<p>OK so transferadmit has said that the best approach is to approach the exhaustion of available courses at my current institution to demonstrate clear academic need.</p>
<p>In accord with that suggestion, I have 6 courses that I'd like to take, all somehow related to my major. I can take all 6 next spring.</p>
<p>However, I'm a first semester freshman and I didn't have much latitude in choosing my courses for the Fall 10 semester. While all of my courses would fit into a liberal arts cirriculum similar to that of one of my destination colleges, the website of that school advises potential transfer candidates to take a liberal arts cirriculum that includes mathematics, sciences, and a foreign language.</p>
<p>My college also doesn't have a department in the language that I want, so I'd be taking a language that I don't really want to take.</p>
<p>I plan to take an intro science during the winter session and then the intermediate succession of that science during the spring. However, I can't be on track to exhaust my school's classes in my prospective major AND fit in both a foreign language (it'd have to be intro) and a math.</p>
<p>In addition, the math that I could take next semester is a 4 credit class and I can't fit that in without reducing the number of classes I'll be taking to 5.</p>
<p>So by the end of spring '11 I won't be all of the following, but only a combination thereof (as it stands, of only 1 and 4):</p>
<ol>
<li>On track to exhaust courses.</li>
<li>A math</li>
<li>A foreign language</li>
<li>A science</li>
</ol>
<p>One possible solution is to replace next spring's intermediate science with a foreign language. But still something else has to give to allow for a math class, and a lot more than a simple one-for-one (for, again, math is 4 credits and I cannot simply sub out a 3 credit without surpassing the full time credit max of 18, unless I pay extra out of pocket (which I don't really want to do, but, if necessary, as in, if there are no alternatives, then I'll do it).</p>
<p>I plan to matriculate elsewhere at the start of fall '11, so I have already considered staying an extra year to fulfill destination college's recommendations, but only if there are absolutely no alternatives; that is, I'd rather pay out-of-pocket for surpassing the credit max.</p>