65 or 77 units (advice)?

lindyk8
Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:50:55 +0000

@kristyalene

There is no unit cap, meaning you will at least get subject credit for classes over the 60 units.

Here is what I suggest:
Put the extra semester to good use and consider a minor. A minor means adding about 7 classes to your UC requirements once you get accepted.

Search minors at the UCs you are interested in and find one you like that has some lower division requirements you can take at your CCC. You won’t be doing anything with those until after you’re accepted, but then you can petition into the minor with hopefully a couple classes already completed at your CCC.

An added benefit: If you find a minor that has a couple course options that also can be used for your major, you can shave off two more courses, meaning you would only need about 3 extra courses to obtain your minor.

To make sure you understand, you are allowed to cross-use two classes for minor and major, meaning those two classes can be applied to both major and minor. For instance, Comm Studies at UCLA has two upper division course electives in linguistics that will fulfill the CS major. Those two courses also fulfill a linguistics minor.

Do you get what I am saying?