<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I just got my TAG approved to transfer to Davis next Fall as a Biology Major (so excited!), but the only problem is my CC just released the schedule for spring classes and one of my planned major prerequisite courses (Bio 2.3, botany and ecology) doesn’t fit with my schedule. Is the TAG going to be completely revoked? I’m hoping there is some way to avoid this, because I really don’t want to stay at my CC an entire extra year just for one class. I did some research and the Sacramento City College just 20 mins away from Davis offers an equivalent course, which I would be perfectly willing to take during my first fall quarter at Davis to make up the units. Does anybody have any other ideas or experience with an issue like this? I am definitley going to see a Davis TAG counselor about this very soon, but none of the counselors that i’ve met so far have been very helpful, I’ve mostly just been on my own to figure these things out. If anybody can help me, or knows some other advisor or counselor that might know more, your help would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>You’ll have to explain your reasoning why you can’t take one of your planned major prereqs, but as long as you still meet the 60 units requirement and keep your GPA up, I don’t think they’ll revoke your TAG.</p>
<p>Of course you want to try to clear up the situation with a Davis counselor. But let’s say you can’t do that for some reason and have to take a best guess. </p>
<p>I personally would not miss taking the Bio 2.3 at your present CC. If there’s absolutely a conflict, drop a GE course. You can pick up a GE over the summer at your CC or online through many others. The Bio courses at Sac CC will likely be filled and you won’t have any priority at that CC. The equivalent course at Davis (BIS 2B?) may be filled as well. Davis usually wants you to complete an entire sequence at one school (your CC). Tread carefully.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info guys, and yeah, there is no way to take my class. It’s not about my GE courses, I only do those over the summer or whenever I can fit them in AFTER planning all of my major courses, they are by far the least important to me. The issue is with my organic chemistry class, where all three options for the lab overlap with the Bio class. I could just skip the class since taking the O Chem series is optional while at the CC, but I’ve been working really hard and doing well this first semester, and the teacher at my CC is great. I really don’t want to skip on the next class and have to restart the entire series at Davis, because realistically that would set me back even further. As long as my TAG is still approved, it looks like I’m just going to have to commute back and forth my first semester at Davis so I can take the class at my current CC where I have a high priority.</p>
<p>If you already start with the O-Chem series at your CC, you do NOT have to retake the entire series over at Davis if the O-Chem series at your CC is equivalent to Davis’. I mean, I took the equivalent of BIS 2A at community college and when I got to Davis, I was able to continue with BIS 2B instead of having to take BIS 2A again. O-Chem and math operate the same way.</p>
<p>You’re right to make your TAG the first priority, sorting out the O-Chem later. You can finish up O-Chem at Davis as suggested above. As I understand you, the reason you would want to continue O-Chem at your CC while at Davis is that you feel very comfortable with the instructor. I can’t argue with that except to say you may find scheduling logistically difficult. If you do want to do it, you’ll be doing what is called a “UC/CSU/Community College Cross Enrollment”. A discussion of the rules for that is at [UC</a> Davis General Catalog | Academic Credit](<a href=“http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/academicinfo/credit.html]UC”>http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/academicinfo/credit.html) , about half way down the page. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Ok, but it seems that the O-chem series at Davis is a 3 course series, whereas my cc works with the semester system and there are only 2 O-chem classes in the series. So would I have to take 1 or 2 more O-chem classes? It doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>If you go to Assist.org, you can see which O-chem class at UCD corresponds to a particular O-Chem class at your CC. For example, I went to Irvine Valley College before I transferred to UC Davis, and the O-Chem series at UC Davis was CHEM 12A and 12B. 12A was equivalent to CHE 8A, CHE 118A, and CHE 128A, and the first half of CHE 118B, CHE 8B, and CHE 128B, so someone who took the first O-Chem series at my CC could move onto the 2nd course in the O-Chem series at UCD.</p>