<p>^Like I said before, unless I’m missing something which in that case correct me, it’s highly unlikely you will get into any bio labs until your 3rd or 4th year. And it doesn’t matter when you take them.</p>
<p>I know you’re planning on taking BILD; I just meant that I don’t see why the school you’re transferring to wouldn’t be fine with you retaking it, even if you don’t get credit for it. It still shows on your transcript, so the school you’re transferring to should be fine.</p>
<p>But yeah, it’s going to be rough going getting into the labs, so best of luck. I don’t have much experience with it personally because I had priority registration, but I had a lot of friends that had to wait until they were upperclassmen to take the bio labs.</p>
<p>BIMM 116 is definitely not a lab, as far as I know, and BIMM 149 might have a computer lab type component but whether or not the school you’re transferring to would accept that is up to them. I would ere on the side of BIMM 149 not being counted, but you could always ask. I know I’ve seen labs fill up the day registration opened, so you’re just going to have to cross your fingers and hope for the best, really.</p>
<p>Also, the biology websites shows what classes are being offered which quarter, if you haven’t seen that. That can help you figure out what you’re going to do. They don’t show what times classes are offered (that comes out around fifth week, I think, when the schedule of classes is released), but it might help you plan out your year.</p>
<p>Are you planning on transferring after your first year (i.e. your second year would be at the school you’re transferring to)? If that’s the case, you probably won’t even get to CHEM 140A, if you’re starting with CHEM 6A again. I don’t know how difficult the courses were because I got AP credit for the gen chem sequence, but I do know that gen chem really doesn’t have that much to do with o-chem (at least, not directly). I had about two years in between when I took gen chem and when I took o-chem (took AP Chem my junior year and took o-chem my second year), and I didn’t have any problem with o-chem. I think you might have to take the CHEM 6 sequence anyway, since you got a 3 though.</p>
<p>I’ll be transferring in as a sophomore.</p>
<p>Eh after what happened on the AP chem exam day, I get nauseous whenever I think of taking chem again. (So I’m really perfectly fine with taking 6A other than the fact that it’s putting me behind, by kind of a lot.)</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll send the other school another email that I’m almost perfectly certain I won’t be able to take any labs.</p>
<p>Welp thanks for all your help stranger. We tried but there’s only so much a freshman can ask for eh?</p>
<p>HA I knew it. This time someone with an ACTUAL name responded to me. Unfortunately, I can’t take any course that won’t give me credit. So no BILD for me. But fortunately, I have the option of taking a year of chem instead. But unfortunately, all of the chem sections I can take have pretty big waitlists. And lastly, it looks like they’re going to be more lenient on the “labs” part of the requirements.</p>
<p>What to do…</p>
<p>Well, that’s something at least, haha. Could you take CHEM 6AH? I know you said you weren’t comfortable with chemistry but there’s one section that only has 1 person on the waitlist, when I looked.</p>
<p>If you’re low on a chem waitlist, you might still be able to get in, but you never know with waitlists, unfortunately.</p>
<p>I’m assuming you already asked they accepted AP credit? It seems ridiculous that they wouldn’t let it count even though you’re still getting a grade for it and all. Is it a units issue? Perhaps, you could take a year of upper-division biology in lieu of taking BILD.</p>
<p>Yeah how difficult is Chem 6AH?
According to UCSD associated students, 49 and 58% of students who had Weare for 6AH got A’s. But a lot of CCers say 6AH is “get your butt ready to be kicked” hard.</p>
<p>Do you think I’m likely to get in if I’m waitlist #2? I’m considering taking it this first quarter and just taking the regular chem 6b in the winter?</p>
<p>Also if I take chem 6AH (TuTh 12:30- 1:50), it’s gonna conflict with my MMW from (TuTh 12:30- 1:50)- wow I JUST noticed they’re at exactly the same time. Should I just take Jordan MWF 1:00- 1:50? Rate my professor, CC, UCSD associated students and webreg says he sux… But it’s just MMW 1, so it won’t be too horrible right?</p>
<p>I’m #2 on the waitlist for BIBC 103 (MW 8:00- 1:00, F 8:00- 8:50)… and if I do end up getting into that, I’ll be late to Jordan. Everytime. And if he’s the angry type, sigh…</p>
<p>“I’m assuming you already asked they accepted AP credit? It seems ridiculous that they wouldn’t let it count even though you’re still getting a grade for it and all. Is it a units issue? Perhaps, you could take a year of upper-division biology in lieu of taking BILD.”</p>
<p>AP credit for what? bio? They’re not accepting AP bio credit. And probably not chem. Even if they did my score probs doesn’t qualify.
