<p>Next fall ill be applying to both CSU and UC's. By the time i finish next year i will end up with around 73 units. will that hurt my chances of getting in? i know csu and uc's require minimum of 60 units.</p>
<p>Be no problem if all units were taken at cc</p>
<p>yep all units were taken at a cc</p>
<p>you have nothing to worry about. i have (not including this semester) 89 units. all were taken at a calif. community college, and i just got accepted to UCSD last week. so unless you plan on leaving the state, take as many classes as you want!</p>
<p>agreed with feuerwerke-by the time i'm done this semester i'll have 78 semester UC-transferable units completed, and i still fit junior standing and took all my units at a CCC, so you don't have anything to worry about. the max units you can have and still be junior standing is 89 semester units (per the UC admissions website)</p>
<p>What about those of us who will have 89+?
By the time I transfer it will be somewhere in the 90's...maybe over 100. Yikes.</p>
<p>Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but this is what I have interpreted about their system.</p>
<p>For Berkeley:
"Students who have attended only a community college will be granted subject credit, but not unit credit, for appropriate two-year college coursework taken in excess of the community college 70-unit limit; such subject credit may be used to satisfy/complete requirements."</p>
<p>If you go over 70 units, they start to consider non-IGETC classes as pass or fail courses. I am pretty sure that those non-IGETC classes above 70 units do not add to your GPA.</p>
<p>Why do you guys take that many units anyway? :(</p>
<p>Trust me...I don't WANT to take that many.
I am a life sciences major so just my major classes is something like 60 units for UCLA. Plus any other pre reqs my back up schools require. Then to complete IGETC is an additional at least 24 units. Plus the units I have for taking courses when I wasn't sure what my major was..it all adds up. :(</p>
<p>well, i was a music major for a while and i stayed an extra year at my CC (i actually could've transferred to USC for fall '07) but had to change my major due to miscellaneous issues, hence why i will have 78 units. i didn't even plan to finish igetc-i was going to do the USC GE pattern and transfer, but it just kind of happened that i finished IGETC.</p>
<p>The post by TheCaliforniaLife above is correct. Students cannot obtain more than 70 semester units at the community college level. You can continue to earn the course credit for courses you complete.</p>
<p>The courses you take will be calculated into the GPA. Actually what we do is give all the units completed (for GPA) and subtract the excess to bring the total units to 70. Why is this done? I believe it is done to make sure you have adequate units to finish your degree but, there might be other reasons I'm not aware of.</p>
<p>But those of us with excess units strictly from a CCC will not be looked down upon in the admission process correct?</p>
<p>i saw a counselor for this exact reason today and they told me there are people that transfer w/ 180+ units! The UC (and your ccc) will just limit the amount of credit they will give you...in my case they aren't going to take more than 105 quarter units(at De Anza). The counselor also suggested that I can take off a quarter or two before transferring and just work or travel, it won't have any effect on admissions. BTW if you EVER took classes at a 4-year school like a CSU or a UC you better make sure you don't go over 90 quarter though.</p>