Spring Admit- Community College

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Hi, I'm a spring admit to UC Berkeley and I am planning to take community college courses at Berkeley City College. First of all, I have no idea how these classes transfer. Will my community college courses show on my transcript and be part of my UC Berkeley GPA or will they just transfer as credits and fulfill some general requirements?</p>

<p>Also, if I took a community college course in high school, will it show on my Berkeley transcript and if so, is there any way I can take it off since I didn't do too well in the class?</p>

<p>THANK YOU <3</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure that the community college classes will be considered only for their units and completion of Berkeley requirements, but their grades won’t count in your Berkeley GPA. I’d take a combination of pre-requisites and breadth requirements in the fall and use Assist.org to ensure that they transfer. I believe that community college classes that you’ve taken in high school will be treated similarly.</p>

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<p>Use [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) to see whether courses from a California community college will transfer. It can also tell you what courses you can take as prerequisites for your intended major at UC Berkeley (it is mainly for intended transfer students, but the same information is useful for freshman spring admits and others taking community college courses). Assuming you passed the courses, you should get unit credit and subject credit but the grades will not become part of your UC Berkeley GPA.</p>

<p>Berkeley City College and others in the same community college district (e.g. Laney College) are on the semester system and model a fair number of their courses on UC Berkeley courses, so you may be able to get a one-to-one correspondence for transfer credit purposes.</p>

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<p>So how many units do eecs transfer get added to their UCB transcript for CCC courses not on assist? For example is there a limit to how many CCC courses like Intro to Java, Intro to C++, Perl, Shell Scripting they will accept?</p>

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<p>If they are not listed as UC transferable, then no credit.</p>

<p>If they are listed as UC transferable, but there is no articulation to Berkeley courses, then you may get unit credit that can be used for free elective units that can help you gain increased class standing for registration purposes, but otherwise do not meet any other graduation requirements besides the 120 unit minimum. No more than 70 community college units can count toward the 120 unit minimum needed for graduation.</p>

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<p>As a spring admit to UCB EECS attending BCC in the fall, consider the following courses (choose about four of them):</p>

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<li>A math course. See the <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/1305840-freshman-math-faq.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/1305840-freshman-math-faq.html&lt;/a&gt; . UCB Math 1A = BCC Math 3A, UCB Math 1B = BCC Math 3B, UCB Math 53 = BCC Math 3C, UCB Math 54 = BCC Math 3E and 3F.</li>
<li>BCC Physics 4A if your math course is more advanced than UCB Math 1A / BCC Math 3A.</li>
<li>BCC English 1A or 1B (choose 1B if you have a 4 on AP English), which articulate to UCB English R1A or R1B.</li>
<li>BCC CIS 25 and 27, which (combined) articulate to UCB CS 61B. (However, BCC CIS 27 lists BCC CIS 25, 26, or 36A as a prerequisite.)</li>
<li>Humanities or social studies courses to fulfill breadth requirements. Use [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) to find courses which articulate to courses allowed by the breadth requirement list: <a href=“http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/current-undergraduates/requirements/hss-humanities-current-list/HSS%20NEW%20REQ.pdf[/url]”>http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/current-undergraduates/requirements/hss-humanities-current-list/HSS%20NEW%20REQ.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li>If no physics, and you have no AP chemistry or biology credit, consider BCC Chemistry 1A, Biology 1A, or Biology 1B to fulfill science units you need beyond physics.</li>
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