How many Major-Preparation Classes do you have? -Engineering

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<p>Well I was looking at assist and realized that most of the community colleges in my area don’t have any classes that articulate to UCSD’s or UCLA’s computer science/engineering classes. </p>

<p>So… I was wondering how many major preparation/recommended classes do people have?</p>

<p>Do you have all of the required classes?</p>

<p>I will only have 3 recommended classes out of 7.</p>

<p>Engineering majors only please.</p>

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<p>Do you live near Santa Monica or LA Valley?</p>

<p>Santa Monica has 5/6 for UCLA CS; LA Valley has 4/6, including the one that Santa Monica does not have.</p>

<p>For UCSD CS, Cuyamaca, Palomar, and Southwestern have 4/7 (the same four). So does Santa Monica.</p>

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<p>No… Norcal - San Jose -__-</p>

<p>Dang… that’s lame…</p>

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<p>For UCLA CS:</p>

<p>5/6 at Chabot
4/6 at Foothill or Cabrillo (5/6 for the two combined)
3/6 at De Anza or West Valley</p>

<p>For UCSD CS:</p>

<p>4/7 at De Anza, Chabot, Ohlone, or Cabrillo</p>

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<p>One of the hardest is Berkeley EECS. Most CCs have 0/6 for the CS and EE courses. A few have 1/6, and even fewer have 2/6. You can come up with 4/6 by taking courses at Laney, Diablo Valley, and Chabot.</p>

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<p>^ Does that mean that EECS transfers either have to take an insane number of courses after they transfer or take a longer time to graduate?</p>

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<p>Yes, EECS (or L&S CS) transfers into Berkeley usually need a lot of “catch up” lower division courses after transfer.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/Notes/12-13ugradhandbook.pdf[/url]”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/Notes/12-13ugradhandbook.pdf&lt;/a&gt; (EECS, see page 31)
[url=&lt;a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/preparingtoapply.shtml#samples]CS”&gt;http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/preparingtoapply.shtml#samples]CS</a> Transfer Prerequisites | EECS at UC Berkeley<a href=“L&S%20CS”>/url</a></p>

<p>Some students who do not have too many total units take some needed lower division EE or CS courses in the summer at Berkeley before their first fall semester at Berkeley. The unit limitation is due to the fact that such summer courses count as courses at a four year school that could disqualify transfer students if they have too many units (as opposed to transfer students who only have CC units).</p>

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<p>When you say “I will only have 3 recommended classes out of 7,” are you talking only the computer science classes?</p>

<p>Schools like Berkeley’s L&S CS only have around 5 CS classes, which the school explicitly says that they understand that very little CCCs will have courses that articulate.</p>

<p>I go to a CCC way up north in Humboldt County, and sadly I have 0 CS classes which transfer to any of the UCs, so we’ll see.</p>

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<p>The numbers of courses refer to CS and EE courses above; math courses and other requirements are easy to find at CCs.</p>

<p>If you have 0 courses that articulate to needed CS and EE courses, check each UC and CSU CS degree program for how you can construct a post-transfer course schedule (keeping in mind how many courses you need to “catch up”) to see how many semesters or quarters it will take you to complete the degree.</p>

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<p>Will have all done for UCI CS. If you attend Fullerton, OCC or LBCC, look into Smart ICS…</p>