CSU to CC to UCLA

mikemac
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:10:55 +0000

It’s a bit of a tricky question. On the surface you would qualify as a CCC xfer since they say

A CCC transfer student is one who has completed at least 30 semester (45 quarter) UC-transferable units at one or more California community colleges. The last college the student attended in a regular session (fall/spring or fall/winter/spring) before admission to a UC campus must be a California community college.
University of California Counselors

The reason this isn’t a slam-dunk is most of your CCC units were completed in HS. UC makes it clear that a graduating HS student with dual-enrollment credits must apply as a frosh even if they have earned enough CC credits to be considered a college junior. So at least in that circumstance dual enrollment units are treated a bit different than those earned after HS. Perhaps they also do this in counting units to see who qualifies as a CCC xfer.

So to me, there are 2 questions you should contact admissions at LA and San Diego to ask:

1. do you qualify as a CCC transfer?

2. what is the impact of the dual-enrollment courses on how many units you can earn at UC? In other words do they count towards the maximum number of units you can earn at UC (which means you have around 2 years of college left) or are there different rules since they were taken in HS?

Regarding (2) you may want to be done with college as soon as possible and use the dual enrollment units to get there, which you can do. But you might want to be just an ordinary 2nd-year college student and spend 3 years at UC, which is why I suggest asking. Those with lots of AP credit have this option when they xfer after one year, you may too.