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It can.
I had a mix-up with transfer credits that resulted in a terrifying email midway through my first semester on campus: Your admission will be rescinded in 10 days.
After a visit to the L&S Deans, I figured out it was because I had taken Music 8 in the winter quarter (before I started at Cal) and failed it, and chose to take it again spring quarter (while I was at Cal). Because of the fail and desire to repeat, I had called to ask if I could hold on sending my transcripts until the end of the semester. Apparently the "sure" I got didn't mean anything, resulting in that email.
I met with the L&S deans AGAIN and got a retroactive approval for dual-enrollment and a stay on my penalty. So it took 2 visits to the L&S office and a visit to Admissions to get that sorted out, which sucked but was entirely my fault.
You'll find the system can be kind of... arbitrary... sometimes as well. The approval of my English classes for transfer as English department credit required meeting with a professor and justifying why the course I took matched the same at Berkeley. Had I had a less strict professor reviewing my case ("You only wrote one substantive paper? I think three would have been more appropriate."), I might not have had to take Shakespeare AGAIN.
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This is EXACTLY what I'm worried about because I'm a newly transfer admit as well. Cal's "if any little trivial thing doesn't work out well, we'll rescind your admission" mentality really has me on my tippy toes even though I don't have any mistakes on my application, but still, stuff happens and it's scary.
Wait, you had to go through all that to get your English course certified?! Was the course not a transferable course or something? Did it have the CCCT tag when you put it in your application? Because if it's not a course that's already under agreement, then it's understandable that you'd have to get it certified, even though the process is still unnecessarily gruesome. But if that was a transferable course, then that is wrong beyond belief and that's exactly the kind of mix-up I'm worried about.