Good job! My only thought is that Berkeley will see that you will not complete IGETC until summer. Any way you can move Spanish to Spring?
ETA: APUSH is usually a Social Science. Please double check.
Good job! My only thought is that Berkeley will see that you will not complete IGETC until summer. Any way you can move Spanish to Spring?
ETA: APUSH is usually a Social Science. Please double check.
I can’t! Even if I switch the one class I can (creative writing), I’ll be over 19 units—and that’s not allowed
I hear I can get a “Partially Completed IGETC” if I’m short 2 or less classes!
I’m confused. Why are you taking so many extraneous courses? And you’re not taking them by priority - in other words, kicking the IGETC language to summer, where you risk non-admission, is not something to do.
All you need to fulfill your political science major are 3 courses! Plus, finishing up whatever IGETC isn’t fulfilled via AP. Looking over the list, it seems to me your AP fulfills:
1 English
Quantitative math (stats AP)
3 social sciences (psych AP, microeconomics AP, and US govt AP)
1 arts and humanities (US History AP)
1 physical science (env science AP and Physics AP)
What I see you needing is:
1 English
2 arts and humanities
1 life science (with lab?)
1 language
3 poli sci/history courses for your major
(BTW, one of those history courses for your major may also fulfill humanities IGETC- you’ll have to look)
That’s 8 courses.
Now you need to reach a certain unit count, obviously, and you still have room within this framework to add some other poli sci/econ to show interest in your major.
However, there’s no point in going bat-s**t crazy. It is very likely, if you are accepted as a one year, they will make demands regarding the last term, such as all courses must be a 3.2 each. And don’t think it will be a breeze, because the bones of people who have said this in the past and then got rescinded, litter the landscape.
And Berkeley will rescind you for one infraction, I’ve seen it many times.
It’s not a race to show how much you can do. My advice is get the courses done you need to do by next spring. That’s the priority. Then, don’t overload the last term. There’s no real gain, but plenty of potential loss. You can then ask the UC after acceptance if you can take a couple courses at the CCC during summer. Don’t even put any summer courses in the application, in case Berkeley decides to include it in the provisional.
Keep your eye on the prize and don’t get carried away.
P.S. US HIST AP can be used for area 3 or 4, as you indicated.
@lindyk8 , For UCSD, I have to take Macroecon and Stats. If I don’t get into Berkeley, I want UCSD/LA to be my back-up.
If I lose my AP credit by taking the equivalent course as a major req, I might lose the AP creds. This could bring me down to 57.3 if I replace Creative Writing with Elementary Spanish. Also, I can do partial IGETC, I believe, because I’m only 1 course short?
Ok, well you certainly have leeway to add Econ and stats. So that’s totally doable. As is creative writing, I suppose.
Partial IGETC is always iffy. I would try to avoid it at all costs.
You have 13 classes listed. (Computer science coding?? Really?) You only need 10 and a buffer, from what I can tell. Btw, Berkeley will gladly go over all APs. There’s a number to call to set up an appt.
I wish you the best of luck, but you know what? Ultimately, this is serious stuff that needs to be gone over one-on-one with a UC specialist and not us on CC.
I do think you’re way overshooting your coursework, but you know, contact a Berkeley rep and set up a meeting. I’m bowing out if this convo at this point because I’m not an official UC rep.
Ten and a buffer? What do you mean by that? @lindyk8
And go over all APs?
I was going by your AP, the remaining IGETC and 3 poli sci requirements. That equaled 8 courses. Then you mentioned macro-econ and stats. So that’s 10. The buffer is for any loss in AP credit. But trust me, the only people who can tell you straight is Berkeley admissions. I’ll see if I can find the number for AP credit evaluation.
By go over, they will tell you specifically what credits you are getting and how your major courses might affect the count.
Your last term:
Macro
Stats
Anthro (I assume for life science?)
Spanish
1 writing course
That’s about 18 units (1 less than you had before) and I believe all is fulfilled.
Update: I was just looking over your comments. You’re retaking macro and stats even though you have AP credit for both (and this may drastically lose you some units) because they are required for your backups? Is it worth risking Berkeley for your backups, because any unit loss will affect UCB. Maybe there is another major at UCLA or UCSD you can get into and then switch? I don’t know. The whole thing seems dicey.
I just looked: poli sci at UCLA only needs one extra course -a philosophy course.
This has simply gotten too weird for me. Risking your units and Berkeley for, I guess, another major. Good luck.