<p>I’m a Bio major at sixth also !! </p>
<p>Question for the OP. Do you recommend taking three science/math classes during a quarter or will that kick my butt up and down the street? For example, can I take Chem 140B, Physics 1B/L And BIBC 102 during one quarter??</p>
<p>Any recommendations as to what teachers to take for Organic Chemistry, Math 10C (or Math 20C) and Physics 1B and 1C ??</p>
<p>Sorry for any delayed responses!</p>
<p>@navyFIELD</p>
<p>ucsandiego15 is pretty much spot on :P</p>
<p>@tonito</p>
<p>No, it doesn’t hurt at all, in fact, the standard major plans are recommended assuming the student has no previous ap credits! You’ll be fine :)</p>
<p>@Julio2010</p>
<p>Depends on your time management an study ability, but I think it’s manageable… assuming that you don’t take a fourth class (or a very light one unlike the CAT series haha). </p>
<p>Can’t say what professors to recommend for Chem 140B and Physics, but I took Math 10C with Dragos Oprea and really enjoyed the class and his very clear, uncomplicated, teaching style. </p>
<p>I would look up professor evaluations on tritonlink and here [url=<a href=“http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/SelectTeacher.jsp?the_dept=All&sid=1079&orderby=TLName&letter=A]University”>http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/SelectTeacher.jsp?the_dept=All&sid=1079&orderby=TLName&letter=A]University</a> of California San Diego - California<a href=“UCSD’s%20ratemyprofessor%20homepage”>/url</a> for additional professor info.</p>
<p>How are the dorms for Sixth? Are they mostly triples? I’d much rather get a double but I feel like it’s a pretty slim chance. </p>
<p>I was also wondering how TV/game consoles work there. I have a 32" LCD that I’m considering bringing down, along with an Xbox 360, but will I have time to use them and will they even fit? I’m pretty sure it won’t fit in my dorm so I was thinking I’d put it out in the suite. Would it get stolen that way?</p>
<p>Thank you so much,
Alvin</p>
<p>^Your TV and console will be fine in the common room.</p>
<p>@Alvin</p>
<p>Yeah the ratio for triples to doubles is about 4 to 1 last time I checked. So yes, it’s a pretty slim chance, but with some luck you may get your double :).</p>
<p>Your tv and console should fit in your common room assuming no one else has a tv they want to bring. In terms of time, you should have enough to study, game, and party haha.</p>
<p>In terms of having your stuff stolen, unless your suitemates leave the doors propped open all day, you shouldn’t worry too much about it. Definitely take it home over break though along with anything else valuable (but you may have room to fit your tv in your room if your roommate(s) (is or are) willing to work something out.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>By the way, if you play the Bioshock games, have you seen the trailer for the third installment, Infinity? It’s pretty intense.</p>
<p>i am just a little confused about class enrollment. I know that there is a limited amount of courses/ units we can takem so how do we know how many units each course offers? Also, I want to major in biology and seeing as it is impossible for me to change my major atm, will i need to start taking courses that will help …me get in in the future? if so, what courses would you recommend?</p>
<p>the classes average 4 units each, see tritonlink for the exact number (it’s in the class schedule portion)</p>
<p>[enrollment</a> management](<a href=“http://biology.ucsd.edu/undergrad/enrollmentmanagement.html]enrollment”>http://biology.ucsd.edu/undergrad/enrollmentmanagement.html)</p>
<p>the trick: do WELL in those classes. show them you’re just as good as (or better than) the bio majors they already have.</p>
<p>@ peepsiscan</p>
<p>Like astrina said, most classes are around 4 units each, and if you follow her link you’ll learn more about admission into the impacted major. In terms of recommended courses, the department wants all impending students to take all lower divison Biology courses, but, what they don’t mention except for a couple lines is when applying at each “window” for admission, you do not need to meet all the “Exceptional Admission” criteria. They admit based on who has indeed taken all the courses along with other criteria, and ranks that group by GPA. After, if they still have room, they pool from students who applied without all the lower divison courses and ranks that group based on GPA.</p>
<p>So in terms of courses you’ll need:
"BILD 1 & 3 (Note: BILD 2 is strongly recommended)
Mathematics 10A, B, 11/10C or 20A, B, 20C
Chemistry 6A, B, C, and 7L
Physics 1A+1AL, 1B+1BL, 1C+1CL or 2A, B, C, and one lab (2BL, 2CL, 2DL) "</p>
<p>You’ll want to bag as many A’s/A-'s in these classes as you can. Having all the requirements and a high GPA puts you very high on list.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>Note: AP’s satisfy a lot of the ld courses, so check what transferable courses/ap tests substitute for a class + for some study tips see some earlier posts on this thread!</p>
<p>course recommendations stated that if we’re chem or bio major then we will need to take two CSE classes ( CSE 11 or CSE 8A and 8 AL) instead of one?</p>
<p>^ huh? you need to clarify that one.</p>
<p>the majority of the chem and bio majors do NOT require a programming component.</p>
<p>this was what i got for my recommendation</p>
<p>The Information Technology Fluency requirement is a general education (GE) requirement that MUST BE TAKEN either in the fall or in the winter quarter of the freshman year because the requirement is a prerequisite for CAT 3.
