<p>I'm Currently attending a JC in San Diego and wanted to know if I'm on the right track to finishing my pre-req classes. I'm applying as an Engineering major (Civil Engineering). Here is how my courses look since coming into college.</p>
<p>Summer of 2009/2010
Stats 119 - A
Trig - A
Intro Art - B </p>
<p>Total units = 9
*AP US - 3 </p>
<p>Semister 1: Fall 2010
Eng 49 - P
Precal - P
Intro Chem L/L (lecture/lab) - P </p>
<p>Total units = 13 (I took all the classes for pass/no pass since it wasn't transferable/major courses)</p>
<p>Planned schudule for the future- </p>
<p>Semister 2: Spring 2011
Calc
Eng 101
Chem 200 L/L</p>
<p>Spring of 2012
Calc 3
Physics Elctricity and Magnetism
Intro to Geography</p>
<p>Total units = 13</p>
<p>Summer of 2012 (Maybe take summer classes )
Linear Algebra
Physics Waves and Optics
Intro to Humanities</p>
<p>Total units = 13</p>
<p>Going with this plan will i finish the pre-req for UCLA, CAL and UCSD? Also if i pull of 3.8 whats my chances for acceptance. any input or suggestions are welcomed. </p>
<p>do you got san diego mesa college? i think if you do pull the 3.8 you’ll be able to get in, but dang english 49, and your chem 152 is transferable?</p>
<p>The courses you’re planning to take in Summer 2012 are useless for ADMISSIONS PURPOSES. UCs only accept courses taken up to the spring semester for consideration when admitting you. Besides, I’ve yet to find a CC that offers Linear Algebra and Optics/Modern Physics in the summer.</p>
<p>yeah you only have like fifty-five units by spring 2012. you need to have to sixty by then. (AP US included but that’s like 4.8 units right?) and trig is not transferable</p>
<p>The short answer is probably not for: UCLA and BERKELEY. However, since your major (CE) is not impacted at UCSD, you should be fine there even if you miss one or two pre-reqs, provided you have a reasonably good gpa (3.5ish or more).</p>
<p>For UCLA and Cal, you have very little chance of being admitted without completing all the pre-reqs (provided your CCC offers them), no matter what your gpa. I’m an Electrical Engineering major and I know for me Linear Algebra was a requirement at both. Optics/Modern physics on the other hand was required by UCLA, but not Berkeley. The best way to determine this is to go to:</p>
<p>That makes sense since those lower math classes are basically ones a student should have taken in high school and shouldn’t be used to pad a gpa.</p>
<p>@victor555, so you telling me that I have to finish the whole math series up differential and finish the Physics series to have a shot at UCLA and CAL?</p>
<p>Yes! For Cal and UCLA you pretty much need to finish all the way up to Differential Eqns, Linear Algebra (as far as I know, virtually all CCs offer these courses. So you can’t get out of this requirement). </p>
<p>Physics is slightly different. It depends on which area of engineering you’re going into…but most require you to take all depending on how your CC organizes your physics courses. At our CC it is a 4-part series: 1)Mechanics of Solids 2)Fluids, Heat, Sound 3)E & M 4)Optics/Modern physics. For the EE major Cal required that I take 1), 2) and 3). For UCLA they required 1), 3) and 4)</p>
<p>But the bottom line is if it is offered at your CC and it’s part of the pre-reqs then you need to take it. Otherwise you will not have much of a chance at UCLA and Cal.</p>