Transferring courses from different colleges in the same district

I’m currently attending three different colleges (California CC) that are all in the same district, so I get one transcript that contains all three colleges. Is it bad if I took Calc 1 and Calc 2 at college#1, then Calc 3 in college#2?

Also, I took Intro to C++ at college#2, and I was planning on taking C++ Data Structures in college#3 since they don’t offer it online at college#2 next semester. But when I look at assist.org for UCI, it lists “Intro to C++ AND C++ Data Structures” as equivalent for I&C SCI 31,32, and 33. Am I supposed to take the data structures class in the same college I took intro to C++ at?

I even took physics 1 at college#1, then physics 2 and 3 at college#2. I’m worried that the UC’s won’t take it or make me retake it since I didn’t do the entire sequence in the same college.

Do the ASSIST.org pages show course to course articulation, or series to series articulation (like for those CS courses you mention)? If course to course, then you can mix and match. If series to series, then you may want to ask the target UCs directly if courses in a series are interchangeable between different colleges in the same district.

Note that different community colleges in the same district do not necessarily offer identical courses. For example, in one community college district, one college has two courses that cover UCI I&C SCI 31, 32, 33, another college needs four courses to cover those UCI courses, and a third college does not have courses or series that cover those UCI courses.

So if it says like MATH 20A = MATH 251 (Calc 1)
then MATH 20B = MATH 252 (Calc 2)
without an “AND”, does this count as a series articulation or course to course?

That would be course to course. If the ASSIST.org pages for all of the community colleges to UCI list course to course, then you can mix and match.

Series to series would be something like “MATH 20A AND MATH 20B = MATH 251 AND MATH 252”. In that case, the expectation is to take the entire series at one community college.

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