Transfer or First year? UC

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Once you have taken college courses after the summer after high school graduation, UC wants you to take the transfer pathway. This means that you need to take enough college course work so that you will have at least 60 semester units by the time you transfer. Plan to take about two years worth of courses at community college before transferring to UC (you will apply during the year you will complete the 60 semester units with needed course requirements).

See the following:
https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/transfer-requirements/

UC Transfer FAQs, Part 1

I transferred to Berkeley from a CCC, but not without a few bumps in the road with misinformation from advisors, so I sympathize with the struggle and hope these guidelines help clarify part of the process. Note that these are the *general rules/i. What are the main requirements if you hope to transfer to a UC? These are the main components: You must have 60 semester/90 quarter transferable units completed by the final spring before UC enrollment. You do not need the 60/90 to apply during the previous fall enrollment period (the month of November). A top criteria will be your GPA and the completion of the major requirements at each UC. You can find these requirements by going to assist.org and entering your California Community College (CCC), the UC and your major. There are, at minimum, three general ed courses that need to be completed: two English composition courses and one quantitative math. However these are merely the minimum requirements so you don’t get booted to the c…

https://www.assist.org