<p>Been looking through the UC admissions threads and I have barely seen any engineering majors...</p>
<p>I want to know how many of them get accepted despite having most of the prerequisite engineering courses not available at local CC's</p>
<p>Right here! Mechanical Engineering. I know, there’s hardly anyone on here for engineering. My cc doesnt even offer a statics, dynamics, or materials class, let alone a programming class… It’s horrible.</p>
<p>Yo yo yo.</p>
<p>CS here. Not really engineering, but in the college of engineering at nearly every UC.</p>
<p>And yeah - I am missing all of the good programming pre-reqs (data structures, discrete math, compiler construction, etc…) - so we’ll see how it goes. Got my math/science/gen ed stuff done, though.</p>
<p>My rule of thumb has been to just do everything you can that’s articulated. I haven’t been accepted at the big UCs yet - so we’ll see.</p>
<p>That’s what Im worried about because I am starting CC this fall and my local CC doesnt have the required engineering courses, but another cc like 30-40 minute drive away does :/</p>
<p>Transferring to UCSD this fall for electrical engineering. Yeah a lot of cc’s don’t offer comparable engineering courses; my college offers a few but my counselor even told me I was better off waiting to take them after I transfer because the quality of education would be far greater at the university level for those classes. Definitely knock out as much of your math and physics as you can while at cc though.</p>
<p>The thing is that some courses are required to be taken for transfer according to assist.org</p>
<p>Also, how are your guys’ class schedule like?</p>
<p>Im just looking at assist and i need to take calc 2, physics 4a, chem 1a, and the english/humanities courses,is it reasonable to do it for the first quarter/semester?</p>
<p>That schedule sounds like what I had my first semester minus the Physics course; it wasn’t offered in the fall. That’s usually a good place to start because most students at the four years have that plus one or two extra engineering type of classes or seminars.</p>
<p>Mechanical Engineering major here and still pending for all the UC’s. SBCC actually offered most of the prerequisites for ME including statics, dynamics and circuits.</p>
<p>EE major here; accepted UCSD with region x tag, pending UCI. Missing all lower division EE classes, 3rd and 4th semester physics, and chemistry. Probably gonna take me almost a whole year to finish my lower division at UCSD haha :l . My advice would be to try to get as much as you can done, but don’t overload yourself. Myself personally I end up taking two pre-reqs with 2-3 GE’s. Also, if i could redo my time at cc all over, id probably just knocking off all my pre-reqs first and then do my GE’s over summer, although summer school seems to be going extinct now days haha.</p>
<p>Hmm I’m planning to do EE as well, and you got accepted for tag even though you didn’t finish the required EE courses?</p>
<p>Typically how many classes do you have per quarter? Isn’t Calc + physics + chem + english a little too much?</p>
<p>i is computer science.</p>
<p>"Isn’t Calc + physics + chem + english a little too much? "
probably if you’re aiming for 4.0. unless your cc is super easy.
the circuits and physics (the last one with relativity & etc) courses i’m taking right now are killers.</p>
<p>What would be a reasonable schedule then? My main goal is to tag to Davis because i want the safety, which requires a 3.3, but that’s not to say I won’t be trying to get a higher GPA because I still want to apply to cal and ucla too</p>
<p>Myself personally I end up taking two pre-reqs with 2-3 GE’s</p>
<p>What is the difference between pre-reqs and GE’s?</p>
<p>I’m an ME transfer waiting to hear back from a few UC’s. </p>
<p>My community college offered most courses except Materials and Thermodynamics. </p>
<p>I relied heavily on assist.org and my own research to ensure I had completed all requirements. Counselors and peers certainly helped get me ideas, but in a situation as import as where I will be transferring, I didn’t want to risk receiving incorrect information. </p>
<p>To figure out my schedule I:
- Went to assist.org and made a list of all classes I needed for all schools I was interested in. Assist will tell you which GE’s and which major-specific pre-req’s you need.
- Looked at past course catalogs to figure out when they would likely be offered at my CC.
- Made a plan for the rest of my semesters (considering pre-req’s).</p>
<p>I ended up having a lighter load this Fall and Spring which really helped with applications and financial aid.</p>
<p>In regard to transfers,
GE’s are general courses required for admission to the university as a whole.
Pre-req’s are courses that the specific major you want to enter requires. </p>
<p>For example, UCB requires a certain english class at my CC, whereas, the UCB Dept. of MechE requires I take statics.</p>
<p>Ah I see.</p>
<p>Can I still do a tag if I have not completed all the courses on assist.org because my local CC does not offer it? What is the max courses I can miss because right now, it looks like I’ll be missing 3</p>
<p>I am an engineering major.
Still in high school and enrolling at my CC this fall.
Only interested in UCSB though.</p>
<p>Same here, I actually got in UCSB hehe</p>
<p>I’m interested in SLO or UCD, but I’ll probably apply to most of the UC’s</p>
<p>I’m a chemical engineering major, here. I got accepted to UCSD, but mostly waiting back on UCB as my first choice school. My school offers a lot of the prereqs, but only during certain times each year and they’re a pain to take with everything else.
Personally, I think it’s not too bad to take calc, physics, and chem at the same time. Currently, I’m taking honors O. chem, electric and magnetic physics, calculus, and java. It’s time consuming, but I wanted to take Quantitative chemistry at the same time (I believe my CC is the only one that offers it in California), but turned it down due to 20 unit madness.
As a student though, the classes are only challenging if you don’t like them. If you enjoy them, then you hardly notice any problems.</p>
<p>Usually you can do TAG if you take all the courses your community college offers that are listed on Assist. The UC’s are aware that many students simply do not have access to all the courses. So if the Assist page says “no course articulated” you should be okay. But if it lists a course and says it’s required, then you must take it. Note the courses that are not required but recommended–that is a way to strengthen your application. </p>
<p>For specific TAG info contact the TAG staff at the school you want to transfer to (not your community college counselor as they have too much info in their heads).</p>