Hey guys! My friend got into UCLA this fall as a transfer student and he needed answers about his situation:
My friend completed 12 upper division semester units from one of the previous universities he attended and stated them on the UC application. If he adds all the units he completed from all colleges including the 12 upper division units, he will have 82 semester units because he completed more than 70 lower division units (70 lower division units + 12 upper division units = 82 units). However, UCLA admissions told my friend that he will still be capped at 70 semester units. I always thought that if you have more than 70 lower division units completed, then you’ll be capped at 70 units, but if you completed any upper division units, then you could go past the unit cap as long as you didn’t go over the maximum unit limit for UCLA which is 86 semester units.
He also has past coursework with letter grades of D. It’s stated on the UC admissions website that grades of D do transfer over for unit credit but will not be able to satisfy general education or major requirements. UCLA admissions told my friend that the grades of D he has will actually not even transfer for unit credit as well.
For both situations, is UCLA correct on doing this and saying that my friend will only have 70 semester units transferred over and that he will not receive unit credit for the D’s?
Is there a History major here in the thread? I want to know what it’s like. I’ll admit that I’m a little concerned. How many pages of readings do you do a week? How many papers do you write? How long our your papers? I just want to know what the general feeling is. How’s the department overall?
@chorean, I don’t know the situation, but perhaps the 12 UD courses were recalibrated by the UC as LD. They can do that. Or maybe they determined they are non-transferable. Perhaps the D is a non-transferable course?
Also, isn’t it early to know what non-CCC courses are transferable? Didn’t you find out in July, @2016candles? Candles knows more about this than I.
Oh I see. I had no idea that UCLA can view the upper division courses as lower division. The D’s are most likely transferable courses but he won’t know for sure until orientation. If they really are transferable, then what do you think he can do?
Thanks so much for your help again, lindy!
@chorean
Admissions has very little to do with what courses will actually transfer. So if you call admissions and asked the question they are not very knowledgeable. I was repeatedly told by admissions I would be capped at the 70 units, despite how much I protested. When I finally did get all the transferable units most of everything transferred over right away. I had one course that they initially did not want to give me credit for, and I petitioned and got credit. I ended up transferring about 86 semester units over - 18 of which were upper division.
I know it’s hard, but don’t stress over the details. I promise it will work itself out in due time. And you and or your friend will find out A few days before your orientation, what classes transfer and what requirements they fill.
Hey, candles! You transferred 86 units! Nice! That’s the maximum so that’s awesome.
Okay, what you said will be good advice for my friend, thanks so much.
As for the grades of D, would you have any idea?
It’s okay. Like how you said, my friend will find out all his answers at orientation. But we can guess that he will probably transfer in more than 70 semester units because of upper division coursework which is good news for him. I guess his best bet about the D’s is him printing out the part in the UC admissions website about transfer of D’s and unit credit and show it to his counselor at orientation. The reason why it would be great if the D’s do transfer for unit credit for him is because if that’s the case, then he can transfer in 86 units instead of 82 which is the max.
So I’m really considering parking in the neighborhood south of Wilshire for free and just bringing my bike. What do you guys think about cycling to school from there? Anything I should consider? I owned a home in that area and there’s tons of free parking there. On a bike it should only take 5 minutes up Westwood plaza.
Honestly I think bikes are more trouble than they’re worth on campus. There are a lot of people who park in various neighborhoods then hop on a Santa Monica or Culver City bus to get to campus- myself included. It’s just so much easier. We get discounts on passes for those busses- $33/ quarter. The SM busses bring you right to North Campus where most of your classes are. They run so often, you’re not waiting more than 10 mins tops. @fullload
That’s even better, candles. Once again you save the day. I was wondering how biking would go with all that heavy traffic through there, not to mention showing up all sweaty to class, lol.
@2016Candles Why do you say bikes are more trouble than they are worth? I live in lower Westwood south of Wilshire and I was planning on biking for the commute all this time… Interested to hear your perspective.
Much of campus is a bike free zone, so you can’t ride it everywhere. If you decide to go off campus to hang out after class, you’re stuck with your hike even if someone else is driving. I’ve heard of bikes being stolen- not sure how rampant it is, but it happens. Some people bike abd they love it. Others tried it, and decided to do something different.
Hi I just wanted to update about having 60 units to transfer. You guys were right. You cannot make up missing units during the summer. I was able to fill the 60 units with AP credit so it was a mistake on calculation on my part.
Did any of you sign up for that “how to graduate in two years” workshop next week? It’s absolutely perfect. An hour and a half with a counselor and you’ll be able to plan out your full remaining coursework wayyyy before orientation.
Anyone have experience adding classes in foreign languages? I’m taking a Spanish 2 (not IGETC) in summer 06/28-8/07. I was wondering how I would add an intermediate Spanish class (Spanish 4) if I would not have completed the class yet. I’m a Latin American Studies major
I was wondering how biking would go with all that heavy traffic through there, not to mention showing up all sweaty to class, lol.