is this schedule easy to handle?

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<p>im an incoming freshman for next fall 2011, and im intended to major psychology major and a pre med student. </p>

<p>Freshman year: </p>

<p>1st semester: Anthro 3AC (4 units), Slavic R5A (4 units), Chem 1A (4 units) , Chem 1AL (1unit) , DeCal pre med 101 (1/2 unit)</p>

<p>2nd semester: Chem 3A (4 units), Chem 3AL (1 unit), Political science 1 (4 units), Asian American Studies 20A (4 units)</p>

<p>which R&C would you recc (idk about Slavic R5A), that is an easy A, i honestly want to take it at a community college, it that a good idea? will it be looked down upon by med school?</p>

<p>Sophomore year: </p>

<p>1st semester: Bio 1B (4 unit), Anthro 1 (4 units), Chem 3B (4 unit), Chem 3BL (1 unit)</p>

<p>2nd semester: Bio 1A (4 units), Bio 1AL (1 units), Math 16A (4 units), Physics 8A (4 units)</p>

<p>junior year:</p>

<p>1st semester: Math 16B (4 units), Physics 8B (4 units), Psychology 101 (4 units), Viet 100A (5 units)</p>

<p>2nd semester: Viet 100B (5 units), Psych elective upper division, psych decade upper division, psych breadth upper division</p>

<p>Senior year:</p>

<p>1st semester: Psych elective upper division, psych decade upper division, Psych elective upper division, Optometry 39B (3 units), Public Health 116 (2 units)</p>

<p>2nd semester: Psych elective upper division, psych decade upper division, MCB 102 (4 units), Public Health 175 (3 units)</p>

<p>can you give opinions on this schedule, and how manageable it is. i want to maintain a high GPA, so i tried to spread out the hard classes..., please help, thanks in advance.
and also, is pre med Decal popular, does it fill up quickly?</p>

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<p>hmmmm this looks like its pretty well balanced to me. but you are missing a few classes. for the quantitative, you need stats 2, 20/21 or math 54/55. have you taken this previously or AP-ed instead?</p>

<p>what is ph 175?</p>

<p>you dont need anthro 1 because 3ac should be sufficient. (1 wouldnt count anyway)</p>

<p>also, psych 101 is a stats course. so it possible, maybe you can switch it for a decade instead so you are not doing three math-heavy classes in one semester. 101 does not have to be taken instantly after you are a declared major as the advisors might have you believe.</p>

<p>thirdly, i dont know if you are aware. but psych breadth is actually a subset of decades and electives. it just means that of the 7 upper divs, they want you to take one from each of the 4 areas (bio/cognition, clinical, dev, social/personality). (as of now, you have 8 non-101 upper divs when you really only are required to have 7 to get the degree)</p>

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<p>so far, i have credits from AP psych and AP stats. </p>

<p>yeah, im kinda confused about my junior and senior year.
i think ph 175 was one of the courses that fulfills the 7 breadth requirements for L&S, i didnt know what else to take.</p>

<p>so instead of anthro 1, should i take integrative biology 35AC? both fulfills the Evolution category for psych major. i just thought anthro 1 would be easier, what do you think?</p>

<p>“thirdly, i dont know if you are aware. but psych breadth is actually a subset of decades and electives. it just means that of the 7 upper divs, they want you to take one from each of the 4 areas (bio/cognition, clinical, dev, social/personality). (as of now, you have 8 non-101 upper divs when you really only are required to have 7 to get the degree)”</p>

<p>can you explain what you mean by this? im a little confused on this part</p>

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<p>Don’t take the premed DeCal, that seems pretty useless right now… Use internet resources to find the info you need to get into med school… That course I heard usually just intimidates most premeds… and plus, wouldn’t help your app much.</p>

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<p>Also, perhaps i am missing something, but i think you should throw in your 16a/1a math course right off the bat seeing as med schools req >1 year of calculus and disregard APs. also these are often pre reqs to upper div science courses.</p>

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<p>Math 16A/16B are 3 units each. Not 4.</p>

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<p>oh, thanks for the correction, i have to add another class to that semester then.</p>

<p>anyone else have any other opinions, these are really helpful so far, thank you guys!!</p>

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<p>How hard is it to get into the psychology major?</p>

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<p>It’s really not that hard as long as you pass the pre-reqs with a 3.2 GPA. </p>

<p>There are a lot of folks in the major though…</p>

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<p>are there any other opinions? i have my calso 2morrow, thanks =]</p>

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<p>is slavic r5A supposed to be really easy?</p>