Hello everybody!
I plan to apply for transfer next spring, I currently have a 3.12, but I am planning to raise it this year to at least a 3.5-3.6. My intended major is Strategic and Corporate Communications, I was wondering about the shared inquiry. I went to a UC last year, but I am going to a community in the fall due to recently changing majors. I have been advised to do the shared inquiry requirements. I will have the history, english, philosophy, half of the language, and will be doing the art, and continuing on with the language requirement when I apply. I’m wondering how bad it looks if you don’t do the math requirement and leave that for chapman (i have taken algebra 2 and precalc in the past {im really bad at math so i dont want it to affect my gpa} Should I take stats and risk my gpa falling,or risk being negatively looked at by admissions?
Thanks!
Hi,
I had the same question. Chapman says they do not accept students from community college without a college level math class. All Chapman students are required to take, at least, Stats. So my decision was to take Liberal Arts Math to apply.
This is what I was told. Though the school seems to value students and their potential so it could be a flexible thing.
Hope this helps. Like I said, I’m in the same situation and am so dreading what a math class can do to my gpa.
Could you clarify what liberal arts math is? Yeah I mean I already have precalc (i dont know if thats a college level math class?) But I am really dreading taking stats as Chapman is the only school I need it for. I dont want it to screw up my gpa for other schools in case I don’t get in. I don’t want to have to take it and still not get into chapman. You get what im saying?
If your community college has the IGETC or CSU curriculum, you can check what college-level math courses they have that fulfills the Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning on there. If precalculus is one of the college-level math courses on the IGETC or CSU, then yes, it counts as a transfer math course for Chapman. Liberal Arts Math is simply a college-level math course for liberal arts majors or non-STEM majors. Chapman doesn’t accept transfer students who have not completed a transferable math course, even if you’ve completed all other courses in the Shared Inquiry or IGETC/CSU curriculum.
Hope this helps!
Hi!
I am a current transfer in that same major. In my case, i did not do the philosophy inquiry and i was allowed to take that one at Chapman. But I think the math one is a must. For comm, i would suggest that you take a statistics course. I am super bad at math and took it at my community college and got an A. I asked around and did everything I could to take the class with an “easy A” professor. I would suggest giving math (and english) more importance than the others and to take the math course with a non so strict professor or during the summer/winter term if you can. Feel free to msg me with any questions 