Need some guidance about workload and units to transfer to UC

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<p>Hello there CC. I came here today because I really had no other option but ask for some opinions/advices from people that browse this forum.Things are very complicated because I really don't know what information is reliable or not, and I have no idea if I'm going in the right direction.</p>

<p>First of all, I'm not from the United States and only came to live here in april 2012. With that said, I had no idea how everything worked and my counselor has been extremely off on some points.</p>

<p>I started doing community college to transfer to a UC on Fall 2012, but the great catch was how expensive it was due to not being a resident at the time. I'm came to the U.S as a green card holder, a U.S permanent resident if you will.</p>

<p>However, to be considered a California resident you need to be inside the state for at least one year, and because of that my first 2 semesters were incredibly expensive in the community colleges.</p>

<p>With that said, the greatest problems that I'm facing is the small amount of units that I've taken throughout those semesters. My counselor told me that I'm wasn't eligible for FAFSA because I wasn't a U.S Citizen (at the time I believed him, but it turned out to be completely false), the fact that he also discouraged me from taking more units at the beginning because it would risk my grades.</p>

<p>Basically, the question is, am I screwed? I took 6 units in Fall 2012, 4 units in Spring 2013, and when I finally became a california resident, I was going to take 16 units, but because of some incidents I got dropped from a class and only had 12 units then.</p>

<p>I was so desperate about this that I worked around 30 hours per week at a retail store in Spring 2013 to make up for the few units that I was taking. I have an A on all the courses, but here's the question, are they even going to consider my application at this point? Did I mess up completley out of lack/false information and misguidance? I talked to my counselor about this and he told me that the workload doesn't matter as long as you have all the pre-requisites by the time you transfer, a good GPA and extra curric., but since he was off about the FAFSA for permanent residents, I'm not sure if I should trust him.</p>

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<p>Why was this even posted? Lol. Of course you can take any amount of units in a semester and still be eligible to transfer </p>

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<p>You need 60 (semester) credits completed by the time you plan to transfer, so students generally apply when they have ~30 credits completed.</p>

<p>In your situation, it’s probably best to take an extra year at CC. Class standing is determined by how many units you have, not by how many years you’ve been in school.</p>

<p>And yes, pre-reqs are important, make sure you get those done! IGETC is good too, if your major/UC will accept it… assist.org usually has all that information, I assume you’ve been using it but figured I’d mention it in case your adviser had not.</p>

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<p>It doesn’t matter how long you have spent at the community college as long as you will have completed 60 semester/90 quarter units and, as many as possible, major prerequisites prior to transfer.</p>