Hello, I’m new to the forums, so help me out if I’ve posted this in the wrong section.
I’m going to be a freshman in a California Community college, and I’m struggling with a few questions that my counselor couldn’t answer with the 10 minute allotted time frame. I thought we could’ve talked more, but guess he was short on time. My counselor told me to look at assist.org for the lower division courses that I need to complete in order to get accepted to UCLA with a lower division. I read through it but I got confused with the layout that the site is using. There are classes that are separated with dashed lines, and classes that are not separated with dashed lines. For example, calculus I, calculus II, and calculus III are all individually separated by dashed lines, so I’m assuming that I have to take all three of the courses. But then there are classes like Animal Biology and Plant Biology, which are not separated by dashed lines, what does this mean? Do I have to take both of them or can I just take one of them? Or what about the classes that are separated by the word “or”. What do I do here? For example, it says chem 420 & chem 421 or chem 425 & 426. How am I supposed to choose here?
Another thing that I want to ask is about my major. I know that I can only have one major in my community college, and my counselor said that I can have the choice of double majoring in a 4 year college. In school, my favorite subject is biology, not so much chemistry, because biology was easy to remember. The physiology of humans fascinates me as well. Outside of school, my favorite activity is gaming, and that made me dream of making a console or pc game. If I had to choose either of these two, I really want to do both. So I’m majoring in either biochemistry or biology in my community college, and hoping to add computer science as my second major once I get into my desired college, UCLA. Or maybe Berkeley… Crosses fingers. So I’m wondering if its possible to double major in these categories?
One thing that I noted about assist.org is that the classes are whats required for a lower division transfer, and I looked it up and it’s supposed to be a sophomore transfer with about 30 semester units. So if I transfer with the prerequisites on assist.org — I honestly don’t understand it — I assume I would get lower division transfer, but then I what if I don’t expand upon my prerequisites. For example, instead of going into a higher level chemistry course, I enroll in classes like history and literature to fill up my units, would I be able to get an upper division transfer?
I’m sorry if this is too much questions, SCC is a bit far from here and my counselor didn’t give me enough time.