UCLA High Unit Transfer?

Hi everyone, so this is my third year at my CCC and I will have completed over 90 units after this fall semester. I took a couple of courses this fall to raise my GPA. I am a psych major and my current GPA is 3.62. By the time I’m done after this semester, it will be a 3.78.

I’ve read in an online handbook for UC transfees that ucla doesn’t accept high unit juniors (max is 85.6 I think?) and I’ve surpassed that. I wanted to ask if it’s still possible for me to transfer despite my units?

Over the summer, I was enrolled in UCLA’s SITE PLUS program where you take an upper division course (I got an A!). I talked with a UCLA admissions officer over the time (as the program had admissions officers talk to us). He said the high unit transfer thing is only for those who have taken courses at another 4 year university?

He mentioned that they’ve accepted students with 100+ CC units before? And that I should be fine. However, I did take one upper division course, which was part of the site plus program (Chicano studies), and I don’t know if that’ll affect me.

I just wanted to make sure what he said was correct. Has anyone here transferred to UCLA with 85+ units before?

That only applies if you have upper division (junior/senior) courses. CCCs are all freshman/sophomore level. Worst case scenario it caps at 70 transferable semester units, with subject credit for the rest. You are not in jeopardy of reaching the unit ceiling. So whatever your total CCC count is you would add the UCLA units. It will never be more than 70+UCLA

The amount of misinformation on this subject is nuts, and is misleading a lot of people. This is actually a really simple topic, and here’s the breakdown:

The only way you can have issues with having too many courses/credits is if you’ve taken more than 10, 16.5, or 20 semester units of upper division coursework that is UC-transferable.

The UC Quick Reference Guide for Counselors (page 32-33 at http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/quick-reference-2018.pdf) explains this in exact detail. Only UC-transferable credits count towards this maximum, and even if you had 200 semester units of lower division coursework, even with most at a four-year institution, you still cannot exceed 70 semester units of lower division coursework that count towards this maximum. Thus to exceed the 80, 86.5 or 90 semester unit maximum, you need 10, 16.5, or 20 semester units of upper division coursework.

If your capped lower division + upper division coursework exceed 80, 86.5 or 90 semester units, the chart in the PDF will indicate how each campus will deal with your situation.

Keep in mind that some schools in some campuses have exceptions. For example, the School of Engineering at Davis does not enforce any maximum limitations.

There is a 2nd way. After the 70 semester unit cap they add on any units earned at a UC campus. So someone attending a UC for a year, deciding it isn’t right for them, then completing 2 more years at a CC is in danger of hitting the limit. See http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/Transfer_Credit_Practice.pdf