<p>So I'm planning to attend berkeley this fall. I'm majoring in chemistry, and planning to take Chemistry 4a at berkeley. I heard it is a difficult course, and I haven't taken chem AP at my school, since it isn't offered. So taking a chemistry course this summer would help me build my chemistry foundation, but i heard it would hurt my admissions when I apply for graduate school. I'm pondering if I should or not. hmm</p>
<p>On the 4A website, it says you need high school chemistry and calculus, so that probably means something like AP chemistry. If you’re worried about not being prepared, and you don’t think self-studying would be enough, then I don’t see how taking a community college class would hurt your chances for anything. I think the only issue is when you take one of your major classes at a community college. As long as you take the intro series at Berkeley (in your case, 4A/B, which you’re planning to do), then there shouldn’t be an issue.</p>
<p>Why would it hurt your chances at grad school?</p>
<p>I didn’t take AP chem at my school, since we don’t have it and stuff. Yea I wanna be prepare myself.. since it’s been a while since I did chemistry. I don’t wanna be failing right out of the gates.. im scared >.< </p>
<p>Dunno..does grad school look down on an applicant if they took courses at a community college?</p>
<p>Not really. I know a lot of people that did a few of their lower-level courses at a community college over the summer to save a few bucks on tuition.</p>
<p>I’m not gonna use it for credit or anything. I just wanna brush up my chemistry before going to berkeley this fall.</p>
<p>And that’s why I can’t fathom any reason why it would be a problem. As I said, it would only possibly be an issue (but probably not at all with intro courses) if you’re taking major classes at a community college. But as you’re taking 4A/B at Berkeley (and hence you won’t use the cc class for credit), then there’s nothing at all that could do anything to affect graduate school admissions.</p>
<p>Off-topic: Is there any way to quote someone? Like with VB boards there’s usually a “quote” button. Am I missing something?</p>
<p>…then just don’t tell your graduate schools that you took the course at a CC, if it makes you feel better.</p>
<p>i took some CC classes myself, to get rid of some UCSD GEs, and in the hubbub of grad school applications, completely forgot to send the transcripts to any of my schools. they never asked, and i never reminded them.</p>
<p>if you just want to do the course for knowledge, try auditing? that why theres not pressure to get an A or B or anything. or jsut stay in the class as long as you can and then drop at the last minute. dont say anything to the teacher and just keep going to class, etc.</p>
<p>? auditing? just sit in there and listen? there’s like only 24 students in the class.. lol hmm</p>
<p>Taking a CC course is only a disadvantage if you are transferring the credit to get out of taking the “equivalent” (read: much more rigorous and difficult) course at a university like Berkeley. You don’t intend to transfer the credit at all, so just enroll at the CC. It probably costs less than $100 anyway.
Sarbruis, if you click the blue “Reply” link, the quote tag will be automatically inserted into the message box so you can see what they look like.</p>
<p>yea. alright. i understand now. gracias.</p>
<p>All the reply button does for me is send me down to the quick reply box, and checking “quote message in reply?” does nothing. Nor does clicking Go Advanced. It’s probably a browser issue or something.</p>
<p>basically it is like an html tag, except that you use the square brackets instead. The tag is called “quote” and you have an open tag before the quote and a closing tag after it. <quote>Like this</quote> except with square brackets instead of the <s and=“”>s</s></p><s and=“”>
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<p>Right. I’m just used to forums quoting a post for me automatically, instead of me manually entering the tags. It’s not a big deal; I was just wondering if I had missed something.</p>