Hi, I know this is an older post. But I thought I should offer my experience here. I'm in the middle of the quarter at UCSD, taking classes through their extension program to finish off a year's worth of prereqs. I got in fine this quarter, but it was a hassle for the first 3 weeks... you don't know until 3rd week if you get added into the class! In a 10 week quarter - that's a substantial wait.
I just realized that the labs here are pretty impacted. I have to double check with the chem department today, but it looks like I may have trouble getting into those. Yes, I should've researched this a little more. But, there is NO advising available here. And the concurrent enrollment office will assure you that they have "never had a problem accomodating extension students". Well that's bullsh*(. My guess is, students that couldn't get in just didn't come back to say so.
So the moral of the story is... if you're in SoCal, thinking of San Diego, take a better look at SDSU, and watch out for landmines as UCSD. Having an advisor is also extremely important (found the hard way) - and at SDSU, you do have access to one, even as a post-bacc student (UCSD you don't).
I also have a question now... it looks like i"ll have to "restart" my prereqs at a semester-based school after taking a quarter's worth of credits. I expect A's this quarter, but... will that look bad?
