<p>I'm going into EECS next year, but due to being so far out of state (Maryland), I am not able to go to CalSO, and so I'm really trying to plan ahead when it comes to my schedule for next year.</p>
<p>Here is what I know I am going to take:
CS61A (first semester)
CS61B (second semester)
Physics 7A (first semester)</p>
<p>So, it doesn't really look like I know a lot about what I am going to take next year. Here's my conflicts:</p>
<p>I just completed Calc BC at my school (which is the combined AP curriculum and some multivariate calc). I am fairly confident I'll be fine without taking 1A (as I got a 5 and I think I knew everything pretty well), but I'm not too sure about 1B. I just took the test for it, and I think I had a good grasp of the material, but when looking at the tests from that class, I can see that there's quite a bit of material we didn't cover (including proofs and second-order differential equations). Thus, I think 1B may be the better choice, but I definitely want feedback how people did after testing out of it and just taking 53 instead.</p>
<p>I want to take both Physics 7B and Chem 1A my second semester. I just took a class at my school on Electricity and Magnetism along with the AP test, and thus a lot of the material in 7B would be much fresher in my head if I took it second semester of my freshman year. So would it be a better idea just to take 7B freshman year second semester and then Chem 1A sophomore year first semester (or second semester after taking 7C)?</p>
<p>For my humanities classes, I am extremely lost. Even though I am interested in a lot of the materials of these classes, I really want to have them impact my education as minimally as possible due to the challenging nature of an EECS major. I have the following credits I could use: 5 on English Language and Composition, 5 on World History, and I'm fairly certain I got a 5 on the Psychology exam that I took recently. I am definitely using World History to credit out of a lower-division course. I've been told by teachers that an introductory comp class can be extremely important in understanding protocol and expectations at a university, so I'm partial to taking that, but at the same time, I want to minimize the amount of time I'm taking humanities classes (and thus using my scores to test out a Reading Composition 'A' class). Thus, I am conflicted of whether to use my Psychology test (whose score I will not receive until June) or English AP score to credit out of a class.</p>
<p>My advice to you is to pass out of whatever you can pass out of. Skip Math 1a/1b, most EECS people do. Skip Physics 7a if you can. I especially recommend Auroux for Math 53 in Fall 2011.</p>
<p>You can do Math, Physics, and CS each semester for your freshman year. Your fourth class completely depends. You can do humanities or other technicals. For your first semester, I’d recommend you stick with just CS/Math/Physics/Easy Humanities and by second semester you’ll be a much better judge of how hard or easy classes are.</p>
<p>If you do go to Math 53, you may want to sit in on Math 1B while they are going over the introductory differential equations stuff mentioned in the web pages above.</p>
<p>For EECS, Physics 7A and 7B are the most important sciences; you will need at least one (maybe two) more science courses, though there is significant choice there (Chemistry 1A or 4A is allowed, but many others are allowed, such as Physics 7C and others). See the [EECS</a> degree requirements](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/Notes/Content/Chapter2.pdf]EECS”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/Notes/Content/Chapter2.pdf). The prerequisite chains in EECS depend mainly on Physics 7B, so you want to get that done as soon as you can to maximize the flexibility of the rest of your schedule. The College of Engineering allows you to skip Physics 7A if you have a 5 on AP Physics C Mechanics.</p>
<p>The College of Engineering Humanities and Social Studies Requirement is [url=<a href=“http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/current-undergraduates/advising/HSS%20MASTER%20List%202011-12.pdf]here[/url”>http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/current-undergraduates/advising/HSS%20MASTER%20List%202011-12.pdf]here[/url</a>]. Your 5 on AP English Language will fulfill the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement. Your 5 on AP History or Psychology will fulfill one more lower division humanities or social studies; this leaves you needing to take at least four more, including a Reading and Composition B course, two upper division courses of which one is linked with another course, and an American Cultures course (a course can fulfill more than one subpart of the requirement at the same time, so (for example) History 137AC counts as an upper division course, a series with your AP History, and an American Cultures course).</p>
<p>A lot of the stuff in the Math 1B curriculum is on-and-off for me. Some of the finals I looked at (Exam 4), I felt like I had a grasp on more than 75% of the material. However, I still feel like there a few gaps in my knowledge regarding differential equations (mainly). Other than that, there were a few topics related to series (how to sum certain) I could not recognize right away. Thus, I feel like if I could get a grasp on a lot of the diff eq and some of the series stuff (along with oscillation damping), I may be fine with just taking Math 53. But I really would like some feedback on how easy it would be to learn those topics on my own vs. taking them in class.</p>
<p>I’m not feeling extremely confident on banking that I got a 5 on my Mechanics exam (I felt quite uneasy during the test), but if I could skip out of 7A, I definitely will (as I understood the material from 7B fairly well).</p>
<p>Regarding the information you provided for Humanities, I might just take Film Studies R1B or Philosophy R1B as an easy course first semester and then take 118CA (City and Regional Planning) second semester for my American cultures credit. Then I would only need to take two more upper-division humanities courses in the three years following.</p>
<p>Thus, can someone give me some info into how AP tests I took this year (a couple weeks ago) will factor into my planning of my schedule? I believe the results are sent to schools in early July and then we receive them in mid-late July. Will this be addressed during Phase II of Telebears planning?</p>
<p>Definitely take Math 53. I skipped 1A-1B and had no trouble at all with the differential equations in 54. I’m not really sure how much 1B goes into second order stuff, but in 54, they assume you know nothing about second (and higher) order equations from prior classes.</p>
<p>Yes, you will miss out on some first order techniques, but those are pretty easy, and much less important than the second order ones.</p>