what exactly is IGETC?

[1150A]

<p>I graduated high school in 2007 and have been going to a community college since then. I'm hoping to transfer to a UC by 2010. I've slowly been trying to fill the requirements to complete the IGETC list, but I'm not exactly sure what will happen when I do complete it?</p>

<p>When I do transfer, what if I am still undecided on a major? Will IGETC guarantee admissions to UCs?</p>

[limelight]

<p>It stands for Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum. It’s basically the GE course requirement required to transfer to a UC.</p>

[yawn]

<p>It’s an acronym.</p>

<p>Huzzah!</p>

[Here_amp_Now]

<p>not necessarily required, but a “perk” nonetheless.</p>

<p>Note that IGETC is one curriculum for the UC and another curriculum for the CSU.</p>

[grey_syntactics]

<p>Actually it is required by UCLA and UC Berkeley. There are some other lower-tier UCs and pre-req-heavy majors that don’t require it.</p>

<p>IGETC does not guarantee you a spot in a UC necessarily. You need to maintain a high GPA. How high also depends on which UC you are aiming for and what major. I think that the most competitive majors are UC Berkeley business admin. and UCLA communications. The average admit GPA for those programs last year was 3.9 and 3.89 respectively.</p>

<p>Lastly, I’m sure that you already pieced this together given what I noted above, but no, you can not enter as an undecided junior. You must declare a major on the application. And hopefully you will have decided on a major well before applying since you need to starting working on completing pre-requisites for the major.</p>

[Here_amp_Now]

<p>where does it say it’s required on UCB’s site?</p>

[grey_syntactics]

<p>I don’t know. I was told by my UCB transfer adviser and everyone in the program was told several times at every meeting I’ve been to. Aside from that, it’s pretty much general knowledge.</p>

[grey_syntactics]

<p>But if you won’t take my or my UCB adviser’s word for it, here it is from the UC website…</p>

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College of Letters and Science</p>

<p>Applicants must complete the required 60 semester units, all college breadth requirements and most, if not all, major prerequisites by the end of the spring term preceding enrollment. Applicants are expected to complete breadth requirements through one of three patterns: 1) L&S requirements in reading and composition, foreign language and quantitative reasoning; 2) the UC Reciprocity Agreement (for students transferring from other UC campuses); or 3) IGETC (for California community college students)

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<p>Can be found here… [University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_criteria/tr_criteria_b.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_criteria/tr_criteria_b.html)</p>

[Here_amp_Now]

<p>Let me redo your bolding</p>

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College of Letters and Science</p>

<p>Applicants must complete the required 60 semester units, all college breadth requirements and most, if not all, major prerequisites by the end of the spring term preceding enrollment. Applicants are expected to complete breadth requirements through one of three patterns: 1) L&S requirements in reading and composition, foreign language and quantitative reasoning; 2) the UC Reciprocity Agreement (for students transferring from other UC campuses); or 3) IGETC (for California community college students)

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<p>I’m not trying to be mean. Don’t take it personally.</p>

<p>Anywho, IGETC is not required.</p>

[chibi_loopi]

<p>IGETC isnt required but it is highly recommended. I have not met one person who didnt do IGETC and got in. </p>

<p>But another thing you should note is that IGETC is only 33/60 semester units. Regardless, IGETC is extremely important to finish before you apply to a UC, as well as your major prereqs. </p>

<p>I got yo back, grey…</p>

[grey_syntactics]

<p>haha, thanks chibi. </p>

<p>Here&Now - Yes I saw the disjunction there. Let me break down my rationale…</p>

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Applicants are expected to complete breadth requirements through one of three patterns: 1) L&S requirements in reading and composition, foreign language and quantitative reasoning;

This is basically IGETC without the social/physical/biological sciences + humanities portion. I would argue that this is more geared toward the high-unit hard-science applicants who are generally advised not to follow the IGETC. This is because they will be taking high-level quantitative reasoning and physical+biological sciences by default, but will still be required to finish college-level composition and a foreign language. Not so much arts/humanities/social sciences.</p>

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2. the UC Reciprocity Agreement (for students transferring from other UC campuses);

This obviously doesn’t apply to the OP who is a CC -> UC applicant.</p>

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or 3) IGETC <a href=“for%20California%20community%20college%20students”>b</a>**

Short of being a hard-science major as explained above, the OP should follow the IGETC. Hence the rightly-placed bold. :)</p>

[Here_amp_Now]

<p>Ok, got it.</p>