I was just about to send the other school an email if I could take upper-div biology instead of BILD, 'cause they just told me in the last email (the one I was so happy about) that I have to get credit from the bio class. Yeah well I imagine they would want me to get credit for it because they don’t count my AP score as credit. At SD, I’m only wasting my time if I take BILD when I have AP bio credit, but at the school I’m transferring to, they don’t count AP bio credit, so it’s like when I move there, I have a GPA, but I have no credit from the class (SD doesn’t give) OR AP bio (new school doesn’t count).</p>
<p>I didn’t know I would ever REGRET taking AP and college classes. Dangit!
This on top of my enrollment time being Aug 30 (is Aug 30 common?), really screwed me over. Are enrollment times assigned randomly? Or is it cause I have a lot of credits (48) for a freshman?</p>
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<p>I mean, you probably have a better shot than being #20 on the waitlist. I’d like to think that you have a relatively decent shot being #1 or 2, but you just never know. I didn’t take CHEM 6AH, so I wouldn’t know what the difficulty level is. But it sounds like you’re in a bind, since you have to take CHEM 6A this quarter if you want to transfer (unless they’ll let you take a class over the summer and then transfer?). So whether it’s difficult or not, if you can’t get into CHEM 6A, you have to take it and just do your best.</p>
<p>And since you have to take CHEM 6A of some sort this quarter, I’d change the MMW section because again, whether he’s a bad professor or not, if you have to take the class, you have to take the class. If you can get into CHEM 6A, that’s great. But if you can’t you have to readjust.</p>
<p>Also, lab sections tend to get out early. You can usually leave as soon as you finish our work for the day, so you may get out early and have time to make it to your MMW class. Especially since you know, you have class right after lab, you could make sure to work a little faster so that you can get out at least ten minutes early. There may be the occasional lab that takes up the whole time, but I always left early in every lab I took. It’s pretty simple as long as you don’t have to redo anything or something.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I meant that since they are requiring you to take biology for credit and UCSD won’t let you take it for credit because they consider AP bio to be the equivalent of BILD, would they take the transfer credit that UCSD awards you. It seems pretty silly that they don’t, since UCSD considers their general bio class to be the same as AP bio (hence the transfer credit they give). So yeah, that sucks, since if you didn’t take AP bio, you could have just taken BILD and it would have been the same to this transfer school, apparently, lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you can take upper-div bio classes in place of BILD, that’d really be best, and it’d probably prepare you better for your courses when you transfer. Would you still have to take Chem if you take the upper-div bio classes? Because if you can take any old bio class, that would probably be easier. And if they allow that, then in my opinion, it’s a good thing that you took AP bio. You’ll get a chance to take more advanced coursework, and even if you can’t get out of taking those courses at your new school, you’ll be more experienced and more knowledgeable about those subjects.</p>
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<p>Unless they’ve changed it since I was a freshmen, the first enrollment time (fall of your first year) is random during the new freshman enrollment period (continuing students already enrolled in spring). But after that, it’s determined by the number of units you have. And they have that two-pass system now, I think? So enrollment will be in two waves, which is good for freshman (but sucks for upperclassmen, haha, I’m still bitter…).</p>
<p>Yup, it seems silly because technically, the fact that UCSD exempts students from BILD 1, 2, 3 means that SD thinks students learn BILD 123 content from AP Bio, but on paper, it doesn’t work out that way.
And no, they’re not letting me take a class over summer. I had the option to take a summer class before freshman year, but I’m out of the country right now and had an internship so…</p>
<p>The reason Chem 6AH sounds so appealing to me right now is that I don’t have to worry about whether xyz bio class fulfills abc requirements. And yes they gave me the option of taking one year of chemistry INSTEAD of bio.
But I realize honors may be really difficult. I did take AP Phys, Chem, Bio, and Calc I & II in my junior and senior years. I’m hoping that’s enough to get me an A-/B+ without too much difficulty. argh but CC people are so smart! And when they say something is difficult, it’s probably lick your elbow impossible.</p>
<p>I’m going to email the other school again and tell them my options. If I go the upper div bio route, I’ll have to email them several times to ask if this or that bio class will fulfill requirements. But I think they’ll tell me to just take chem 'cause they prob don’t want to hold my hand every quarter.
