Duplication, Limitations, Partial Credit – Oh My!

1. Duplication, Limitations, Partial Credit – Oh My! Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

2. Presentation Content Evaluation Process – using two sample applications Challenging Evaluation Areas Advising Former UC Students More Q & A Resources Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

3. Sample Applications Two sample admission applications Reviewing challenging evaluation issues Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

5. Summary – Application One GPA 3.18 Units 70 semester (105 quarter) Challenging Evaluation Issues • Gap in attendance • Use Psych courses for UC-E and UC-M • Several repeats (including of the same course) • Duplication – accounting courses • Limitations – P.E. activity and Math • Lower Division Unit Limitation Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

7. Summary – Application Two • GPA 2.72 • Units 75.3 semester (113 quarter) • Challenging Evaluation Issues • Gap in attendance • Use +/- grades for CSU Cal Poly SLO • Use AP English for UC-E • Use Psychology for UC-M • Repeated courses at different colleges • Duplication – repeated same course • Limitation – Col Algebra + Precalculus • Lower Division Unit Limitation Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

8. More Challenging Evaluation Issues

9. Duplication Credit for first instance of completing a course with a letter grade of “C, B, A”. If there is a repeat of the same course, with a higher grade, UC will not award credit. Even if the course is completed at a different institution. • e.g. Bio 101 General Biology with a C; repeated with Bio 1A General Biology with an A. Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

10. Gaps in Education History Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

11. Language of Instruction Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

12. TCA Footnotes Footnotes on the UC Transfer Course Agreement (TCA) on ASSIST are instrumental in our evaluation process To determine awarding of transfer credit Calculation of the GPA UC uses To ensure students are not short of units Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

13. Limitations Two similar courses, each is transferable, but if a student takes both, UC will award credit for only one course. • (e.g. College Algebra and Precalculus) Two series of courses, UC will award credit for only one series. • (e.g. Business Calculus & Calculus for science and engineering) Total transferable units will be reduced. Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

14. Partial Credit How much credit will UC award for the 3 courses completed below? 9 units? TCA Footnotes: 1Maximum credit allowed for Poli Sci 101 is one unit if taken after Poli Sci105 or Soc Sci 132; 2No credit for Poli Sci 105 if taken after Poli Sci 101 or Soc Sci 132 3Maximum credit allowed for Soc Sci 132 if taken after Poli Sci 101 or Poli Sci 105 is two units Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

15. Sequential Coursework Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

16. How does UC evaluate an “I” Grade? Check the academic regulations of the institution to determine how to calculate an Incomplete (“I”) grade. At most collegiate institutions, an “I” lapses after one academic year. Check the student’s: academic records, additional comments, personal statement, Transfer Academic Update or contact the student directly for an explanation about the “I” grade. Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

17. Transfer Academic Update (TAU) • Applicants are notified by email to complete the Transfer Academic Update form when their application submission is acknowledged. • Some campuses or specific majors may require additional forms. Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

18. Transfer Academic Update What Happens if the TAU is NOT Submitted? Priority deadline is January 31st Campuses review through March but no guarantee late submissions and/or changes will be reviewed Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

20. Lower Division Unit Maximum Limitation UC awards a maximum of 70 sem/105 qtr units of credit for lower division coursework Subject credit granted to satisfy requirements beyond the maximum units awarded AP, IB, and/or A-Level examination units are not included in the limitation UC units are added to the maximum lower division transfer credit allowed Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

21. Examples of Counting Units Example A: 2 yr + 4 yr + 4 yr Berkeley City College, San Francisco State University with both lower and upper division units, Pepperdine University with only upper division units Example B: 2 yr + UC + 2yr Modesto Jr. College, UC Merced, Oxnard College Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

22. Examples of Counting Units 60sem units Berkeley City College + 24sem units San Francisco State (4 Lower Div units and 20 Upper Div units) + 15sem units Pepperdine Univ (all Upper Div units ) Total = 99sem units Lower Division total is 64 sem (60 BCC + 4 PU) - LD limit not exceeded Add all Upper Division Units Dean’s Review required for some campuses Most campuses will not offer admission Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

23. Examples of Counting Units 76.5sem units Modesto Jr College + 16 sem units UC Merced - All UC units are added + 15sem units Oxnard College Total = 107.5sem units. 21.5 excess lower division units (76.5 MJC + 15 Oxnard = 91.5) 107.5 – 21.5 = 85 sem units Total: 85sem units Dean’s Review required by some campuses Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

24. Ensuring Transfer Success 2014 University of California

25. Former UC Student at a CCC CCC Advisers Should Ask: What was the student’s academic standing at UC? What is the student’s goal: return to the same UC or transfer to a different UC campus? Did the student satisfy the Entry Level Writing Requirement while at UC? Does the student plan to complete IGETC? Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

26. Former UC Student On Academic Probation at UC Ask the student: Are you now or have you ever been on academic probation at UC? If yes, is the desire to: • Return to the former UC campus? • Transfer to a different UC campus? Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

27. Former UC Student Entry Level Writing Requirement If ELWR was not completed and the student is returning to same UC campus it must be completed at that UC campus. If ELWR was not completed and the student is transferring to different UC campus it can be completed at the community college. Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

28. Former UC Student To IGETC or Not Transferring to a different UC Campus • IGETC is acceptable but may not be necessary depending on the major Returning to the same UC Campus • IGETC is not acceptable Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

29. QUESTIONS Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

30. RESOURCES admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/ Guides for Counselors:http://preview.tinyurl.com/UC-Counselors-Guides • Examination Credit (AP/IB/A-Level) • LOTE Graduation Requirement for Campuses • Presenting Yourself on the UC Application – Transfer • Statement of Transfer Credit Practices • Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) • Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) Matrix • Transfer Admission Planner (TAP) • Transfer Matrix • Transfer Maximum Limitation Policy/Chart Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

31. THANK YOU Submit Future Questions to AskUC@ucop.edu Ensuring Transfer Success 2014