<p>I was accepted to UCLA today--yay. However, I dropped one of the courses I was taking this semester because my professor refused to allow me to make up a midterm (40% of my grade) that I had missed because of my involvement with a school-sponsored extracurricular. This course wasn't a major prerequisite or anything to fulfill IGETC. What this DOES mean is that I'm no longer transferring 62 semester credits from my courses--I'm transferring 59. HOWEVER, I took multiple AP exams in high school--will the credit transferred from those be enough to make up that one extra unit? Or am I totally screwed? Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>ETA: I reported the dropped course to UCLA today. I tried to report it earlier but they said it was too close to the admissions deadline so I had to wait.</p>
<p>This is definitely something that you’ll have to talk to a UCLA rep about. I won’t lie, this sounds extremely serious because UCLA is very strict about those who won’t be able to transfer with 60 units or more.</p>
<p>Maybe your AP classes will fill the gap, maybe not. Call UCLA and work it out with them ASAP.</p>
<p>You can see how many units you get from each AP Exam here, so make sure you get that last 1 unit! At the same time, you might want to report your AP Exam scores to UCLA if you didn’t mention them on the initial application.</p>
<p>What a coincident! I didn’t get into 1-2 planned courses, but I’m still sitting at 62 units.</p>
<p>I don’t think AP credits will count towards your transferable units. From what I can recall, you only get subject credit for them. This is why you need your high school transcripts to prove you took a foreign language instead of having it noted on your CC transcript. Most courses that are noted on a CC transcript have subject and unit credit (i.e. taking another course at another CC and having them noted on a transcript). </p>
<p>I’d still go and see a counselor as others have mentioned, but I’m about 85% positive you won’t get unit credits for them.</p>
<p>@BurntCorpse You get unit credit for AP exams (with scores 3 and above). You can also use them to fulfill IGETC and most schools accept them for major prerequisites. :)</p>
<p>@BurntCorpse I wasn’t counting my AP tests as part of the 59 credits, don’t worry! Those were only the credits I have gotten from the courses I’ve taken at CC. I took 10 AP tests in high school and I’ve used some of them to fulfill IGETC so I hope that’s indicative of them counting for credits to some degree.</p>
<p>Thanks everybody for the advice. I’m going to call a UCLA counselor on Monday but I’ll cross my fingers in the mean time.</p>
<p>@tzeros If you used them to fulfill your IGETC, they count as units. Use the link that ale2194 posted to figure out how many units each exam is worth.</p>
<p>@BurntCorpse
AP credit does DEFINITELY, 100% count towards the 60 transferable units. If it didn’t, I would’ve been rejected by all the UCs immediately, seeing as how I would only have 36 units completed by the end of Spring. The AP exams I took in high school have contributed 36.7 semester units towards the total transferable units I have (72.7 by the end of Spring) and as a result I completed that requirement! </p>
<p>@tzeros
Again, best of luck to you, but I’m very positive towards what will happen if indeed you have some AP exams that aren’t reported yet and can be used to obtain extra units!</p>
<p>It’s totally nothing to color yourself embarrassed over!!! It’s a really minute detail that gets passed over many heads, and honestly I wish they’d make it a little more clearer so we don’t get a bajillion people (including me) wondering and asking about it all the time! I saw that you yourself were accepted to UCLA, CONGRATS!! I hope to see you there this coming fall :)</p>