<p>(This may be a stupid question.) Generally, will UCs count university credits towards major prerequisites if I'm transferring from a CC? </p>
<p>Say if I took "Intro to Social Anthrpology" and "Intro to Archaeology" at an OOS 4-year, would they articulate towards UCB/UCLA's anthropology requirements or would I have to retake them at my CC? </p>
<p>Hoping someone can help me out. :)</p>
<p>That is not a stupid question. My guess is that you should not have to repeat those courses at CC. My dau is transferring to UC with a mixed transcript (4 yr OOS + comm coll. ) The UC would not offer an evaluation of her OOS transcript in advance of applying. You could check with your CC counselor. My dau plans to petition for major articulation credit when she meets with her UC advisor. She will provide the counselor print-outs of the course descriptions from the OOS along with the course descriptions of the similar UC courses. I hope it works. Perhaps other CCr’s have some experience with this?</p>
<p>The trouble with this is that UCLA, at least, won’t evaluate the transferability of units unless the student is admitted. That makes this a very good question: how does one know if an an out-of-state course will satisfy a major prerequisite requirement for admissions purposes?</p>
<p>Most four-year classes will ultimately be accepted if the student is admitted, but how does a student get admitted if UC won’t decide if the units satisfy requirements until after admission?</p>
<p>The other factor is grades—if you have a C in a class that is ultimately non-UC transferrable, does it hurt your chances of admission? If you take a non-UC class at a CCC it doesn’t factor in to your UC GPA for admissions purposes. It would suck if, say, your A in intermediate algebra at a CCC didn’t count, but your C in pre-algebra at an OOS school did count—until after admission, when they decide not to transfer the units.</p>
<p>The safest route is just to start over at a CCC. It sucks, I know, but at least you’ll know for sure. Your OOS units will, at least, transfer as elective credit, I’d think, but only after admission.</p>
<p>Have your OOS university transcripts evaluated by your CCC. It takes a longggg time so get them in ASAP. Try to include your OOS university handbook for that year or at least include a print out of the page on the handbook. From there, your CCC will tell you what will be equivalent to their courses and what won’t. If you think something isn’t right, try to petition it. </p>
<p>(Coming from my cousin’s experience, she’s now at Cal. Without her private university, she would have had to take English Lang/Comp over at the CCC…-.-)</p>
<p>Good luck to you!</p>
<p>How would the CC’s evaluation help with UC admissions? With an AA/AS, sure, but you’re supposed to list the classes as they are on the original institution’s transcript, and the CCC won’t include any transferred classes on their transcripts, AFAIK.</p>
<p>I mean it can’t hurt to have the CCC evaluate them, but I don’t think UC will have access to the evaluation in the admissions process, and even if they did, I’m not sure they’d accept another institution’s evaluation.</p>
<p>Because then they/you will be able to see if they are CCCT to the UC. Again, this is basing it on my cousins experience who went through the evaluation process. Cal actually made her fill out this form to make sure it was UC equivalent (the english courses) and her CCC English professor (who was also the Department Chair) filled it out because she told the evaluators that they were equivalent. Everything worked out for her!</p>
<p>Edit: Also, it covered some of her pre-reqs for the Psychology major.^^</p>
<p>Good points by posters above.
My dau, like Yunie’s cousin, had her gen ed requirement for UC composition signed off for the IGETC form by the CC counselor --she’d completed it at an OOS. The critical thinking/writing req has to be done at CC.
When you fill out your app for UC, you will have a chance to list the courses you’ve taken at each institution. I think the UC evaluations will/should take those OOS courses into account for your major. </p>
<p>Also, you might see if your CC has regularly scheduled visits from UC reps set up by the CC transfer center. You may be able to make an appt with the UC rep. to discuss.</p>
<p>It might not hurt to ask a CC counselor these questions–they’re overloaded but they see this stuff all the time. At a minimum, you may be able to use your OOS anthro or archeo classes to fulfill some of the science requirements for IGETC if you are pursuing that, and maybe the courses will also satisfy the major prereq requirement for UC. As an example, Econ at CC will satisy the IGETC requirement for one of the social science areas and also apply as a prereq ECON major at UC. In theory, if the CC counselor signs off on the OOS course for IGETC, they’re saying it has an equivalent at CC. If there is an equivalent at CC, then it’s likely UC will accept it as such.
Best of luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the great answers. I had no idea CCs could evaluate OOS classes. I’ll be submitting my transcript to them tomorrow.</p>
<p>Thanks again! :)</p>