Hey everyone,
I’m a one-year transfer accepted into the University of California, Los Angeles. I have 33.5 CC semester credits, and 60.7 with Advanced Placement classes. This summer, I’m taking 15 semester units at my CC before I start at UCLA. This puts me at 113.55 units by the time I enter UCLA this Fall.
I’m also a political science major, so there are only ten required courses for me to take for my degree; and I need at least 180 to graduate. I was planning on minoring in Entrepreneurship and Film alongside my major, filling up my summer with three classes both next summer, and the summer of 2018 when I graduate. But I just looked at my units, and realized that I might be able to graduate next year (doing all of college in just two years, rather than 4).
My calculation was done this way:
+113.55 units entering (I’m in a position where UCLA will take all of these units because of AP, I confirmed with them).
+17 units Fall (four classes: Intro to Data Analysi, Politics, Theory, and Film, U.S. Intelligence Agencies in Theory and Practice, Crisis Decision Making in U.S. Foreign Policy).
+16 units Winter ( four classes: Peace and War, Screenwriting Fundamentals, U.S> FOreign Policy after September 11, Entertainment Law).
+16 units Spring (four classes: Constitutional Law-Civil Liberties, Negotiation, Mass Media and Elections, Constitutional Law-Rights of the Accused).
+16 units Summer (four classes: Business Plan Development, Writing for Animation Series, Strategy and Conflict, Introduction to art and Technique of Filmmaking).
This puts me at 178.55 units, 1.45 away from graduating Spring 2017 (I’ll be able to find a filler class).
Note that these courses are tentative; as long as I fill up my Poli Sci classes with another one in the same field (American, IR, Theory, etc…) and my film courses with another course in general, I’ll meet the 180 units requirement.
Now my question is, can I do this? I finished CC with a 4.0 and Regents Candidacy to UCLA (didn’t get the scholarship, but found other ones and got financial aid to lend me an almost full ride).
And my other question is, should I do this? I’m trying to keep my GPA at or near a 4.0 for law school. If I’m not taking 16 units a semester, then I’m taking 12 and graduating with two minors (as opposed to zero) as part of the class of 2018. And these minors are relevant to my career goals (entertainment law=film, business=entrepreneurship).