<p>Hey guys Transfer chances please :) GPA: as of summer08: 3.90 by fall 08: 3.91
Community College: De Anza
all A's but, A- in Chem 1a, Bio 6a and B in Calculus 1D
Units to be completed: About 110
Major: UCB: Molecular Cell Bio all pre reqs will be completed UCSD: Bioengineering: Biotechnology all but 2 pre reqs will be finished(linear algebra, differential equations) UCLA: Biology all pre reqs will be completed UCI: Bioengineering premedical all but 2 pre reqs will be finished(linear algebra, differential equations) UCD: Bioengineering all but 2 pre reqs will be finished(linear algebra, differential equations)
Extracurricular:
-I was a lab assistant for the biology department at de anza for spring 08
-about 100 Hours volunteering for teaching dance
- tutor for Biology in Fall 08-paid
- high school stuff: FBLA, 300+hours for volunteer tutoring, track and field for 2 years
-indian classical dancer for 10 years</p>
<p>I don't really have that many GE's done.......I will have about 6 or 7 GE classes by spring 09 so I'm a little worried...</p>
<p>The only issue I see with your admission to UC Davis is that linear algebra and differential equations are required courses for admissions into the college of engineering for transfer students. If you plan to apply for fall 2009 you have until the end of spring 2009 to complete any of the required courses you are missing. Sure to use the assist.org site to review all requirements for admissions into the Bio(Medical, Chemistry or Systems) engineering major you are looking into.</p>
<p>^^ Not accurate. I transferred to Cal with 166 units on my transcript. As long as the units are from a cc it doesn’t matter how many you have. They will only count up to 70.</p>
<p>UCI–99% in (super safety)
UCSD–90% in (safety)
UCD–99% in (super safety)
UCLA–80% in (very close to safety)
UCB–70% in (Reach < your chance < safety)</p>
<p>You don’t need to worry at all!
UCB: I got in with the same major, but I have a much lower GPA. You definitely will get in.
UCLA: Biology is pretty competitive here. Try Biochem, it’s a completely diff accetance rate…
For the others… you know it, They all have transfer guarantee stuff!</p>
<p>Units won’t be a problem if you have not taken any upper division courses. It states 90 semester units is the limit because when you have more than 90 units, you are considered Junior but if you haven’t taken any junior class (upper division), you are still beginning to step into a Junior level which means you can begin to transfer to the university and start. </p>
<p>I absolutely agree with CalBear2009, if you have too many units, when you transfer, they just cut off the excessive ones and give you a max limit units. In UCLA, it is 105 quarter units and in Cal it is 70 semester units.</p>
<p>xcaliberse, I don’t know why you keep going around and discouraging people by telling them they won’t be accepted because they have “too many units.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen you give positive advice to anyone here. You need to understand that he can take as many units as he wants in a CC. It’s when you start taking upper division courses (from a four-year college or university) where you might cross the line and enter senior standing and become ineligible to transfer.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think you’re in at all. That is pretty impressive to maintain such a high GPA through all those hardcore science classes.</p>
<p>jk_91, although i agree with you that xcaliberse shouldnt be a pessimist and have a warrant to his/her claims before making them, be realistic. if cc’s intent is to help people and give them a realistic idea of where they stand in the system, how is it legit to just give other readers idealistic feedback? xcaliberse’s is simply giving the person feedback from the “other side” of a “what if” situation. don’t get me wrong - i’m not bashing on college confidential or you in anyway, but if we continue to feed other people with what they want to hear (ex - “oh, you’ll get in!”), it only hurts them more because what happens if it doesnt go that way? i remember i got my hopes up when everyone was telling me i would get into irvine to the point where i considered irvine my “safety” school. but some people warned me i wouldnt get in and not to get my hopes up. it’s because of them that i wasn’t completely crushed when i got rejected by uci. it didnt take me awhile to comprehend my situation as opposed to being hella depressed, and although i got in through appeals, i decided it would be more beneficial for me to go to a community college. </p>
<p>my point here is, as whack as it might sound, xcaliberse is actually helping the original poster by giving him the harsh possibility of his situation. although we might not agree with him or he might be “wrong”, we’ll never know. the system is weird, lol.</p>
<p>If you read my post closely, I wasn’t saying that xcaliberse was giving people nothing to hope for. I’ve seen many of his posts on this forum, and he seems to give the very same advise each time – that you’ll be an auto reject because you have too many units. This is even when people reply to his post telling him that it doesn’t matter how many units you have if you come from a community college. </p>
<p>I don’t get mad when people give realistic advice, because I, too, do the same. It’s when they go around and give false advice and tell people very bluntly that they won’t get in that really bugs me.</p>
<p>i was responding to the claim you made of xcaliberse not “giving positive advice to anyone here.” granted, maybe your intent of the post was that xcaliberse is wrong about the transfer credit and ought to stop giving advice like such. however, when you claim that you never see him giving anyone positive advice, it’s only reasonable for one to assume that you are referring to any advice in general which is what i got from your post. </p>
<p>but second of all, i dont think xcaliberse is completely wrong. i mean, he states 110 credits is the max. if i’m not mistaken, the only statements that counter his statement are calbear2009’s statement of how he had 166 units and kmizzle’s statement of UCLA having a max of 129 quarter units. however, i believe there is a misunderstanding in that xcaliberse is probably referring to 110 credits on the semester scale which seems reasonable while calbear and kmizzle are referring to quarter units. if you have 110 semester credits, that means you spent (assuming you took a max load of 19 semester credits per semester) about 3 years in cc which is way above junior level standing when you only need 60. regardless, kevin101’s statement helped clarify when he contended that if you took upper-division courses, the credit unit limit doesn’t apply. </p>
