<p>I've heard UCs dont like to accept people who have more than 70 units under their belt, is this true?</p>
<p>I know 60 is the minimum and there is theoretically no cut off in terms of the number of classes you can take (although they stop accepting units at a certain point).</p>
<p>Either way, will having more than 70 units by the time you apply really impact your chances? Anyone in here have well above 70 units and still got into a...more prestigious...UC (Berkeley, LA)?</p>
<p>See, here is the thing about going to college with excessive units. Most of those "extra" units won't end up mattering because they cannot apply to your major (in most cases,like engineering). I noticed that all my upper divisional courses could not be completed at any transfer college, and so I think excessive units would only hurt you if you had units that applied to a specific major (including upper div units) that would put you in a position to graduate way early. </p>
<p>But thats just my thoughts.</p>
<p>I had about 90 semester units and got into Berkeley and UCLA. I think it starts to matter if you have over 60 units at another university.</p>
<p>use the search, there's already a similar thread...where you even posted academic?</p>
<p>oops =/</p>
<p>didn't mean to be repetitive. </p>
<p>i just wondered if there are people in here who got into "top UCs" with way over 60 units, cause a rep from UCLA was making X>70 seem horrible</p>
<p>thanks for replys btw</p>
<p>As long as all the units are at a community college it doesn't matter. However, they will only accept up to 70 units for transfer.</p>
<p>ill have around 80's hopefully it won't hurt...</p>
<p>what??? for some majors in UCLA, engineering, science majors, number of avg units to get accepted is 125,130 quarter units = 80,85 semester units (statistic last year)</p>
<p>I got into Cal last year with about 85 units completed</p>
<p>They took only 70 units though</p>
<p>transferstd, of course for those majors it is expected that the student will have a lot of units due to taking mostly 5-unit math/science courses. Otherwise one should try not to go over 70-75 semester units. I guess that's why it isn't recommended that you do IGETC if you are a science major.</p>
<p>Any sources to back that notion up? AFAIK the reason they don't recommend IGETC for some majors is because they have too many major pre-reqs; you'd be in CC forever if you completed both sequences.</p>
<p>I've read quite a bit of admissions material, and I've seen nothing to suggest that the UCs have any bias against anyone with "too many credits", except in the case where you've taken courses at a four year institution.</p>
<p>I just got my acceptance for social sciences with way over 70 units. If they're all from a cc, it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>okay, let's see. i got rejected form UCLA from UCI and i will have about 130 units by the end of this quarter. thats about over 80 semester units.</p>