<p>I was admitted as a liberal arts major after transferring from another university in Texas. </p>
<p>I have 26 hours at my current university, 12 hours in placement, and 13 hours dual credit. </p>
<p>When I checked the degree path, I still need to take the following at UT:
- 2 Natural Sciences
- Calc 1 and Calc 2
- I will be retaking macro since I took that as a dual credit course and want to actually learn this time
- one portion of govt
- English 316K </p>
<p>So, those are 19 hours that are already mandatory to take. I plan on taking only 12 hours each semester to meet the minimum 24 hour requirement so I can focus on classes. </p>
<p>Now, I know it's a gamble, but it's a gamble that's worth it for personal reasons. </p>
<p>I realize that McCombs mainly looks at GPA, so what classes should I be taking? My goal is strictly to get into McCombs. </p>
<p>I am thinking of the following split: </p>
<p>Fall 2008
Chem in Context 1
Calc 1
Macro
____________ (i'm looking for some easier-but interesting- class so I can focus on the other 3) </p>
<p>Spring 2009
Chem in Context 2
Calc 2
English 316
____________ (i'm looking for some easier-but interesting- class so I can focus on the other 3 mainly) </p>
<p>What do you guys think? With those classes, is it possible to make around a 3.7 or so if I put in the appropriate amount of work? Any class you recommend taking in a community college instead? Should I take GOV312L here instead of comm college? </p>
<p>I assume that I will have to take summer school to catch up once I get in...</p>
<p>UT only looks at your GPA while at UT. So you should take whatever courses you think will get you to the GPA you need.</p>
<p>Each course will have multiple sections, which could have different results grade wise. I don't know what ECs you will do. I don't know how intelligent you are.</p>
<p>I do believe that you will need 30 hours in residence to transfer to McCombs, so you may want to rethink that 24 hour thing.</p>
<p>Community college classes can be useful because they don't count toward your GPA, so you could take courses like Golf and Bowling while at UT and take the area requirements at ACC over the summer and you'd likely have a higher UT GPA.</p>
<p>Hmm, actually you need 24 hours internally for McCombs, which is why i'm completing 24 hours... so I just need around a 3.7 at least I guess? </p>
<p>I'm fairly intelligent but I was extremely lazy in HS (which is why i'm going through what i'm going through now). I'm not sure if this helps with transferring, but I own a business worth around half a million dollars and will have one (or possibly two) more by this time next year if everything goes as planned. I hope that gives me some sort of pull, but i'm not sure. </p>
<p>I took a 3 hour calc course at my current institution, but UT says to retake their sequence because M408K (calc 1 I believe) is calc 1 + 1/2 of calc 2 squeezed together. So, calc shouldn't be bad since I made an A in the 3 hour one... </p>
<p>Chemistry... well science bores the living crap out of me, but chemistry is one science I can put up with, slightly. </p>
<p>MacroEcon... I LOVE economics, but I hear macro is hard for anyone. </p>
<p>English 316 i'm very unsure about... I made an A in rhetorics, but BARELY (89.5 on the dot). </p>
<p>Also, do you know any courses that are interesting, but easy?</p>
<p>Well to transfer into McCombs you need two semesters of Calc and Macro and Micro Econ.</p>
<p>So if you haven't done that you will need to the first year. That's 12 hours right there.</p>
<p>Not to say it is easy to major in psychology or sociology, but generally the first intro classes in psychology or sociology are relatively easy - if you haven't had these - although you should check to see if particular teachers are recommended.
If you took Spanish a long time ago and you aren't great at it now, you could probably take a Spanish placement test that would put you into a fairly low level of Spanish, and then while you were taking it it would come back to you, and that would make it an easy class. (Or French or German or whatever you took in high school).
I think it would be interesting to hear what the "easy A" classes are at UT, but I suppose if they are fun classes, the people with first priority for registration (current upperclassmen) probably fill them up. :-)</p>
<p>I already have micro and psychology. </p>
<p>Easy A classes? Well, things like psychology, micro, MIS, music, etc. are easy classes to me... but I already have credit for all of those. lol </p>
<p>Also, me and Spanish do not go together well. lol bad history with it.</p>