<p>Hiii, so I'm going to a community college next year and I want to transfer to a UC, but I'm not sure where yet and not sure exactly what major (but I know it will be biochemistry/chemistry/cell biology, etc.)
I just had a few questions, I'll be meeting with a counselor soon but I just wanted to ask on CC first to see if I could get some stuff cleared up.
First of all, I wanted to get two A.S. degrees in Biology and Chemistry, which would be about 25 units each, plus about 25 units for G.E. That already puts me at around 75 units, and that doesn't include math or physics, which I would probably take about 40-45 units of...
Is it impossible to transfer with over 100 units? I don't really understand the cutoffs for units and to transfer into these majors it is definitely necessary to take calculus and physics.
I read some posts where people mentioned that about 70-80 units transfer and the rest are "subject credit"... what does that mean? Do you have to retake the classes and how does this affect your ability to get your B.S. on time?
Any answers/links much appreciated, thanks in advance!</p>
<p>If you only go to CaliCC and transfer to UC, there are no cut-off number of units, you can take as many as you desire. They only give you credit for 60-80 of them once you transfer, but if you are taking them just for the knowledge then it’s no biggie. You still get credit for classes you have taken, no retakes, but they only use the limited number of units so that once you transfer you are not liek a super super senior.</p>
<p>Also, why do you want an AA/AS? If you are going to transfer, just go for the gold and get your BS.</p>
<p>Thanks for replying!
I just wanted to get the A.S. to be able to get a higher-paying job while working on getting my B.S.
If all the credits you take are required for the major, how can you have over 100 and not have them all transfer over? Do the general education requirements not matter for the B.S., like are they just for the A.S.?</p>
<p>They just need 60-80 units to allow you to be a transfer, it does not necessarily correspond to the courses you have taken. </p>
<p>To get an AS at a CC you also have to take their required classes that UCs don’t req(such as health or history is req at my school for AA). It just takes a little and energy more time to go that route.</p>
<p>So do they only take the credit for the classes you need to get your B.S.?
For example, would they transfer credit for trig and precalculus, or just for calc I, II, and III?
And the universities don’t need any general ed?</p>
<p>@ calibabe: I think you may be a bit unclear on prereqs at CCC.</p>
<p>If you want two AS’s and need to finish GE requirements, that shouldn’t take 100 units (generally). You can double dip per se. For example, taking Intro to Bio with Lab would satisfy both a course within your major, and also a requirement for the IGETC. You don’t need to take an extra lab or anything to fulfill GE’s. That class will count towards both.</p>
<p>To transfer you need 60 units, IGETC or breadth requirements done, and most (hopefully all) of your major prereqs done with a solid GPA (2.8+) depending on where u want to go.</p>
<p>To answer your question: As long as Trig and Precalc are UC transferrable (varies by CCC), then it would count towards your 60 units. At my school, neither of those courses are transferrable though. Thus, I was left with 2 options: Calc or Stats…I’m not a math guy, so I chose stats and loved it.</p>
<p>It’s important to use assist.org to check which courses are UC transferrable and to see which individual courses articulate from your CCC to the UC of your choice. It varies by UC. For example, I need chem for UCLA (I’m a Psych major), but not for Berkeley. However, I need Cultural Anthro for Berkeley, but not UCLA. Thus, I had to plan my schedule tentatively so that I could meet all of these different requirements for the Psych major at the different UC campuses.</p>
<p>Don’t worry though, alot of them overlap. For example, for the Psych major, Psych 1 is a prereq for all the UC’s I applied to. It also counts toward my 60 units, and is included as part of my GE (in IGETC). </p>
<p>My guess is: To accomplish everything you want to do, it’ll take you about 70-85 units.</p>
<p>You can take as many courses/units at CCC as you want.</p>
<p>I’m going to distinguish between subject credit, and credit that goes towards graduation. </p>
<p>Ok so it varies by UC. However, I’m pretty sure at UCLA you can have 86 units at a CCC count toward graduation, and everything after that is subject credit. Subject credit is generally considered taken prereqs. For example, let’s say you take O chem 1 at a comm. college as your 89-92 units or something, and obviously you’re over the 86 unit limit for graduation at UCLA. However, when you get to UCLA, that O chem class will count as subject credit, and therefore you won’t have to take it again.</p>
<p>Thus, subject credit is useful in that it saves you from having to do that same prereq again…and I dont think many people would want to do O chem again lol. </p>
<p>The graduation credit are all those UC-transferrable units that you accumulated up to a point (such as 86 for UCLA).</p>