<p>Haha, you're welcome. If the Chem1a course is transferrable via assist.org then you will not have to take Chem1A and can enroll into Chem1B after some clearance. The clearance can be obtained by speaking with the chemistry department or your respective school's counselor. However, you can not get any exemptions for the pre-calculus exam with a pre-calculus course from a community college. It is possible to work with that if you bug some counselors about that, but I wouldn't recommend it since you're an incoming freshman.</p>
<p>sweetdream:</p>
<p>You can choose any major you want and it will not stick to you officially until junior year. You definitely don't need to be sure what your major will be. If you decide to try engineering as your major you will not have to stick without until junior year of course. There are ways around leaving your major past junior year, but, trust me, don't worry about that now.</p>
<p>i found out that i got a 3 in CalculusBC exam..</p>
<p>do i still need to take any kind of math placement tests?</p>
<p>in regards to fulfilling writing courses...</p>
<p>if i start out with writing 39A...how long do i have to take english classes until i fulfill my breadth req? and if i start out with writing 37? what do you recommend?</p>
<p>i got ton of ap tests that will only give me elective credit...how does this elective credit help me out? does this mean that i could take fewer elective courses than required?</p>
<p>as a bio major.. how many and what kind of classes are taken generally?</p>
<p>1) Your 3 in Calculus BC places you in Math 2B automatically, and you are not required to take the precalculus placement exam.</p>
<p>2) Even if you do Writing 39A, you will still have to take 39B-C to fulfill your lower requirement, along with any upper-division writing class. So your choices are: 39B-C, 37 and 39C, Humanities Core 1A-B-C, or 39B and a FYIP class. After that, you have to take one upper-division writing course. My reccomendation: as a bio major, it seems most fitting to take humcore 1A-B-C if you think you are up to the challenge(it's a freshman only class, but it'll be filled with those actually majoring in the liberal arts.</p>
<p>3) I'm in the same boat as you with the AP tests. All of that elective credit does nothing toward your breadth requirements or major requirements. It does, however, give you more overall units, so your status will be higher than those with fewer to no APs. If you took enough APs, you may be up to sophomore or even junior status in AP credits alone. This will allow you to pick your classes earlier than the others as your status is higher than their's.</p>
<p>4) A sample program of the average bio major can be seen a bit more than halfway down, here: <a href="http://www.editor.uci.edu/07-08/bio/bio.2.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.editor.uci.edu/07-08/bio/bio.2.htm</a>
In general, you will need to take Bio Sci 93 and Chem 1A for sure. Bio Sci 2A is recommended but not required. Then you can fill your time with either HumCore 1A-B-C, a FYIP (First-Year Integrated Program) class, or any other courses you want to fulfill your breadth requirements.</p>
<p>5) You register for classes at orientation or, if you do not go to SPOP/Mini SPOP, in the fall a week before school, on WebReg.</p>
<p>From what I hear, the Arroyo Vista Housing is nice, but then, I don't go to UCI yet.... Perhaps Jas0n or Kadya knows. The closest buildings to those apartments are the ARC, then the social science buildings, though Arroyo is considerably farther from the social science buildings than, say, Middle Earth.</p>
<p>corporateflea:</p>
<p>If you don't feel that comfortable with your writing skills, you can follow that course. While 39A does nothing toward your req, it may help transition you into college writing. From the sounds of it, you may want to consider Humanities 1A-C if you feel like your skills are up to snuff, as it also removes many other breadth requirements.</p>
<p>As for foreign language, if you have already completed 3 years in high school(most likely), then you do not need to do anymore.</p>
<p>You seem to know a lot. Do you have family members at UCI? I appreciate the contributions.</p>
<p>libertyskate93:</p>
<p>Arroyo Vista is decent, but, honestly, I prefer dorms especially for the food. AV is more for 2nd years and such. It's more of an apartment style. I haven't really seen much of AV so I can't say. There is a shuttle that comes to AV every 10 minutes to take you to the campus so you don't have to walk. Walking would be brutal.</p>
<p>The measurements change a lot, especially in middle earth. Mesa Court is more consistent. For MC pics look around for blinkblink's threads. She posted a bunch of pics of her dorm. It looks just like mine haha. All beds at UCI are twin extra long. We are not provided any bed stuff.</p>
<p>You can rearrange your room. The problem will be the outlets. The room is configured so that the current arrangement is efficient with the room's structure.</p>
<p>jas0n: No, I have no family at or from UCI. I spent a lot of time studying the catalogue regarding possible majors, so a lot stuck with me. Plus I have nothing better to do. I do what I can to help.</p>
<p>Your first quarter's schedule looks good. However, it's going to be alot of work with that ICS course. It's 6 units because of the programming projects you have to do. You'll be dealing with C++ and Java. This is a first part of a series of 3 introductory courses. Have fun :].</p>
<p>Can you answer this as soon as possible jason? Okay I signed up for 3 placement tests on this Thursday but now I'm not so sure I will need any of them anymore. First, for Chem I got a 3 on AP Chem last year. For precal test, I got a 4 on AP Calculus BC and I don't know why I signed up for Spanish test. How come I don't see any freshmen having language as one of their class? Isn't required? If I'm not gonna have place for spanish then why bother taking the placement test right? Anyways do you think I should go down there this thursday? Thanks a lot for taking your time.</p>
<p>Your son has a pretty good schedule running for him. I took the same classes except my programming class was EECS 10 and I took an additional course in anthropology. Because there are courses in math, science, and programming (he will be learning fortran), the 13 unit load won't be as easy as it seems for a freshman. </p>
<p>sweetdream:</p>
<p>You will need to take at least the chem placement test. A 3 on the AP chem test does not suffice. You will want to take chem 1A asap if you are a chem/bio major. As for the language requirement, if you did not complete 3 years of one foreign language in high school you must take a class of the 1C level. If you have not fulfilled the language requirement via high school and you place into Spanish 1C, you can sign up for that course and use it to fulfill your GE requirement for a foreign language.</p>