Take more honors classes or more chem?

popitx
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 02:43:40 +0000

I’m at community college and looking to transfer into a top university. My top choice is Barnard College, others I’m looking at are: UCB, UCLA, NYU, Cornell.

My major will be physics/astrophysics and computer science. I will eventually go on to get my masters and hopefully phd in the physics/astrophysics field.

Would it be better to take honors classes in random general education subjects so gain more honors credits or take more upper level chemistry classes?

Option 1 would be to take additional general ed classes for the honors credits. I will complete the honors program even if I don’t chose this option, but I want to have more honors credits. Even though I already completed a majority of my general ed classes, I took most of them online so I’m not even sure they would transfer anyways. I found out about the honors program after so that’s why I didn’t take them to begin with.

Since I already took a bunch of general ed classes I would basically be stuck with the political science sequence. I am very interested in politics so I would not mind taking these honors classes, but the professor is really, really hard and I’m not sure I will be able to get a A.

Option 2 would be to not take more honors classes (even though I want as many as I can get) and take additional chemistry. I will already be taking chem 200 & chem 210 (chem 1& chem 2) but if I ditch the honors classes I could take additional upper level chemistry, which at my CC would be o-chem. I’m interested in chemistry as well but not that good at it.

Which would look better to top universities? If I chose option 1 I will have 36 honors units (which will break my school record as not many people even complete the program) as well as a political science AA. Not sure what I will need that for, but I love politics so it would be nice to have. With option 2 I will only have 27 honors units.