Question about Revelle and GE requirements

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I was admitted today as a transfer student for Mechanical Engineering and obviously am very excited.

After researching Revelle I noticed that their GE classes alone will easily add an extra year to graduating (5 humanities, 4 foreign language classes…)

I mentioned this to a friend and he said that he’s pretty sure UCSD accepts IGETC for general education requirements but I told him he was wrong. After googling I found this on UCSDs website:

“Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) is a series of California community college courses that meet UC San Diego lower-division general education (GE) requirements at UC San Diego’s Muir, Marshall, Roosevelt, Sixth and Warren colleges. Revelle College requires students with IGETC to complete these additional requirements before transfer, or while enrolled at UC San Diego: 3 courses in mathematics and 5 courses in natural science.”

If I’m reading this correctly, as long as I have IGETC then I’m pretty much good because engineering already requires me to complete math and natural science courses anyway?

Honestly I have no problem doing extra classes or whatever but I can’t justify an extra year until graduation just to say I went to UCSD instead of say UCI or UCSB…

Any input is appreciated.

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Check with guidance counselor. I attended Revelle years ago and did receive transfer credit for some GE courses. My major required math and science as well, so simultaneously satisfied some GE’s. Good Luck!