@fncrane and others . If there are courses showing up and they are not giving you credit for them here’s what I suggest. First you want to call admissions to find out if the report has been finalized or if it’s still pending. If they tell you that it has been finalized and this is where you stand, then you will need to reach out to your advisers. If it is a course that is for your major you will need to talk to your department advisor, and if it’s of course that’s not part of your major, then you’ll need to talk to your academic advisor. There are petitions that you would need to complete in order to petition to have the course count. With the petition you would submit your course description and the syllabi. Also if you have any documentation that states that you were promised Equivalent credit, then you would attach that to the petition as well.
Petitions are viewed once per week when they are submitted to your academic advisor. There’s a board that meets and they review all petitions. If it’s your department advisor, then they would typically forward your request to the appropriate person in the department who makes the final decision. But in the case of your department advisor the process may be less formal. In sociology for example,I would just email the advisor, attach the necessary documents to the email, and then she would take it from there.
In any event, I wouldn’t panic about it. Every petition I’ve submitted to have credit granted was successful. So they are looking to help you not hurt you.
@luckie1367 there are different possible outcomes from the petition. The petition could give you equivalent credit to an identical course at UCLA. Or it could just give you unit credit for the course. Or it could give you subject credit, but not specific to a course. So I received sociology elective credit for two courses, but they were not equivalent to anything at UCLA. But it did work towards my upper division unit requirement for my sociology course work.
When you look at your completed Dars, it will show what courses you’ve taken and the equivalent courses at UCLA. If they are transferable courses from a CCC, it will typically give you an equivalent course. If it’s a cores from a different for your school or an out-of-state school it may read a little differently.
So in the case above where it says gender T10, that means that they are giving him/ her transfer credit for having completed gender studies 10.
I have a slight question about this as well. My dars thing shows that some of my computer science classes seem to transfer as classes I’ve never heard of/seen in the current course offerings like COM SCIT 12 while assist said some of my co sci classes would cover ucla’s CS 31 and CS 32 (I plan to get a specialization in computing if not the joint ling&cs major I want). Would UCLA go by what’s on the dars or assist?
@FUTUREUCLABRUIN1 what do you plan to bring to precession?? Im trying to plan what to bring since I guess we’ll be lugging around our overnight bags all day i assume
Just talked to admissions office, they said some of the coursework might still not be finalized because I haven’t attended orientation yet. Lol. Hope this doesn’t affect the courses I’ll be able to register for next week.
Hey @2016Candles or @Cayton (or anyone else if you know), is there a maximum amount of units that they’ll let you enroll in at Orientation? For example, if I wanted to enroll in 16 units (but drop a course once they start and only have 12 units), will I be able to?
@luckie1367 you are only allowed to enroll in three courses during orientation. Typically two major courses and one nonmajor of course. I think you would be able to enroll in the fourth class only after the last orientation session has ended. But I’m not sure about that part.
@luckie1367 I was planning on doing the same thing. Park in lot 2 and save money. The lady at parking services said we’re not allowed to do that but she said to move our car to a different spot in the morning. So park on Sunday in one spot, and walk back down Monday morning and park in a different spot.
