<p>One of the reasons I was rejected from some of the UCs, I suspect, was that I had previously attended a 4-year before attending a CC, accumulating over 80 units in the process (though the significant majority of those units are from the CC).</p>
<p>So the purpose of this thread is two-fold:</p>
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<li><p>I'd like to hear of personal anecdotes of people with over 80 units (4-year and CC) that have been admitted to a UC.</p></li>
<li><p>I'd like to be referred to actual documentation regarding unit limitations published by any of the schools.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I don’t understand what you’re saying contradicts one another. If you’re talking about Cal’s L&S requirements, the link you supplied also states that 80+ units in excess from a combination of schools will not be admitted. The exception is that all of the units come from a CC, in which subject credit is granted. The other colleges say that they will “review” the application (on the link your provided), and above states the exact amount of units each college is willing to accept. Could you elaborate?</p>
<p>For Berkeley’s CAS, the UC link says that as long as you have less than 80 units from a 4-year and stay at a CC, it doesn’t matter how many units you have.</p>
<p>On the Berkeley link, you can only have 80+ units if ALL your units come from a CC.</p>
<p>OH. Right, thats the exception. If ALL the coursework comes from a CC, then you are still able to gain admittance because the units are granted as subject credits and not counted towards your units needed to graduate. If there is a mixture, the cap still applies to you. This is a similar policy to what the other UC’s abide by, although with different numbers of units. To sum it up, you’re totally fine if you’ve only ever been at a CC, but if not, you’re in deep water. Make sense?</p>
<p>I have exactly 90 semester units with my CC courses and 4 year stuff. I got accepted to UCI, waitlisted at UCSD, and rejected from UCLA and UCB. There’s hope! It just depends on how many of your 4-year units are deemed transferable by the institution. But if you hit that 90 unit cap, it’s an automatic rejection.</p>
<p>Same boat as TP; I was under the impression that UCB didn’t have a cap (as long as majority units are completed at cc). What’s frustrating is that you don’t really know which classes from your 4 year school is transferrable (no articulated agreement on assist). I don’t think you’ll qualify for tag either.</p>
<p>The only recommendation I have is to apply as soon as possible (my plan at the moment). After calc over the summer I will have all of basic prereq to transfer so I’m just going try everything possible. I prolly even try signing up for tag, however, I think you’re ineligible for tag if you attended a 4 year school (the tag info on site doesn’t mention it but a uc rep told me I couldn’t).</p>
<p>Advices I got on my thread before…
Confused? Call the school. I’ve been postponing on calling, but right after my last final I’m prolly going to call 8~9 different schools.
Confused about your overall gpa (4 year + cc gpa)? Use the online tag application to figure out your gpa.</p>
<p>Keep this thread updated, I’ll try to post any relevant data in the future.</p>
<p>^UCB doesn’t offer a TAG, although they do offer TAP. Also, each school has yet another cap on the amount of mix coursework you can apply to tag with, but I’m relatively sure only SC is the one with a low unit cap. There is a possibility this could be updated later this Summer, but you can check the 2012-2013 TAG information here:</p>
<p>Now, I am wondering if this could be the reason I was rejected…
Did anyone try calling admissions about this or got a response as to why they were rejected???</p>
<p>I hope the policy really does change! Regarding transfer admissions at UCD, the Davis website states “Colleges of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences and Letters and Science have a limit on the number of transferable units that will be accepted. If you have completed 80 semester (120 quarter) units or more of combined UC-transferable community college units and four-year college units, your admission is subject to approval by the dean of your UC Davis major.” </p>
<p>My question is, what does “your admission is subject to approval by the dean of your UC Davis major” mean exactly? Are you lowering your chances of getting in my exceeding the 80 unit cap? Had I known about this so called cap I would have not taken any IGETC classes and would have been at 78 Units instead of 87 by spring 14 bummer</p>
<p>I talked to a UCSB evaluator today, and she basically told me not to worry about about unit limit because it looks as if the policy is going to be enacted in the fall. I still would be a little bit cautious and advise anyone hovering around the 80/90 mark to not feel a sudden urge to take a bunch of P.E. classes without any worry. haha</p>
bummer</p>