Will completing CCC in only one year hurt my UC admissions chances?

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I’ve got a 4.0 GPA, and I’ll have all prerequisites completed by the end of fall semester for Political Science BA. I started my classes at California Community College this last summer. I’ll be applying for UC’s in the coming months for Fall 2022. At the time of them reviewing my application, I will only have completed 40 out of my 60 units, with the remaining 21 to be completed in Spring. Will this hurt admission odds, even if my grades are perfect so far?

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As long as you have 60 or more semester units by Spring 2022 prior to transfer you should be fine. That said, some of the UC’s would prefer that you have the majority of major prep classes completed at time of application which could make you a more competitive applicant.

If you are TAGing to any of the UC’s, then there are completion deadlines for some of the GE courses such as your Math and English requirements so make sure you meet them.

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I appreciate the help. I am not doing TAG because I didn’t have enough credits. All of my general education and major prep requirements will be done at the time of application, including my math and english courses. Luckily political science had very few overall requirements, so I am getting them all done.

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I’m in a very similar situation with 39 credits complete with a 4.0 at end of fall and planning winter and spring courses to hit 60+. From what I can gather, transfer is possibly so long as we hit 60 by end of spring, but I can’t imagine that it doesn’t hurt our chances. I’m waiting for an answer from UCLA admissions on this question as well.

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Hey, I’d really appreciate if you’d share what UCLA said once you hear from them. We just need to hope that the density of our course load is more important to them. I think it might hurt us only because they make recommendations about which courses should be completed by fall. Though it would be odd to penalize kids for working hard. I imagine our situation is preferable to somebody that took 5 years to complete 60 credits. I’m interested to hear what they say!

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