All students must take CSE 3 to satisfy Informational Technology Fluency requirement except for the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Engineering majors who are required to take either CSE 11 or CSE 8A and 8AL or MAE 9 or ECE 15 or SE 9.</li>
<li>Chemistry and Biology Bioinformatics majors who are required to take either CSE 11 or CSE 8A and 8 AL.</li>
<li>Computing in the Arts majors who are required to take either CSE 11 or CSE 8A and 8AL.</li>
<li>Math majors who are required to take either CSE 8A or CSE 11 or MAE 9.</li>
<li>Physics majors who are required to take MAE 9.</li>
<li>Cognitive Science majors who are required to take COGS 18.</li>
<li>A 4 or 5 on the AP Computer Science A or AB will satisfy the requirement.</li>
</ol>
<p>@nashgies15</p>
<p>You’re talking about the Sixth college Information Technology Fluency requirement. You just need to take CSE 3 and that’s it.</p>
<p>Number 2 in the recommendation above states: Chemistry and Biology Informatics majors need CSE 11 or CSE 8A and 8 AL. This is not the same as a normal Chemistry or Biology major, the informatics track for these departments require this.</p>
<p>As long as you’re not a Bioinformatics major you should still be able to take CSE 3 for Sixth.</p>
<p>Hope that helps</p>
<p>@Schw1ng</p>
<p>oh alright. thank you so much!</p>
<p>What is CSE3 anyway? What do you learn? How to use the computer? I’m really in need of that, I make stupid mistakes when using the internet.</p>
<p>CSE 3 is like an introductory class to using a computer basically haha. You learn tricks on optimizing search results on google to using commands with ctrl + a key, like copy (ctrl + c) and paste (ctrl + v). Along with some very, very basic programming.</p>
<p>It’s a pretty simple class really.</p>
<p>@Schw1ng </p>
<p>Thank god.</p>
<p>can someone explain to me what cat is and what do you learn from it?</p>
<p>@nashgies15</p>
<p>Well it basically revolves around “Culture, Art, and Technology”, but depending on which professor you take, the class has the potential to be completely different.</p>
<p>I took Algaze for CAT 1 last year and we basically approached culture, art, and technology from an anthropological perspective… more specifically on how humanity evolved and incorporated the three categories, which eventually culminates on how modern society came to be. I found this class the most interesting next to CAT 2 with Doppelt (Medical Ethics), which was tied with CAT 3 with Jaffe (Sensory Perception). Overall if you pay attention/care you might find the subject matter interesting. But the painful experience of non-normative grading between TA’s detracted from it haha.</p>
<p>I found the course interesting enough regardless.</p>
<p>As to what you learn from it, they want you learn how to look at contemporary times from a cultural, artistic, and technological view and how to “write” to their standards (basically the reason for CAT events, you’ll find out about this soon :P). However, what YOU learn depends entirely on personal interest and how you percieve the subject matter. You’ll probably learn to write more efficiently if anything (page constraints will do this) amongst other things, but again, depending on your TA, you might get a lot of this course, or not a lot; their have been great TA’s… and bad ones.</p>
<p>Your grade depends almost entirely on your TA, so try to figure out what your specific TA wants in a paper (easily accomplished by going to office hours and talking about the first prompt or a draft of a paper you have, but don’t blatantly say “yeah can you tell me what’s wrong with this paper so I can get a higher grade”).</p>
<p>Hope that clarifies things!</p>
<p>If not, Sixth college will give you the whole CAT breakdown again, to their own biases of course, during orientation.</p>
<p>@Schw1ng
was 6th your first choice or did you want something else?
do you know what the hardest colleges to get into are and how they decide who goes in?
can you rank the colleges by your opinion with just a reason?</p>
<p>thank you very much</p>
<p>Sixth was my first choice. After being here for a one year I can honestly say I’m glad I picked it too.</p>
<p>Muir is probably the hardest to get into, due to the hype and reality of having the least GE’s (their writing course, although 2 quarters, is quite difficult… and you have to take the few GE’s they require in a series which may suck if you despise the first course).</p>
<p>From what I can only infer, they most likely decide based off available space and how many people are applying. Most students are placed in their first or second choices though. So choose wisely.</p>
<p>Ranking the colleges really depends on the ranker’s specifications on what they want to learn in college etc, etc. So not only will my own ranking be extremely biased towards sixth as the top choice… and Revelle as the bottom choice, it may not be useful to you based on your preferences.</p>
<p>Personally, I would look up each of their GE’s requirements and look over the courses and what they’re about. </p>
<p>Regardless of what college you get into, you’ll most likely be satisfied.</p>