@voider I would check the policies of the specific colleges on their websites. From what I’ve seen, most universities will only accept at most 64 credits from any 2-year college, and that is for people applying as transfer students, which can sometimes be harder than just applying as an incoming freshmen.
Also, I believe a lot of universities treat all accredited 2-year colleges the same, but if you are worried yours won’t be good enough, I’d make an appointment with an advisor there to check, or call the schools you want to apply to.
I’m lucky to go to a selective/all-honors high school on a college campus and lots of people take classes at the college, this semester (s2 sophomore) I’m taking Baroque Art and I’m loving it, this summer I’m taking Spanish Composition and maybe a history class.
@voider I’m definitely going to suggest you go with the above advice. You say Californian schools, but there are the UCs, CSUs, and privates which all have different rules for transferring credit. Wherever you go, you most likely will have to file an appeal to have your credits recognized since you aren’t considered a transfer student. For the classes you took, make sure you have every course syllabi and other work you did.
I can say with reasonable confidence that not all 81 credits will transfer. Depending on the classes you took though, you may be able to skip prerequisites. This means that you may be able to focus your time on more meaningful classes or take more higher level courses.
BTW, Sorry for the late report. I’ve been rather busy.
Glad to hear you’ve been enjoying yourself. My first physics class has been fun but stressful. I love the lecture portion but the lab part is irksome. I originally thought I’d enjoy lab more but it is extremely tedious and the teacher isn’t that helpful.
Ironically most of my time has been consumed by my non DE class: history. Our teacher made us do a history project that met NHD standards and encouraged us to enter the competition. And of course our group did that and despite our expectations, succeeded in regionals.
I could have taken my physics lab at that time. Almost did because there was a conflict with math. After making multiple mock schedules I finally managed to have reasonable class time. Unfortunately, lab still goes past five and my math class is goes right through lunch.
@PulseStar I remember last semester having a class that went through lunch. It sucked b/c I was so hungry during class, but luckily it was a music appreciation class and the professor was cool, so it made the class more bearable. I would always have to get a friend to grab me lunch. At my school, signing up for classes at a reasonable time was wayyyyyyy more stressful this year than last year.
It’s always amusing when it’s time to sign up for classes because registration opens at 5 am. I may be staring at the computer this year in the early hours of the morning if I want to take English 1A. Fortunately nobody wants to really take the classes I’m interested in.
any tips on what classes to start with?? starting my fist semester at the college in the fall. thinking:
sem 1
pre calc
econ
sem2
american lit
criminal justice
I do 2 sometimes 3 classes. Along with 2-3 HS classes. It’s manageable if your allowed to do it. Second semester Senior here, even was allowed my somphmore year.
But yeah knowing your previous classes and grades could help us decide what you should take.
You don’t really want more than 4-5 classes at a time including both HS and college. You can add a lil more if you know its easy and don’t have a lot of work.
@cj5555 I got a nice rec from my calculus professor.
From a non-anecdotal angle: Community college professors are likely experienced writing letters for their kids to transfer into four-year universities. Four-year uni. professors have likely written a few graduate school recs in their day. Either should be about as good as a high school teacher, albeit they might have known you only one semester instead of a whole year.
@emileeanne I second that knowing what your previous schedule was will help. First of all make sure you take all the classes need to meet your high school graduation requirements. I’d recommend that you read the college catalog (not the schedule) and mark all classes that are of interest to you. Then use a spreadsheet to figure out how when to take what class. Old Fall and Spring schedules should give you an idea of when classes are traditionally scheduled.
Besides that your schedule looks okay in amount of college classes. For your first semester I’d definitely not above 3 college classes.
