<p>Since there isn’t articulation agreements between private schools to UCs, a lot of knowing what will or will not count depends on what your community college will take into consideration for fulfilling the requirements of IGETC certification. If your community college certifies you as having completed IGETC, then you really don’t have anything to worry about.
What you need to do, is go through your Dominican transcripts, look at courses that are equivalent or seem like they’d be equivalent to classes that your community college offers. (ie classes like English Composition, Calculus, Literature, Astronomy, Chemistry, etc) Once you’ve picked them out, go to your CC and petition to have them count for the equivalent of what the CC offers. You should talk to a CC counselor about this. You’ll need to bring your transcripts with you, and possibly the course description/syllabus of the Dominican classes. Your CC will let you know if they accept it or not, and if they don’t accept it then chances are that UCI won’t accept it. After doing this you should know where you stand and how many units from Dominican will count in your 60 unit requirement. It might be all 30, it might be 15 it might 24. In the meanwhile, I’d recommend you take classes that you know you haven’t taken at Dominican and that will still count towards your GE/IGETC requirements. If possible play it safe. and try to take a heavy courseload each semester. Its better to have taken more units and be more sure that you didn’t miss the 60 unit mark than to end up realizing that you missed the mark by 3-6 units. </p>
<p>I remember when I was applying to transfer I used to worry about whether or not I’d be short in units or not because frankly I didn’t know which of my private school units would count or which would not. Surprisingly a lot of my private school units did end up transfer over to my current UC.</p>
<p>Last words of advice, the math and the English requirements are definitely the huge ones you need to have fulfilled.</p>