Okay, could be considered a silly question by everyone else but this has me stumped! Essentially, I am planning to major in BioChemistry, but have been following the IGETC. I will be done with the IGETC requirements this year. I was looking at the UCSD transfer requirements and saw that they require courses such as Chem 6A up to Chem6C, and 7L. Is it not necessary to do IGETC while transferring in a STEM field, as in did I mess up but following it my first year? Seems like a lot of courses that are required for me to transfer to UCSD, I don’t know if it is possible to complete them all in a year, even with summer classes. This has me pretty worried that I spent a year in CC for nothing! Any advice is appreciated.
IGETC is mainly to certify that you finished the lower division GEs, but transfers still wind up taking some additional class or two to fulfill reqs by whichever college you get placed into (I think ERC has a pretty tough writing sequence, Muir has an additional writing class, and Revelle has extra math & science classes you need to take on top of being IGETC certified).
I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking, though. Are you confused about whether or not you took the right courses for a STEM path?
This was answered in my post in the “UC Transfers” section, but basically: Counselors had me on the IGETC path (as a biology major, which my current CC has only the math classes necessary, so… yeah…). So, as a result of researching, I found out that most colleges have the pre-reqs. So, I was mainly asking what to do; stop doing the IGETC and do all the prereqs, or not. Since my goal is to transfer after my sophomore year, I think the answer is clear. I only need 2 or 3 classes, I believe, to finish the IGETC but I am going to focus on the prereqs.