<p>I'm planning to send an application to Cornell CALS in the spring for Fall 2007, and, as you may know, they have the most complicated and extensive course fulfillment requirements of pretty much any university for transferring. I fulfill all of them, except for a semester of Bio that isn't being offered at my university this semester. Will Cornell look down on me taking the class at the local community college? I'll be taking the non-sequential second semester of Bio at the same time at my university. I called CALS and I got a very ambiguous statement saying they "like" it more when classes are sequential and taken at the same college, but I really have no choice. Are universities like Cornell notorious for being picky about community college units fulfilling transfer credits? Because I would absolutely die if I couldn't apply to CALS because I'm taking Bio I this semester at Pima Community College instead of last semester at the U of Arizona.</p>
<p>Do you have an AP Bio score to excuse you from it?</p>
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Will Cornell look down on me taking the class at the local community college? I'll be taking the non-sequential second semester of Bio at the same time at my university. I called CALS and I got a very ambiguous statement saying they "like" it more when classes are sequential and taken at the same college, but I really have no choice.
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<p>I don't think they would particularly care: an intro course to bio is an intro course to bio is an intro course to bio, no matter where you go. The only substantive difference between taking such a course at a CC and taking it at MIT is the competition, really.</p>
<p>I don't have an AP Bio score, unfortunately. I didn't take the test.</p>
<p>Haha I dont think Cornell looks down on community college credits seeing that I went to school at a community college for two years and then transferred to Cornell CALS. I was sort of in your situation with the ridiculous bio requirements. I am a business major so therefore had no reason to be taking anybio in the first place but I fulfilled both bio requirements. They were actually not offering bio 2 during my last semester so I contacted CALS and they gave me a substitute class that would fulfill the requirement. So persist, persist, persist is what I can tell you. Make it happen and show them how bad you want to be here.</p>
<p>I'd take it at the CC and then explain in your application why you had too--they'll understand.</p>