unit caps

[CantabilenApathy]

<p>I still don't get unit caps. I'm at a CCC right now, have been for the entire time, plan to transfer Fall 2011. I'll have between 70-80 units at the end of Fall 2010. </p>

<p>I want to take my major prereqs at UCB this summer. Since those units are not from a CCC, will the 80 unit cap apply to me, preventing me from taking classes Spring and Summer 2011? Or since I've always been full time at CCC, and was just a visitor at UCB, can I transfer with unlimited CCC units?</p>

<p>And I heard somewhere that it doesn't matter how many units you apply with, but once you're enrolled only 70 will transfer over. How does this work? Do the others get dropped from our UC transcript/GPA?</p>

<p>Everything I read on UC transfer sites and this forum seems to contradict each other.</p>

[rpicton]

<p>You can transfer up to 70 AP/CCC units. All the rest count for credit, but you don’t get any units. (ex: you have 70 units and take Calc II (5 units). Instead of having 75 units transfer, you only get to transfer 70. However, you can enroll in Calc III at UCB) Any UC-Transferable course, whether or not you have 70 CCC units or 100 CCC units, counts toward your GPA.</p>

<p>What you want to do is try and take your summer courses using your new Student account. That way, you won’t run into the unit cap problem because you’re already enrolled at UC Berkeley.</p>

<p>If you’re worried about the course(s) filling up, you can sign up as a Visitor and a) if you get in, “adjust” them to your new student account or b) if you don’t get in, just drop the course(s) for a full refund minus the deposit.</p>

<p>You might want to see this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/843408-summer-term-2010-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/843408-summer-term-2010-a.html&lt;/a&gt; for more details</p>

[CalBearGuy]

<p>it wouldnt matter, at the time of ur acceptance, the 70 units has already been carried over, so no it would put a unit cap on you.</p>

[CantabilenApathy]

<p>I wouldn’t be transferring till 2011, taking the summer classes 2010, so I would be a visitor.</p>

<p>gah this is so confusing, why have the 80 unit cap if only 70 transfer anyway?</p>

[lakerforever24]

<p>i think i’ll have 69 units. how awesome is that?</p>

[rpicton]

<p>

I wouldn’t be transferring till 2011, taking the summer classes 2010, so I would be a visitor.</p>

<p>gah this is so confusing, why have the 80 unit cap if only 70 transfer anyway?

Ah sorry I misread that. </p>

<p>Here is UC Berkeley’s explanation

College of Letters and Science: A student who has accumulated more than 80 transferable semester units from a four-year institution is considered to have excess units and will not be admitted. A student who has completed 80 or fewer UC-transferable semester units at a four-year university and then transfers to a community college will not accrue excess units and will be considered for admission.
Students who have only attended a community college will be granted subject credit, but not unit credit, for appropriate two-year college coursework taken in excess of the community college 70-unit limit; such subject credit may be used to satisfy/complete requirements.

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[CantabilenApathy]

<p>why isn’t that everywhere?! I swear something much more vague and confusing is on the UC transfer site and all the crap my counselor gives me.</p>

<p>Thanks so much for that</p>

[rpicton]

<p>I’m going to generalize, but counselors aren’t very useful and get paid way too much. The least they can do is tell you about the site they get their info from…
[University</a> of California - Counselors](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ets.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ets.html)
and more: <a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/conferences.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/conferences.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Look under “Counselor Resources”
2 pdfs that are pretty useful are:
<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ETS09/ETS09_TransferQ&A_FINAL.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ETS09/ETS09_TransferQ&A_FINAL.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
This document contains Q&A. I got the information above from it.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ETS09/ETS09_TrMatrix.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ETS09/ETS09_TrMatrix.pdf&lt;/a&gt; In this document you’ll read a summary of “UC Campus Policies and Procedures for Evaluating California Community College Applicants”
Some interesting things to note is that UCSD, UCD, UCSC, and UCR don’t even read the personal statement. (page 5 of this pdf)</p>

[CantabilenApathy]

<p>wow thanks, those are so much more helpful than all of the pamphlets I’ve seen, and that’s really interesting about the personal statement.</p>

<p>seriously I’m about to sue everybody at the counseling office. and the people who print useless information on colored paper and post them all over campus.</p>

[Cupertinotransfr]

<p>I generally know more about transferring to a UC than the counselors at my school. They are morons.</p>