<p>Currently at CU boulder, transferring to Santa Barbara city college then hopefully to a UC. Has anyone done something similar and how did your credits from out of state transfer over or did they not even transfer?!?</p>
<p>I’m doing something very similar right now. Went to a public OOS university for a year, then transferred back home to my local CCC, and am currently in my second semester awaiting admission decisions from UCD and UCSD. I’ve talked to transfer counselors at my CCC, and they seem pretty confident a good number of my courses will transfer. The thing is, if any of the UC campuses (doesn’t mean one you apply to or will even attend) has a course similar to something you took, and they deem it transferable, you’ll get credit and be fine (even if say the only course similar to one of yours is offered at UC Berkeley, but you attend UCLA). So that’s kind of nice. What’s not nice is the only way to find out definitively what courses will transfer is to apply… and wait to see if they reject you for not having enough transferable units. I guess the best way to protect against this is to just take really basic classes at your current school (broad GE, intro to- classes, stay away from upper-level ones), and spend 2 years at a CCC to build up even more, usually guaranteed transferable classes. I’ll try and let you know how it pans out for me! Probably not looking so good since I applied after 1 semester at a CCC and have a lot of units in progress now. Good luck!</p>
<p>I went OOS CC -> CCC -> UCB</p>
<p>All of my coursework articulated the way I expected it to… the only classes that didn’t articulate I knew wouldn’t (ie, CS70 at Berkeley isn’t offered at any CCC, so I knew mine wouldn’t get credit). You won’t know for sure what classes give you subject credit for until after you transfer though, which kinda sucks. I think for the number of credits (just the number, not the subjects) they might just take whatever the OOS school says you’ve done and go with that, though.</p>
<p>from that path you mention, Boulder -> SBCC -> UC you may be thinking that after a year in CA you will qualify for in-state tuition at the UCs. I just want to make sure you know that this is quite difficult to do if you are not already a CA resident.
If</a> this applies you should read thru the link for the full set of rules.</p>
<p>All of my credits except one from my four-year transferred over. I went to the University of Iowa. Even some really weird Russian classes. They just counted as electives, but they were still credits! As long as you’re not taking really out there classes (here’s looking at you, Math for Elementary Education), you should be fine!</p>