<p>but essentially, xcaliberse isn’t wrong, he just isn’t completely correct. you can take that many credits, only for the excess credits to be counted towards upper-division courses which is what i believe kevin101 claims. </p>
<p>hey, maybe i’m wrong and misinterpreting this situation. but i hope you dont get any hard feelings from this. i just dont feel like xcaliberse is a bad person, he’s just doing what i feel more people on CC ought to do: contribute even if it is negative. and looking at some of his past posts, xcaliberse isnt wrong on many of things and makes sense on others.</p>
<p>chibi> You are correct. I was referring to quarter units as the OP indicated that he was a DeAnza student (where I received my units). I don’t believe that the UC system has a limit on Lower Division courses a student at a cc can take as these are simply prerequisites for Upper Division. The unit cap occurs at the cc level. Although the UCs will only transfer a certain number of units. Cal is on the semester system and has a max of 70. I’m not sure what the cap for the UCs on the quarter system are.</p>
<p>I don’t think that jk_91 is objecting to xcaliberse injecting a bit of realism into the board. I believe that it is xcaliberse’s lack of finesse that is the issue. Xcaliberse has posted responses such as:</p>
<p>“I can assure you that you have a 0 percent chance”</p>
<p>Exactly. And what bugs me even more about is that he continues to give the same false advice with a sense of arrogance and superiority even after people have told him numerous times that he is wrong. I find it humorous that he does something like that, but at the same time always asks questions looking for help himself.</p>
<p>As far as I know, there is NO unit max that would prohibit CC students to transfer, so your case on the unit max doesn’t even apply.</p>
<p>Sorry to say that you are absolutely wrong.
For UCLA, the maximum units that are transferrable from CCs is 105 quarter units, and the maximum allowed for a BA/BS degree is 216 quarter units and the minimum to graduate is 180 quarter units. </p>
<p>In addition, if you are taking classes at 1st/2nd year level (in another words, all classes are taken at CCs), then you can take as many classes as you want but if you take too many, your max transferable units is still 105 units for UCLA, 70 semester units for Cal etc…However, if you take any upper-dvision level class (most likely outside CCs) and you have more than the maximum allowed transferable units, then you are not eligible to transfer to UCs. Is this clear enough?</p>
<p>Between, I have just graduated from UCLA in June 2008 and from my understanding, they haven’t changed the policy of transferring on the max transferable units.</p>
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…you can take that many credits, only for the excess credits to be counted towards upper-division courses which is what i believe kevin101 claims.
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This is partially wrong, you can take as many units in CCs as you can but the maximum that are transferable will be set by the school (e.g. UCLA limits 105 quarter units, CAL 70 semester units …) and the excess units does NOT apply to any upper division units at all, the units won’t count for anything.</p>
<p>I spoke with a counselor last quarter about just this question. I’m going to have 150+ units when I transfer and I will receive subject credit for all of it, just not towards # units I would need to graduate. Like people have said, each UC has a different # of credits they put a max on for transfers and the amount you have doesn’t have any affect on admissions as long as you have never attended a 4-year school. I think it’s funny there are people saying if you have too many credits from a cc ucla and ucb won’t even look at your application with a “sucks to be you” attitude when they’re completely wrong.</p>
<p>calbear2009, jk_91
I’m not defending xcaliberse in anyway in that I feel he/she ought to have a warrant to his/her claims before making them (something every CC person ought to have even if they have a positive note with their message). </p>
<p>However, if you look to his/her claim that “I can assure you, you have 0 percent…”, it was in response to a student asking to transfer to UC Berkeley as a sophomore from a 4 year university with less than 60 credits. Although the student might not have 0%, I think xcaliberse was exerting to the high possibility that this student wouldnt get in because he/she: 1) was coming from a “prestigious” school that was NOT only out-of-state but not a CC, 2)has less than 60 units from AP scores and credit from another university which probably wouldn’t transfer over, and 3) was applying as a sophomore transfer. Keep in mind, jk_91 makes the following claim after xcaliberse which basically supports him: </p>
<p>“…but it pretty much is impossible if you have less than 60 units as xcaliberse said. Only under very rare circumstances do the UCs accept sophomore transfers, usually only if you were accepted as a freshman out of high school.”</p>
<p>other than that post that xcaliberse made, no one has specifically called out to him/her that he/she was wrong with an exact warrant (like a link or such). so do you blame him/her for making a statement like such. and also, his other posts have been helpful in some way to the board. does one message we think he/she is wrong on and shouldnt be making outweigh the other messages he/she made which have contributed to this board in a positive manner? I mean, he doesn’t seem to be saying - “YOU WONT GET IN BECAUSE OF [insert different reason]” all the time. Sometimes he does give good advice. </p>
<p>kevin101
105 quarter units are 70 semester units. but other than that, thanks for explaining that. i would have ask that question in the future about getting credit for upper-division courses. like, let’s assume i get into UCLA after my one year plan and in the summer, i want to get a head start on my junior year. is it possible for me to take a “upper-division course” at a cc or do i have to take it at UCLA? </p>
<p>and on a totally side note that i hope lightens the mood, i realized i ought to be a lawyer just now since i felt inclined to defend a losing side. lol.</p>