Just realized I might have a problem

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Alright, so yesterday I was accepted to Davis. On their site they had a credits summary, and apparently all the Korean language courses I had taken at the Defense Language Institute were transferable even though I had been told they weren’t. This creates two problems for me:</p>

<li><p>It adds about 39 semester units to my transferable coursework. Putting me waaaay over the limit.</p></li>
<li><p>Those courses were made to be extremely fast, very difficult, and designed only for the purposes to train a linguist a linguist to work in the military, so my GPA was only about a 3.2 in those transferable classes. I had one of the highest GPAs in my class, outside of the students who were Korean. However, this drops my 3.86 GPA from my CCC to about 3.54 or so, which isn’t competitive for my major.</p></li>
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<p>Are they going to weigh these classes into their decision? I don’t even want to transfer any of them. I just put them on my application to be thorough, and show that I had completed the language requirement for transfer. This could kill me for Berkeley and UCLA. Is there someone I could call to find out how these classes are being weighed? On the Berkeley update I only included grades from my CCC, so will they feel I was dishonest on my Berkeley update seeing I had other coursework entered on my application?</p>

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<p>I have also briefly taken a class at an overseas institute and later found out it didn’t fulfill credit for my IGETC foreign language reqs because it was too fast (like you) and short (not your situation). So I ended up gritting my teeth through a 16-week Spanish session. </p>

<p>Call the admissions counselors @ UCLA and Berkeley and ask them to consider it as Credit/Non-Credit because you believe that the sheer volume of credit hours you put into it ‘compensates’ it into a square and fit 3 semester unit, C/NC course. But that’s just me, get straight to the source first.</p>

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<p>Thx, Milk. Yeah, I’ll talk to the admissions people. If I don’t get in I’m going to submit an appeal. It’s BS that I joined the Army with no intention of doing college transferable courses, then also being told after I found out they counted as college courses that they were not transferable to UCs, then having to do those really hard courses (where about half the students had to drop out) along with all my other military duties, only to find out 7 years later that they were in fact UC transferable and because I put them on my application my CCC GPA is going to drop a mile. I think the only fair thing to do would to evaluate them as credit/no credit, so they don’t mess up my GPA.</p>

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<p>that sucks…hope you get in</p>