<p>Hi I was wondering if anyone here took a class (for fun or for a prereq) while being enrolled in UC Berkeley at the same time. I'm a little off track for my major(s) so I ended up needing to fulfill 4 technicals this semester, and I am hoping that I could take one of them at a community college. For those who did taking classes at the city college, were the classes extremely time consuming? Was it in any sense "easier" than a UC Berkeley class? (not to be THAT person) </p>
<p>Pushing classes to the summer would only set me back even more at this point so that's not a very good option for me right now. I know it's not a good idea to take prereqs outside of Berkeley but the major encourages you to AP out of it and I really need to be on track to graduate.</p>
<p>Once again, thank you for your help everyone!</p>
<p>Major departments have have additional policies.</p>
<p>Because Berkeley City College (and other Peralta district community colleges) appears to model courses on UC Berkeley courses, you are not likely to find them to be significantly “easier”. However, the very top students may get about a half-grade higher (e.g. A instead of A- or B+, though the difference disappears at the B range or below, based on what the now-defunct UC StatFinder indicated for new transfer students’ GPAs).</p>
<p>If you are pre-med, medical schools frown on four year college students taking pre-med courses at community colleges.</p>
<p>If you don’t take many classes at BCC (limit it to two or three max) it is ok. Grad schools obviously prefer you to take classes at Berkeley but they don’t look down on it necessarily if you take a few at BCC. I have taken classes at BCC and it is significantly easier. It is really not even comparable to the level of difficulty at Berkeley.</p>