How many units are on your application?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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I have yet to see any threads relating to this issue. If a student wants to transfer in two years, it seems reasonable that they might complete two semesters at a community college, apply during the third, and then receive a decision during the fourth.

Thus, most students will have about three semesters (~45 units) completed upon submission of the transfer update. Obviously other factors would raise this number–extraneous years at community college, AP credit, intersessions, et cetera–but the mean datum should theoretically fall about that quantity.

These UCLA data seem to suggest otherwise: https://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof15_mjr.htm

As you can see, the average quantity completed “at the time of application” is approximately 67 semester units. This number is pretty high; I’m curious:

  1. How many units did you have when you first submitted your application in November? Don’t include courses that were in progress or planned at that time…

  2. How many units do you have on your application now, following submission of the transfer academic update? Don’t include any classes that were finished after January 31, 2016.

  3. How many UC-transferable courses are on your application? Don’t include courses that are only CSU-transferable or repeated courses, et cetera.

Thanks for the information. Feel free to share anything else you might know about this topic.

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Maybe that includes planned units.

  1. 31 units.
  2. 44 college units - 15.33 more units done by the end of the Spring. 4 semesters total. Along with 5.33 AP units, I will have roughly 64 units total.

9 classes + 1 lab completed by the time I first submitted my app. 4 more in the Fall, and 5 more by the end of the Spring. 18 + 1 lab transferable courses completed by the end of the Spring.

I took one class over the summer.

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It seems to me that they are referring to quarter units, not semester. They’re most likely converting semester units into quarter units for those informational purposes, seeing as UCLA is on a quarter system. If you convert 67 quarter units into semester units, you get 44.69, meaning ~45 semester units.

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I have over 120 units. Transferable probably falls to 90-100. I’ll have yo give a more concrete number crunch later.