<p>When units are transferred to a UC, do they give you the amount of units that they set for the class or do they give you the amount of units the class was at your CC?</p>
<p>For example, at UC Berkeley Calculus is worth 4 units. At my CC it was 5 units. How many units do they give you in this case towards your unit requirement for a degree?</p>
<p>IF at CC it’s 5 units, it’ll translate to a 4 unit course. These classes are supposed to be equivalents.</p>
<p>Thanks Philosoup. That’s too bad, I was hoping they would give me credit for the CC value so I could go in there with the max amount of units.</p>
<p>Can anyone else confirm this? I’m basing my schedule for the next 2 years on this.</p>
<p>From what I understand, you are given the quarter-equivalents of your CC units; the equivalent UC classes are just marked as completed. Variation is accounted for by the 105-unit transferable unit cap, otherwise some (or perhaps many) people would be screwed out of many units for no reason.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. I contacted my admissions officer at UC Berkeley and she said that my unit values from my CC will be used. So in my example I gave they would apply 5 units from Calculus.</p>
<p>That’s good because I’ll be starting out with 70 units towards my 120 requirement and I’ll only need to average 12.5 units a semester to graduate in 2 years. Otherwise I would have only had 66, and I would need to average 13.5 units a semester. It just means a little more breathing room.</p>
<p>Ensure the University, college, and major requirements are accounted for; you may end up with more than 120 when you’re done!</p>
<p>Yeah you’re right. I forgot about that. I’ll have way more than 120.</p>
<p>So it’s actually looking more like 15.5 units a semester average to graduate in 4 semesters. :’( RIP sleep.</p>
<p>Add an additional semester and you should be good to go. With the extra semester, you may still be classified as Class of '15; you should have the option of “walking” with the Class of '15 or '16.</p>
<p>That’s good advice. I was hoping on finishing in two years though, and I want to get an internship or work experience next summer so I can’t take classes then. I’ll have to see what everyone else is doing in my position.</p>
<p>15 is the normal number of units per semester.</p>
<p>However, courses with labs or term projects tend to be more work per unit than other courses, so schedule carefully so that you do not have all of your lab or term project courses in the same semester.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that units at Berkeley were not like units at community college. I’ve taken 18 units with Physics, Chem, Engineering, and Calculus at CC and owned that semester, but I didn’t think that was comparable to upper-division level work, so I didn’t want to push it.</p>
<p>But I suppose if 15 is the normal amount of units then I guess it should be manageable.</p>
<p>I’ll look out for lab and term courses, thanks for that.</p>