Need Help regarding maximum credit

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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I know the rule doesnt apply if you study in CCC for 2 years; meaning you can take as much credit as you want to and only 70 will be transferred so you cannot put yourself into the position of getting rejected because you have too many credits.

However, I did my freshmen year at out-of-state at a 4 year university and currently doing my second year at CCC. From my freshmen year i have 36.5 credits(i know a lot of them are probably not UC transferable, my CCC did a transcript check on my freshmen classes and 3 of them can be apply to IGETC requirement) For CCC, i have 6 from summer, currently taking 19. Plan to take 9 during winter and 21 during spring before I transfer. I also have 5 credict for AP(I know its not included unless you are under 60)
With that being said, i can guarantee myself to have 60 UC-transferable credit but my question is about my 36.5 classes from out-of-state. I know the UC campus do not do a check untill you are admitted to see which of the 36.5 are UC-transferable but i will have 91.5 credit if i does the 60-UC transferable route. Hypercritically speaking, if they somehow managed to accept 25 out of the 36.5 units then i will be over 80 credicts and get rejected because I am applying as a L&S major.

Will this cost me to go over the credict as a high-unit junor transfer ?
I know this is confusing, please help, thanks a lot

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I am trying to find out this so I can adjust my winter and spring classes to put myself into a optional postion but school consular seems to give mix responses, need help from pros or ppl that have been in the same bot to share some experiences, I will contact the admission office and other places with in the next few days but i fell that information from CC could also help a lot espcially from ppl that had been in this positon b4
Thanks

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http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/preparing-admission/transfer-credit/index.html says that “UC awards up to 70 semester (105 quarter) units of credit for lower-division coursework completed at any institution or any combination of institutions.” http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/Transfer_Credit_Practice.pdf has more information (note that credit earned at UC is not subject to this limit).

Are the courses you took at the four year school lower division (frosh/soph level, often indicated by course number ranges)?

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Yes, its all lower level classes for freshmen. I did took a stats class that starts with 300; other than that, its all 100 or 200 classes

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hi, found this “Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division 100 through 299
Freshman 100 through 199
Sophomore 200 through 299” at my school’s website, I can be save to assume those classes i take during freshmen year are under level classes

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If they’re lower division, they are the same as CCC courses. They will cap at 70.

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ok i am calling to confirm this, really do not want to over take credicts

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If your four year school uses 300 course numbers for junior level courses, that course would be counted as upper division and not subject to the 70-unit cap.

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Yeah, that is just 1 class tho, so even if i hip to cap of 70 for lower divsion+3 from that i would have 73 which is under all the requirement

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You are missing the point.

Since all the classes you have taken up to now are lower-division and none were taken at a UC there is NO danger of exceeding the cap. You could have 100 lower-division credits from 4-year colleges and 100 credits from a bunch of community colleges, same story. No matter how many lower-division units you have (provided none were taken at UC) they will cap the number they award you at 70 semester units.

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The OP has taken one course at a four year school whose course number (300-something) suggests that it is a junior level course, i.e. upper division, so that one course would not fall under the 70 unit limitation of transfer credit. That is how s/he could end up with 73 transferable units (70 capped lower division units plus 3 upper division units from that one course).

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Exactly, even if i somehow managed to get a lot of my classes from freshmen year transferred(which is unlikely) plus that 300 upper level then I would have 73 units. But i think all the schools have a capped at around 80 before you are flagged as a high-unit junoir transfer( UCLA is 86.5 and UCB is 80 etc…) so i am safe if that logic is correct. Today, i called the transfer center and was not very helpful.

This is from UCB’s FAQ
“Most programs will not offer admission to students who have earned an excess of 80 UC transferable semester units prior to enrollment, however, if all completed coursework is lower division, this excess unit policy does not apply. If you’ve applied to the College of Letters and Science, note that most applicants with excess units are denied admission. If you’ve applied to the College of Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Design, Natural Resources or Haas School of Business, your application will be reviewed and there may be a very slight chance of admission with excess transferable units.”

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Please confirm my logic, i am going to see my consecular on Monday to get to the bottom of this, the lady at the transfer center keep on repeating the rules about how they cannot do a articulation on my freshmen classes till admission and completely miss my question no matter how i explain to her about what i wanted to know

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One UD, unlimited LD = 73.

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can u clarify what u mean by UD and LD?

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Upper Division and Lower Division