<p>Hi. I'm strongly considering the University of Illinois. I will apply as CompSci Major when I apply to the college.</p>
<p>Can I also declare my major, my minor and pre-dental intentions when applying for UIUC?</p>
<p>Intents
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Business
Pre-Dental</p>
<p>You apply for the major, so if accepted with that major you will enter college as a CS major. From there, you can declare a Business minor. You do not declare pre-professional intentions.</p>
<p>Just make sure you include the courses required for dental school if you follow that path. That includes the biology, chemistry and physics courses.</p>
<p>Ok thanks a lot.</p>
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<p>I know a few people that had taken alternative tracks to professional school, rather than the typical biology major and some of them took organic chemistry during the summer rather than during the school year. It gives you the chance to focus all your attention on it without sacrificing your other classes.</p>
<p>Ok thanks. I’ll consider doing that.</p>
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<p>One other thing, for the summer classes, how much do they cost if at all? For the pre-dental courses/requirements, how much more workload is added? Could a major in CompSci, minor in business, and pre-dental requirement courses be manageable?</p>
<p>Don’t know about summer courses, but you can get all that done without extra courses. Pre-dental doesn’t require that many classes. You’ll end up just taking 1-2 courses per semester for chem/bio that you wouldn’t otherwise have taken.</p>
<p>Pre-dental is not a major or minor, it is an advisory program which also describes the courses you need to get into dental school, which includes a number of chemistry and biology courses. The problem with your CS major, business minor and pre-dental is their unrelatedness, meaning what you take as a CS major does not meet any of the courses you need for a business minor or meet most of the chemistry and biology courses that you need to apply to dental school. The courses required to complete a CS major in engineering are a very large number and add a business minor and the biology and chemistry courses needed for dental school means you can easily end up with a 4 1/2 to 5 year rather than a 4 year program.</p>
<p>The reason for a business major is because it would be helpful in a work environment regardless of whether I go into a CompSci career or go on to Dental school then perhaps get a private practice where business knowledge would be invaluable. </p>
<p>Even in CompSci, it would be helpful to understand more of consumer thinking and business tactics to develop viable products in ways that consumers will create demand for it and where such a product is cost effective even if I’m not the one making the budget or setting up projects. Furthermore, having business knowledge along with technical knowledge would help me gain a management position in the future.</p>
<p>Inspirose, thanks for the info. 1-2 more extra class(es) per semester is very manageable for me.</p>
<p>An adviser can give you a better idea of what your track will be like. Remember, people go through college with just CompSci and have a difficult courseload, so expect to have over 15 credit hours every semester.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that getting a business minor is all that important. Instead, I would take a few business classes that are practical and therefore useful in the business world: Macroeconomics, Financial Accounting, Introduction to Corporate Finance, Introduction to Marketing, and Business Law I</p>
<p>Might a Technology and Business Minor possibly be better? Here are it’s courses.
New Product Marketing - 3
Fundamentals of Accounting - 3
Corporate Finance - 3
Management of Innovation and Technology - 3
Product Design and Development - 3
Business Process Modeling -3
Integrated Project - 4
Also, in college, what exactly are “hours”. And how many classes or semesters equal an “hour”?</p>
<p>Also, how does UIUC treat AP courses assuming I get a 4 or 5 on the AP test for it? I’m taking AP BC Calculus senior year of HS.</p>
<p>You need to start doing research on the Illinois site to evaluate your possibilities. For example, here are the requirements and recommended semester schedules for a CS major in engineering: [Course</a> Information Suite, Course Catalog, Class Schedule, Programs of Study, General Education Requirements, GenEd](<a href=“http://provost.illinois.edu/ProgramsOfStudy/2011/fall/programs/undergrad/engin/comp_sci.html]Course”>http://provost.illinois.edu/ProgramsOfStudy/2011/fall/programs/undergrad/engin/comp_sci.html)</p>
<p>Also, here are courses for which you can receive college credit for AP scores: [U</a> of I Admissions: Advanced Placement](<a href=“http://admissions.illinois.edu/academics/placement_AP.html]U”>Academics, Undergraduate Admissions, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).</p>
<p>If you start exploring, you will start finding a lot of helpful information, including what a credit hour is and how many are needed for graduation. If you have a three credit hour course, that usually means you attend class three hours per week during the semester. However, for certain courses including a number of science and engineering courses and labs, the number of hours per week can actually be significantly higher. For example, the typical first two calculus based physics courses that you take get you four hours of semester credit but you are actually in class 7 hours a week because of lecture, lab and a small group or quiz section. As a freshman, you are not allowed to take more than 18 hours in a semester without special permission, which is not likely to be granted for a freshman. Science, math and CS courses can be very time consuming as far as homework is concerned.</p>
<p>Oh. so the amount of time for a hour is varied. Thanks for that.</p>
<p>Sorry. I’ll research more before asking. </p>
<p>Do you happen to know where I can find a sample course schedule for a computer science major at UIUC? I can’t seem to find one.</p>