+ units at UCSD.