<p>I am planning to take a community college course in summer to fullfill a required (for my major) course in UCLA. Do I need to get approval firsty before taking the cc course? I heard about a petition form, not sure if it is about it.</p>
<p>If it’s on assist, you shouldn’t have problems. However, you could always email your department adviser just to make sure.</p>
<p>I’m assuming you’re an incoming freshman.</p>
<p>But if you’re not, you have to make sure that you haven’t reached 105 units by the end of spring. Once you’ve hit that number, you can’t get credit for courses taken at a CC. After 105, you can still go to summer school at any 4-year university or college (assuming the courses are UC-transferable).</p>
<p>No, I am a freshman, not imcoming one tho.
I have not reaced 105 units yet.
I enrolled the CC course (UC transferable and in assit.org) because I can be home and save a lot more money than taking the equivalent one in UCLA summer + living costs.
Do I need to do any paper work to let my department know?</p>
<p>No, I don’t think you need to petition. I believe that as soon as your CC transcript gets processed the course will show up on your DPR and will automatically count toward your major if there is an exact equivalent at UCLA.</p>
<p>You might want to double check with your department first thought just to make sure that the class really is the equivalent. I don’t know much about assist.org and how often it’s updated, but if there have been any recent changes or anything then you don’t want to risk taking a class just to find out that it doesn’t even help.</p>
<p>assist is pretty reliable. The campus uses it as an advising tool so they have articulation officers at the admissions office that are pretty reliable about updates. As long as the course is listed on assist during the quarter you were enrolled in that CC course, then it’s pretty certain it’ll count.</p>
<p>There can be a trick to reading assist for some courses that are part of a sequence. For example, if you’re looking to take a physics course, usually if you take the first semester you’ll get credit for UCLA’s Physics 1A & 4AL, but if you want credit for UCLA’s 1B, 4BL, and 1C, you have to take the CC’s 2nd and 3rd semesters. Sometimes if you only take the 2nd semester on its own, you might not get credit for 1B & 4BL. </p>
<p>What particular UCLA requirement were you hoping to fulfill, and at which CC?</p>