UC Application - "Subject Area/Course Category"?

Applying to College
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<p>In the UC application, we're required to list our courses. One of mine is "IB Computer Science HL" but there is no "Subject Area/Course Category" that corresponds to that. For example, if I took a foreign language, I could choose "Yr [x] Lang other than english" and for Physics HL I could choose the course category as "Physics". </p>

<p>However I can't find anything close enough to CS in the drop down list. Same goes for Economics (I put World History/geography/culture since that's the closest).</p>

<p>My question is, what corresponding course category should I choose for Computer Science? I know this isn't really a big problem or anything... just don't want to mess anything up.</p>

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<p>Both are ‘g’ electives.</p>

<p>At our HS, Comp Sci goes in the Other category; Econ is History/Social Science.</p>

<p>If you are instate, you can look up your HS courses on doorways:</p>

<p><a href=“A-G Policy Resource Guide”>A-G Policy Resource Guide;

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<p>If you are out of state, you can still look for courses at the California public and private high schools in <a href=“http://doorways.ucop.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://doorways.ucop.edu</a> that are similar to those you want to find out about.</p>

<p>For IB courses, you want to find one of the relatively few schools offering IB courses to match with. Examples include Berkeley High and Laguna Hills High, although these particular schools may not have IB CS HL, so you may have to look around for other schools with this course.</p>

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<p>Thank you for the link! (I’m OOS by the way)</p>

<p>The schools I found that offered IB CS HL listed it as either an “Elective (Other)” or “Elective (Math)”.</p>

<p>I can’t find those exact options in the Subject Area/Course Category drop down box… but there is an option that says “Elective” under the heading “College Prep Electives”, can I choose that?</p>

<p>Another question I had was… technically, all 6 of my subjects are “electives” considering that I chose these subjects from a set the school offers to fulfill IB diploma requirements. For example, I chose Physics SL as the laboratory science I’m required to take and Economics as the humanity-related course I’m required to take. Does that mean that I should put ALL of my courses in the “Elective” category?</p>

<p>^ I’m sorry if this is a stupid question…I’m just a little confused with the term since we don’t really use it here.</p>

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<p>Bump bump.</p>

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<p>No. Most high school students choose what courses they take . . . but that doesn’t make them “electives” for purposes of the UC application.</p>