<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/493469-how-many-units-do-people-usually-take-quarter-ucs-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/493469-how-many-units-do-people-usually-take-quarter-ucs-2.html</a></p>
<p>According to the link above, cc students may take 105 units that will calculate into their UC gpa of 180 units. So, 75 units is the minimum that must be completed at UC. Is this true?</p>
<p>That’s about right, the unit cap is usually around 200 anyways for non-science/engineering anyways.</p>
<p>I think you have it wrong. </p>
<p>UCs will take a maximum of 90 UC-transferable semester units (minimum of 60 I believe) from your CC. Anything above 90 doesn’t get calculated. 90 semester units = 135 quarter units. So theoretically, you only need 45 UC quarter units to graduate. However, that will never happen in practice because your CC won’t offer the necessary upper-division courses to graduate.</p>
<p>Take me for example: I have well above 90 units, but they’re all from a CC so it doesn’t matter. UCSD is only taking 90 of them. I need approximately 65 quarter units worth of classes for my major in order to graduate. 90 semester = 135 quarter, + 65 upper division for my major = 200 units. </p>
<p>Now, if you go for the minimum at CC and transfer with 60 units, you’ll get to UC with 90 quarter units, and the minimum needed to gradate is 180. So this way, you’ll need to get 90 at your UC to fulfill the requirements. 15 units a quarter x 3 quarters a year = 45 units x 2 years = 90 units + 90 previous from CC = 180 :)</p>
<p>Wrong:</p>
<p>"Limits on Transfer Credits</p>
<p>The University will award graduation credit for up to 70 semester (105 quarter) units of transferable coursework from a community college, meaning those units will be counted toward completion of your degree. Courses in excess of 70 semester (105 quarter) units will not receive unit credit but will receive subject credit and may be used to satisfy University subject requirements."
[University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_info_ccc/tr_planning.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_info_ccc/tr_planning.html)</p>
<p>AP units do not count toward this maximum.</p>
<p>^ Ok, this is what I’ve read before. Thanks Grimes. Not sure what the others were talking about then. I just want to ensure that I don’t need to take far more classes than I need to while at UCSD.</p>
<p>No prob. And I should adjust slightly what I said before. Anything over 90 will count towards your overall transfer GPA, but you won’t take the units with you when you transfer.</p>
<p>So if you have 90 units and take 12 more units with a 4.0, your transfer GPA will go up but you’ll only take 90 of those units with you to your UC.</p>
<p>CC GPA goes away once you’re at the UC. For purposes of scholarships, academic probation and GPA requirements, you have a blank slate. CC grades come back if you go apply grad school though.</p>
<p>when it comes to applying to jobs, you can average CC+UC GPA or just take UC GPA.</p>
<p>@Grimes – I’m glad to hear that, due to money circumstances I’ve mentioned in the other posts, I myself have 99 units and will have about 118 or so (probably will be a little lower some of those are retakes) by the time I’m done with Spring (4 years at a CCC will do that for you), I’ve been wondering how they’d factor those in</p>
<p>Haha yeah I’m all-knowing on these kind of questions. Why? Because I entered CC my sophomore year of high school, which was spring of 2003, and technically I’m still in it. I was around back when the UCSD TAG requirement was only a 2.8 and you had to sign a full on contract a year in advance. I’m a vet to this! haha. I have 127.5 CC units. :|</p>
<p>@xelink: Yeah when I said “take with you” I mean throughout the transfer process. Your slate is clean once you get there, unless you go to grad school or whatever.</p>
<p>Didn’t read the thread, but yes it is possible to start in the fall with more than 105 units.</p>
<p>You can transfer a maximum of 70 semester units, or 70*1.5 = 105 quarter units.
Anything over that you only get course credit, but no units.
Then if you have any APs, they are added on top of the 105.</p>
<p>I completed 74.5 units in my CC, and 16 units from AP. This is what my DPR (like a transcript) looks like:
<a href=“http://imgur.com/tCqov.jpg[/url]”>http://imgur.com/tCqov.jpg</a></p>
<p>I entered UCLA with 121, and took 17 this summer at UCLA. Hence I start as a senior this fall with 138 units, and am set to graduate from UCLA after only 1 year in Spring 2011.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s different for UCLA, but UCSD takes up to 90 semester units, not 70.</p>
<p>UCLA also requires you to take 60 upper division units before you graduate, so entering with an insane amount of units isn’t really beneficial. In my case, the APs just help me fill an 11 quarter unit gap to 180 units after I complete my 60 UD units. So there is a point where the extra units are not very useful, but by all means it is never bad to have too many.</p>
<p>^Mine was basically cause I got stuck with my pell grant at SBCC for 2 years trying to get down there but couldn’t afford it (07-09) so I went to WVC in person from 08 to present but I still have my 40-44 units from SBCC in addition to the crazy amount of credits I have here.</p>
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