UC transfer guides
The rules that decide UC transfer admission, each checked against UC’s own pages and linked to them.
Checked against official UC and campus sources in October 2026.
All guides
- UC transfer deadlines for fall 2027
Every date in the fall 2027 UC transfer cycle: TAG filing, the November 30 application deadline, the Transfer Academic Update, decisions, SIR and final transcripts.
- The Transfer Academic Update
What the UC Transfer Academic Update is, why every transfer applicant must submit it by January 31, and what to report.
- The UC 7-course pattern
The seven courses every UC transfer applicant needs: two English composition, one math and four breadth courses, all with a C or better by spring.
- Cal-GETC and IGETC for UC transfer
Cal-GETC replaced IGETC for students who start college in fall 2025. What changed, when UC requires it, and which programs don’t accept it.
- UC personal insight questions for transfers
Transfer applicants answer four UC personal insight questions of 350 words each: one required question about the major and three of seven others.
- How to keep your UC transfer offer
UC transfer offers are provisional. The conditions of admission, the mistakes that get offers cancelled, and the dates to meet.
- Alternate majors and major changes at UC
How each UC campus treats your first-choice and alternate majors, and when you can still change your major after applying.
- W grades, retakes and unit limits
How UC treats withdrawals, repeated courses, Pass/No Pass, AP credit and excess units for transfer applicants.
- UC transfer programs that give priority
TAG, UCLA TAP, the UCLA ADT pilot, UC San Diego UniversityLink and UC Irvine Honors to Honors, with who qualifies and what each gives.