Anyone get into Engineering with a few missing prerequisites? (Transfers)

12uctransfer
Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:35:49 +0000

I currently go to UCSC and am transferring to UCSD this fall as a junior transfer. Not sure if what i tell you will help though because I’m a computer engineering major and by the end of this quarter, I will have finished all the lower division prerequisites, but in doing so I didn’t have time to finish my GE’s because as you know there is quite a lot GE’s we have to take and have like 6 left.

I read on the UCSD marshall college website that students who didn’t finish GE’s (IGETC)
•If you did not complete any of the above transfer programs (IGETC, TAG, Recirocity), you are considered an “Articulation” transfer student.
•GE’s for Articulation Transfers:
◦2 six-unit lower-division courses, DOC 2 and DOC 3: “Justice” and “Imagination,” completed after transfer
◦2 four-unit upper-division courses outside your major field of study, including one upper division writing-intensive course
Also from the website:
“Partial IGETC is another possibility, allowing you to clear some of the GE requirements-if you are choosing a major that requires some lower-division coursework once you get to UC San Diego, this may be a good option for you. Partial IGETC certification may be completed after transferring to UC San Diego.”

I’m really looking into this myself because I’m hoping I don’t have to spend more than 2 years there assuming I take classes over the summer.

So in your case, I think you are better off then me if you finish up your GE’s at UCSC and manage to finish your pre-requisites. You’ll have to petition each engineering class though, unless someone before who majored in EE and transferred to UCSD from UCSC petitioned them already prior to you transferring over, in which case it should easily transfer. For examlpe, I spoke with a UCSD engineering advisor and CMPE 16 and CMPE 12, should transfer over because someone before me petioned them and they were approved.

Yeah, these UC-UC transfers are huge headaches if you ask me because there isn’t much info about them besides just speaking with an advisor at UCSD, but I hope its worth it.