Community College Transfer Help

[captain bhangra]

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I know this is pre-allo, but i know some of you have transferred to 4-year universities from community colleges.
I am applying this fall in business economics as a transfer. I have completed both econ courses, and 1 quarter of calculus (need a second). This past summer i took the first calculus course at a community college which is in the same system (sister colleges) to my regular community college. I am not taking the second quarter calculus class this quarter, but next (Winter 2009). Today I went to the counselor and she told me that I have to take the second quarter calculus class where i took my first calculus course, and not at my regular college because the 4 year to which i transfer wont accept the credit, just because i took the first one there.

Is this true? It doesn't make any sense to me why I would have to do that since both are sister schools.

Some extra info: im at a community college in CA and planning to transfer to a UC

sorry for the bad writing, im just really frustrated as this is not the first time my community college has aggravated me 😡

thanks

 

[TexasPhysician]

I'm not an expert on California or Calculus, but I got into medical school without ever taking the horrid course. Good luck getting the thing to transfer. I had a tough time with some courses transfering myself.

 

[captain bhangra]

thanks man... transferring sucks

anybody else that can help though?

 

[189362]

I had an issue similar to that. I had to take Bio 1 +2 at the same college (cc) for the classes to transfer to a four year, and Im on the complete opp coast.

 

[TexanGirl]

I've heard of this problem. I wouldn't totally trust your counselor, but I wouldn't totally distrust her either. Call up the transfer admissions counselor to the UC you're looking at applying. Generally, these problems exist when a student is transferring from a semester-based school to a quarter-based school, or vice versa, and the number of credit hours between the classes at both schools isn't comparable. (Like a 4-credit intro class at one school being a 3-credit intro class at another). It sounds like you should be OK if your regular school transferred the community college credits using the same, consistent number of credit hours, but I would call the UC just to check for sure.

 

[captain bhangra]

thanks... thats what i figured especially since they are sister schools and both are quarter and the school im transferring to is quarter also

any other help?

 

[suwaifo]

thanks... thats what i figured especially since they are sister schools and both are quarter and the school im transferring to is quarter also

any other help?

I'm from a CCC as well. I have never heard of a school not accepting credit on that factor. Also, my CCC has really bad counselors, so I would take their advice with a grain of salt.

www.assist.org
A CCC student's best friend. If your courses transfer through, there should be no problem at all.

What's a sister school for CCCs? I've never heard of such a system.

 

[captain bhangra]

like 2 schools that are on the same system- not just quarter, but registration, dates, grades.
As in my ID number is the same at one school as it is at the other.

sorry for the confusion

 

[suwaifo]

like 2 schools that are on the same system- not just quarter, but registration, dates, grades.
As in my ID number is the same at one school as it is at the other.

sorry for the confusion

Ok, well I'll tell you what I know before I get banned by brown-nosers.

If both of your schools show up on asisst with their own articulation agreements, you should be fine. If they don't, then it's probably a school policy which you would have to follow in order to have your IGETC marked off. As for the university's accepting it, I don't see a problem with it if the courses are on assist. Also, call the universities or something.

 

[decafplease]

I transferred from a California CC to a UC and I was required to take both of my calculus courses at my CC. I was told, "You finish calculus where you start calculus." But I was transferring from semester to quarter, so that may have been part of it. You need to call the UC and ask the division or college (probably Letters and Sciences, if you're econ) what the deal is. Trust me, you don't want to have to retake all your calculus! 😉

 

[decafplease]

Ok, well I'll tell you what I know before I get banned by brown-nosers.

If both of your schools show up on asisst with their own articulation agreements, you should be fine. If they don't, then it's probably a school policy which you would have to follow in order to have your IGETC marked off. As for the university's accepting it, I don't see a problem with it if the courses are on assist. Also, call the universities or something.

It's not about the courses transferring individually. A lot of schools require you to take the entire series either before or after transferring, but you can't take Calc 1 and then wait to take Calc 2 at the UC. They only accept certain classes as a completed "series." If they don't let you take the first at a CC and the second at a UC, it makes sense that they'd want the same school to be attended for all courses in the series.

 

[suwaifo]

It's not about the courses transferring individually. A lot of schools require you to take the entire series either before or after transferring, but you can't take Calc 1 and then wait to take Calc 2 at the UC. They only accept certain classes as a completed "series." If they don't let you take the first at a CC and the second at a UC, it makes sense that they'd want the same school to be attended for all courses in the series.

UCLA recommends that students take at least 1 semester of organic chemistry before transfer. I'm not planning on going to UCLA, but it's possible to split a series. The problem is, you are unlikely to get accepted into your major if you do this.