Truthfully, they didn’t present me with an upper-div bio option, but what else can they do for me if Chem is full and SD isn’t going to give me credit for BILD that the other school requires? (If the rhetorical question wasn’t clear: upper-div bio)</p>
<p>Here’s my plan: MMW 11, Chem 6AH (WL 2), BIBC 103 (WL 2), Genetics or another upper div, less specialized class.
Worst case scenario: I don’t get off the waitlist in more than two classes. (Will I get kicked out? I probably shouldn’t wait the full 2 weeks to drop and take another class right?)
Best case scenario: Chem 6ah is doable, and I get off the BIBC waitlist. Then I’ll scrap upper div bio.</p>
<p>At this point, I don’t think they care if I get the lab or not this quarter. But I’m really eager to take it because I got to work in a lab this summer and what I did there is pertinent to what BIBC 103 is all about.</p>
<p>You won’t get kicked out if you don’t get off the waitlist, but you’d drop down to part-time status. Whether or not that works for you depends on your particular situation (financial aid, scholarships, the amount of units you need to transfer, etc). I’d recommend adding another class when school starts and the unit maximum increases, so you at least have something else to fall back on. Or just make sure you add something before the end of week 2 (deadline to add a class, I believe), if it doesn’t look like you’ll get off the waitlist.</p>
<p>If you can get into CHEM 6, obviously that’d be ideal. You have a decent number of units, so you should be able to get an earlier enrollment time than other first years, so hopefully, you’ll be able to get into the classes you need next quarter. If you have to take upper-div classes to take the place of intro bio, it’s not that hard to find upper-division versions of the lower div classes. I mainly suggested it as a possibility because that’s what medical schools do when they don’t take AP credit, haha.</p>
<p>Right, right. I probably won’t get financial aid. (Which is the same as getting kicked out for me).
I will add another unit. The exact requirement for bio is cell biology and evo biology (according to that last email). I think there might be an “upperdiv equivalent” for evo, but cell bio is so broad…
Shall wait and see and lurk around webreg some more…</p>
<p>BICD 110 (I believe) is Cell Biology and I think there’s intro to ecology or an evolution class in BIEB.</p>
<p>^I looked it up and BIEB 150 is Evolution. BICD 110 is Cell Biology.</p>
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<p>I just thought about this, but if those percentages are representative of the whole class, 50+% of students getting A’s is a FANTASTIC percentage of students getting A’s especially for chemistry.</p>
<p>Yeah I looked them up too. I think both require Chem140A at some point. Or aren’t offered this quarter or somethin.
Yuhh, BICD 110 requires BIBC 100 or BIBC 102 which both require Chem 140A. Technically I can take BIEB 150, but there’s probably a reason I’m not excited. Probably not offered or has a huge waitlist. I would check, but WebReg is currently overflowing I believe. And I can’t find the Blink link with the info on what classes are offered when.</p>
<p>I know right! People seemed REALLY bitter that they got a B+ in Chem 6AH yet, there were probably more A’s than B’s (or the combination of all <A grades) in Weare’s class.
I think people get stressed out 'cause they get like 55%'s on the tests and they later find out that they aren’t failing. HAR. I had a class like that in high school. Got ONE grade over 70% (often got exactly 55% on tests) But by the end of each semester, my grade was curved up to an A. Stressful, but helps you build camaraderie with your class mates.</p>
<p>On the other hand I think like 6A almost never has more than 30% A’s. Though… there is much less data on 6AH… and it could be that only the students who think they’re super prepared for chem are taking it.</p>
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<p>Yeah, in most of my science classes, there was a serious curve, especially o-chem. So you’ll get very used to that feeling, haha.</p>
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<p>According to the AP credits chart, I’m exempt from BILD 1,2,3. But my degree audit says I need BILD 3? I’m so confused… Is it because of my specific major?</p>
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<p>And HA off the waitlist and enrolled in 6AH!</p>
<p>Try contacting your adviser. It could just be an error.</p>
<p>I was a bio major and I got credit for BILD 1, 2, and 3 with an AP score of 5. Unless they’ve changed it since then, it should still be the same for you.</p>
<p>They def didn’t change it 
<a href=“http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu/_files/academics/AP%20IB%20chart.pdf[/url]”>http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu/_files/academics/AP%20IB%20chart.pdf</a>
Craps. Does WIP mean work in progress? I’m enrolled in BILD 2 just in case, and it says WIP next to it.</p>
<p>argh. Do I have an assigned major advisor? Ahh I wanna stop emailing these people.</p>
<p>Nevermind found it.</p>
<p>I always thought bio majors had to take intro bio no matter what; I was actually surprised they allowed bio majors to be exempt from the intro bio courses.</p>