<p>i was just wondering what the difference would be taking summer classes at community college or at cal?</p>
<p>technically, wouldn't classes at a comm. college be a little easier?</p>
<p>They would be much easier. They should transfer, if you take the right classes, but the grades won’t count for your UC GPA. But they may count for medical school, law school, etc. admissions. They may not prepare you as well for more advanced courses, so most people would recommend sticking to general ed requirements.</p>
<p>so say i wanted to take physics 7a over the summer and i took it at a comm. college. then the grade won’t count for my UC GPA?</p>
<p>GPA doesn’t transfer, units do.</p>
<p>Subsequent applications are another matter, as Grumpster pointed out, as is the case for post-grad programs.</p>
<p>Be aware of what you’re taking at CC if you’re intending some graduate/professional program. Depending on the context, the CC course may not give you the foundation you need for the next level of work.</p>
<p>so if i do take the course at berkeley, what would be the advantages?
the gpa would not transfer but the units still do right and i would be better prepared.</p>
<p>where would u recommend me taking physics 7a (cc or cal) if i plan to take 7b as a sophomore but don’t plan on taking any more physics after that?</p>
<p>Taking the series at Cal will likely be both more rigorous and more contiguous. If you have to take a two semester series at the CC level, you’ll have a year in between the first and the second. Not only is that a long time to retain material, it can delay your ability to move on with your other courses if those are prerequisites.</p>
<p>Where you take it is really dependent on what your major is and what you’re thinking you might do after college; the units will transfer, so you have the requirement and the number of units taken on your undergrad record and counting toward graduation. </p>
<p>If you have a science major or are planning on med school, take it at Cal. For med school you can take it at a CC (GPA is, after all, extremely important), just be aware that it might be an attention-grabber when your application is being reviewed, and not a good one. If it’s a prerequisite for your intended major, I strongly recommend taking it on campus. 90% of your cohort will have taken it on campus and the way it’s taught will color the way material is presented in the rest of your classes upon which knowledge of physics depends.</p>
<p>how i do find out whether or not this will affect grad school?
right now i am an ieor major and plan to go to business grad school, so i’m uncertain as to how it will look if i take phys. 7a at cc?</p>
<p>is it better to get associated with cal by taking it at cal?</p>
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<p>It’s extremely unlikely anyone would ever care or notice.</p>