<p>I'm hoping to transfer to Berkeley as a physics major next year, but i'll have a single major prerequisite missing by the end of spring semester (IGETC will be complete). Is this an automatic rejection, or just a disadvantage when it comes to admissions? </p>
<p>If it helps, the missing class will be differential equations.</p>
<p>[ASSIST</a> Report: BERKELEY 13-14 UCB Articulation Agreement by Major](<a href=“http://web1.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=19&dir=1&sia=BERKELEY&ria=UCB&ia=BERKELEY&oia=UCB&aay=13-14&ay=13-14&dora=PHYSICS]ASSIST”>http://web1.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=19&dir=1&sia=BERKELEY&ria=UCB&ia=BERKELEY&oia=UCB&aay=13-14&ay=13-14&dora=PHYSICS) says “Complete as many lower division major requirements as possible.” But completing them all should be more favorable, at least.</p>
<p>What would prevent you from completing that one last math course? Note that Berkeley Math 54 includes both linear algebra and differential equations, so if you complete either linear algebra or differential equations but not both, you’ll end up repeating that anyway.</p>
<p>“Note that Berkeley Math 54 includes both linear algebra and differential equations, so if you complete either linear algebra or differential equations but not both, you’ll end up repeating that anyway.”
Right, but i’m not sure whether or not admissions takes that into account, or just sees ‘1 or 2 missing major pre-reqs’.</p>
<p>“What would prevent you from completing that one last math course?”
I could take it in principle, but it would end up being a fairly heavy course load (Classical Mechanics, Modern Phys, Lin Alg, Diffy Qs and English). I’ll push myself if it’s worth it, if not i’ll live with one missing course.</p>
<p>That course load seems like a typical normal course load (4 courses, counting linear algebra and differential equations as one course). Do you expect to be working a lot at the same time?</p>
<p>No, but it exceeds the maximum course allotment during registration at my CC (differential equations and linear algebra are separate courses there). I will try and crash differential equations or linear algebra, but it’s most likely that they will be full by the time the semester starts.</p>