PLEASE HELP: Is there a number of maximum units you can take at a CC during HS?

[asinine16]

<p>Hello everyone. Today, I was just reading a simple PR book about college admissions (keep in mind, this was published in 2004). I read the cons of HS students taking CC classes, which one of them said that 4 year colleges usually have a maximum amount of units you can take before matriculation. My heart nearly stopped. I only took these courses to enhance my resume NOT discredit my chances. I have taken 19 units, one class was for HS credit (3 units). My grades are 2 A's and 3 B's (I took high level calculus courses which were evidently hard to maintain an A) PLEASE TELL ME I AM OKAY. And if you must break some bad news, please list the colleges that enforce this policy. Also, I have to take a high level math class at a CC this fall because my school does not offer anything above AP Calculus BC. </p>

<p>Also, because I received low grades (~3.3 GPA) I would also like to ask if they will be automatically calculated in a 4 year college's GPA. I REALLY HOPE NOT, they were just CC courses. I am panicking so much right now. OMG.</p>

[asinine16]

<p>ALSO, I apologize for the awkward title. I was in a rush.</p>

[asinine16]

<p>Bump bump bump</p>

[CheesePuffPoppin]

<p>Yes there are a maximum number of units of colleges classes you can take during high school per CSU and UC. It is different for each school. And yes all CC grades will be configured into your GPA if you attend a CSU or UC school (your location says Socal so Im assuming you live here).</p>

[energize]

<p>Maybe, but probably not.</p>

<p>MIT:</p>

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The transfer process is intended for students who have finished high school and completed at least one year of college. If you are still in high school, you are considered a freshman applicant regardless of how many classes you may have taken at the university level.

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<p>UC Berkeley:</p>

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Transfer admission is limited to students who have or will have completed a minimum of 60 UC-transferable semester units by the end of the spring term of the current academic year.

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<p>(19 units is probably not even close to 60 units, so you’d be safe for sure.)</p>

<p>Amherst:</p>

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You are eligible for transfer admission to Amherst if you have completed at least one year as a full-time student at a college or university.

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<p>So from this range of colleges, I would say you wouldn’t qualify for transfer admissions at most schools, and thus would apply as a freshman.</p>

<p>(I’m also going to have a lot of college units when I finish high school…)</p>

[asinine16]

<p>Thank you so much for the replies, I was looking everywhere online, but I could not find ANYTHING.</p>

<p>@CheesePuffPoppin
What about other schools? Is there a way I can not include the courses I got a B in like PreCal which was then superseded by Calculus? It would be pointless to transfer the PreCal grade because I’ve taken classes above that. </p>

<p>LOL and yes my location is correct
@energize</p>

<p>Oh thank goodness and thank the lord. You also gave me information on schools I was really going to apply to; THANK YOU. :)</p>

[happymomof1]

<p>You will need to send all of your HS and CC transcripts. You can’t leave any of them out.</p>

<p>Each college sets it’s own policy about who is a transfer and who isn’t a transfer. You really do need to contact each one on your list and ask how they will handle things.</p>

[CheesePuffPoppin]

<p>UC Berkeley</p>

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High School Enrichment
College courses completed before high school graduation, as well as Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and A or O level exams, should be reported on admissions applications and are recorded as transfer work. None of these units will be applied against the maximum number of units you are allowed at Berkeley.

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<p>UCLA</p>

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Can I take a course at a CC after I have 105 total units?
Once you have accumulated 105 units of college credit, you will no longer be eligible to receive unit credit from course work done at a community college.

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<p>UCSD</p>

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Maximum Unit Limitation</p>

<p>An undergraduate student may register for no more than 200 course units. An exception is permitted for candidates for BS degrees in engineering, for whom the limits are 240 units in Revelle and Roosevelt Colleges and 230 units in all other colleges. Other exceptions will be granted only for compelling academic reasons and only with the approval of the college provost and the concurrence of the Undergraduate Council. Transfer units applicable toward general-education requirements or major requirements are included in the maximum unit calculation; all other transfer units are excluded. Advanced Placement and international baccalaureate units are excluded.

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[annasdad]

<p>CPP, go back and read the last paragraph of happymom’s message.</p>

[CheesePuffPoppin]

<p>CSU Long Beach</p>

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Transfer of Undergraduate Credit From Accredited Community Colleges</p>

<p>A maximum of 70 semester units earned in a community college may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree, with the following limitations and stipulations:</p>

<ol>
<li>No upper-division credit may be allowed for courses taken in a community college;</li>
<li>No more than six semester units in education courses taken in a community college may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree or the professional preparation requirements of a teacher education basic credential program;</li>
<li>Individual program regulations may include specific transfer limitations.</li>
<li>Students who transfer general education certification are still required to complete at least 9 units of upper-division courses at the campus conferring the degree.</li>
<li>Any course taken at community colleges can substitute for general education breadth requirements and lower-division requirements, if the course is approved as equivalent to the appropriate CSULB course. Students with more than 70 transferable units from community colleges will get subject matter credit for all such courses, but no more than 70 units will count toward graduation.</li>
<li>All transferable units taken at community colleges will count toward computation of the overall grade-point average. All transferable units in the major taken at community colleges will count toward computation of the overall major grade-point average.

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</ol>

[CheesePuffPoppin]

<p>More on UCLA transfer credit policies…varies per major/school: <a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/tradms.htm[/url]”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/tradms.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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I read the cons of HS students taking CC classes, which one of them said that 4 year colleges usually have a maximum amount of units you can take before matriculation. My heart nearly stopped. I only took these courses to enhance my resume NOT discredit my chances.

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<p>Some CSUs and UCs may have a maximum amount of units you can take and transfer for credit for your undergraduate degree, but that’s only due to graduation, GE, and major requirements…it varies. But it only affects you in that way only, if you’re looking to transfer credit…not if you’re just trying to make your schedule look more rigorous which indeed you have done so…it won’t negatively impact your admissions chances in the sense that you will no longer be considered a freshman but a transfer student…nah, not at all, this won’t happen. Also 19 units is, as someone said, quite a small number…you’ll be fine.</p>

[asinine16]

<p>Thank you for all the replies everyone.</p>

<p>I called all the East Coast schools that I am applying to i.e Columbia, Williams, etc. and I found that I may use the classes I have taken at CC for some kind of advanced placement agreement but I will not get credit and it will not count when calculating GPA at those schools. This is really good news, it’s actually what I preferred. Either today or tomorrow I will call some of the UC’s to see if this same policy applies. </p>

<p>Again, thank you!</p>