<p>I am planning to transfer to UCLA as a junior in their mathematics/economics major (UCSD's joint mathematics/economics major is my backup).</p>
<p>I'm attending Sacramento City College which is one of four comunity colleges in the 'Los Rios Community College District.' Due to budget cuts, I cannot take all of the classes I need to this spring semester at Sacramento City College - I have to take Calculus II at another college in the district (Consumnes River College).</p>
<p>This CC district doesn't merge transcripts, so if I take a class at CRC, I will have two separate transcripts. Will it look bad if I only have one class at CRC and have to submit a transcript for that when all of my other classes are at SCC?</p>
<p>Do UC's (or any University for that matter) automatically merge the transcripts and re-calculuate the actual GPA (taking into account grade point weights as it will be a 5 unit class)? My biggest concern is that I have currently a 3.7ish GPA at SCC, and I am trying to get it to the 3.8+ range before transferring, and Calculus II is virtually a guaranteed A for me, and if I take it at CRC it won't help my GPA at SCC...</p>
<p>I know it's a trivial question, but I don't want to take any chances...</p>
<p>Thanks! And sorry if this has been answered before...</p>
<p>No it will not look bad if you only took one class at the other community college. In fact it will look good because it shows you’re being proactive and willing to go to another college to complete your pre-reqs. </p>
<p>Also the UC’s do merge your transcripts and calculate the GPA of all the classes you’ve taken at ALL colleges. Say you had a 4.0 GPA at Community College but you had 4’s and 1 B in your first semester at another community college. The UCs will calculate those grades from the other college and your transferable GPA will be around a 3.9</p>
<p>Your GPA is already competitive for Math/Econ majors and as long as your pre-reqs are completed you should be in at UCLA.</p>
<p>Math/Econ was speculated to have a lot more applicants than last year because:
UCLA told CCC counselors to encourage people to apply to Math/Econ rather than BizEcon or Econ
People realize it’s easier to get into Math/Econ
Nevertheless, I predict the admissions rate for the major will still be fairly high (>45%)</p>
<p>I hope people pick Math/Econ with the intention of staying in it, because it would be very difficult to switch into Econ on BizEcon and, as the name implies, Math/Econ has a lot of Math that is not so much like lower division(IMO, the gap between lower division and upper division Math is pretty large). Since the OP has Math/Econ at UCSD I would assume that he/she indeed wants Math/Econ.</p>
<p>I agree with the statement I quoted; prereqs are important. Hopefully you’re applying for Fall 2011 because only having Calc I completed at the time of applying (Fall 09) is bad. Luckily, the bare minimum one has to have completed by Spring 2010 without being auto-rejected from any Mathematics major is 2 semesters of Calculus. It’s still possible to get in without Calc III, DE, LA, Discrete, and CS, but without at least 3/5 of those one’s chance is slim, even with TAP. I assume you completed Econ 1,2 because 6 months ago you posted about how you wanted to be an Econ major at UCLA.</p>
<p>I’m almost positive that it will not effect your admission chances if you take different classes at different schools. Some of my friends go to ARC, FLC, and SCC at the same time. Maybe I’ll see you around at ARC :P</p>
<p>Hehe…I don’t really remember what I posted 6 months ago!</p>
<p>But yes, I am in fact interested in coupling my economics degree with mathematics, since I will be going to graduate school immediately after my undergraduate degree; so I’m not looking for a ‘practical’ degree like business economics per se.</p>
<p>And yes, I will be applying for the Fall 2011 semester; at that time I will have all of the prerequisites on ASSIST completed (calculus I, II, III, linear algebra, differential equations and an introduction to analysis/discrete mathematics offered by my school) in addition to micro/macroeconomics, etc.</p>
<p>I know this isn’t necessarily the thread/post to be discussing this…but I’m getting the impression from your post that the Math/Econ major at UCLA isn’t as rigourous, useful, prestigious, etc. (for lack of a specific word here)…My reasoning behind taking it, as I said, is because I am planning to go to graduate school to major in something like finance, international business, MBA, etc. I feel (and UCSD and other Universities seem to think so) that coupling a major like economics, business, etc. with one in mathematics is a very good idea (especially since modern economics relies so heavily on mathematics). I also enjoy math a ton, and even considered engineering, but I am more inclined to go into business/finance.</p>
<p>I might as well also ask…what type of math is taken in the Math/Econ major at UCLA/UCSD? Is it mostly applied mathematics for economics, or is it advanced mathematics courses that say math majors would take (real/complex analysis, functional analysis, topology, abstract algebra, etc.)?</p>
<p>And…finally - I was also planning to apply to the International Area Studies Economics major. I’ve been studying Korean for the last 4 years (have the prereq classes takenf or it as well) and will be learning Japanese/Chinese in the future. What is the level of math in this specific major - is it a good preparation for graduate school?</p>
<p>Ah, all right. Keep your GPA high and you should have no problem getting in. </p>
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<p>No not at all. The Math/Econ major is definitely more rigorous and just as (if not more) useful and prestigious than the other degrees. Math/Econ is excellent preparation for graduate studies finance, econ, or even an MBA. </p>
<p>I apologize for wording my post wrong. I was just trying to say that it is NOT a good idea to try to apply to this major if you are the type that wants Econ or BizEcon. I’ve read posts in the past where people were thinking they could get in as this and switch once they were in. Math/Econ is not really like Econ or BizEcon, and I will explain below.</p>
<p>Also, as I noted in my above post, I already assumed this didn’t apply to you as with UCSD you can get into a lot of majors with TAG and you picked Math/Econ.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure about UCSD.
But at UCLA, Math/Econ requires
Math 115 - Linear Algebra
Math 131A - Analysis
These two classes are typical for Mathematics majors. </p>
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<li>Math 170A or Stats 100A</li>
<li><p>Math 170B or Stats 100B
These two classes are also typical for most Math majors, and various other majors. The Stats series is suppose to be easier, but I just heard that from students there. These two classes would be useful for finance and econ.</p></li>
<li><p>Math (110A or 117), 164, 167, 174</p></li>
<li><p>Math (110A or 117), 164, 167, 174
Algebra, Optimization, Game Theory, or Mathematics of Finance. Out of the 4, 2 are required. I recommend one of these being Math 167 - Mathematical Game Theory.
I would also recommend Math 174 - Mathematics of Finance. </p></li>
<li><p>Math elective/Stat elective (100C - 101BC)</p></li>
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<p>Next, the economics part of the upper division requirements.
Econ 101
Econ 102
Micro/Macro</p>
<p>3.Econ 103, 141A-148, Math 174 (can only be used once)
4.Econ 103, 141A-148, Math 174 (can only be used once)
5.Econ 103, 141A-148, Math 174 (can only be used once)
The 141A-148 series is a lot of quantitative math-based econ. Econ 103 is also quantitative and uses some statistics and lower division calculus.</p>
<p>Hey, I go to Sac City too!! (I’m also a cheerleader there) and I will be taking classes at CRC next semester…anyway, no you don’t need to worry taking an extra class at CRC because on the UC website (and on other resources) they require you to give ALL your transcripts to UCLA or whatever school you are going to, even if dropped a class from there…they want to know all the colleges you enrolled them. Sometimes classes for your major or GE that aren’t offered in your school might be in the other one…so yeah. good luck and hope you get in!!</p>
<p>haha I went to all 4 los rios colleges! It’s pretty common to go to multiple CCs, and they don’t look at your official transcripts anyway when they’re evaluating your app. The problem comes when you apply to grad school and you have to send 6 transcripts, some of which have only 1 or 2 classes :/</p>