I’ll be taking Calc II at community college and Calc III at a CSU. I’ll also probably be taking one english class at CC and one at a four year. Doe this look bad on a transfer app to LA or Berkeley?
Calc is pretty standardized so that should be ok. You might want to run it by an advisor.
But English - BIG NO. Take both at CCC. Dont chance it. Many don’t transfer.
If I take them both at different CCC’s does that look bad?
You can do them at different CCCs. The key is to match both English courses with either the breadth or IGETC path, depending on which path you do based on your major. That’s harder to do at a 4-year (esp for IGETC). Easy to do at any CCC.
Look at assist.org top of page for your major and UC to determine which path and which English they want. Then just make sure you take the matching one at the CCC.
If the articulation listings on http://www.assist.org show that each course independently fulfills a course requirement, that should be ok. But if the articulation listings show that a series can only be fulfilled by a series, or some other combination indicating that courses in a series cover topics in a different order, you need to take the series at the same school (or sister schools that have identical courses).
Example:
http://web2.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=18&swap=0&dir=2&sia=BERKELEY&ria=UCB&ia=UCB&oia=BERKELEY&aay=16-17&ay=16-17&dora=PHYSICS
http://web2.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=18&swap=0&dir=2&sia=DIABLO&ria=UCB&ia=UCB&oia=DIABLO&aay=16-17&ay=16-17&dora=PHYSICS
In the above, you can mix and match physics courses between Berkeley City College and Diablo Valley College to cover UCB Physics 7A, 7B, and 7C, since each course at BCC or DVC has a one-to-one articulation with one of the UCB courses.
In the above, the physics courses at Santa Monica College arrange the topics differently, so that each of UCB Physics 7A, 7B, and 7C contains topics spread across two of SMC’s Physics 21, 22, 23, and 24. This means that it is best for an SMC student to take the entire sequence there, rather than try to mix and match with courses from another college.
It can be riskier if any courses are from a four year school, since they may not be listed at http://www.assist.org .
Thanks. I understand that you can take courses in a sequence at different schools, but is it looked down upon to dos so?