Transferring Courses to UCLA

Why does the transfer credit on my DPR not match what my counselor told me?
The DPR shows the initial UCLA Admissions Office's evaluation of your transfer or AP credit. Any subsequent course credit granted to you on your major has to be hand-entered on your DPR by your counselor. This is somewhat labor-intensive, so it typically will take a few weeks before your DPR is updated. IMPORTANT: Even after your DPR is updated with the transfer credit properly applied to the major, you still may have trouble enrolling directly through URSA for certain courses for which you have transferred in the prerequisites. This is because URSA reads from the UCLA transcript, not from the DPR. If you took the equivalent of LS 2 elsewhere, and you try to enroll in a course for which LS 2 is a prerequisite, URSA can only check whether you took LS 2 at UCLA. It can't know you've been given credit on your DPR. Whenever this situation arises, contact the department of the course in which you want to enroll (for LS 3, for example, this would be the Life Sciences Core office). They will check your DPR to see whether you've taken the equivalent of the prerequisite course, and if so they'll enroll you (whether or not you've been given credit for that course in your major yet).

Can I take a course through Extension?
Don't plan on taking courses through Extension and regular classes at the same time. The College can revoke the units you took at UCLA during that time! Don't risk it! Before enrolling, go to your College counseling unit (College Academic Counseling, AAP, Honors, or Athletics) to request CONCURRENT (at the same time) ENROLLMENT. Please keep in mind that these requests are rarely approved. This term, "concurrent enrollment" should not be confused with the term "concurrent enrollment" that Extension uses to describe enrollment of non-UCLA students in regularly offered UCLA courses. If concurrent enrollment has been approved in advance, you may take regular UCLA classes through UCLA Extension. However, this is up to the instructor, on a space-available basis. You should see the instructor at the first meeting of the class. For information, contact your College counseling unit (College Counseling, AAP, Honors, or Athletics), and the Extension Science and Math Office at 310-825-7093.

Can I take a course at a community college and transfer it to UCLA?
This can be a good option, but remember that you are affected by two rules. One is that once you've accrued 105 units on your DPR from UCLA or any school or college, you receive no unit credit for community college work. Also, you must take 68 of the last 80 units toward your degree at UCLA (the residency rule). Generally, though, these rules do not present a problem when you want to take a community college course, and here's why. Once you have accumulated 105 units of college credit, you will no longer be eligible to receive unit credit from course work done at a community college. You can use community college coursework to satisfy course requirements, though. For example, if you need a class to satisfy a social science GE, you can still take the equivalent course at a community college like SMC, even after you have 105 units on your DPR. The only difference is that while you'll get course credit for taking a Life Science GE, you will not earn any units. This is actually a good thing. Not only will you not be racking up units toward your maximum unit level, but you won't be in violation of the Senior Residency Requirement. Remember: you can't transfer courses for upper division credit from a community college, by definition, except for biochemistry in some cases. Always check first to make sure that the course you plan to take will transfer to UCLA as what you need. The grades won't transfer in (grades only transfer from other UCs). By the way, med schools frown on returning to a community college for science courses once a student has already attended UCLA (except for perhaps calculus or statistics).

How about at another UC in summer?
This is usually fine but watch out for the Residency Rule, which requires you to have a certain number of your courses in your last couple of years at UCLA. Again, check first to make sure that the course will transfer for what you need. The grade DOES transfer from other UC's (the only circumstance in which it does).

How about the Education Abroad Program?
Whether or not EAP courses will apply on the MCDB or Plant Biotechnology majors depends a lot on which country you plan on going to. Check with the MCDB Undergrad Office before you go and we can tell you what will apply.