<p>Berkeley: "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."</p>
<p>UCLA: "For the College of Letters and Science, a student who completed 86 or fewer UC-transferable semester units (130 or fewer transferable quarter units) at a university then transferred to, and remained exclusively at, a community college does not exceed the maximum units allowable for admission."</p>
<p>Now I am almost 100% sure once you have credits from a university you CAN max out on units if you enroll in a ccc, but these quotes seem to indicate otherwise. </p>
<p>Why aren't they the same as UCSB or UCSD which clearly state that they wont accept anyone with "a combination of two-year and four-year institution" units over 90?
Are the policies different?</p>
<p>Thanks for your time and hope the new year is going well!!!</p>
<p>These are very quick questions you can find out directly from the admissions office.</p>
<p>Give them a call or email, saying “I was confused about your transfer credit policy …” and you should have a definite answer by the end of the week (or within 10 minutes if you call).</p>
<p>I feel you might just get even more confused with the plethora of different answers you’ll receive here.</p>
<p>Well I called today and was told I will not max out on units and it doesn’t matter how many community college units I take. My situation is that I took 54 units at a private university and transfered to a community college to save money and work towards transferring to a UC. I feel like I have been told many times once you have 4 year university units you CAN max out (@ 86 for la or 80 for berkeley), but the rep today told me otherwise. Ahhh does anyone know from experience what’s up? Thanks</p>
<p>did u make it clear to the rep that u went to another university before going to CC? call again, ull prolly get someone else, and double-check, it cant hurt.</p>
<p>So I called again today, got a different representative and they said the same thing. Keep in mind this is for ucla only (I don’t know if the policies are different for other schools). According to both reps, even though I went to a 4 year school first, I do not have to worry about unit caps if I stay at only a ccc. Really annoying though, I talked to a ccc counselor today and he said I DO have to worry about staying below a certain amount of units!
Soo… thoughts?</p>
<p>LOL i would wrry, just to be on the safe side, are there any UCLA reps coming to ur school any time soon? or maybe u can email the dean of admissions?</p>
<p>Seriously, this bothers me so much about CC counselors. They tell me the exact opposite of what an admission rep from the UC I’m applying to says, and even when you try telling them what the UC rep said, they don’t believe you, or say they are wrong. It seems the counselors at a CCC should be more informed on these issues, maybe the UC’s should send something out, I don’t know. I just know I am in the same situation, hearing one thing from CCC counselor and another from UC. Just frustrating. OK rant over… Haha.</p>
<p>^all counselors have to go to mandatory informational meetings, where the UCs, and CSUs send reps to talk about each individual school, and stuff like that, so im sure u have someone there that paid attention, go to that one loll.</p>
<p>you won’t hit the unit cap as long as u switched to a CCC before you hit 80 units for UCB and 86 units for UCLA. I had units from UCSB before going to a CCC and had well over 80 units when i transferred. If it wasn’t true, there’s no way i would have gotten into Berkeley and LA. You only max out if you had more than 80/86 units from a four year for UCB/UCLA respectively.</p>
<p>Sigh, a lot of people don’t understand the reasons for this policy.</p>
<p>Here’s the reason why they have a unit cap or a unit minimum.</p>
<p>They don’t want people to transfer to their school, get a nice UCSD/UCLA etc degree when they only needed like 24 units to graduate. </p>
<p>Even if you pass the unit minimum, and I was told this by three important people: My counselor who has transferred many students to UC’s, an admissions officer from UCSD and a transfer counselor from UCLA. What they do, is they choose what units you take and only take 70 semester or 105 quarter units, to ensure you go in as a junior. </p>
<p>My friend had like 120 semester units, because she changed majors from a BA program to a science BS program and required a lot of math and chemistry. She got accepted to UCSD and they just took out all the irrelevant major preparation from her previous major.</p>