<p>Hard to fulfill? (regarding the amount of classes)</p>
<p>Also, why do so many AP exams give mere elective credit instead of fulfilling breadth/GE requirements like they do at other UCs?</p>
<p>I don't think they're that hard, not any harder than the other UCs I don't think. Take humcore, it'll get rid of a bunch of requirements. I don't know about the AP policies of other schools so I don't know how they compare.</p>
<p>What other UCs give a lot of credit for APs?</p>
<p>Davis: <a href="http://why.ucdavis.edu/admissions/froshAP.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://why.ucdavis.edu/admissions/froshAP.cfm</a></p>
<p>I guess I'm a bit bitter that other UCs have AP Euro, AP US, and AP Gov fulfilling some part of the breadth requirement, but UCI doesn't. I really dislike history, so I would've liked to get it out of the way.</p>
<p>yackityyack, Can you elaborate on humcore? Like... what is it?</p>
<p>You don't necessarily have to take history at UCI. You have to fulfill a category called "Humanistic Inquiry", which you can fulfill with a number of courses, including history. But if you take Humanities Core then you're done with the Humanistic Inquiry breadth.</p>
<p>Oh i see... so taking Hum 1A-C satisifies the lower division writing requirement, humanistic inquiry, and Multicultural Studies (VII-A)...? How are the classes (difficulty, boringness, etc)</p>
<p>When you're looking at which AP courses fulfill which requirements, you kinda have to look closer. For example, I was looking at the UC Davis link you sent, and it says that a passing score on the U.S. History exam will satisfy the American History and Institutions Requirement. I know that at UCI (and probably at any UC), you will satisfy this requirement simply by graduating from a California high school. Also, some AP exams might get you an exemption from a certain history class, but depending on your major, it might not even be something in your curriculum.</p>
<p>Good point. Thanks for all the input, hopefully I'll be able to minimize breadth classes
(so i can spend more time playing ping pong :) )</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, you were a computer science major, right? The breadth isn't that bad. If you take Humanities Core and do your major and school requirements, you'll have the following done:</p>
<p>I. Lower Division writing (Humanities Core)
IV. Humanistic Inquiry (Humanities Core)
V. Math and Symbolic Systems (major requirements should satisfy this)
VIIa. Multicultural Studies (Humanities Core)</p>
<p>You would need to satisfy the following:
II. Natural Sciences (can do this with three sciences courses)
III. Social and Behavioral Sciences (three Soc Sci courses, or with Econ AP I think)
VI. Foreign language (you're done with this if you took 3 years in HS)
VIIb. Int'l/Global Issues (can take care of this with two classes or going abroad or extra foreign lang)</p>
<p>Not too bad. Depending on APs and what not, you might have already fulfilled more.</p>
<p>i thought i'm supposed 2 take at least an AP foreign language to pass the requirement?
i only took spanish 2 and 3 in high school (first year i took at community college). so...?</p>
<p>If you take up through the third year of a language in high school, then you're done. So if you took up through Spanish 3 then you're done. If you take one more quarter of Spanish in college (Spanish 2A), then you only have to take one VIIb course. If you don't want to take any more Spanish, then you can just take two VIIb courses instead.</p>
<p>I was Information & Computer Science, but I switched to Computer Engineering (which is very similar to EE I guess)</p>
<p>Yeah, I took three years of language. The only class I get AP credit for is AP English a class in I <em>think</em> humanistic inquiry. But since Humcore will cover that, it becomes redundant. Hence why I wish breadth and AP credit would be structured differently.</p>
<p>Yeah, colleges are wise to the AP game now a days. Doesn't <em>really</em> help anymore except it looks good on college aps.</p>
<p>If you're Computer Engineering, then you won't have to worry about Category II either.</p>
<p>As for the 3 years of foreign language in HS and you don't need to take it in college...... I'm SO glad they changed it to that 2 years ago. I took 3 years of french in HS which I despised, and was about start taking french when they changed the rule, got to drop it after only taking 2 weeks. In my opinion, great rule change by UCI.</p>