My daughter is interested in applying to UCLA/Econ major a few years down the line. She will be taking a bunch of AP classes in school and will be taking some community college classes in the summer; while graduating in 3 years is NOT one of her objectives, she might be interested in DSP (http://economics.ucla.edu/undergraduate/departmental-scholars-program/), so getting all the GE requirements out of the way ASAP is definitely a preference.
I found AP credit chart here: http://www.admission.ucla.edu/prospect/APCreditLS.htm and am getting thoroughly confused as on one hand it says “AP credit does not satisfy General Education requirements”, and just below it gives a nuch of codes for different requirements that some AP classes indeed satisfy. Any insight?
Finally, I couldn’t find a list of actual undergrad GE requirements for Econ major, these would be very helpful in choosing cc classes to satisfy some of these requirements. Does anyone have a link? Thanks so much!
Econ is in L&S. AP credits can fulfill pre major requirements. In this case only macro Econ, micro Econ, Calc ab, Calc bc, and AP English can help. Alll need 4s or higher. Otherwise any other AP test is “empty units” aka a waste of $$$$$$. All GEs must be satisfied at UCLA unless she is a transfer student. So getting out in 3 years based on existing credit alone is unlikely unless she takes a lot of classes each quarter and does summer sessions. It only satisfies a class of it is a pre req for the major. So ap us history, gov, and pretty much all the sciences are useless for Econ majors. I wish I knew all this going in because I wasted money I didn’t need to spend and time I didn’t need to spend studying. Pre reqs for a major are major specific. GEs are the fluff classes you take at UCLA that don’t really do much for you but waste time and energy. Lol
Thanks for your reply. I am more interested in learning what are those “fluff classes” that you are required to take - if they can possibly be taken at community college concurrent enrollment program. Do you have a link to those GE requirements? Thanks so much!