#UC Davis vs my High School

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jagged iron
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If I were you, I would just save the money and time by taking classes at your local community college.

swift nebula
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Davis credits are super super helpful and are transferable prob worth way more than 10k

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I know a fellow freshman at Davis who is taking upper div math classes and have junior standing

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Honestly getting started on research early would be sooooo helpful to career in general

paper widget
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i mean, whats ur end goal here

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basically is what im asking

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do u wanna graduate early? then sure, go for it

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also, i guess it's a factor if u wanna be competitive later on too

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idk how u are mentally rn but also consider burning out as a factor

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are u willing to commute that far for upper divs?

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from what ive seen youve done all your major prep, at least in math

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but havent done many GEs

gleaming vortex
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uc would def transfer lol

paper widget
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if ccs wont transfer (out of cal state/uc system), ucs will definitely

paper widget
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oh yeah

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alrightm, then my only concrn would be

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can u handle it

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i assume u can

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and i hope ur hs is supporting u'

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i mean in the sense of decreasing the amount of classes u need to take

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yeah

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im sayin like

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yeah ik

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i mean workload man

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dont push urself too hard

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i mean

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its probably not hard for u

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πŸ˜‚

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but yk u gotta keep it up there

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that being said i guess the only issue is the commute

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you will feel isolated though

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socially

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tru

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yeah

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im in cc rn right

gleaming vortex
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your school just lets you leave to college for a semester??

paper widget
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we have an early college here, but im in the last level maths class

gleaming vortex
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that's so lit

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so its all just either

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old people

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or kids

gleaming vortex
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my school lets us concurrent at community colelge and then UT Dallas

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which is nice

paper widget
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lucky bastards

gleaming vortex
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if i werent borderline failign calc 3

paper widget
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my school allows us to DE into any ccc as long as u have a nice counselor and the ccc allows it

gleaming vortex
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wdym?

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well i mean

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oh

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interesting

paper widget
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well u have a sexy opportunnity

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i would take davis

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lowk

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good

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HELPPPP

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yeah i forget

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make sure ur family relations are GOOD

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good

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yeah just tell her itll transfer πŸ˜‚ save money and stuff early

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financially its also smart

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i was worried about the workload but

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it actually wont be that bad

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since u wont be doing hs classes? from what ive gathered

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yeah

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youll be finne

gleaming vortex
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ngl i wish i did IB purely because the grades come from year final tests right?

paper widget
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such a sexy opportunity

low iris
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the social aspect of hs is the only con i can think of

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take davis imo, you still have a ton of hs time left even after that. the math exposure you'll get is insane

paper widget
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i mean, even in uni transfer having hella advanced classes will also be isolating (not sure if i drove that point earlier)

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but in terms of what OP wants to do? lowk i think davis is the right choice

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yaig

tranquil echo
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o I think I can help with this

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I take real analysis at [insert some t20 uni]

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"Ain’t no way those credits transferring anywhere (except like a uc or something)" the credits are transferring

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pure math is something very very different from school

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also when a pure math class says 20+ hours of hw per week

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they mean it

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they rly rly mean it

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I'm trying to look at uc davis course list

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why are the shotr descriptions so ass 😭

paper widget
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it would be junior level maths

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yes

tranquil echo
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finally, a helpfully named course

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o yes we did this and a lot more

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seems like a pretty approachable first year class

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well, first sem

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this seems like a lower workload real analysis class

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you should be fine

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why no 127c? seems like a sequence

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ic

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I would go for 127

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any algebra (150) that's taken before analysis

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is prob going to be meh

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for us it's real analysis is a prereq for algebra

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yeah it's rly high level algebra tho

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no clue

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mm sounds more sane

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idt the math sequence here is healthy

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our real analysis sounds like it might be double paced from davis...

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anyway

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you may be able to take the classes for free but not for credit

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most unis are able to waive requirements for any reason

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if you don't wanna graduate early

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it's best to not come in with too many credits to keep tuition low

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professors are nice

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they'll likely let you audit

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wait wait wait

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waves

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do u need the davis credit

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bc u are getting off of hs for this sem

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do you need a semester's worth of creits

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credits

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mmmm

tranquil echo
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by quarters wdym how is it split

paper widget
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okay

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but

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if u cant

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get the credit

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how does that look like to hs

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yeah

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cus i was thinking

tranquil echo
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we're pretty similar

paper widget
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u could just DE in a cc

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instead

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no i mean like

tranquil echo
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late august to december, january to april

paper widget
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just random credits u would need

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or if u need a credit requirement

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yeah

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lowk

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if i were u

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de too

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maybe

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like if u have time ofc

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could probably get ur freshman/soph GEs stuff out of the way

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at least for UCs and Cal States

tranquil echo
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ignoring research

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if you rly like math

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just do it

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if not, then it's not worth

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go for it and audit unless you rly want to graduate early

paper widget
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then go for it bestie

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slay

low iris
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especially since no metric spaces

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i think all that was covered in ~1-1.5months in my real analysis class

low iris
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so the only reason they require analysis as a prereq for other classes is to ensure you have the training in proofs, and not necessarily analysis itself

low iris
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i got out of calc 1, 2, 3 and lin alg 1 and 2 even though i had 0 credits

gleaming vortex
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online ib exists?

tranquil echo
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@tough parcel credits honestly don't matter that much just audit the class and then get the credits waived

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when you go to college just be like

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I alr took this class ong

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and the department will prob be like ok done

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credit waived, don't need real analysis to get math degree anymore

paper widget
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real rienmann ong

paper widget
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okay wait

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wait

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wait

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i realised failing logic here

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idk if yall took stats

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but we gonna pull the type 1 and type 2 rejections

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to remind our friends here, Type 1 is when we reject the Ho that is true

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Type 2 is when we fail to reject the Ho that is false

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anyway

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let Ho be that if waves does not get credits, we can stilll be credited the class

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see

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see

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if they arent credited

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u have to take the class

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again

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so youll be sitting in lecture when u could be doing other stuff

frigid junco
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go to Davis 😍

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πŸ₯Ί

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u are so inspirational

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🫑 i cannot wait for u to join uchicago math and become my math prof