<p>Hey, I'm going to attend De Anza next fall, and I have the following questions:</p>
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<li><p>Assist shows some classes that are not offered at De Anza, so I went ahead to look for other CC's that offer those classes. There's no classes available at my local CC's, so am I doom?</p></li>
<li><p>If I were to aim for the top Uc's, but I'm lacking my prereq classes because my local CC's don't have them, then would I still have a good chance?</p></li>
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<p>Okay, thanks everyone! Oh btw, my major is Philosophy if that matters.</p>
<p>lacking pre-reqs will always hurt you to a certain extent. fortunately for you, philosophy isn’t as impacted at UCLA or other top tier UCs. perhaps explaining your situation in prompt 3 of the application might help. best of luck.</p>
<p>I have a friend in UC admissions and I can tell you for certain that if your CCC does not offer all of the pre-req classes this WILL NOT hurt your chances in any way, shape or form. UC’s are well aware that not all CCC’s offer the complete complement of pre-req classes for each and every single major at each and every single UC. Simply complete everything else (all available pre-req classes at De Anza) and do your best to keep a high GPA.</p>
<p>i am a UCLA student who’s major is also philosophy. As you probably know, there are four LD classes for you to take. I had 3 of them fulfilled (Symbolic Logic, Ethics, and one additional) and just need either skepticism and rationality/philosophy of mind. In my orientation group, there were also two additional philosophy majors, both of which were also missing one class (Ethics and Symbolic logic) but that had the others completed. Both were also very well versed in logic. If you haven’t taken a logic you should asap. Logic, imo, seperate the philosophers from people just reading a bunch of interesting statements.</p>
<p>There were other people in the philosophy orientation who i believe had as little as two out of the four completed though. Anything less than two puts you in heavy risk though because they want to be sure you really know you want to do the major. </p>
<p>My advice is familiarize yourself with at least a few of the bigger branches in philosophy (ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of language, etc.) so you can include some of those things in your personal statement when you write one (which is kind of what i did.) The philosophy acceptance rate is actually really high compared to most other majors(last year it was 68%, this year it’s like 62%), but try to take at least three phil classes (i took four, of which i got credit for three)</p>