<p>I'm now facing a struggling situation, and since I have no idea of what graduate schools want, it may be better to ask others' opinions.</p>
<p>Here's my situation:
I took a portion of intro physics sequence in community college when I was in high school, and expected them to be transferred; however, they ended up entirely not being transferred at all since I lack a part of the sequence. The instructors of my school have evaluated my situation and given me overrides to take upper division physics courses directly even those intro classes I took in high school aren't transferred (so that my original plan won't be slowed down), but I still have to make them up sometimes no matter in school or other institutes for graduation requirement.</p>
<p>Should I just make-up the intro physics sequence in a community college near my school concurrently with upper division physics, or should I just slow down my plan a year and retake them all in my school? (I think slowing down it's a bit wasteful... since I'm pretty confident in intro physics. In addition, my school doesn't offer an honors physics sequence)</p>
<p>Will taking intro physics in community college instead of 4-year-university hurt my chance of getting into top university like MIT, stanford, caltech, and UCB? I'm an ECE major.</p>
<p>Is this intro physics something like freshman physics? (PHY101, etc.) If yes I suppose it won’t matter much because 1. its not a junior or senior class, 2. its not your major class.</p>
<p>I do not know what your schedule/flow chart is like, but if it is pretty empty in your senior year, you could try taking it that time. By that time, you would have taken so many advanced classes and freshman physics shouldn’t affect your semester progress much. In fact, I do not think you even have to attend to the lecture to ace the course if you took it in your senior year haha, provided if the attendance wasn’t a part of the coursework.</p>
<p>^haha, actually another reason that prevents me from retaking them in my school is $ issues -.-… so if it won’t hurt to make up them in community college, I would prefer to take them in CC lol</p>
<p>I don’t know about your school but in my school and I believe most of the school in the us, the tuition fees a student has to pay for a semester is fixed when the particular student is taking credit hours that is equal or above a certain amount of credits (12 credits in my school). But anything under 12 credits, you pay by the amount of credits you are taking in that semester. </p>
<p>For instance, student A is taking 12 credits in this coming fall and his tuition fee is
$10,000. Whereas, student B is taking 18 credits and he only has to pay the same amount of tuition fee, which is $10,000.</p>
<p>Hope you get what I am trying to imply here haha.</p>
<p>I know the tuition is fixed, what I mean is that I don’t want to spend university credit hours on retaking… if I make them up outside I can take more upper level technical electives for double major. But I don’t know whether this will hurt my chance :(</p>
<p>If won’t I definitely want to make up those in CC.</p>
<p>Yes, just take them at CC…it wont affect you at all. Especially once you take the upper division ones and do well, no school will care that you took intro classes at CC (provided you do well in your other classes and get a good GPA). </p>
<p>Dear OP:
You haven’t even started undergraduate college yet. Rather than wasting energy now on how to look good for graduate school, you may want to focus on getting the most from your undergrad experience. </p>
<p>I’ve seen too many students pay a big price by only focusing on 'how to look good for grad school" throughout their undergrad.</p>