Schedule??

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>I'm freshmen and my enrollment time is 8/22 at 7:00pm.
I'm going to Sixth College and I have few questions regarding my schedule.
My major is Biochemistry and I want to go on pre-med and attend grad school in the future.</p>

<p>I'm thinking of taking this fall:
---Math 20B ( I got 5 on AP Calculus BC)
---Chemistry 6A or 6AH (I still cant decide which one to take. I got 4 on AP Chem test and received 780 on SAT II, but I heard that grad schools dont really care if I take honors or not. So I'm kinda thinking of taking 6A instead of taking honors)
---CAT1(I think I'm required to take this class.. I got 3 on AP Lang. and Comp, so I think I passed UC entry writing exam..right?)
---CSE3 (I'm not sure about this class..I'm recommended to take this class, so I'm gonna take it...)</p>

<p>Is my schedule good enough??? Can you guys give me feedbacks on my schedule?
Thank You.</p>

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<p>why not take 20C?</p>

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<p>I dont know if I should take 20C... I mean its my first quarter at SD and I dont know if I should start with such a hard class. Is 20C hard?? I also heard that I'm required to take 1 year of calculus for grad school and I want to know starting with 20C meets the requirement for me..</p>

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<p>20C is arguably the easiest 20 series course. Since you passed with a 5 on the BC exam I highly suggest taking 20C. But if you want to take another class then have fun.</p>

<p>I believe taking 1 year of calc means recieving CREDIT for a years worth. That does not necessarily mean you have to take it at SD.</p>

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<p>Thanx for your feedback.</p>

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<p>it'd be better to continue calc now before you forget absolutely everything</p>

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<p>i will take calc fall quarter but I'm not sure if 20C is good for me..
Also is it recommended to take Chem Honors or not? I saw alot of threads regarding this issue, but Im not sure if I should take it with my major..</p>

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<p>I'm in the same situation for chem (ap score of 4). I'm thinking of just taking 6ah rather than 6b. Yeah the course is probably a lot harder, but I'd rather have a good professor and complete the whole year of chem.</p>

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<p>what about 6A? I'm still wondering which one to take. I dont want to get too much workload on my first quarter, so Im just thinking between 6A and 6AH. I dont want to take 6B..</p>

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<p>but i heard that if I start from 20C, I have to take much harder class later in my year with engineering students. Is is still recommended?</p>

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<p>Uhh, you have to take all the classes for your major and college. Where you start in a sequence shouldn't impact that.</p>

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<p>I didn't consider 6a because you don't get any credit for it, correct?</p>

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<p>what do you mean roflkeke?
So do u recommend that I take 20C or B?</p>

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<p>I thought we had a schedule thread already...</p>

<p>Well on another note, my friend said 20C is the easiest out of 20A-C. I did 20B equivalent class over the summer, and it was about Taylor Series, McLaurin Series, new ways to integrate, etc. He said most of the stuff you won't ever see again...
I don't have my notebook with my right now, but if you want to know what else I learned, I'll let you know.</p>

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<p>20C is basically partial differentiation and double/triple integrals. not terribly difficult. i agree that 20c was the easiest out of the series.</p>

<p>with a score of 4 on the ap chem exam, almost every college says you're exempt from 6A. <a href="http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/0506/front/APCredit.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/0506/front/APCredit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>so your choice is really to take 6AH or 6B...</p>

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<p>If you hate chemistry, I would not take 6AH. However, considering you're a biochemistry major I'm sure this is not the case. You'll have a better foundation for upper division chem. courses if you take the honors sequence, and this way you won't have to worry about whether med schools will take your AP score and all that stuff (for chem they almost always won't take chem AP scores anyway). So I would take 6AH...you can always drop out of the sequence if you feel like it.<br>
and definitely take 20C....really not that bad of a class, ESPECIALLY if you got a 5 on the calc bc test.</p>

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<p>Thing is that I heard for many medical schools, they require that I take a year of chemistry. So I'm thinking of taking 6AH over 6B. But I also heard from people that 6AH isnt that helpful for the grad school. My question is if I take 6A instead of 6AH, do i get no credit and it doesnt go into my gpa? So for me, which choice is better? 6AH or 6A?</p>

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<p>^If that is what you heard, then that's probably right. Do you want us to give you a contradictory response?</p>

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<p>"MATH 20C: Vector geometry, vector functions and their derivatives. Partial differentiation. Maxima and minima. Double integration, Two units of credit given if taken after Math. 10C."</p>

<p>I may be wrong here but wasn't all this covered in AP Calc BC?</p>

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<p>AP Calc BC is single variable calculus, and Math20C is multivariable + vectors. Your AP class may have covered multivariable topics, but a traditional BC class (and the AP test) wouldn't.</p>