<p>Hey guys, I’m a little confused about the core requirements. As a CSOM student, do I still need to fulfill the University Core Curriculum or just the CSOM Core Curriculum?</p>
<p>you need to fulfill both the university core and the CSOM core. I was a bit overwhelmed by this but there are several ways you can double dip in order to be more efficient and get some of your concentration requirements out of the way.</p>
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<p>Such as?</p>
<p>Unfortunately my AP scores only place me out of 1 Writing Core, 2 Social Sciences Cores, and Language Proficiency (Gov’t scores and U.S. History don’t do anything apparently).</p>
<p>Econ could’ve taken away your social science cores, even though you already have them filled, you will still need to take Econ. Calc will fulfill your Calc requirement for CSOM and your math requirement for the university. Other than that you can take classes that fulfill two of the university core at the same time. For example Perspectives, a year long, double credit course that fulfills all university Theology and Philosophy requirements. There are also some fine arts/diversity/history classes that overlap. Taking the one class will fulfill two requirements.</p>
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<p>Can you clarify this a little bit? Are saying that even though I placed out of the 2 social science cores with 4s in AP Macro + Micro I still have to take Econ at BC anyways?</p>
<p>Also do you have any idea what I can do about the natural science cores? I’m a pretty awful science student so it would be nice if I could find something relevant to my concentration or not too rigorous yet still interesting.</p>
<p>Econ is a core class in the CSOM curriculum. However, if you take Econ, you knock out the CSOM requirement, and since it is also considered a social science, you’ll knock out the social science requirement under the university core.</p>
<p>The onl classes the double dip for the actual two cores are calc and micro/macro economics, but I was referring to double dipping by using university core classes for your majors. Note there are several ones that overlap and you need to see with what major. The advisors during orientation will help you for this. I’m a bit lazy raight now, but maybe tomorrow I will give you more examples. Feel free to go to the academic part of the CSOM page and seeing which ones overlap.</p>
<p>For example, there is a fine arts class that overlaps with the computer science concentration. Go figure. There is another class in the natural sciences that can also be used. Theology and Philosiphy classes can overlap. I also think that one of the english classes can overlap somehow with a philosiphy class.</p>
<p>The question that you need to answer though is this. </p>
<p>Would you rather take a class that you absolutely hate, but that fulfills two different requirements and thus creating space for you to take another class that you love? or would you rather take two classes that you can tolerate, are a little bit interesting, but they each only satisfy one individual requirement?</p>
<p>That is the question that I am trying to decide as I organize this double dipping method.</p>
<p>@askjeeves
Ah, you didn’t clarify what APs you had taken. Yes, if you have at least a 4 in both Micro and Macro you will not need to take them again. As for the natural science cores, you won’t really find any related to classes in CSOM, but there are science classes designated for non-science majors that you can take.</p>