<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I'm anticipating a MCB:Genetics and Psych double major. I want to try and graduate as early as possible.</p>
<p>I recieved 5s on ap chem and ap calc ab, and also 800s on math2c and chem. I've also taken ochem as a senior elective in high school.</p>
<p>Should I go ahead and take the harder, weeder courses for my first semester? I plan to do a little prepping this summer.</p>
<p>Advice for the bio track would also be appreciated (5 on ap, 770 on sat2).</p>
<p>Also, I'm not considering pre-med.</p>
<p>i'm in the same situation, i have to choose between the easier/difficult path, but i don't want to overload on my course schedule. I'm a bio-engineering major and probably want to take some Haas pre-reqs just in case i decide business is for me. how rigorous a schedule does it look for me? I'm thinking maybe math 1a and chem 3, since i took calc BC (and got the 5) my junior year in high school, and Chemp AP with a 5 my senior year</p>
<p>How do you already know you got a 5 on ap chem your senior year or are you that confident?</p>
<p>TropicalTriceps, what kind of prepping are you going to do this summer?</p>
<p>i wouldn't advise going onto chem 3 without taking chem 1a at Berkeley. Sorry but a 5 on AP chem is not going to prepare you. I think you would be left behinde and the profs only talk about chem 1a in about 1 hour. I never took AP chem but my friends who did told me that AP chem only helped for the first week or two in chem 1a.</p>
<p>My friend went straight to chem 3a and earned an A-. Just one story out of many.... :). Unless you are pre-med, there isn't any big reason why you should take chem 1a (you can always brush up on those general chemistry concepts later on).</p>
<p>ok yes but for the general student i wouldn't advise it.</p>
<p>i got a 5 on the AP calc AB test junior year. i was going to skip into math 1b but im starting to wonder if i should. ive heard a lot of bad things about math 1b and im afraid that i'll have forgotten some of the stuff i learned in calculus. so am i better off just taking math 1a? btw, im a MCB so i just have to take one year of math.
Thanks</p>
<p>i got a 5 also on AP calc AB and I decided to take Math 1A and let me tell you it was a good idea. The reason why I sugggest this: My Math 1B teacher would take off 9/10 point on a midterm question if you made a Math 1A mistake and let me tell you this really hurts. Anyways taking Math 1A will only help you because you will probably get a better grade and will prepare u better for Math 1B much better that Calc AB in HS.</p>
<p>lomeg, what do you mean a Math 1a mistake?</p>
<p>Well in math 1b a lot of the material from math 1a is used. Thus, my prof would take 9/10 points off a midterm question if you made a math 1a mistake. For example if you messed up on integrating or taking a derivative the you would get 1/10. And the derivatives and integrals on the tests were tough (they were no like the integrals and derivatives in Calc AB).</p>
<p>ok thanks. i guess i will take math 1a. i heard haiman is a pretty good teacher</p>
<p>Out of curiousity, did you have Ratner for math 1b? Any math 1a teacher besides Liu is fine lol.</p>
<p>i'm an engineering-undeclared student who's probably going to major in EECS. chem 1a is the only required chem course. should i go ahead and take chem 1a even though i got a 5 on the chem ap test?</p>
<p>What about Math AP BC. If I have 5 on it is it still recommendable to take Math 1a</p>