While I will for sure give the school I am probably attending a chance because I could end up loving it, I want to make sure I sign up for the right classes. I was offered the TO to Cornell, but I am also going to apply to Brown, Rice, Vanderbilt, and Tufts (if I decide I still want to transfer). The only school I could find that gives advice to transfers regarding current course selection is Cornell. For Arts and Science they recommend taking a broad liberal arts curriculum. I am probably going to NEU, and I am currently a Poly Sci major, but apparently a lot of freshman classes are preregistered, so I may switch to undeclared, so I can take a wide variety of classes. Anyways, I was wondering if I should take calculus for my math course. My current AP BC teacher is not the best and I have 0 time to study for the AP, so I don’t think I’ll get credit for it, but even if I do, should I still take calc for my math class? I want make sure they see I’m challenging myself. I feel like stats would be too easy.
Look up the courses required for the major and general education requirements at each of your transfer target schools and try to take similar courses. Of course, make sure that your course selection covers requirements for your current school if you continue and graduate from there (this is assuming that you will be attending a four year school that you will be satisfied staying at and graduating from – if not, reconsider which school you want to attend).
Rice has distribution requirements across the various schools but does not require any particular classes within the distribution requirements outside of your major requirements. Rice wants students to explore areas outside of their major. Many students change their major. My daughter fulfilled all of Rice’s math and science requirements with AP credits which left her free to double major in Psychology and English. Rice takes 4 and 5s and has a list online of what APs will transfer in. I don’t know if Rice will take AP credits for transfers, but you should check. She took AP Calculus AB in high school and AP Bio and did well on the AP exams. If you are going to major in Poli Sci at Rice that would be under the Social Sciences school. Check out the major requirements and see what courses will put you in the best position as an entering sophomore.