<p>I'm a prospective Santa Barbara City College student. I will be an international student as well, which seems to complicate things. They have set an early big enrollment date for international people, which is August 5th. This
date still seems to be quite late. Do you think I will have trouble getting courses. This school has about 20,000
people, so I'm hoping others cans relate.
Thanks.</p>
<p>lol. I forsee you being at that college for 3 to 4 years.</p>
<p>Yes you will have a hard time, yes it will take you 5 years to transfer. Just get a job at chip n’ dales or become a janitor…</p>
<p>wat?</p>
<p>Since the tax extension referendum will not be on the ballot this summer, the CCC system is going to have its budget reduced by $800 million for the coming year. That means that the elimination of thousands of classes at California’s 112 CCC campuses is inevitable. Many classes, particularly Math, Biology, Physics and Chemistry classes are going to be extremely scarce starting this fall. The days of spending two years at a CCC and transfering are almost certainly over and three to four years at a CCC will became the norm with five years being a real possibility for most science and engineering majors who need to take a lot of lower division prerequisites for their majors.</p>
<p>Lemaitre, I think you hit the nail on the head. I will have taken 5.5 years to complete all the requirements for Electrical Engineering (that is with a bit over 100 whopping units completed!!)</p>
<p>I had to do this because I was an older student (close to 10 years out of school) when I started CC in Aug 2006 (and was placed initially in Intermediate Algebra - since then I’ve completed 8 math courses when transferring this fall - Int. Algebra, Trig, PreCalc, CalcI, CalcII, CalcIII, Diff. Eqns, Lin. Algebra and the last math course (DISCRETE MATH) I’m completing this semester. In addition to this I’ve finished FIVE physics courses, most of which had to be done in a “sequence”!! - all of this while working 40+ hours a week.</p>
<p>If I had to start CC today, I SHIVER (over and over again) to even think what my plight would’ve been. And yes, these cuts are EXTREMELY EXTREMELY unfair to the likes of Engineering majors who have a quadrillion pre-reqs to complete (and even some more to be ultra-competitive for the top UCs)</p>
<p>As it is, some of the “engineering pre-reqs” like advanced C++, Discrete Math etc. are so rarely offered (once a year, when it is a half moon in the middle of the semester and when it’s the 3rd leap year :rolleyes: ). Now I simply cannot imagine how ANY engineering/hard science major can survive at a CC!!! …Sheez! I guess I should count myself v. v. lucky (The way the situation is now, it would’ve honestly taken me more than 10 years)</p>
<p>@uschopeful2013 Talk to an advisor at the CC and make a list of options. You’ll probably not get the most ideal schedule, and you might have to crash a few courses in order to get a full load. You’re going to have to be persistent.</p>
<p>whoa… this makes me extremely relieved that I am transferring this year. </p>
<p>@ victor</p>
<p>ditto. If this budget cut were to happen 2-3 years ago, I probably wouldnt be at the place I am now.</p>
<p><em>shivers</em></p>