<p>I made one of these and it's on the 2nd page right now, but because I can't edit my first post I thought I'd do it again. I'm a freshman in L&S, leaning towards MCB, premed, but not really sure at all. I'm a little lacking on my units from AP/IB because I messed up my IB tests</p>
<p>Fall Schedule right now:</p>
<p>Chem 1A - 4 Units
Math 1A - Borcherds - 4 Units
Anthro 2AC - Wilkie - 4 Units
History 7A - Peterson - 4 Units</p>
<p>Is this a good amount of units? Too much? Any opinions?</p>
<p>it is doable, if you are premed I would strongly recommend Math 16A though</p>
<p>Math 1A would probably be more interesting though. And it’s doable to get an A. I guess it depends what your priority is.</p>
<p>If you want to be an MCB major, then I’m pretty sure you need to take 1A and not 16A. Otherwise, most other premed majors only require 16A.</p>
<p>I like your schedule. It’s simple and well balanced. Shouldn’t be bad at all.</p>
<p>Take 1A only if you didn’t get a 5 on the Calc BC test. If you got a 5 though just take 16A… 1A is doable but not worth the effort. :P</p>
<p>^ Oh yes, I agree. I keep forgetting that people retake classes. If you already are familiar with calculus, do the easiest thing to pass the requirement, or, if you can, just take 1B or 53.</p>
<p>Math 1A with Borcherds is an easy A. His classes have interesting structure. He’ll tell on the first day of class that all his tests will simply be based on questions from the book or his practice exams with some variation because he’s too lazy to write his own stuff. Last time he taught Math 1A something like 50% of the class got As. His lectures…well…He’s going to lecture about Calc AB stuff while calling upon concepts and examples from upper division math and maybe at some point in time he’ll let slip that everything you learn in that class is useless once you’ve learned some particular upper div math technique. He also writes very fast so taking notes is like a timed writing workout. If you get an easy GSI, this class should be a piece of cake. </p>
<p>Then again…I’m qualifying myself by saying that this is from my own personal experience, but I’m sure there were still people who struggled in his class. To be utterly honest, if you don’t know Calc AB stuff, taking Borcherds would mean you’d kind of have to figure it out yourself with help from your GSI. I found Borcherds lectures to be really interesting (if you like hearing about upper div math things) and funny (He doesn’t really mean to be and it helps that he’s British), but the vast majority of my classmates thought his lectures were utterly useless and had to learn the material on their own or by attending another professor’s lectures (The other professor was a great lecturer if you needed to learn the material but she taught in a different order).</p>
<p>I forgot to mention about my math background. Math has always been one of my better subjects, if not the best. Junior year I took IB Math 2/SL, which was some Statistics and Calculus. Senior year I took AP Calc, and got a 5 on the AB Test</p>
<p>And I want to leave my options open</p>
<p>If you’re really confident about your math ability, go into 1b though you may want to sit in on a class or two to gauge your readiness before you make any actual changes to your schedule.</p>