<p>As far as I know advanced calculus is a prereq for all bio majors, but UCSD makes you go a step further by taking the equivalent of Calculus 3.</p>
<p>Assist.org says you can also take some sort of Statistics class instead of Calc 3.</p>
<p>@iTransfer</p>
<p>True. Very true. But luckily, I had passed AP Calculus and AP English to except me from taking placement tests.</p>
<p>@psmko</p>
<p>Yes I will have my pre-reqs finished. My first semester at CC, I was able to get all the classes I want. My CC has a program where freshman (First semster at CC) get priority admission. It’s really helpful, gets newbies off to a good start.</p>
<p>ooh thats very cool that your school offers that!</p>
<p>our school is based off of how many units you have and military personnel get priority admission into classes.</p>
<p>unfortunately, i wasn’t aware of sites like assist.org and CC so i was sorta just taking “general ed” courses etc etcc. thankfully i didnt take a class that didn’t fufill a certain area more than once!</p>
<p>last year ~80% of classes were filled on the first day and with courses this year being cut that number went up to the 90’s.</p>
<p>you can imagine alot of people didn’t get accepted into the courses they wanted.
my calculus class had a waiting list of 50+ people, with around 45 seats available and all were full :(</p>
<p>Lol, I talked to my sister yesterday and she told me she doesn’t even want to do a science degree anymore. Apparently, she’s tanking in chemistry and it’s turning her off. I’m glad she’s figuring that out now before she takes all these math and science classes for nothing.</p>
<p>Well, good thing your sister found out earlier whats right for her. Chemistry turns me on… gets me steamy and invigorated.</p>
<p>She loves biology, physiology and the life sciences and has got awarded for excellence in them throughout high school, but when it comes to physical sciences she said she gets terribly confused. I think it’s a mix of the teacher going to fast and her not wanting to speak up in class.</p>
<p>Now her interest has been sparked in history and Black Studies.</p>
<p>That’s a shame. I’m not great at Chem+Physics either but I’m pretty good at bio related sciences so I’m sticking with it. Got through Gen Chem and taking Physics right now. I’m willing to tough it out.</p>
<p>Science and Engineering majors, for the most part, take quite a while to transfer. I am lucky in that I have ap credits that have advanced me in mathematics. Although I will be missing a C++ class(i think C will suffice though), I should be good to go after 2 years.</p>
<p>Homegrown Californians’ have home field advantage in that they can start a CCC sophomore year and/or use their HS classes towards transferring. This is not so for people who come from other places when California has very stringent rules on transferring units or HS transcripts from other states. Some of us went to a JC to earn a 2 year degree in a certain subject and career path. I actually go to college and certain classes to learn but share the classroom with immature students with poor study habits and an overall crappy attitude towards education. Some will purposely seek out easy classes to fulfill their GE requirements and then purposely interrupt discussion to dumb down the class afraid that any inquiry may show up on the test.</p>
<p>It’ll probably take me 3 years too. Considering that I stink at math and can’t finish Stats before the Fall, I’m just gonna deal with it I guess. It sucks too, I took 12 units in HS and I’m taking 8 transferrable units (13 units in total) and because of math I basically did all that hard work in HS for nothing.</p>
<p>Anyways, taking 3 years really isn’t a big deal, and if you don’t want to rush it, who cares? You just want to get a good GPA and all your prereqs done.</p>
<p>(And kmazaa, I really don’t know what you mean by using HS classes toward transferring. Yeah, you can use AP classes, but so can anyone else? Do you mean by concurrent enrollment?)</p>
<p>IMO taking three years to do it is a very smart thing to do… Not only are you not over loading yourself so you can achieve a higher GPA, but you can spend more time working on important things such as internships or work to save up money.</p>
<p>Well AP classes are a fairly new tool used today in comparison. The reason why the State of California started streamlining students down the transfer path was many students were not completing CC in 5-6 years which starts to fall off the chart for tracking progress. The good news is that completing requirements for a CCC and getting out of the K-14 system tends to be much more difficult then completing junior and senior year so never give up!</p>