<p>CC is sooo easy...I am afraid I will screw up after transferring to UCLA...anybody else afraid of this?</p>
<p>I definitely am. My poli sci teacher told the whole class how his finals would consist of answering 3 questions with an 8 hour time limit and how he'd wish he had a few hours more to finish. I seriously hope UCLA is not gonna be like that. And then my cousin's wife (I guess that makes her my cousin?) told me how her grades dropped every semester after she transfered to UCB. I'm so scared I'm gonna f up and mess up my chances of ever getting into law school now.</p>
<p>dude, im scared</p>
<p>Me too. CC is way too easy to a point of ridiculous. :( I remembered when I was in middle/highschool, most exams were in essay form and required a lot of analysis. But in CC, most exams are pretty straight forward.</p>
<p>you guys will do fine...but i woudln't take too many units the first quarter.</p>
<p>i am worried too. </p>
<p>thats why i went on the UCLA forums and asked everyone about alll the classes i had to take.</p>
<p>People gave me really detailed info about how the class runs.</p>
<p>Also, most science courses are curved so that gives you some leeway.</p>
<p>Malishka, can you tell me the address of that forum? thanks!</p>
<p>Curving is horrible if everyone got 99 while you got 90 only. :(</p>
<p>got to myucla, on the left side once you log in , it says "forums"</p>
<p>they do not curve like that btw. ITs not a bell curve.</p>
<p>I asked a similar question in another thread:</p>
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So is anyone here afraid of flunking out of UCB? At CCC, there's always a pool of students to act as a buffer and absorb the Cs, Ds, and Fs. But what if we become the buffer pool after we transfer?
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Curving is horrible if everyone got 99 while you got 90 only.
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That's why bell-curves are particularly evil.</p>
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Curving is horrible if everyone got 99 while you got 90 only.
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That doesn't happen very often. In the more relaxed curves you usually need to get a score that corresponds to one sigma (standard deviation) above the average to get an A. The STDEV usaully runs from 13 to 15. In the rare occasions, I've had some classes that specify that only the top 12% of the students in the class will get an A, period.
Everyone that I have talked to claims that the curve helps rather than hurts them.</p>
<p>I am. I'm transfering from a relatively easy place for me to the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Im confident in what I've learned at CC. I'm a little nervous about going to class the first day with people who are at or above my level of dedication and intelligence. I know though that if I do poorly on a final or midterm, it's my fault for not going to office hours or sitting through an entire class without asking a question for material I don't understand.</p>
<p>Plus I remember I felt the same way when going from grammar school to junior high, junior high to high school, high school to community college.</p>
<p>if anything, transfers should be excited for the challange, not worried! Whatever school you'll be going to, obviously let you in for a reason. the best of luck to all of you!</p>
<p>yea I hear you guys. I'm transferring from a CC to Cornell. I might be in trouble. My only shot is to not be 1/99999999999th as lazy as I was at CC.</p>
<p>Not worried. I know too many people in UCs that are about 10x dumber than I am :p And workload can't be that bad if you see all these kids partying every weekend.</p>
<p>I'm terrified. It's absolutely possible to have a 4.0 at Drexel, but at Columbia SEAS, a 4.0 is a myth. I'm so nervous, because I'm an ultra-perfectionist.</p>
<p>4.0 in engineering or applied science is no myth. It's been done before. It's a legend. :)</p>
<p>But yes, I'm afraid UCLA's EE or Berkeleys EECS will kick my a** like I've never been kicked before!</p>
<p>ee_stu: you are still undecided?</p>