<p>Recently it was brought to my attention that you can be rejected by having too many units. I will most likely have 90 transferable units by the time I actually transfer. I am anticipating rejection this round because I applied from Rutgers University(I went to CCC for 2.5 years this is my 1st semester at Rutgers). I will have 61 units by the end of this semester but I still have to take 2nd semester of chem, orgo I, bio I and II, 2nd semester of Calc and 2nd semester of physics to complete, which will put me around 85-90. I will have finished my IGETC. I changed my major but still I only took 1 class that didn't count for my IGETC and the prereqs for my major (Microbio) is 50 units. I just don't understand how that is such a disadvantage to admission. I would really think the logical choice would be accept the people that meet the requirements even if they are over 90 and filter out the classes that seem the most unnecessary for their major. Anyone have an incite?</p>
<p>I went to a 4-year university prior to coming to CCC also so I know where you’re coming from. I think there is a sort of limit but I think you won’t necessarily be rejected everywhere. Some colleges will forward the application to the dean of the majors department you’re applying to to review the application. I’m on my phone right now but I’ll try to find the link that I found that information on. If there are any collegeweeklive colleges on in the near future I suggest that you ask on there. But until then all I can say is keep up the research</p>
<p>You can’t go over the limit cap at a Community college, you could take a million units at at CC and still be able to transfer. But, only 70 of those units will be counted towards graduation at the UC you transfer to. There is a cap when you start attending a 4 year though so you’ll have to talk with a counselor at the UC you want to transfer to and see what it is. I doubt you’ll be over it with one semester though. </p>
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<p>Ucla and cal don’t care too much as long as you took less than 80 units at the four year. UCSC, SB, SD won’t even look at your app though. I called yesterday and found that out.</p>
<p>I don’t know what to do… I don’t want to be stuck in rejection every semester. Should I stay at Rutgers since I’m guna go over the cap? Gahhh I need to talk to someone.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if cal poly has a cap?</p>
<p>i will have over 100 units when i graduate from my community college at the end of summer. i have been accepted to UCSB. still waiting to hear back from the others.</p>
<p>my cc says it only takes 60 units to graduate, and they allow you to take 150% of that and get financial aid. so mine cuts off at 99 units. you can still get more, but you have to appeal to the financial aid office each semester.</p>
<p>to my knowledge, universities are the same. i talked to ut dallas and they too have the 150% max. they say it takes 120 to graduate, so you’re allowed to take 180 units before your financial aid cuts off. you can appeal to take more there as well.</p>
<p>some of the UCs (can’t remember which) have said that that they won’t admit you if you have over like 80 units or some crap. not all of the them are like that. i spoke to the head of admissions at berkeley a few months ago and he said they don’t care how many you have, but they will only transfer a certain number of them.</p>
<p>@anexia: This is only apply to community college which has a 70 unit cap, but for 4-year university, it is different. UC will count every unit they took, even the ones that go over 70 units.</p>
<p>@Scienceguy1: Some UCs are strict on preq. courses, but some are not. So, you might not reject from all the UCs you applied. Unfortunately, every UC does has a unit cap for 4-year universities, which is between 80 - 90. My suggestion is, talk to the UC Transfer Admission Counselors before you enroll into the next semester at Rutgers.</p>
<p>I’m going to do that. I’m going to call BU, USC, Cal Poly, UCD, UCLA, and UW on Monday to see if they have a cap on units or if they have a cap and still accept you and just throw out the units that seem the least appropriate. I spoke with UCSB today and they said under no circumstances will they accept someone with over 90 credits and if I complete all the prereqs there I will have gone over the cap. I teared up a little bit tbh. I hate RU I just wanna get out, I feel so damn trapped atm. I don’t understand how socali had 89 and got rejected for having too many… thats scares the living ish out of me.</p>
<p>My only shot at a UC is UCD “The deans of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the College of Letters and Science and the Division of Biological Sciences review applications from students who have 80 or more transferable semester units (120 or more transferable quarter units) of combined baccalaureate institution and community college work. Units earned through AP or IB examinations are counted separately for this purpose; AP and IB units do not put applicants at risk of being denied admission or of having an admissions decision delayed due to a dean’s review. Applicants subject to review will be admitted if a dean’s assessment is that the student is making good progress toward the baccalaureate degree and can complete the degree within the college’s maximum unit limit.” It really seems like thats a just a crap shoot, pretty much sounds like if the dean thinks that you are worthy they’ll take you, in other words it sounds like they throw out a lot of applications this way. </p>
<p>Its just very very risky for me to go back to CCC now because potentially I could end up not being able to go anywhere.</p>
<p>If I were to get into UCSB or UCD this round it would be nothing short of a miracle really… I applied as Microbio with half of the sequences done. I’m considering applying for Winter but that also seem unlikely.</p>
<p>Berkeley’s policy is here:
<a href=“https://students.berkeley.edu/myberkeley/myberkeleyapp.asp?todo=cms&id=89#6[/url]”>https://students.berkeley.edu/myberkeley/myberkeleyapp.asp?todo=cms&id=89#6</a></p>
<p>Other schools differ. However, it does appear to be generally true at UC that applicants who have only attended California community colleges are not subject to unit limits on application, although only 70 semester units or 105 quarter units from community colleges will count toward the 120 semester units or 180 quarter units needed to graduate from UC.</p>
<p>A speculative reason for this limitation is that they may believe that students who are already at or who have been at a four year school have already had a chance to attend a four year school, so they want to give community college students a chance. In addition, applicants with a lot of units from four year schools would likely be unable to fulfill the subject requirements and senior residency requirements while still remaining under the unit or semester caps that exist at UCs to avoid perpetual students taking up space forever.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/files/ETS10_TransferQA_final.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/files/ETS10_TransferQA_final.pdf</a></p>
<p>basically i don’t think any UC cares how many units you have from a community college, because you won’t ever be able to transfer as a senior. most do not admit students with senior status. they only care about how many units you have from a 4-year university. now THAT can disqualify you from admission.</p>
<p>Well people with 90 units usually aren’t seniors in the major. I probably should’ve listened to everyone that told me not to go to RU lol. Though their microbiology program does prepare you way more for the real world it’s just so expensive.</p>