<p>I'm going to be applying to colleges this coming fall, and I was wondering what the workload for biochem and/or chem here is like.</p>
<p>I'm going to have taken ~ 8 AP courses during my junior and senior year while taking 12~15 AP tests throughout my college career (with 4~8 being in Senior year)</p>
<p>I really want to know if I'll be prepared for the workload at UCSD.</p>
<p>Also, I wanted to know if there was a certain number of classes you needed to have per quarter/year or in general to graduate, since I'm really curious to know whether I can graduate in 4 years or less and double major. </p>
<p>My last question is for those double majoring. If you're double majoring, can you tell me what majors you're in and what you think of the workload from both majors?</p>
<p>I will start at SD in the fall. I can tell you, though, that you shouldn’t have ANY problem graduating in 4 years or less if you plan on passing most of those AP tests. You need like 180 units (I think) to graduate and most AP test gives you 8, so you’ll have around 80 units if you can pass alot of your AP tests.</p>
<p>College is a lottttt harder than high school. End of story… it’s sort of hard to explain but nothing really prepares you for your first fall quarter when it feels like a runaway train.</p>
<p>Not trying to scare you, just being realistic. Graduating in 4 years is doable with a double major but you’ll be taking a lot of units every quarter. There are academic advisors at UCSD who help plan this sort of thing out.</p>
<p>Thanks for the headsup on the number of credits and such.
I’m hoping to get a 4 or 5 on the tests I take senior year, so that might help.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the reality check; I know what it’s like at college because I have an older sibling at college right now who’s doing a 5th year, so that kind of spooked me out. </p>
<p>Also, how helpful are the advisers at UCSD? I had a friend at one college have to also do a 5th year because the advisers messed up and forgot to tell him to enroll into a language class.</p>
<p>Units don’t do much if the classes don’t get you out of general GEs. The most your units will do for you is give you an awesome enrollment time. </p>
<p>Honestly speaking, the advisers at UCSD aren’t the best. Google + CC is better at answering questions than they are. While they can be useful, it’s better to do your own research on what you wish to know than to simply ask the advisers. </p>
<p>As far as graduating in 4 years in a double major, it’s possible but it depends on what you’re double majoring in. Each major has a number of required classes that you need. Bio has around 36 or so while majors like vis arts have around 20. Are you thinking about thinking biochem&cell biology or biochem/chem?</p>
<p>I was possibly thinking of doing a chem/biochem, chem/cell biology, or chem/philosophy double, but if I double major in two sciences, is it possible that some classes overlap?</p>
<p>And what classes are included in the general GE’s? are they like english, history, etc? I’m not familiar with the GE’s so I apologize for any mistakes I make.</p>
<p>All the colleges require you take some of writing GEs at UCSD. I strongly recommend that you look up the 6 colleges’ GE requirements before ranking the colleges on your application. Too many ppl picked randomly and regret it=/</p>
<p>no such thing as a true biochem major here, it’s either biochem/chem or biochem/bio depending on which approach you want to take. </p>
<p>your graduation timeline varies with your major, your college’s GE requirements, whether you take non-required classes on the side, and how many classes you’ve already gotten out of the way before coming to UCSD. we can’t give you any kind of accurate estimate without knowing these things, but it’s not that hard to figure it out for yourself. just print out your college’s GE requirements and major classes, look at the prereqs, and get a finish-in-four plan going.</p>
<p>(but if you’re revelle and majoring in biochem/chem i can tell you what my 4-year plan was)</p>