<p>I just finished the first year in my semester-format university. After summer classes, I will have 42 units. So does that mean I can only take 18 units in all of my sophomore year? I keep hearing about schools not considering students trying to transfer with over 60 units. Sorry if this was already posted, I just want to make sure what the real answer is. Thank you!</p>
<p>Yeah this is true many schools discourage students from applying with excessive units. What's excessive? That's where it gets tricky because each school has its own policy. UCSB for example is extremely strict on using excessive units as an excuse to reject applicants. I should know they rejected me and used this as their excuse. Be careful in maintaining a unit cap if you plan on applying to certain schools and make sure you check the policies of the schools you plan on applying to.</p>
<p>what about schools like harvard, yale, and other ivies. Wouldn't they want to see that you applied yourself and took more than 15 credits each semester?</p>
<p>Can anybody clarify this?</p>
<p>Have you gone to those websites? do the legwork......I'm sure you can find an answer in minutes besides waiting on people who have no idea what they're talking about, i.e. your fellow CC'ers? lol</p>
<p>whats UCSB's policy? they take up to 70 right? Or do I face rejection if I have like 65?</p>
<p>Here's the policy from their guaranteed transfer page:</p>
<p>*3. This agreement does not apply to students with senior class standing<br>
(students with 90 or more UC-transferable semester units) from accredited<br>
four-year universities and community colleges combined. Applications from senior
class standing students will not be accepted. </p>
<p>a) Students cannot reach senior standing with only community college units<br>
completed. A maximum of 70 UC-transferable community college semester units<br>
will be accepted toward graduation. Subject credit is awarded for community<br>
college units taken beyond 70 semester units. </p>
<p>b) All UC-transferable units completed at a four-year university apply toward
the 90 semester unit limit. </p>
<p>c) AP and IB units earned prior to high school graduation do not apply to the
90 semester unit limit. *</p>
<p>Generally, schools let you be around the junior range (60-90 semester units).</p>
<p>^This policy is deceptive because according to UCSB I had attained senior standing because of my 92 units all of which were completed at cc's. According to that I couldn't have attained senior standing with only cc semester units and UCSB gave me a different answer. Always check with the school despite what the broad general agreements for all UC's state.</p>
<p>Schools are all different, and if any transfer information is there at all, it will be limited. It's <em>very</em> hard to find direct information about any of their policies without calling them -- but then, there's no reason not to call them.</p>
<p>(The exception, in great part, is for CC-to-UC or CC-to-CSU transfers, which are well documented in a lot of places, if perhaps, as mexbruin says, misleading.)</p>
<p>USC, for example, will not take 65 units. Do they accept people who have more than 65? Yes. But then they say "IF" this occurs, you can only have a maximum of 65 credits transferred. So you have less of a chance if you have more units.</p>
<p>But how do you deal with this? What are you going to do, mexbruin? I don't understand why having so many lower-division credits is a bad thing that would prevent you from being accepted -- after all, they very specifically tell you that you aren't allowed to forget that you have those credits. :/</p>
<p>"USC, for example, will not take 65 units. Do they accept people who have more than 65? Yes. But then they say "IF" this occurs, you can only have a maximum of 65 credits transferred. So you have less of a chance if you have more units."</p>
<p>Why do you have less of a chance? Isn't the only consequence that some of your units don't get transfered?</p>
<p>I'm cool though I was onlt thinking about UCSB as my fallback plan My first two choices CAL and UCLA accepted me despite my unit count whne I asked UCSB about rejecting me they did inform me that they knew other schools were less stringent and didnt enforce the policy as much but that they are firm in not accpeting people with over 90 units into the college of letters and science. I thought about appealing based on the info on the UC guide but after getting in to my dream schools I didn't go through with it. I'm pretty sure my appeal would have worked because they should not have rejected me for that reason because all my units were from two community colleges and no four year's. I still dont get it though and people dont believe me either when I tell them that UCLA and CAL accepted me and UCSB rejected me. Even on other threads here on cc people have said "wait you got into CAL and UCLA and rejected at UCSB... Uhhh sounds kinda fishy" I agree it is dumb that UCSB rejected me but I guess they really enforce their policy on unit load.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can have 120 ccc credits and they should be fine with that (only 70 actually count for graduation credit though). I read a figure that the most common number of transfer credits for ccc students to UCs is 90.</p>
<p>collegehopeful123: That's what I would think, too, but the way it read on the site was that applicants who come in with 65 units or fewer are "preferred" to students who come in with more.</p>
<p>In any case, I emailed UCLA because I'm worried about my credit max, so hopefully I'll get some kind of direct answer from them Tuesday.</p>