Help! Too many credits?

Marshall
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:40:36 +0000

Hi everyone, let me explain my situation.

I first went to school at DeVry “University” (laugh, I know) from 2005 to 2006. I accrued about 42 semester units. I realized I was wasting my time and decided I wanted to go to a real school, so I dropped out and started attending a community college. At the time I was under the impression that a UC wouldn’t even acknowledge the fact I would have went to Devry. I even re-took the general ed classes I had taken in devry, like engl101 and college algebra. From 2006 fall to now I’ve amassed about 62 units and I’m preparing to transfer to UCI or UCSC in the winter of 09.

I’m reading now that they want me to list ALL schools I’ve attended, no matter what. The problem is, UCs won’t accept transfers with more than 98 semester units. But I’ve got 104!

What exactly is going to happen when they see 42 more units worth of courses on my application? Should I even list a school like devry on my app?

If they do accept me, will they even want to look at my devry transcripts (I don’t think anything would transfer since their accreditation is not of the normal west coast kind). I should note I had a 3.98 GPA there, so nothing to sweat about that. But I also got into an argument with devry over a financial issue, and I’m not even sure they’d relinquish my transcripts.

I’m really ****ed I ever bothered going there – what a waste of a year of my life, and now its even coming back to haunt me. Any help would really be appreciated. I’ll be sitting here refreshing this thread every 30 seconds while sweating.