hey everyone - major summer problems

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>hi. I applied to uc riverside and uc merced this past fall. I applied for fall 09. been going to el camino college for 2 years now. my first semester was terrible because I had to start work and I only took like 1 class. I still work of course but as each semester has come ive been taking harder classes that demand more time.</p>

<p>so now I hopefully near the end of that road. every day I check ‘my ucm’ and ‘my ucr’ to see my admission decission but still nothing. but i have a problem with my units.</p>

<p>so of course to transfer i need 60 units to transfer. by the end of this spring semester ill have 46. so i need at least 14 units to take over summer. i already have planned biology and single variable calculus part II (math 191). (im computer science major). i had planned as my other 2 classes to take physics 1B and 1C. im taking 1A right now, and i need 1b and 1c to finish my lower division preparation stuff. however the summer schedules came out and physics 1b and 1c are nowhere to be found!</p>

<p>there is ONE 1c class thats available in the compton center which i guess is part of el camino but I ran into a 2nd problem… one of the prereqs of the class is math 191! so right now Ive already scheduled a counselor appointment to beg the counselor to let me take physics 1c concurrently with math 191. but that still leaves a problem unsolved, there is no 1b class available over summer!</p>

<p>so what do i do?</p>

<li><p>beg my physics teacher to teach 1b over the summer?</p></li>
<li><p>take physics at another community college? (but since this is a series im pretty sure ill have to take all 3 physics classes again which means the one im taking right now wont count)</p></li>
<li><p>take 2 other classes to replace the physics classes units wise. this means ill only have part of the series done (which will probably be useless because i think i need the whole series done before transfer or it wont count, ill have to ask the counselor or a ucr/ucm rep) but at least it will bump me up to the required 60 units to transfer</p></li>
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<p>please give me your thoughts guys! i really want to go to a uc in the fall! i need to get out of my home i cant live here much longer…</p>

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<p>theres no way you’ll pass physics 1b and 1c at the same time which according to assist, is thermo/E&M, without having finished single variable calculus. Just stay another year and finish the requirements. Seriously, 14 units of science/math in the summer? You could also just apply as a winter transfer and just live at home for 3 more months.</p>

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<p>i dont even think it is possible to take 14 units over the summer. that would be crazy. i took 6 once and it was school all day long</p>

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<p>haha “my ucm”</p>

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<p>b90, 14 units is certainly doable, I endured 16 units last summer.</p>

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<p>its harder to take a single 5 unit physics class in the summer than it is to take 5 easy 3 unit classes (15 units)</p>

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<p>whether i can or cant do it is all fine and dandy… i know i can do it</p>

<p>my question is how can i go about taking these classes since they arent readily available… :(</p>

<p>and if i cant take these classes (because prereqs and the fact that one of them isnt offered) then is it possible to take a substitute? </p>

<p>and does anybody know anything about a series of classes. like if i finish 1a, can i go to another school and finish 1b and 1c? or transfer and finish 1b and 1c at the school ?</p>

<p>also ucm says in their articulation that students that dont complete at least, single and multi variable calculus, and general chemistry, it takes a MINIMUM of 3 years to get a degree. what i want to know is is this the absolute extreme minimum? or could i graduate in 2 years by say, taking some classes over the summer and overloading etc</p>