<p>16-20 units is supposed to correspond to 48-60 hours of school work per week. (Actually, reality today is significantly less on average, but we’ll just assume the nominal workload for now.)</p>
<p>Since a quarter is 2/3 as long as a semester, a quarter unit is 2/3 of a semester unit. So if you take three 16 unit quarters, you will have 48 quarter units, which is the same as if you take two 16 unit semesters for 32 semester units. In each case, you will be in school for 30 weeks, doing 48 hours of school work per week.</p>
<p>I would say you adequately prepare yourself for a UC. A lot of my friends took the most rigorous courses they could to learn, not to simply get an A.</p>
<p>Yes, it definitely is a situation of preparing your self, but I do know it is possible. One of my cousin’s friends transfered to uc Berkeley and graduated with a 4.0! Granted, he was an english major for you “soft.sciences are easy people”, but because it’s graded on a curve im not sure why that would matter. It really depends on the person, there are out reach programs where you.can take the more important courses at the UC and many of the steps you.would take to prepare would look impressive on your resume, of course exluding taking the hard classes because they can’t see how people grade.
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<p>It’s the student who can adequately prepare themselves for UCs. Many professors do a better job of teaching their students than other professors, but it’s the student’s responsibility to take everything they need out of a course. For example, if a chemistry professor does a terrible job of teaching the aspects of equilibrium and it later hurts you during upper-division courses, are you going to blame that teacher?</p>
<p>If you believe your community college doesn’t give you enough resources or information to succeed at a higher university, one should go to the dean and inform him of this. Perhaps he/she will investigate it. Maybe not. </p>
<p>Keep fighting and make something of yourself. Don’t wait for information to be spoon-fed from professors. ;)</p>
<p>Yeah ^ I would advise that for even the content you learned in hihh school…in most, the curriculum that is actually thought is miles different than the whatever states standards.</p>