<p>So far I am 0/2 on UCs transfer from a 4 year(SDSU).</p>
<p>Do CC students get such a major priority that a 4 year stands no chance.</p>
<p>Does it weight that heavy at UCLA?</p>
<p>Do you think it will hurt my chances because I "take too many classes"(in the words of UCSB)</p>
<p>I had 58 units last spring(not eligible to transfer to UC's), I continued to challenge myself taking 10 over summer, 26 in fall, 9 over winter, and 26 in spring. Now I have 103 completed(not including this semester) but I am positive not nearly that many transfer over.</p>
<p>It seems as though I am getting screwed, I had too little now I have too many.</p>
<p>I am not feeling confident about UCLA or UCB anymore, but I do have alot of new information for an appeal, and I hope also I can bring up the point that my unit totals shouldnt hurt me. (UCD and UCSB specifically said I was not accepted because of my plethora of classes and my senior level standing-and I am from a 4 year)</p>
<p>I think you are pretty much out of luck. CC students do get a higher priority than CSU students. Finish your degree at SDSU and go to a UC for a graduate degree. With 103 completed unit for a CSU, you are not even in the transfer equation for UC.</p>
<p>what I just don't get is that the limit restricitions effectively block people like from applying to UCB. Under 60 units one year, over 86 or 89 whatever the cap is the next year. Its like asking an alcoholic to stop drinking, I'm not going to stop taking classes.</p>
<p>After looking up some UCLA stats, there is no cap restriction except "very few senior transfers are accepted". This is my 3rd semester in college, is it really my fault I am considered a transfer....but some of there majors have an avg. # of units for applicants over 100, different than UCB.</p>
<p>Well...seems to me that taking so many classes is a sign that the work is not challenging enough - which is a good academic reason to want to transfer, in my book.</p>
<p>IF I do have to appeal, I will bring up that my only C has since been changed to an A. I had a major back injury this summer which has made it nearly impossible to sit and stand for long periods of times, but I have fought the pain and received 16 A's and 1 B since the injury. I have also been added to the Dean's List since I last applied.</p>
<p>I don't think it is enough. As a CSU student with lots of units, your priority into the UC system is at the bottom. Good luck and hope you get in.</p>
<p>Hmm. Sorry if I hi-jack this thread, but if you do well like say get a 3.8 GPA and above in SDSU and NOT have your actual major at SDSU (say like architecture or something :P <--- that's...me....), would that be grounds for an appeal?</p>
<p>I actually don't want to go to community college despite the good percentage that are admitted to UC for personal reasons.</p>
<p>I'm not saying it's necessarily fair or logical. Life is not fair or logical. However, you need to understand the system. CC students MUST transfer to a UC or CSU or they cannot earn a four year degree. You are already at a four-year-degree granting institution. So they have transfer priority. Obviously, there is incredible competition for spots at UCB. So it is almost impossible for a CSU (or even a UC student) to transfer to UCB.</p>
<p>Even if you did want to go to community college now it would be too late. They would consider you a 4 year transfer if you have ANY units from a 4 year university.</p>
<p>For community college transfers, Berkeley takes a maximum of 70 units no matter how many you have, allowing plenty of leeway for finishing your degree after transfer. As a 4 year transfer, they would take all of your units, meaning that you would hit the unit cap almost instantly. That's way they're telling you that you have too many units.</p>
<p>kara- i don't know who you are talking to..but when my situation occured I was a 2year in college. The difference between too few and too may units for UCB is a mere 27 or 28, that means that the avg of 15 units a semester would make you ineligible....</p>
<p>and taking 70 units is not the same as that maximum you can have to transfer...please don't post if you know nothing about the topic.</p>
<p>Uh, I might have misinterpreted your specific story but what I said was true. You don't have to be rude-- I was just trying to help.</p>
<p>It was you that said you were from a 4 year. If you have units from a 4 year, they will not cap them in the same way they do community college units.</p>
<p>I'm sorry if you somehow find my advice offensive.</p>
<p>what are you suppose to do- sit out a semester so you will be elligibile to a school that still proabbly wont except you...</p>
<p>its easy for you to say stop taking units- but lets be honest, if I took 4 classes a semester (the typical college load) UC would have made me inelligbile.</p>
<p>The only way I had a remote chance is if i dropped to a part time student...just hoping I could get in.</p>
<p>Seems counterproductive to spend years in college taking minimal classes- with the hope of getting accepted, because when you get rejected....like the other 95% of 4 year students- you just waisted a year of your college courses.</p>
<p>You don't have to sit out a semester but c'mon. Why take classes during summer and winter-intersession? And 26 units in spring and fall semester? That's like 5 classes that are 5 units each. Ease up a little bit.</p>
<p>I transferred over from a 4 year university. I took the regular amount of units. NEVER took summer school. (Why take summer school? I realize its hard for some people to loaf around for the summer, but why not try to work, volunteer, do something besides school. I never understood people's obsession with summer school.) So yeah, its easy for me to say that a person should control how many units they take because I did it and it was easy. But your situation may vary. If you love school so much that you load up on units, then it may eat you up inside.</p>