<p>Hi, CC members.#1 I apologize for my username. I made it when I was a kid. </p>
<p>So, I'm attending a community college and have a strong desire to transfer to Cal or UCLA.</p>
<p>I have had plans to transfer as an applied mathematics major but decided to do electrical engineering.
So I thought I'd take a Preparatory Physics: a prerequisite class for "Physics for Scientists and Engineers Series".
Essentially a class that is for students that haven't taken high school physics. It is also a NON-transferring class (if that makes any sense). </p>
<p>Anyway, I thought I'd take it to freshen up my physics and assumed it'd be a breeze so I took it alongside Calc 3 and Discrete mathematics. I could not have been more wrong. Though the material is easy, the professor is rigorous! I'm having a hard time in this class. I currently have a 3.95 and I don't want some non-transferring prep physics class to hurt my GPA. </p>
<p>How much will it hurt me to change the class grading method to be: Pass/Fail instead of the standard letter grade system? Will this severely weaken my application's competitiveness? I seem to do better with Physics that use calculus (the prep class doesn't really make much sense...). If I do Pass/Fail for the prep physics and get A's (fingers crossed) for the Physics for Scientists and Engineers Series, will they overlook the Pass/Fail for prep physics?</p>
<p>TL;DR - I'm a community college student. I am an engineering major and want to transfer to UCLA or Berkeley. I took Prep physics ( a non-transferable class) because its a prereq class for Physics for Scientists and Engineers Series. How much will it affect me to change the method of grading to: Pass/Fail instead of letter grades?</p>
<p>Thanks for reading. Last day to change is this Friday. Help!</p>