<p>Hey guys, I'm an incoming freshman, and I'm just wondering if should take community college classes over the summer to transfer over UCLA, maybe get rid of some GE requirements that way, can I even do that?</p>
<p>I've taken a bunch of CC classes already while still in high school, and would like to know if it would be beneficial for me to go through the GE requirements and figure out what GE classes I still need and possibly fulfill those at a local CC.</p>
<p>Is it possible (do these CC classes count for GE credit as incoming freshman)?
If yes, should I do it (advantages versus disadvantages)?</p>
<p>I checked out assist.org, and it was confusing as hell -___-"
What do you mean save your GEs? I thought it was better to quickly get those out of the way?</p>
<p>I would say do it, I am. I'm currently having issues with my cc though since I was told I could take 16 units even though I'm a high school senior graduating this June, but then when I sent in my request form they denied me based on the fact I'm a high school senior. So we'll see, I loved assist.org. It was a little confusing, but you basically just put in UCLA as where you're going and the CC you want to take classes and it should list them out. You don't have to do the major or department things.</p>
<p>As for rushing through your GE, it depends on your plans. I can see why people save their GE's to have a lighter load or strengthen their GPA since I'm guessing the GE courses tend to be less intense than major but that's complete speculation. I mean come on, if I had a choice between taking Calculus (needed for my major) or Ancient Egyptian Religion (possible GE class for LSA) I think the AER class would be a lot easier. But then again, I want to be out in 3 years so I'll be zipping through my GE to get straight into my pre-major and major. Hence my taking two classes this summer and an achery class to keep me sane ^_^</p>
<p>Does saving GEs mean taking those in 1st/2nd year of college because they are easier and therefore you'll have a higher GPA from those classes boosting your GPA?</p>
<p>So we can for sure take CC classes and transfer them for GE credit right?</p>
<p>Yea, but on the opposite note, any easy GEs that you could've taken will not have any effect on your UC GPA anymore. </p>
<p>I just took Spanish CC courses over the summer to brush up on my Spanish skills before taking the Spanish Placement Exam for Orientation. I'd do CC, just because to me, summer is too long to be sitting by idly. You will eventually run out of GEs to disperse throughout your schedule, so you'll have to hack it anyways.</p>
<p>There are so many things you could do with your summer. Take classes if that's what you reaaally want to do, but wouldn't it be nice to have a break from tests and papers? How about a job? You learn good job skills and common sense in even the most menial jobs. And you get money too.</p>
<p>hmmm...would premajor classes be considered "easy" that can boost GPA? Such as pre-econ or pre-bio? Because I have quite a lot of CC classes that can already transfer over..</p>
<p>Oh, gawd no. I'm talking about GEs such as Art of Listening, not the pre-bio or pre-econ ones. From experience, you have to be diligent in pre-bio classes to get a good grade. Also, grad schools want to see you take the important pre-major or major classes they require at UCLA; their line of thinking is that:</p>
<p>"Well, you got into UCLA, but you're still taking classes at a CC. Does that mean you can't hack it at a school like UCLA?" </p>
<p>So, I'd refrain from taking any more pre-major/major classes at CC. Besides, you'll need letters of recommendation from your pre-major/major class professors anyways, so taking them at UCLA would be a good chance to get to know them.</p>
<p>then... you wind up taking spanish again. assuming you get placed into 3 or below. however, from what i hear, the spanish placement test is RIDICULOUSLY easy (or at least compared to french). i think spanish is 30 MC questions on a computer, so you get your score back really quickly. for french, we had 120 MC (including listening comprehension) on a scantron, so it took a lot longer to get scores back. plus there were nurses and health professionals PROTESTING right outside covel x.x
so i got placed in french 3... am debating french 3 or mandarin 1-3 for the heck of it...</p>
<p>if you're concerned about losing spanish to the point where you'd have to take a quarter or two, even if you feel you wouldn't have a year or so ago, just brush up on it over the summer. unless you WANT to take it again. in which case may i suggest failing it, or at least NOT guessing to get a higher score. i guessed, got placed into 3, and i know that if i take 3 i'll flunk it at this point cuz it's been so long. and no, you're not allowed to take french at a lower level than your placement. not sure if that holds for spanish.</p>
<p>and that is my rant on language placement xD</p>
<p>umm what if we speak chinese or something? still have to take spanish? also if we get like 800 on chinese SAT II do those count as the requirement like the way SAT writing counts toward Analytical writing requirement...</p>
<p>i'm not sure that sat II scores count toward the language requirement. if not, then there will be a chinese placement test in the fall, which you should take. if you're placed into chinese 4, you won't have to fulfill your language requirement by taking a class. same as if you got placed into spanish 4. you just have to get through 3 of any language.</p>
<p>yah, there's no limit to how many placement tests you can take.
keep in mind that at orientation only french and spanish are offered. other tests will be at the beginning of fall quarter.</p>