<p>Case 1: If you are taking courses at *community colleges (CC) *, you can take as many units as you want and you are still eligible to transfer to UCs. In addition, if you exceed the maximum amount of units limit set by school (example: UCLA limits 105 quarter units, CAL limits 70 semester units...), then you will only receive up to the maximum units set by the school, the excessive units will not count toward upper division level courses. However, you still have subject credit (not units) as you have the course name listed as completed on your transcript but without the units.</p>
<p>Case 2: ** If you are taking courses outside community colleges such as 4-year instiutions ** like California State universities, or other out of state universities, then:
"[UCs] only admits transfer students from 4-year institutions who are at the junior level (minimum 60/90 semester/quarter units; maximum 86/129 semester/quarter units). We do not allow students to disregard any transferable coursework. (You must report all attempted college work, even if you do not think it is transferable or do not want the credit.) Therefore, a senior at a 4-year institution is not likely to be admitted."</p>
<p>Myth: " if you take more than 90 semester units, then you can't transfer to UCs." = wrong!</p>
<p>In addition to that, **after **you successfully transfer to UCs, most schools do not encourage concurrent enrollment for undergraduate degree and typically UCs don't give you credit for upper division courses if you take them at other universities concurrently (meaning at the same semester). You can, however, take upper division courses at other UC during the summer (not concurrent enrollment) and transfer the units back to your original UC and the grades also transfer in this case. </p>
<p>If you are UC representative, we would like to learn from you on this since there are many members who are confused on the transferring units. Is the information provided there accurate, if not, please let us know. We appreciate your comments!</p>
<p>Case 1: 105 quarter units is the equivalent to 70 semester units. The whole system does limit transferable credit from the California community College to 105 quarter units; however, UCB and UCM are on the semester system so they list it as 70 semester units.</p>
<p>Case 2: Please, please and another please work with the UC campus you are interested in transferring to. UC Davis will consider lower division transfer students attending 4 year institutions as long as they meet the sophomore level transfer requirments (Only our College or Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, in most majors, currently considers lower division transfer students). UC Davis also places the unit limitation at 80 semester (120 quarter) units. Exceeding this limitation does not make it impossible to transfer but, will make the transfer more difficult. Please check with the campus you are interested in since these will vary.</p>
<p>case 2: my husband was in this situation and both UCD & Berkeley worked w/ him even though he exceeded the unit cap w/ a combination of CCC units and a private university. He ended up choosing Berkeley. What Berkeley did was they decided to select some of his units not to transfer over so that he would not be over the limit even though they were transferable so they do work w/ people.</p>
<p>I have been out of school for 3 years now. I finished 72 units at Indiana University. If I go to a community college and finish the transfer requirements, will I still be able to transfer into a UC school like UCLA? I will have 72 units from the 4-year institution and about 60 from the CCC. The total number of units exceeds what is acceptable but the number of units from the 4-year institution are still below. Will I be able to transfer to a school like UCLA or am I out of luck?</p>
<p>Is there anybody here who went to a 4-year college and then transferred to a CC? I have applied to UC for Fall 09 as a CC transfer and I have 3 years worth of college work from Russia. I was trying to compare the classes I took in my 4-year college with classes from UC General Catalog and I am pretty sure most of my classes from outside the US won’t transfer. Still, I want to call UC and clear it out? Where should I call? I am so lost! I think this is the reason why my decisions are still pending…</p>
<p>I went to a Private Catholic University last year. Most of my classes transfered. That’s why it’s EXTREMELY important for you to talk to your CCC counselor ahead of the year, during August or September because you have to see if your classes are transferrable. Not only that, but your CCC should have a petition where you have specified people (who’s job is to see if the classes are equivalent to a class in the CCC) and they do that for you. I turned my petition in late August and I got it back earlier this month…so I’m not sure. The UC expects you to have all of that taken care of. What you say to them is equivalent, they TRUST that you have checked up on it…and everything. That’s what the UCD Rep who came to my CCC told me. [:</p>
<p>Best of luck to you. && no, I do not think that is the reason why your decision is pending. You either have the units and UC transferrable classes or not.</p>
<p>Thanks sakurax… My CCC counselors just looked at my transcript and sent me to evaluation agency. They said they are not allowed to evaluate. The agency told me to submit the course descriptions or otherwise transcripts are invalid (so they said). I am an immigrant and I can’t return back to my country and look for all the professors to gather the course descriptions (we don’t have those online catalogs like the U.S. colleges do). So my CCC counselor just said: start all over. And now UC had asked for the transcripts and they said that they are the ones to evaluate the transcripts, not the agencies or CCC. I just wonder if there’s anybody here from Europe or Asia or somewhere else who had coursework from a university in their country (meaning this coursework was not taught in English) and how many courses were allowed to transfer by UC ;)</p>
<p>You’re welcome.
I went to high school in Japan for two years. HA. Sorry, I should have mentioned that, shouldn’t I? So sorry. All of my classes transferred over. When I applied for freshmen admission at the UCs, it was no problem…but I won’t lie, the process was extremely difficult. I had to go back to Japan, get the director of my school to translate word for word the transcript, signature and seal it…and then my HS counselor sent it in, and that worked for them. It works the same way for Universities of other countries, trust me, I’ve asked. All of my work was considered upper division from the UC perspective.</p>
<p>Hm. That’s weird. UCs shouldn’t have that kind of time. I have a friend who works at UCSD admissions and she’s told me that they’ve had to toss applications because the applicant didn’t get those translated/evaluated…etc. I guess that’s changed. Good luck anyways! [:</p>
<p>As for the max unit available, although all of my classes transferred, I couldn’t have it so where they were all accepted (at least now anyways) because I would be at Senior Standing and without my major coursework done (that need to be done at the respective university) so good luck.</p>
<p>Thanxx soooo much Sakura. Question: was the private Catholic University here in the US? And what about High School classes, did UC count them as lower division courses??? Never thought it’s possible! or I am misinterpreting something?</p>
<p>how do they determine your gpa with so many units? do they just take the first 70 units or so, or do they take the classes where you got your best grades?</p>
<p>your gpa is based on all your transferable units, actual credit is only given to 70 units and then subject credit is granted for units above 70.</p>
<p>Some were counted towards Lower-Division and others simply subject credit. I think two of them actually counted towards upper-division. They counted them as lower-division/upper-division because Japanese Educational standards are much higher than American US standards. I mean, when I was in Fifth grade (in Korea) I was already doing Algebra II! And you don’t even do Algebra II until like…high school? Crazy!</p>
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