<p>I am currently a student wishing to transfer to ucsd or uc berkeley from a community college. my major is political science and I have a 4.0 GPA. Looking at the Berkeley transfer supplemental, it appears that the college algebra course i took is not articulated for the math section of the IGETC. Am i essentially doomed for Berkeley at this point? College Algebra was the highest math I've taken.</p>
<p>You absolutely need to take a transferable math course. Try to sign up for Stats or something else for this Spring semester and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>unfortunately registering for the semester already happened.</p>
<p>You’re not gonna get in without a transferable math class. I think passing college algebra should let you take some form of elementary statistics or something like that. See if any classes are open or try to crash in for spring.</p>
<p>Are there any other JC’s in your area?</p>
<p>I suppose i screwed up big time here, I’m looking at assist and am quite confused, i cant tell where to look to see which UC’s will actually take my college algebra course. since berkeley won’t, i doubt ucla would. hopefully ucd does.</p>
<p>^ closest is over an hour away ;/</p>
<p>I think you’re mixing up the pre-major requisite courses listed on ASSIST and general education breadth requirements. The math requirement listed in the IGETC is necessary for transfer, and all your college algebra course does at this point is provide you with units and serves as a pre-requisite to take higher-level math courses that may satisfy the IGETC math requirement. Whether or not your major actually has college algebra as one of its major pre-reqs is totally different from what you’re looking to complete by the end of this Spring if you want to transfer for Fall 2014</p>
<p>EDIT: It looks like in total you need to take 3 courses in order to complete your major pre-reqs for transfer. From my CC, if I was in Political Science I would need to take American Government, Comparative Politics, and one course from the following: Western Civilization 1/2/3, History of the United States since 1876, or History of Latin America. </p>
<p>The 11-13 or so courses you need to finish for IGETC have a large selection of courses you can take in each “subject” (English Comp, Math, Social Science, Physical/Biological Science, Language, etc.). You can check your own CC’s IGETC form to see if college algebra satisfies the math portion of the IGETC, but if not, it’ll serve as a pre-requisite to take Intro to Stats or possibly lead up to Calculus.</p>
<p>Not that Igetc has to be completed in order to transfer, but you do need to take a transferable math course for majority of U.Cs. It seems they are very strict with english and math. You should def sign up for a math class for summer but from a lot of the responses on this forum, they dont seem to take summer classes into consideration when transferring. Still worth a shot.</p>
<p>^Very true, the IGETC doesn’t technically have to be completed but all the U.C.'s still require a math course and two english composition courses to be able to transfer. It just so happens that the courses you can take to satisfy those requirements lie in the IGETC as well!</p>
<p>college algebra does satisfy the igetc for my community college. i have done all the major pre reqs required. im guessing statistics would be the course to save me, but its not looking like I’ll get in. welp theres always cal states :/</p>
<p>I’m 99% sure precalc is also transferable.</p>
<p>What CC do you go to and what’s the full name/# of the math course?</p>
<p>^ College of the Desert, MATH 10-College Algebra</p>
<p>[ASSIST</a> Report: DESERT 13-14 UC Transfer Admissions Eligibility Course List](<a href=“http://web1.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=tca&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=29&ia=DESERT&ay=13-14&aay=&dora=UC-M]ASSIST”>http://web1.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=tca&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=29&ia=DESERT&ay=13-14&aay=&dora=UC-M)</p>
<p>You need to take one of the courses from this list to satisfy the UC-M requirement (math requirement). This was found on ASSIST and it’s the agreement between the UC’s and your college</p>
<p>EDIT: And MATH-10 College Algebra is on that list… so I think you’re good to go!</p>
<p>^ it is, and i was under the assumption that all uc’s will accept that, but apparently some don’t?</p>
<p>I don’t think they’re picky like that. If a class is considered UC transferable to one campus, it should be considered transferable to every other UC campus.</p>
<p>Huh, that is confusing. </p>
<p>[ASSIST</a> Report: DESERT 13-14 UCB GE/Breadth Articulation Agreement](<a href=“http://web1.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=21&dir=1&sia=DESERT&ria=UCB&ia=DESERT&oia=UCB&aay=13-14&ay=13-14&dora=GE]ASSIST”>http://web1.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=21&dir=1&sia=DESERT&ria=UCB&ia=DESERT&oia=UCB&aay=13-14&ay=13-14&dora=GE)</p>
<p>Berkeley only has 5 courses that satisfy the math requirement for general education breadth courses, but as far as I know the UC’s should collectively accept college algebra to satisfy the math requirement to transfer to UC’s in general. I’m not sure why Berkeley has a different list of math courses than those posted by the UC system and your college’s articulation agreement</p>
<p>EDIT: I’m not sure if the link I posted up there differs from the IGETC for transferring in, I think the IGETC is completely different</p>
<p>I’m taking a wild guess here and thinking that while your course is UC transferable (as in, it’ll count towards your 60 unit requirement), it doesn’t satisfy UCB’s general education math requirement.</p>
<p>the assist site doesnt have the breadth agreement for every uc from my college, but i looked at davis and they dont take college algebra either. How disappointing, I hope UCSD AND UCSB will take that math, if not… :/</p>