Summer Session at Cal, any other UC, or simply Community Colleges?

corona7w · 05-06-2008, 01:51 AM

I am thinking of taking summer school in order to get a head start for my upcoming year in Cal. However, is there a difference, credential wise, between taking summer session in Cal and that in another UC, or even Community College? Are units I get from a CC counted the same as the units from Cal? Also, let's say I do decide to attend summer session in one of the UC (maybe UCLA), will I be able to get financial aid (loan) for that time period? I live in the Los Angeles area, so the cheapest for me is community college<<UCLA<<<<Cal.

foxiechick9 · 05-06-2008, 02:02 AM

i just know if you take it at a CC it doesn't count towards your cal gpa but for grad school it will count

bartleby · 05-06-2008, 02:19 AM

If you take it at a different UC though, it counts towards your UC GPA.

LeftistHominid · 05-06-2008, 02:24 AM

You can only take summer school at
1) Cal or UC Merced
2) A semester-based CSU with a transfer agreement
3) A semester-based CCC with a transfer agreement

kenf1234 · 05-06-2008, 12:13 PM

^^^LeftistHominid, how could that be true? That can't possibly be true. If you took a summer school course at UCLA, it would transfer to Berkeley. They conver the quarter units to semester units on your transcript, the grades transfer and are incorporated into your UC GPA.

LeftistHominid · 05-06-2008, 07:29 PM

You can only take courses at other UCs for breadth, and that would be pointless. Ex. at Cal, general biology is two semesters, at UCLA it is three quarters.

The IB adviser told major classes should not be taken at quarter schools.

kenf1234 · 05-07-2008, 12:39 AM

^^That sounds reasonable, about Bio, but I don't see why taking courses for breadth would be pointless. Instead of taking Astro 10 or whatever at Berkeley, you could take it at UCLA over the summer, I don't see that as pointless.

LeftistHominid · 05-07-2008, 02:50 AM

it is significantly cheaper to go to CC and take your breadth courses there.

mrniphty · 05-09-2008, 02:09 AM

Go to Welcome to ASSIST and look up the CCC class you are thinking about taking. If assist.org says that it is equivalent to one at Cal, you are fine.

Often what happens is that semester-long Cal courses are judged as equivalent to two quarter-long CCC courses, so individual quarter-long CCC classes often don't count for much. (The units still transfer sometimes, though.)

ychonkers · 05-09-2008, 04:22 AM

Take some breadth requirements at community college and get them out of the way. Easy.