<p>Just SIR’d!!!</p>
<p>UCSB beat UC Davis, NYU, and LMU.</p>
<p>Question, since I have 40 credits walking (basically a year of classes), would I be in the class of 2014 or 2013?</p>
<p>depends on your major…</p>
<p>Philosophy or PoliSci</p>
<p>i’m having to make the decision between UCSB and NYU as well. can you explain your decision?</p>
<p>class of 2014. You’ll be a first year college student no matter what. You’ll be a sophomore academically, if you have more than 45 units.</p>
<p>ames14, well I spoke to my teacher about it since I was really 50/50 on the decision. She has lived in NYC for 10 years and LA for 30 years. She asked me what kind of people do I want to associate with and lay the foundation of my network in and where did I find them, NY or SB. She also mentioned the living enviroment, even though I may like NYC, can I actually live there? For some people NY is the vacation spot and LA the living place, for some the other way around.</p>
<p>I came close to choosing NYU, had the check written, but finally decided on SB at the last minute.</p>
<p>Ryan, does that mean I graduate in 4 years no matter what or do I graduate when I complete my units and major?</p>
<p>No. You can graduate early as long as you complete all of the major and university requirements. The designation of “class of 2013/2014” is not as important as in high school. More than often you go with academic standing based on academic units which is freshman, sophomore, junior and senior OR your college residency based on your time at the college which is first year, second year, third year, and fourth year. Class is used more towards graduation, since the distinction between the actual classes is pretty vague in college.</p>
<p>That makes sense</p>
<p>Your class year is going to be up to you, if those 40 units are AP credit. If you want you can use them towards requirements and graduation. However you can look on the UCSB website and see that units earned from AP credit don’t cause deadlines to occur any earlier in choosing your major or graduating. So from that point of view you can ignore them and spend 4 years at UCSB if you choose. The only limitation is that for those areas where the AP credit is given for a specific class then you can’t retake that class at UCSB and get any credit for it.</p>
<p>Coming in with a bunch of units is a good thing because priority for choosing classes is based on class standing (frosh, soph, etc) and you are either a sophomore or will be after 1 quarter.</p>
<p>Actually if I pass my AP Calc BC exam, then I have 48 units!</p>
<p>Do I need a 4 to get credit for it?</p>
<p>This is all their site says:</p>
<h1>Calculus BC | Earns 8 units credit; earns credit for two courses of Science, Math<em>ematics, and Technology general education requirement; satisfies Quantitative Rela</em>tionships requirement.</h1>
<p>No, I think you just need to pass it (with a 3).</p>
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[Mathematics</a> Placement Examinations](<a href=“http://www.math.ucsb.edu/ugrad/placement.php]Mathematics”>http://www.math.ucsb.edu/ugrad/placement.php)</p>
<p>And although you probably don’t have an issue with this, when estimating how many AP credits you’ll get, consider this:
[College</a> Board Advanced Placement Credit - General Education Program - UC Santa Barbara 2009-2010 General Catalog](<a href=“http://www.catalog.ucsb.edu/current/general/gechart.htm]College”>http://www.catalog.ucsb.edu/current/general/gechart.htm)</p>
<p>Yeah that restriction doesn’t apply.</p>
<p>I’ll definitely get a 3 on BC though, so thats 48 units starting off. Awesome.</p>