How is it calculated? Is it the gpa that I earn in CCCs only? I have had one year of college outside of California. However I have taken classes like Calc 1, Calc 2, linear alg, etc… in that college. Do the classes I took out of state count or will they be ignored?
It’s courses from community college (CCCs or otherwise) that are transferable. Courses from a CCC are easily verified compared to classes taken out of state, but so long the school you went to was a legit school, anything like Calculus and above will be transferable.
Anything remedial isn’t transferable. Occupational classes that go towards a certificate rather than an actual degree are often not transferable.
It really just depends, but the major STEM classes will generally be considered transferable and it’s a safe bet to use them to calculate your GPA.
Oh phew. Just had to make sure. I had a down semester for spring 2015. Thankfully everything else has been stellar and my ecs are looking insanely polished! Thanks for answering my question
My pleasure. Also keep in mind, however, that you need to report EVERY course from EVERY college you have attended. It won’t really be factored into your GPA, but they will still require it be reported and thus they’ll still see it.
Well ofcourse!
Oh yeah I have one more question.
I have taken courses that transfer to other ucs but not the specific uc I’m applying for. Do those count in the GPA calculation or is it all courses that are uc transferable that are calculated into the gpa?
If assist.org says a specific class doesn’t transfer to UC Berkeley but does to UC Davis, as an example, I would be inclined to follow that and your GPA would change accordingly.
I don’t know if different UCs view one class differently though. I would think if one school deems it appropriate as transferable, the rest would. That’s just my opinion though, not a fact.
Oh that’s great! So my chances just went up even more if you’re logic follows! Thanks for this!
@BoredEngineer it’s quite a specific situation you’re wondering about but let’s say UC Davis considers your class as an equivalent to one of theirs on assist and UC Berkeley says it doesn’t fulfill a requirement on assist. I believe that even though Berkeley doesn’t consider it an acceptable equivalent to a class they’ve put on assist, the class itself is still UC-transferable to all UCs. It may not fulfill the pre-requisite you want, but I do believe it counts in your UC GPA because Berkeley (in this example) would essentially be saying “it’s UC-transferable, sure, but isn’t a replacement for X class.”
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/transfer/advising/transferring-credits/ Whether or not a course is deemed UC-transferable (and, by extension, counts toward your UC transfer GPA) is decided by the UC system as a whole, not individual schools. The individual schools only determine which courses are acceptable substitutes for theirs. UC-transferable is not a designation given by each university, but rather by the entire UC system as a whole.
@ananguiano Yep. Correct. Articulation for subject credit =/= transferability.
So then my out of state courses won’t count toward my gpa?
No, they would, depending on how the UC evaluates them.
An out of state class would need to be evaluated by the UC for equivalency (transferable or not, and any pre-reqs it might fulfill). If it’s approved, it would be included. If it’s not approved, it wouldn’t.
That’s my understand on it, as someone who came in with a decent amount of out of state community college units.