<p>Did you take your Organic Chemistry and Physics courses at your community college? Did you complete 1 out of the 2 series, or none at all?</p>
<p>I finished both. A majority of the ppl don’t really do physics until they transfer. I think you have to finish at least your first semester of o-chem to be competitive enough for schools like ucla and ucb.</p>
<p>Did you take the ACS test?</p>
<p>No I didn’t have to. If I went berkeley, then yes I would have had to take it but I didn’t.</p>
<p>So for which UC’s do you need to take the ACS test? Just Cal and LA? I’m also curious to know WHO has to take this exam. Chemical engineers, or biology majors in general?</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses by the way.</p>
<p>ACS test is required for berkeley?</p>
<p>I believe only UCB requires it for o-chem. That is everyone who wants to transfer o-chem to ucb has to take the exam. Even chem engineering majors.</p>
<p>For UCSD, you don’t get any upper div units for o-chem but still get the class waivered.</p>
<p>So if I took ochem at my CC, and I wanted to go to Davis, I wouldn’t have to take the exam?</p>
<p>Not sure. But you should definitely take both your physics sequence and ochem sequence at a CC if you can.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that most UC’s will either give you credit for entire sequence or none of it.Don’t take ochem and physics if you know you’re not gonna finish it unless you have a lot of time to kill and or just want to be a little more prepared when you transfer.</p>
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<p>That would be correct.</p>
<p>I took both physics and ochem at my cc since they were pre reqs (im currently finishing ochem2)</p>
<p>I got into every single UC i applied to btw (UCB UCLA UCSD UCI) so I would definitely advise you to take them</p>
<p>I thought the primary pre-reqs were a year of Bio/Chem/Calc. Physics and OChem are simply recommended.</p>
<p>For ucla, they want at least the first semester of o-chem if possible. I think Berkeley prefers both o-chem to be done. Physics is always recommended to take.</p>
<p>So it seems like I had to choose between Chemistry and Physics, Chemistry would be the first choice…</p>
<p>I’m just planning out classes for the next few semester, and it seems like I’ll have a lot of overlapping calc/chem/bio/physics classes. It seems like it would be a very difficult schedule.</p>
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<p>Correct. Chemistry would be top priority. Some upper division bio classes require you to have taken o-chem like biochemistry. Physics on the other hand doesn’t have to be finished right away. You can even decide to take it your senior year if you wanted to.</p>
<p>I didnt take ochem, but i took physics and still rejected by ucd, ucsd, uci, ucla and ucb :(</p>
<p>^^^Why??? I thought you had a TAG with several of those schools and had a decent gpa?</p>
<p>(I lurk)</p>
<p>@spiderman2010</p>
<p>weren’t you a UC-UC transfer?</p>