<p>Good point about the prereqs. I guess it is worth it to take it in class just because I'll probably get a lot more from it.</p>
<p>It sucks you didn't get into Haas. What were your stats? Where did you end up going?</p>
<p>I never got so far as to apply lol. I gave up on Haas second week of my first week of fall semester. I thought the requirements strayed too much from my back-up schools (UCLA Bizecon and Marshall), and it is a bit difficult to get in there, so I thought I'd give up my dream. Thanks to Haas though, I was stuck with Haas classes for fall, which sucks because they didn't do much for my UCLA and USC requirements. This fall coming up will be my second year now at SMC (yup, I'm still stuck here haha). But I'm almost done with everything for both schools, and I'm sitting on a 4.0, so its all good.</p>
<p>Also, I'm sure you already know, but Haas looks at your leadership and communication skills, meaning you should probably look into clubs, internships, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm well aware that not even a 4.0 is a shoe-in for Haas. I'll do my best to look into various clubs and the like. </p>
<p>Btw, how're you liking SMC? Professors OK? Do you use ratemyprofessors.com all the time?</p>
<p>I think this may clear up the online classes debate once and for all: </p>
<p>Santa</a> Monica College</p>
<p>On that, the official SMC Online site, it says:</p>
<p>"4) Is the course content different form on-campus classes?</p>
<p>No. The content is exactly the same. Only the delivery method differs. Your transcript will NOT identify this course as an online class."</p>
<p>Anyone who has taken an online course at SMC can check their unofficial transcript via the Student Self-Service System and see this to be true. </p>
<p>Also, it really wouldn't make any sense for any community college to differentiate between online and on-campus classes: If they're listing a class under the same class description/class name as on-campus classes then it is their job to make sure the course content matches up! We shouldn't be "punished" by having our transcripts marked, when the classes are (or should be) the same whether you take them online or on-campus.</p>
<p>usdenick: Haha my bad, I guess you're right.</p>
<p>jk_91: I can't really compare SMC teachers to any other CC professors, but I wouldn't say any of the professors I had were any bad. The professors I had so far were all pretty chill, not to mention easy lol. What sucks is that SMC started some major construction work recently, so parts of SMC is closed down. But hopefully that'll be over by this fall. And yeah, I use ratemyprofessor a lot, and it does find me easy teachers. Still, the easier the professors, the less you learn, so you should probably find more challenging professors for your major classes. Anyways, this might be sort of useful for you, if you haven't looked at it before.</p>
<p>There are other semesters, but I'm sure you can find them on your own.</p>
<p>take carter she is good...</p>
<p>holy mother of god, where did you find this. Thanks a lot EOM91030!!!</p>
<p>Very nice find indeed. Btw, what is the average class size for something like English?</p>
<p>jk_91: Most classes at SMC are capped at about 45 students. Usually a professor can't/won't take more students than that. However, students usually drop as the semester goes on so that even if a class is full at the beginning of the semester, you may have a lot of students drop off as the semester goes on.</p>
<p>If you are taking a popular class or a required class (like English 1 or 2) with a popular professor, chances are that it will be full on the first day. If you are taking a more esoteric class, it might not be full and the students may be more dedicated.</p>
<p>Also, if you are worried about class participation, remember that most students don't participate. I have found that most of my professors have been very open to class participation.</p>
<p>For English 2, I looked through the lists of required books to find somebody who was teaching novels, and didn't require buying a giant (heavy, expensive) anthology. That professor got sick and was replaced at the last minute by somebody who ... I honestly don't know where they found this person. I went back over the list and found another professor and sat in on his class for ages (along with another 15 people who were trying to get in) until he let me in. This wound up being way more expensive, since the tuition I paid for the first one wasn't refundable by that point, so I paid twice for those units. So worth it, though, to take English from somebody who is a pro.</p>