7 Course Pattern The minimum requirements to be considered for admission to the UC system.
IGETC or Cal-GETC Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) or California General
Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC). IGETC and Cal-GETC are sequences of courses,
certified by the California community colleges, that you complete in order to satisfy
the freshman/sophomore-level general education requirements at UC.
UC Transfer Pathways If you’ve decided on a major but want to keep your UC campus options open, consider
completing a UC Transfer Pathway – a single set of courses you can take to prepare
for your major on any of our nine undergraduate campuses.
AP Credits UC grants credit for all College Board Advanced Placement tests on which a student
scores 3 or higher.
UC Maximum Transfer Credit Limitation Policy This provides guidance for students with a high number of UC-transferrable units to
alert them that there may be some difficulty in the ability of some campuses to offer
them admission.