<p>I'm in ERC and majoring in Biochemistry/Chemistry, and my schedule is looking like this so far, based on the counselor recommendations:</p>
<p>MMW 1
CHEM 6A
MATH 20B
GE</p>
<p>Q1: For my GE, should I take something else in the biology family? since I am aiming for pharmacy @ grad school.. On the other hand, would it be okay to do a 180 and take some sort of fine arts class? Art is my main side hobby and would probably make the college transition a lot easier, haha.</p>
<p>Q2: I'm exempted from MATH 20A from a 4 on the AP Calculus exam, but I've forgotten a lot of the concepts (I took it junior year) and honestly I think I barely scraped by on that 4 lol.. <__< should I backtrack and take 20A to review like how some people take CHEM 4 instead of 6A to review? Or would that just be wasting the credits I had already earned...</p>
<p>thanks for any help!! seriously, I really help all the help I've already gotten on this forum (:</p>
<p>1 - you’ll have to finish ALL your GEs at some point, so see first which ones are applicable to you, then see which are offered fall quarter, and thirdly, pick one.</p>
<p>2 - i’d recommend starting in 20B anyway - the AB syllabus covers approximately the first half of 20B, so that’s already a good amount of review time. </p>
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<li>do you actually need a science GE? because if you’ve been exempted from ERC’s science requirement (2 classes) by an AP Chem/Bio/Physics test, then you don’t even need to worry about that particular GE.</li>
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<p>even if you haven’t been exempted: seeing as you’re a Chem major, you don’t need to worry about that because Chem 6A and Chem 6B will take care of ERC’s science GE reqs for you. so it’s like hitting two bird with one stone: you fulfill your science GE while also fulfilling major requirements. </p>
<p>if you like art and Fall 2010 offers an art class you’re interested in, go for it. however, if you haven’t fulfilled the Foreign Language req yet, I’d advise you to finish that first (especially if you place into fourth-quarter Spanish/French/whatever because if you pass the class fall quarter you’ve knocked off that GE) </p>
<p>if I were you I’d get rid of GEs in this order, first to last:
Foreign language
Fine Arts
Regional Specialization (imo, the interesting classes are mostly upper-div)</p>
<p>in the meantime, you will already be getting rid of your science GEs with your Chem major’s required classes, fulfilling math GEs with the 20 series & taking MMW every quarter so that’s not a problem either. </p>
<p>in summary: continue with math, chem and MMW until you finish them (20C, 6C and 6 respectively). Fall quarter, you should take language & continue as far as you need to (you must complete Linguistics 1D/1DX or Literature 2A or take a proficiency exam if this GE applies to you). if you’re done with foreign language, then take a fine arts class or even a Regional Specialization class instead.</p>
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<li>math 20B, from what I’ve gleaned, is basically Calc BC. so no, you don’t need to take math 20A and you’ll fit right in a Math 20B class (most Calc AB people –> Math 20B). the first ~60-70% of Math 20B will be review for you since it’s basically calc AB but eventually you learn the BC material such as series and convergences, so be mentally prepared for that.</li>
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<p>@92faim woahh!! thank you for so much step-by-step help! I’m so grateful ;__;</p>
<p>These are my required GE’s according to the Four Year Planner:
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<p>…I actually didn’t look at this until after I made this thread lol, oops! I was stuck in the mentality I had in high school, try to take extra science classes for the future science-geared career haha.</p>
<p>Another quick question, why exactly is it better to finish the Foreign Language GE’s first?
edit: also I have no proficiency in the language I plan to study… I took Spanish in high school, but only studied for 2 years</p>
<p>hey wootieburg,
nope, you’re not entirely wrong. Upper-div classes for your major cannot be applied to GE reqs; however, lower-div, such as Chem 6A or Math 20B, do count toward GEs. so pinkberry will be fine with the Chem 6 and math 20 series.</p>
<p>pinkberry,
the thing with languages is: if you don’t use it, you lose it. as someone who stopped learning French for a year and tried picking it up again recently, I can attest to that. that’s why people like to take language classes while it’s still fresh in their minds. especially those who tend to forget a lot of vocabulary.</p>
<p>first thing I’d do is take the placement test here:
<a href=“https://lang.ucsd.edu/llp/placement/[/url]”>https://lang.ucsd.edu/llp/placement/</a>
chances are, you’ll have to start at third quarter Spanish (known as 1C/1CX). if so, you actually can’t sign up for Spanish fall quarter because they don’t offer it in fall. yeah, it’s really lame. however, if you test into first-, second- or fourth- quarter Spanish, then you can enroll this fall because those three levels are offered. </p>
<p>overall, language courses in college are difficult, so you might want to take Spanish P/NP so it doesn’t butcher your GPA, especially if you’re not that interested or fluent in Spanish. so yeah, to reiterate: take language classes while you still remember things! otherwise, go for the art classes. :)</p>
<p>@92faim
actually, I don’t plan on finishing Spanish … I went to a ghetto public school to put it bluntly LOL, and my Spanish classes left me with bad memories of my first year teacher discussing her life story more than teaching and my second year teacher letting kids make a party out of the classroom on a daily basis (no exaggeration). Either way I actually took Spanish out of my parent’s advice because it was the most practical language, but I found that I had zero interest in it lol x__x So I was planning to shoot for an old past time and go with Japanese haha!</p>
<p>I checked the Schedule of Classes and it seems they are offering both First Year Japanese and the fine arts class I’m interested in (VIS 1), so I guess it will be a decision between the two thanks!</p>
thanks!</p>