Where do I stand oncce I get admitted as freshman at a UC/CSU?

[mikemac]

The UCs regularly hold college fairs so you could talk with an adcom at one of those. You can also call instead of email; for example http://admissions.berkeley.edu/ContactUs

I’m not an expert on this, but here is my understanding…

First, you are still a frosh applicant. That is clear from the page http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/

However once you show up on campus your standing is determined by the number of college units you have, so you may very well be a sophomore or junior.

Next, I doubt IGETC is going to work the way you seem to expect, satisfying breadth requirements at all CSU and UC.

The Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) is a series of courses that California community college students may complete to satisfy the lower-division breadth/general education requirements before transfer to the California State University and some colleges and majors at UC campuses.
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/glossary/igetc.html

My interpretation is that since you are not a transfer student the IGETC promise does not apply to you. Instead you are just a kid showing up with a lot of units that map to whatever ASSIST shows and if they happen to satisfy breadth requirements on a class-by-class basis wherever you enroll that is just good fortune. There is nobody to certify you as having completed IGETC which is the way it normally works for xfer students at their primary CC. Again, just my interpretation here, the final word is up to the CSU/UC systems.

Last, I am at least leery of claims you can spend 4 years at a UC if you so choose. The promise they make is for AP credit

Units granted for AP tests are not counted toward the maximum number of credits required for formal declaration of a major or the maximum number of units a student may accumulate prior to graduation. Students who enter UC with AP credit do not have to declare a major earlier than other students, nor are they required to graduate earlier.
University of California Counselors

You do not have AP credit, you have real college credits. You can’t ignore them since you are required to report all colleges attended, and even if you decide to try and hide them they will find out anyway. The only question remaining is whether the UC has a policy of treating college units taken while in HS as similar to AP with regards to unit caps; if they do then happy days, if not you fall under the unit cap of how long you are allowed to stay enrolled at a UC. IThey don’t seem to address this anywhere on their website that I have found.