Eirenarch

I'm at a CCC, I'm applying to transfer for Fall 2008, and if I complete the IGETC I will have 91 UC transferable units before transferring.

I know that the unit cap is not supposed to apply if you are coming from a CCC, so does that mean I claim to be a Junior level applicant (even though I won't have 60-89 units)? I already tried choosing Senior, but then when I tried choosing my major it said every major was closed, so it seems kind of obvious that I have to choose Junior. It's just weird (and suspicious) that it doesn't say anywhere in the application that CCC's are supposed to do things differently. It says to choose Senior if "You will have completed 90 or more semester (135 or more quarter) units of transferable work at a college or university by the time you enroll at UC" and technically that is exactly the category I fall under.

I feel that if I say I will be at a Junior level I will technically be lying. But is that what I'm supposed to do? And why is it that this CCC exemption, which flat out contradicts the rules and instructions given in numerous places, isn't widely advertised (or advertised at all, I've never actually heard of it outside of this forum)?

Thanks for your help.

kenf1234

You can't become a "Senior" at community college, since you can't take any upper division coursework. A senior transfer would be someone who went to a four year university for 3 years, took upper division courses in a major, and then tried to transfer.

Eirenarch

Where is it stated that upper division courses are required to choose Senior? The application (and the instructions for the application, and the UC website) states that a Senior is anyone with over 90 units, and a Junior is anyone with 60-89 units. I've never seen any mention of upper division courses anywhere.

Thomas_

I agree with kenf1234. You can take as many units as you want, but that doesn't necessarily define your status as a junior/senior. The units they're talking about are units that count towards your degree. However, if you take ~120 units of GE at your CCC, this doesn't bring you any closer to your degree than if you had taken only ~60.

A senior is somebody with more than 90 units TOWARDS his degree. The senior transfer is for people who transfer from other universities and who have taken upper-div. courses. CCC transfers are junior-level transfers.

UCD Admissions

A total of 105 quarter (70 semester) transferable units toward a university degree may be earned at a community (two-year) college. Only subject credit will be granted for courses taken in excess of these amounts; from the UC Davis general catalog at UC Davis General Catalog: Transfer Admission . Therefore, you should apply as a junior if your units are only from a CCC since if you have 90 semester units we will give you 70 units towards your degree.