<p>What I heard average class is around 450 students. Is this true only for introductory courses ? My D has taken 9 AP courses and she is planning to pursue pre-med path. Will she be able to skip those introductory courses ? What is the average class size of upper level courses ?
Appreciate any input ....</p>
<p>Phy Sci 5 had an enrollment of 426 students this quarter. That’s usually the biggest class offered. So no, 450 isn’t the average class size, even for introductory courses. Almost lower division classes for pre-meds are in the 150-350 range. If you take an honors lower division sequence (Math offered one this year; Chemistry has frequently in the past) the enrollment will be more like 20-30.</p>
<p>Upper division classes tend to be more like 20-40 (or sometimes smaller) but it depends on the department.</p>
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<p>I’m not a pre-med, but as far as I understand, a lot of med schools don’t accept AP classes, so you wouldn’t be able to use them to bypass requirements. As far as UCLA policies go, AP Calc AB allows you to skip a quarter of calculus, BC allows you to skip two, and AP Chem allows you to skip a quarter of Chemistry. The vast majority of people don’t do the latter though, even if qualified.</p>
<p>Depends on your major.</p>
<p>My introductory, lower division history classes had an average of 200 people. The largest history class I’ve ever taken had 250.</p>
<p>I’m a junior and taking 3 classes this quarter: Spanish, Urban Planning, and a History seminar. Spanish has 25 people in it, Urban Planning has 40, and History has 15.</p>
<p>The largest class I’ve ever taken at UCLA was an easy A “fun” class that everyone takes, called Art and Architecture 10. I think there was like 400 people in that class, but again, it was one of those “fun” classes that everybody takes to get an A.</p>