Ugh! Sometimes I wish I could have learned of things earlier. I just found out that if you attend a California Community College (or cal-state), and you are at least a 1/2 time student (6 units), you can take courses at the UC (or Cal-State) for the cost of tuition at the Community College. This is soo awesome. If you need to get units from a four year institution because most schools limit the number of units from 2-year schools for transfer units, or you need those upper division courses only offered at the 4-year schools this is one way to do it. All for $24-$30 per unit and you don't have to pay the higher UC fees (student services etc.). Now it is on space available status, but I know there are many classes you can get into in upper division, lower division could be a problem as those are usually full from my experience. Now you are only allowed ONE course at the UC per term, yet this is still an awesome deal and you get the grade on the UC transcipt not the CC. Do you know how much easier school would have gone had I known about this years ago? This could possibly work in other states as well. Say you are taking online courses at a New Mexico CC, maybe they have a cross enrollment agreement with their University and State college systems. There is a "Cross Enrollment" form that needs to be prepared at your home school, and then taken to the host school for registration. Good Luck!
