<p>I am dismissed from UC Davis. I received two F's during the second quarter due to laziness, and was given a second chance. I decided to take on 19 units the third quarter, and although I gave a lot of effort that time, I still failed miserably. 19 units is too much for me. Some kids have been able to do it, which is what made me think it was doable for me if I worked hard enough, but I guess not. </p>
<p>Now I must complete my lower division courses at a community college with a gpa of 3.1 or higher to be readmitted to UC Davis. </p>
<p>The community colleges I have applied to run on the semester system, so I'm wondering how many units I should register for. At UC Davis, 15 to 16 units is what most students take, and I think that it would be a challenging but doable schedule. How to convert from quarter units to semester units? How many semester units equals 16 quarter units?</p>
<p>Thanks. If anyone who has attended both community college and UC can share personal experiences on this topic, it would be greatly appreciated . Thank you very much. Did you find UC to be more rigorous than community colleges? If so, would it be okay to register for more classes at a community college than at an UC?</p>
<p>Classes should me somewhat easier since they are at a slower pace (16 weeks vs. 10 weeks). But then again if you don’t like the class, well… you decide. Also 15 units per semester is pretty average. 1 semester unit = 1.5 quarter units.</p>
<p>Community College is a lot easier, you can procrastinate and still pass thanks to the long Semester system. But it gets boring after a while because its so long–it always did for me. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, quarter system does not allow any room for procrastination.</p>
<p>lol @lawling, yeah I had to learn that the hard way. Quarter system is so rough! I think I am much, much happier on semester system. Plus, I feel motivated to self study on the long weekends.</p>
<p>lawlking, even though many say that community colleges are easier, would it be too rigorous to take Physics1, Calc1, and Gen Chem1 all at once? Or is even that too little?</p>
<p>The easiness of the class varies upon the professor. Even though it’s a community college, there are still rigorous professors. In my experience, I wouldn’t recommend it.</p>
<p>Even though many might say that CC courses are easier, perhaps you should ask the professors? The reason I say this is because I had two professors at CC that also taught at a UC, and they both said the science courses at the CC were more difficult than the UC. </p>
<p>Another thing I would think about is because semesters are longer, there will most likely be more work / material to cover. You have more time to do this of course, but those cumulative finals will be 16 weeks of information vs. 10</p>
<p>In regards to your course load question I would say that’s a very doable course load for a science major. Your only looking at 13 units there (assuming the calc and phys are 4 units), where many science majors will take that + another GE/Online class to get 16+ units. Of course it also depends on how difficult your professors are.</p>
<p>i took discrete + physics + calc 2 for my last semester. I say physics + calc 2 is doable to get A, but i had a hell of a time with discrete ontop. plus didn’t help my physics and math test were like 10 minute apart on fridays.</p>
<p>I’ve never been on a formal quarter system, but I always do much better during summer sessions. Since the classes are shorter, it gives you less time to forget information and you have to review less, because most of the information is still pretty fresh in your brain. Whereas on semester systems, the finals are a lot harder.</p>
<p>A 30 week academic year is divided into two 15 week semesters of three 10 week quarters. So the pace is theoretically the same, but divided up differently.</p>
<p>Wow, sorry to hear that mate. I think if you bombed out trying to do a heavy quarter, you really should take the minimum load for a quarter/semester to get yourself back on track. Once you’ve established your track record again, you’ll feel a lot better. After all, the only thing you can do after falling off a horse is to brush yourself off and get right back on there! </p>
<p>I don’t know what major you were doing or what classes you were taking, but 19 units can go anywhere from manageable to totally crazy depending on the classes. </p>
<p>When it comes to decisions like that, you should only worry about what you’re doing and not what others around you are doing.</p>
<p>Anyway, back to the question: Most classes are split up differently. Calculus was a 3 class series at my semester system CC, and a 4 class series at UCD - the same was true with Physics 9 as well. The difficulty really depends on the teacher sometimes; Some of my teachers have been an order of magnitude tougher than others ;)</p>
<p>@wwlink, I was taking calculus1, bis2a (intro bio), Astronomy:Stars,Galaxies,and Universe (a class designed for non-science major and had minimal math), Evolutionary Biology, Research Methods in Psychology. Do you think that is rigorous? I think if I were a faster reader, I would have been able to handle it, as would anyone because those aren’t very difficult, just very time consuming due to the amount of assigned reading.</p>
<p>I was a declared Biochemical Engineering major, but was changing to Biochemistry because I was thinking about going into Neuroscience, which is not a major offered at UCD.</p>
<p>The rigor depends on the professor, they are different. Like the same way at UC Davis, some professors are easy some are hard–CC is exactly like that.</p>
<p>lol that said, I have to add that in the jump from semesters to quarters, having finals in winter and then coming back for spring quarter a week later was kinda harsh. </p>
<p>It’s not that big a deal though, finishing 9 classes in a year instead of finishing 6 or 7 feels worth it, even if you’re almost coming out the same in the end. I think what feels unnatural sometimes is in college you gain many different pieces of the puzzle from many people and classes, instead of just having 1 teacher teach you everything you need to know about something.</p>