<p>Just wondering, does UC's care if I take a math class at different community college. For example I took cal 1, cal 2, and diff equation at one community college but take cal 3 at different community college. Or does UC's want all your math class take at one community college?</p>
<p>I think that the same basic material is taught in Calculus three no matter which CCC, CSU, UC or private university you take it at. If you have a particular UC in mind you might try to find out what textbook they use and go to a CCC that uses the same text. For example, my younger son is thinking of transferring to UC Berkeley as a Physics major so for this fall he is enrolled in Cosumnes River College and one of the reasons is that both schools use “Calculus, Early Transcendentals” by James Stewart for Calculus 1,2,and 3.</p>
<p>As long as they’re all California community colleges it doesn’t matter. I went to several CCCs in my time.</p>
<p>One issue to consider is quarter versus semester system – best to do all quarter or all semester system schools to avoid problems with partial overlap and duplication of course material.</p>
<p>Also (since you are taking math beyond freshman calculus), try to complete all of the sophomore level math courses (multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations) before transferring, because if you transfer to a UC or CSU on a different calendar (quarter versus semester), you could face the same partial overlap and duplication of course material problem.</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter where you take them as long as they’re at a CCC and have been verified on ASSIST.org as UC-transferable. (Even if they’re not transferable, the only thing this means is that you won’t get credit for them.) Rest easy.</p>
<p>I don’t know about math but some series classes like bio, chem and physics have to be completed in the same college. For example if you take general bio 1 and 2 at different colleges, the uc or csu will not accept them because while they teach the same material overall, the schools follow different curriculum during that specific class! I can be certain that goes fOr bio, chem, o chem and physics. Ive met people that had to take the class over because of this problem. If anyone is wondering a good school example would be valley college LACC and Pierce. I have attended all three of them at one time or another. If you choose to do what you do, I would run it by the department head. Better to be safe than sorry!!!'</p>
<p>@eablink</p>
<p>With all due respect, I feel like what you said is kind of unnecessarily alarming to the OP, so I’d like to clear it up. If an assist.org articulation states that the class is transferable on a one to one basis with a UC class, then there should be no problem no matter if they take all their math classes at different schools. </p>
<p>UCs are not allowed to differentiate between community colleges in regards to admittance and the articulation agreements were instituted as a way to deem certain classes as acceptable general education or preparatory coursework in the first place. All CCCs are looked at as equivalent during the application process even though it is obvious that some are overall better than others. Note: there does tend to be a correlation between the better availability of certain classes at a CC with it’s acceptance rate but it is beyond the scope of this question to address that. Anyway, since they are state run schools that are supposed to benefit the COMMUNITY of students in the surrounding area (and since the UCs are also state run systems) they can not give preferential treatment to any certain CCs and therefore they will not look down upon any student that takes classes at a variety of community colleges since they are all equal. Additionally, sometimes going out of your way to complete a class that your school might not offer is necessary.</p>
<p>Though it is true that some classes are only transferable as a distinct sequence, I have personally taken all of my classes (including genchem, bio seq, 4 semesters of math, and physics seq) at 3 different schools and I have had no problem with transferring them. Perhaps your CC only transfers those classes as a sequence but that is not true of all CCs. Just wanted to point that out. </p>
<p>tl;dr As long as the OP follows the articulation agreements and the classes transfer on a one to one basis, there are NO detrimental effects to taking parts of a sequence at different CCs.</p>