<p><a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/files/ETS11_TAGMatrix.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/files/ETS11_TAGMatrix.pdf</a></p>
<p>I'm taking 11 units right now, 1 unit away from considered a full time student. </p>
<p>For UC Davis, it says "30 semester / 45 quarter; must be enrolled full time spring 2011 fall 2011, exceptions possible for part time."</p>
<p>I made my Spring 2011 schedule before UC Davis made this full time requirement, is there anything I can do? </p>
<p>I have over 40 transferable units completed, a 3.67 GPA and I want to TAG to Davis in September but I think I might be ineligible now because I took 11 units instead of 12 so I'm not considered a full time student currently. I'm worried, thanks.</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>I couldn’t have predicted that UCD would make this stipulation and it’s the only UC that did. Is there any way around it?</p>
<p>It’s a new policy, we really have no way of knowing, but if you call up UCD admissions I would expect them to work with you on this.</p>
<p>The fact that I can only submit 1 TAG now also makes me weary of TAGing to Davis. I think I’ll TAG to Santa Cruz and apply through general admission to Davis.</p>
<p>The worst case scenario is I TAG to Davis and they deny my TAG. What a headache.</p>
<p>I’m not sure about this year, but last year you could waive the full time student requirement if you had a “valid reason”.</p>
<p>You have a really good GPA though, so I’m pretty sure you will get in as a non-TAG applicant.</p>
<p>You might call the UC Davis admissions office, and ask them, if you take at least 13 units this fall to make up for the 11 units this spring, would they average them together when making the TAG decision? Tell them you need to know whether to even bother.</p>
<p>BTW if you come to Davis, get used to taking 13+ units at a time, as you have to average 13 units per quarter (39 units per year) to be in good standing.</p>
<p>Averaging 13 units per quarter at Davis should be no problem at all. That’s equivalent to about 9 units per semester. (Actually more like 8.66666667 but whatever)</p>
<p>That’s not accurate. If you average 13 units per quarter for a full school year (3 quarters), you have earned 39 quarter units. Whereas if you average 13 units per semester for a full school year (2 semesters), you have earned 26 semester units. From the initial assumption that these are equivalent levels of enrolment, there must be a scaling factor (K) which converts semester units to quarter units such that the following equality is true:
26 * K = 39</p>
<p>Solving for the scaling factor (K) reveals that K = 1.5. Since we know that 8.666… semester units is considered equal to 13 quarter units, the actual scaling factor (M) is given by:
8.666… * M = 13</p>
<p>Solving for the actual scaling factor (M) we can see that M = 1.5. Since the initial assumption that 13 units under the quarter system is equivalent enrollment to 13 units under the semester system produced the same theoretical scaling factor K = 1.5 as the actual scaling factor M = 1.5, we can conclude that our assumption was correct: 13 units under the quarter system is equivalent enrollment to 13 units under the semester system.</p>
<p>Put another way, with simpler math: A “unit” (also called a “credit-hour”) generally indicates one hour of lecture time per week, so when you’re taking 13 units you should have about 13 hours of lecture in a week regardless of which system you’re on. The amount of work every week is the same, so the rate at which you cover material is the same. Since you have about 50% more weeks of instruction in a semester than in a quarter, you cover 50% more material in a semester than in a quarter. If a year of material is 100%, we have 33% per quarter over three quarters; or, 33% * 1.50 = 50% per semester over two semesters.</p>
<p>Now, to make it even more complicated, it turns out that a full time student at UC Davis is required to take 12, not 13, minimum units. </p>
<p>“Certification of Full-Time Status. Undergraduate students must carry a study load of at least 12 units (including workload units) each quarter in order to be certified as full-time students for insurance and financial aid purposes or to compete in intercollegiate athletics. Graduate students must carry a study load of at least 12 units each quarter in order to be certified as full-time students.”</p>
<p>From UC Davis’ official site: [UC</a> Davis General Catalog | Course Load & Part-Time Student Status](<a href=“http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog/academicinfo/courseload.html]UC”>http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog/academicinfo/courseload.html)</p>
<p>(Once I’m accepted to UC Davis through general admission) I can take 12 units per quarter and graduate on time within 2 years.</p>
<p>Year 1: 12(1st Quarter), 12(2nd Quarter), 12(3rd Quarter) = 36
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Year 2: 12(1st Quarter), 12(2nd Quarter), 12(3rd Quarter) = 36</p>
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<p>72 Total units</p>
<p>I’m planning on finishing all of the prerequisites for Political Science A.B. Major requirements that are highlighted in the Preparatory Subject Matter outline, except of course for Pol Sci 51, which must be taken at UCD anyways.</p>
<p>I’ll be entering UCD with 24 units completed, and about 49 left for major. I might pick up a minor in English…</p>
<p>The total units for the entire Political Science major is 72-73. If I take 12 units per quarter, that comes out to 3 classes per quarter, which would help maximize my GPA for law school admissions, which I must do because I’m already at a disadvantage coming from a community college.</p>
<p>[UC</a> Davis General Catalog | Political Science Requirements](<a href=“http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog/programs/POL/POLreqt.html]UC”>http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog/programs/POL/POLreqt.html)</p>
<p>However, to maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) for financial aid you must enroll in a minimum of 39 units over the course of a school year. Though 12 units is considered full-time for an individual quarter, those students not planning to take summer classes will need to average 13 units per quarter rather than 12 in order to continue receiving financial aid. ([link](<a href=“http://financialaid.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate/students/SAP.html]link[/url]”>Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP))</a>)</p>
<p>If you take 12 units each quarter but do not take any units in the summer, you will not have maintained SAP for that year and you might have trouble getting financial aid the following year.</p>
<p>Q1 - 12 units, Q2 - 12 units, Q3 - 16 units, problem solved! :D</p>
<p>Or Q3 - 15 units, even. Thereby averaging 13 units per quarter. ;)</p>
<p>I just realized that I’m going to need 180 units to earn a bachelor’s degree from UC Davis. I’ll be transferring in with 65 semester units (97.5 Quarter units). I’ll need to complete 48 more units of Poli Sci classes, and if I pick up a minor in English, that’s 20 more units and brings my grand total to 165.5, so I’ll STILL need 14.5 units completed after I complete a Poli Sci Major and English minor. This is confusing.</p>
<p>Hayward1991: I’ve seen you on this thread before lol. I’m in the same boat as you. I’m overloading with 11 units this summer, and 17 units this fall and 15 units next spring before transfer. I currently have 26 units. I was part time this spring and fall due to family issues. Does anyone have any insight into this? It’s worrying me sick :(</p>