fourcredits

No, can't do that. The elite schools I have in mind for future study frown on community college courses.

The summer semester at my university is horribly expensive. That's why I need summer courses. And my univ is on a semester system and all classes are 4 credits. That's why I need 4 credit classes.

That may be very true, especially if their undergrad college is highly prestigious but not well known. A student from Brywn Mawr who had taken substantial courses at Swarthmore, both being among the top-3 liberal arts colleges in the nation, told me she was turned down for jobs and students from directional universities were preferred over her. Apparently she relocated to the South after she got married and no one in that area had ever heard of her college. Basically, I think we need to do away with GPA or the kind of college you graduated from and focus only on substantive scores like performance on Econ-GRE. I have cousins, one of whom is studying at a good university (Engineering) where you need to put in at least 25 hours of work each week per course to get an A. Her twin is studying at an equally school (Communications and Education) where she gets an A just for showing up to class. They both will apply to Econ PhD programs. It's not fair if they're compared on the basis of their GPA.

Just classes I need to finish before I apply to a PhD Econ program. Plus classes not offered at my university (like Behavioral Econ).

Well, the same thing might be happening at the PhD Econ admission stage. The one direct and clear implication is that we need to bypass the secretaries and start corresponding with professors or the PhD Director about our interest in the program.

I need to take summer classes to graduate quickly. I have all kinds of courses in mind and it's just to meet my university's graduation requirements (e.g. we have a foreign language requirement, so I'd need French)

I work as a student assistant at a medical school and observed some admission decisions made for admission to the MD and MD-PhD program. The first cut is made by secretaries who have been given specific instructions by the adcoms. - On the reject pile was a pre-medical student with a business degree from Wharton. When I asked the secretary why that student with a 3.98 GPA and a 39 MCAT (which is a super-super-high MCAT score) was on the reject pile, she said Wharton is a bad online diploma mill. She had mistaken Wharton for Walden. - Also rejected was a student from Williams College, supposedly the #1 liberal arts college in many rankings. Another admissions secretary told me that this woman's application was on the reject pile because all her courses were taken at a community college and the adcoms like to see university-level courses instead of community college courses. This guy thought Williams College is a community college. I thought I'd pass this on!

Berkeley is not on a 4-credit system. The other problem is that many universities in California say they are on a 4-credit system but they're also on a quarter system. So when the courses transfer they work to only 2.67 credits (4 credits * 2/3)

By good, I mean schools like Univ of Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio State, you know what I mean. By cheap, I mean one 4-credit class over the summer semester costs about $1,000

My university has a very steep tuition for the summer. I am looking for inexpensive summer semesters anywhere in the US. The credits MUST be 4-credit courses rather than 3-credit courses, so the university needs to offer four credit courses. Any suggestions? (Preferably, the university must be a good university, so my criteria are: 4-credit classes, good university, cheap summer semester) Thanks