<p>I'm in the College of Engineering and I'm just thinking about taking classes like accounting, etc. for fun, not as a major.</p>
<p>Is this possible or is 10 a mandatory prereq for all those upper-divs? I really don't want to deal with 10 because (1) the grading looks like a b***h, (2) the professor has terrible ratings, and (3) the class is so jam-packed and hard to get in (and because business is not my major, I'm not going to use my Phase 1 TB appt. to signup for a class that I don't really have to take).</p>
<p>I dont think you need UGBA 10 as a prereq, well at least not taking it wont stop you from enrolling in whatever UGBA upper div you want to... You could take UGBA 10 P/NP.. I knew a few engineers who did this..</p>
<p>UGBA10 isn't a pre-req, as far as I understand, but in terms of using your Phase 1TB appt to sign up, you're probably going to have to. I'm a PEIS major planning to take business classes, and I already know that I'll have to sign up Phase I (esp. for upper divs like finance, accounting, etc) because I have zero priority and the classes fill up quickly. Look at the current enrollments for upper div BA classes; it's depressing</p>
<p>I could take BA 10 P/NP, but I'm trying to avoid doing that in classes that look reasonably manageable. The material really doesn't look that hard, but the class is curved...and 12.5% getting 4.0's is not generous at all.</p>
<p>Say, if I'm around #100 on the waitlist right now for BA 10, do you think I'd have a shot at getting in? If not, I'll take your word, skip this crap (probably self-study the BA 10 material as a precaution), and go for finance/accounting in the spring with my Phase I appointment.</p>
<p>In the words of Brian Harvey (long-time computer science lecturer) :)
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Several years ago, the number of students seeking admission to the [Computer Science] major artificially swelled because people who cared only about getting rich thought that computer programming was the way to do it. These days, it is no longer possible for any idiot to get rich as a programmer, and so those students are now more likely to choose Business Administration, where they belong.
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