<p>I need to take a lot in order to transfer in time. I need 60 units and I only have 16 after this semester. I apply to transfer this fall. So, I was thinking I should take 12-15 online units over summer. Easy classes : nutrition 101, psychology 101, history, posci, geology...what do you think guys? Too much or should I just do it? I am thinking, difficult summer or a deadly school year of taking 21 credits at once...</p>
<p>Will they even let you take that many classes over the summer? At my CC, you can only take up to 9 credit hours without getting permission to override the system. They’ll usually only do that in specific circumstances.</p>
<p>Those sound like they’re all relatively easy classes, but history classes can sometimes involve a LOT of writing. I know the history classes at my school involve an insane amount of writing…which is why I’m not taking any. Geology can be a fairly difficult class too…especially in a shorter amount of time with a bunch of other classes.</p>
<p>That said…if you want to transfer in another year and need that many more credits…you’ve got a lot of work to do. Would you have the option of taking a few classes this summer, then enrolling for a normal full time schedule for the next school year…then finishing up your required classes the next summer? Most schools will allow you to schedule a course plan along those lines. If you did it like that, you could take 6-9 units or so this summer…then 17-18 fall and spring next year and another 6-9 the next summer. That would let you get all of the 45-50 credits that you need, without overloading.</p>
<p>i need 60 by the end of spring…i am going to take your advise…i didn’t realize history has a lot of writing…I am trying to contact the place i want to transfer to to weed out courses i am planning to take that may not transfer too…</p>
<p>I’d talk with your adviser at your CC and a rep at the school you want to go to. Usually you can be tentatively accepted as a transfer at the normal times, under the condition that you are completing your last few required courses in the summer between. </p>
<p>History classes won’t always have a lot of writing…but many of them have an insane amount of writing. I’d talk to the history professor or other students to find out how writing intensive it is. </p>
<p>You can check out <a href=“http://www.transfer.org%5B/url%5D”>www.transfer.org</a> to see what classes will transfer, and with what credit.</p>
<p>thanks! i reas ratemyprof…one of the classes has a lot of reading people say so i guess i should put that off for a full semester course…the history course has good reviews so i may take it, it was the polisci that had a lot of reading. i am thinking maybe 12 units, nutrition, psyc, geo(w/out lab), and history. I can take lab later. Maybe i should drop geology.some of my courses are extra, so i could drop them. It sucks, i may end up taking an extra year once i transfer, well, maybe i would study abroad for a semester then. Is it normal to take 5 years to graduate?</p>
<p>It depends on where you’re coming from and what you’re majoring in. My undergrad will probably take me more like 6 years.</p>
<p>I’ll have 3 years at my community college, then probably another 3 years after transfer. I’m a physics major, so I have a lot of math and physics courses to take. Plus a year of general chemistry. But, I’ll also have my entire gened core done before I transfer, so after transferring I will basically be able to focus entirely on my major…which will be a good thing because I plan on transferring as a double major in mathematics and physics with an astrophysics concentration…plus a double minor in computer science and philosophy. So…I’ll have a few more classes to take after I transfer…lol I might end up skipping the philosophy minor in the interest of saving a little time. Other majors involve significantly fewer courses. Taking 5 years to complete your undergrad, especially as a transfer, is not unusual. </p>
<p>I don’t think I’ll have a summer off through my entire undergrad, but that’s ok with me.</p>
<p>wow, at least your major is employable, I am doing foreign language with consumer science…i just decided to add the consumer science. I am not interested in business, accounting…etc…all the employable things that could be a good pair for foreign language, and international relations/studies seems unemployable. I mixes health and human rights and psychology and finances…seems employable and could even get me a job oversees…plus i can get a lot of it done an my cc, which is why in know realize i have more to do than expected! I appreciate your feedback, and good luck to you. You seem to be a content and confident young lad. (lad because i am guessing you are male since statistically males dominate this field)</p>
<p>sure! I took 5 classes last summer to stay on time for transferring this spring…my CC doesn’t distinguish between online and in person on the transcript! Major winning…find out how yours does it…also myedu . com >>>> ratemyprofessor gives you straight grade distributions…none of this subjective stuff</p>
<p>my schools doens’t either, I feel we are going to look back and see how lucky we were for that though- no distinction between online and not online. Someone can do a JC all online basically.</p>