So as of right now, I’m in my second year of college at my local CC. For my freshman year, I went to a CSU and realized it wasn’t right for me and wanted to strive for a degree from a UC. I’m so far on track with credits, IGETC, and major classes but my only concern is if my classes taken at CSU will be transferable to a UC. Does anyone know if the UC system is very strict in deciding if courses are transferable or meet the requirements? If this extra info helps, I went to SFSU my first year, DVC now, and I hope to transfer to UCSC. If anyone else has experienced this let me know if the school accepted all CSU classes or only a select few. Any info helps!
What are the class subjects?
Here’s what my experience was like:
-If its a typical course, it will be marked as “transferable” and you will get units for it. Those will all count to your 60 semester units needed. Almost everything here counts.
However, not every course from the CSU will automatically be given subject credit. UC Davis required me to petition every course I wanted for GE credit. I needed the syllabus and course description for this. So far, every petition has worked, even the slightly off the grid classes I took because Davis offers similar ones. It should be a very similar process at UCSC and other UCs.
However!! You can skip this step described above completely by meeting with your CCC counselor and getting your CSU courses transferred over to your DVC transcript. This way you can finish IGETC faster too (if your major uses it. Strongly recommended). That way the UC will look and use the CCC course equivalent for classs you’ve taken to give you credit for those. Your life will be a lot easier.
Does that make sense?
I am currently a business major so many of my classes from CSU were meant for my major. Then the other classes I took were general education classes. If this helps more I took Intro to Astronomy, Calc with Business applications, The logic and psychology of critical thinking, All Power to the People, Intro to Macro econ, Intro to Micro econ, American Lit, Intro to Enviro Science, and Gender Politics and Citizenship at SFSU. I also got A’s and B’s in these classes with no C’s so IM hoping that makes a difference as well.
Most of those sound transferable to me. The only one that is slightly off the beaten track is All Power to the People, but even that sounds transferable. Where you run into issues is if a course is vocational (how to be an entrepreneur, windows OS, graphic design, auto repair, etc). Just make sure to pad a bit over 60 to cover.
When it comes to getting subject credit, just make sure you keep the syllabi for those courses so you can successfully prove they’re transferable in case the UC requires you to do so.
^^^ exactly! People have successfully gotten credit when originally it was rejected by the UC.