My state university has a lot of core requirements that get in the way of my double major goals, so I was planning on taking as many of these as possible over my summers to achieve my goal of a double major.
Will grad schools see this as okay or will it make me look like a punk kid trying to cheat the system out of taking a “real” class?
They don’t care and don’t mind if
1)the cc classes are geneds unrelated to your grad school plans (you’re interested in CS, you take a cultural anthropology class at the c c =zero problem)
Or
2) if you take an upper level class in the subject (you take Spanish 2 and bio 101 at the c, take Spanish 3 and bio 102 at your regular University = no problem)
If the classes will transfer to your state U, then they are “real” classes.
However, the better questions are whether a double major will be valuable for the grad school program that you are seeking, AND whether you might be better off spending your summer trying to get some research experience or other grad-relevant EC.
@bluebayou yes
It’s better to take the classes at a four-year college, but if they aren’t relevant to your grad school area of study or major, then it should be fine.