<p>Yes my situation was like yours. I was at a Private College, then went to Community College, and then transferred. I found out which classes transferred over once I was already accepted, and was enrolling in classes at UCLA. I remember I used to have the same concerns as you, especially regarding the English requirement. I emailed different UCs and they all basically said the same thing. They wouldn’t confirm if it would transfer or not until I was already enrolled. They just kept referring me to the same old guidelines that are available on the UC transfer website. Which is this:
[University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_adm_reqs.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_adm_reqs.html)
If you look at the guidelines for transfer admissions it doesn’t specify which type of 2 english composition classes, they just state “Two transferable college courses (3 semester or 4–5 quarter units each) in English composition”, and so on for the other requirements. Just so you know, IGETC is a “recommended” path not necessarily a the “required” path into getting in.
Because my private school was an art school, the classes that transferred over and “counted” for my general education where the art history and english courses. Other lower division work like drawing, design, etc also transferred but it was as electives. Prior to being accepted, I did what I advised you to do. I had my private school transcripts sent to the community college I was attending. Once they had received the trancripts, I petitioned(at my CC you had to submit a form for each class) classes that seemed to be the equivalents of classes offered at my community college. I went to my counselor and then found out from him which did end up being “equivalents” and how they would fit into fulfilling my IGETC requirements. Classes that weren’t offered at my CC could still count for general education requirements. I’ll use an example. At my art school, i took an art history department class that was on contemporary art. At my CC, they didn’t have a “contemporary art” class that would be the equivalent to my private school’s class. But because the class is part of “art history” the class counted for the area 3 requirement of IGETC.</p>
<p>-I don’t think the FYF classes will count for any of the areas of IGETC, but they may count as “electives” just like some of my art school “foundation(drawing, design)” classes counted as electives. </p>
<p>-Christianity and Art I think will count for area 3. If its offered through the religion department it will most likely count for the humanities area, if it was offered through art history department, it would count under Art area of area 3.
-Intro to Psych will definitely count. i think abnormal will also count. I don’t know what organization psychology is, it might count as long as it was a lecture class and was a type of class that was similar to intro to psych or abnormal psych in the sense that it’s a “traditional” class and not one of those major requirements that is specific to your major. Intro to Psych and abnormal I believe will count for area 4 of igetc.</p>
<p>-Language and Acquisition seems like one of those classes that might be “too specific” and not “traditional”. It may count as an elective, but won’t count towards IGETC. Information and Research I believe won’t count at all.</p>
<p>-College Algebra should count, as it’s a “typical” math class probably offered by most all schools, including community college. This class should cover area 2, which only requires one 3 unit math college class.</p>
<p>-Materials of Music should count for the Art part of area 3, it sounds like any Music history/studies class that may be offered at a CC</p>
<p>-Expository Writing, should count for one of the 2 english composition courses. My advise to you is to try to get this petitioned asap at your CC, I had taken like 4 english courses(1 composition, and 3 literature)at my private. My counselor at CC seemed iffy on giving me credit for any 2 of my 4 english classes, he only gave me credit for the one english class that specifically had a title that referred to college writing/composition, and that was because he wanted to play it safe. I ended up taking another english class at my CC(even though it probably wasn’t necessary for UC) just because USC required it, and USC was the only school that actually took a look at my classes from my private school and told me that my english class wouldn’t satisfy “their” english requirement. </p>
<p>In regards to your current schedule, you should know if those classes count if they show up as transferring over on the website assist.org like i stated above, your college algebra counts for your math requirement, but it won’t hurt you to take that extra math class because it probably fulfills the “60 transferable units” you need. Fulfilling IGETC alone is less than 60 units in total(i think once you add up all the units required as part of igetc it adds up to something in the 40s?), which means that you would still need to go above the (40s or so units)IGETC requirements to fulfill the 60 units. </p>
<p>Also I hope you have a major in mind that you want to major in, and have looked at what is required for your major in terms of requirements. You can find that information on [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) Some of those major requirements, can count double, both for fulfilling IGETC and your major/department requirements. A lot of transferring out within one year depends on your major/department requirements, availability of classes, and the completion of courses. If your CC hasn’t started, I’d advise you to show up to some back up classes on the first day, to see if professors will add students to the class. It looks like you’d need to take a physical and biological class pretty soon to get that covered.
Also if you took foreign language at high school, you’ll have to submit those high school transcripts to your CC.</p>
<p>Lastly your Community college counselor should be able to help you and get you settled. If he or she seems clueless, go to another counselor, or if your school has a transfer center, where they are suppose to help you with transferring, go there and seek their help instead or in addition to the regular community college counselor.</p>
<p>You can contact the UCs if you want, but they’ll probably end up telling you the exact same thing they told me. They can’t give you a definite answer until once you’re accepted or rejected. If you plan on applying to transfer for fall 2011, i recommend you complete classes in the igetc areas that you know you need to complete, like that of biological and physical sciences, and maybe a second english class, and those of major/deparment requirements. Its going to be impossible to complete 60 units by next spring or summer since you obviously got a late start on enrolling, unless of course you can take alot of units in the spring semester and winter, but i wouldn’t worry about it, aim for completing as many, that might total up to 60 units with the classes from your private school. worst case scenario you’ll get rejeceted, and realize that you won’t be able to transfer into fall 2011. and if that’s the case, it wouldn’t have been any different than had you started igetc from scratch and had opted to wait for 2 years to transfer.</p>