<p>I went OOS CC -> CCC -> UCB EECS</p>
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<li><p>If you’re currently attending a CCC, you should get CCC priority.</p></li>
<li><p>Make sure you’re taking steps to gain residency while you’re at CC (financial independence, physical presence, intent to stay) so you’ll have instate tuition, OOS tuition is crazy expensive.</p></li>
<li><p>I wouldn’t recommend retaking <em>everything</em>, just the ones you don’t think will articulate. The bad news is that you won’t know official articulations for OOS coursework until after you SIR, but the good news is math/physics classes are pretty easy to guess. For example, if you took Calc 1 at your other school, there’s a pretty good chance it’ll count for the Calc 1 requirement at your UC. If it’s not too late, save a copy of your class syllabuses in case you need them for getting coursework evaluated.</p></li>
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<p>In my experience Cal (specifically College of Engineering) was pretty generous with my OOS coursework. Some classes I knew wouldn’t articulate (CS classes and discrete math are nearly impossible) but for most of the others they gave me credit, including misc. humanities I took and my math/physics pre-reqs. If you’ve got PE credits or underwater basket weaving you might need to worry, but otherwise assume it’ll transfer. And it sounds like you don’t need to worry about having enough units anyways.</p>