Course choices

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rutgers University
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<p>I'll be a freshman at Rutgers New Brunswick this fall, and I'm having second thoughts about my course choices. The Academic planning and advising day really did not help me as much as I thought it would (the advisors were unable to answer most of my questions) and now I'm really counting on being able to change out of some classes after school starts.</p>

<p>The main problem is that I want to build up my course load to be appealing to other schools, in case I decide to transfer after this or next year. So far these are my courses:</p>

<p>Expository English</p>

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<p>Topics in Math</p>

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<p>Intro to International Affairs</p>

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<p>Does anyone have any comments or advice about this course load or how it might look to prospective transfer schools?</p>

<p>(Cross-posted to the transfer schools thread)</p>

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<p>Take Calc 135.. it shows you have a strong courseload for transferring.</p>

<p>Expository writing is required so unless you get a 4 and AP out, you'll have to take it. </p>

<p>Chinese 401 is fine, shows you have a strong schedule. </p>

<p>As for the two intro courses.. they might not transfer</p>

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<p>Any reason you want to transfer out before starting school? Just curious</p>

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<p>When I first applied for colleges, I really didn't know what I was doing. I chose which colleges to apply (and not to apply) to according to ranking and in the end, I overshot and Rutgers was the only school I was accepted to. In retrospect, I was really lost in the college process. </p>

<p>Now, I want the opportunity to amend my past mistakes. Although I'm entering Rutgers with an open mind, I suspect that there might be a college or university that I would be happier at. It's not necessarily that I want to transfer out before I even attend the school, just that I don't want to find myself in a place that I can't get out from if I do want to leave.</p>

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<p>I found out that I got a 5 on the AP english test, so I should be able to opt out of Expose.</p>

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<p>Yea you should be out of expos. </p>

<p>One of my friends had a pretty stellar(apparently not so stellar) background and got rejected by Columbia out of high school. She went to Rutgers for a year and got into Columbia as a transfer. You need to take the classes you want and DO WELL in them. It's going to be way harder than high school to get top grades..hence why I think it's so much harder to transfer into a top school than to get accepted out of high school(and because transferring is just inheritely hard). Also, get to know your professors as you will need a couple of them to write you rec's...rec's from teachers from hs might not look too great for a transfer app.</p>