<p>Hi! Still looking to be chanced (I’m on page 20 :))</p>
<p>I also have a question though. For anyone who has ever gone through this process, have any of you ever gotten into UCLA missing a major pre-requisite? For life sciences majors specifically, anyone ever get in missing something other than Ochem or Physics?</p>
<p>@Stressy</p>
<pre><code>I would say that you should not write about your misfortunes in your personal statement. Sad to say, most admissions committee members will look at is as an excuse/lie, although that is not the morally right thing to do. People do indeed lie on there apps though and misfortunes are either made up or exaggerated to the point where ad coms feel no pity for the applicant.
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<p>Also UCLA/UCB/UCI are the only UC’s that read personal statements for transfers.</p>
<p>UCSC (90-95%) as long as your GPA doesn’t drop too much, UCD (65%, if you get a GPA increase), and UCLA (5%)…sorry your GPA just isn’t high enough, if you have taken some honor courses then maybe. UCLA strictly accepts based on GPA and Course Prereqs. </p>
<p>I go to UCSC by the way and it isn’t a bad school at all. I was scared of it being a lame town, but it is rated by Forbes as one of the most beautiful campuses. They have really nice teachers/TA’s/resources. The people are friendly and welcoming. The only problem is the city party ordinance, which is fine if your 21, but if your under 21 it can be a real drag (not me thankfully).</p>
<p>@ oceanpartier: While I know the question really is broad, I can tell you from my experience last year that everyone I knew who applied to UCLA and was missing a prereq was rejected, including my best friend at Cal. She had a 4.0 in CCC and was missing 1 prereq. Now, if you’re doing that prereq your last semester, that’s fine. But if you’re missing it entirely on your transcript, that’s almost an automatic rejection.</p>
<p>@ Stressy: I think you should definitely write about it, but that’s just my opinion. I had somewhat of a sob story myself, and it made sense because I failed a bunch of classes my first semester. The reality is that you’re writing the personal statement for 2 reasons: To answer the prompt through writing about yourself, and to explain anything weird in your application.</p>
<p>As I said, I failed some classes my first semester. Had I never written about why that occurred, I highly doubt that I would have been admitted to Cal. You need to be open and honest about what happened during that time in your life, how it affected you personally, and how it affected your grades. The detail doesn’t have to be minute and graphic, but convey that you have endured hardships, and most importantly that you have learned and grown as a person because of it.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Emil</p>
<p>Please Chance!</p>
<p>Current school: UCR
Applying to: UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI
Major: Economics </p>
<p>Cumulative & Major GPA: 4.0 (hope to keep it, if not, probably in the 3.9+ range)</p>
<p>Major Pre-reqs: Done after Fall quarter, except for one Calc requirement for UCSD that will be done by Winter quarter </p>
<p>UC Reciprocity: Yes after spring</p>
<p>E/C:
High School- not much except for a few clubs (not positions)
College- UCR Honors Program, Work (Office job on campus), Econ Research Assistant, Summer 2011 Business Internship at local newspaper, Honors Society</p>
<p>I also have an extracurricular on campus, a position for Campus Outreach where I write some of the UCR magazine articles and hold workshops for students. I was wondering if I dropped this extracurricular (don’t really like it, takes up too much of my time), will this really adversely decrease my chances of acceptance? </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>@emilsinclair9</p>
<p>Thanks for the input! That sounds really depressing LOL.</p>
<p>@ oceanpartier: Is the prereq not offered at your school, or do you just not have time to take it? If the former, you’re fine.</p>
<p>@ strive: You’re in everywhere. Drop the EC, but mention that you wrote some articles for it, which will look good.</p>
<p>^^A little bit of both. It’s kind of a weird situation. I go to UCI where Biological Sciences majors must take Math 2A (derivatives) and Math 2B (differentials). I’ve finished those but UCLA requires one year of Calculus. Obviously, I only have 2 quarters and do not meet the one year requirement. If I were to complete the Calculus series at my school, I would have to do one quarter of multivariable calculus. Even life science students at UCLA don’t have to do that. </p>
<p>Now, I may have a decent GPA and a good chunk of my GE’s done, but I’m not going to bank on getting in UCLA and kill my GPA in the process. As I understand it, UC-UC transfers rarely happen anyway. I don’t have that great of a history with Calculus, and if I can avoid doing a math class that Chem/Engineering majors usually do, I’ll gladly take that path. Although it may sting a little when that rejection comes, I think keeping my GPA up at my current school is more important than transferring.</p>
<p>Ahhh wow that is a complicated situation. I don’t blame you at all; I avoided Calc at my CCC so that it wouldn’t affect my GPA. I chickened out of it lol. Hmmm your situation is tricky though…</p>
<p>It seems to me like you are making the right call. No need to hurt your GPA at UCI, especially if you’re planning on grad school.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.40
Major: Biological sciences for UCD and USC, MIGM for UCLA, Molecular Toxicology for Cal
Major Prereqs done for UCD, UCLA; Done for Cal by Spring before Transfer
Strongly Recommended classes done by Spring
IGETC: Done
TAP and Honors: TAP For UCLA and honors
TAG: For UCI
Upward Trend
ECs: Some school club members, Honors Society, Hospital Volunteering 100+ hours still continuing, Musician.
Personal Statement: Pretty good.</p>
<p>@ Wishful: I don’t know much about USC, as I never applied there, but you’re in at UCD and UCLA (primarily due to TAP). Cal will be quite a stretch due to your GPA…but considering that you have an upward trend, that will definitely help you. What kind of trend are we talking?</p>
<p>(like 1.0 ------> 4.0 last 3 semesters?)</p>
<p>@Oceanpartier</p>
<p>You state that you have taken Math 2a which is Derivatives for one quarter and Math 2b, Differentials, for one quarter and that the next Calculus class would be Multi-variable Calculus. What happened to Integration and Infinite Series? Every Calculus sequence I have ever heard of has Integration and Infinite Series after Differentials and before Multi-variable Calculus. It would be impossible to do Multivariable Calculus without at least knowing how to do Integration. My sons who go to Sacramento State use the Stewart textbook for Calculus which is also used at UC Berkeley, Cal Poly SLO and many of the other UCs and CSUs and Multivariable Calculus is the last of a three semester sequence 1. Differential Calculus, 2. Integral Calculus and Infinite Series and finally 3. Multivariable Calculus which many students which is usually only taken by students like my sons who major in Physical Sciences or Engineering. I would check your course catalog again because with your major one more semester of Integral Calculus should be all the Math you would need to take.</p>
<p>^Sorry slipped up there. Math 2B at UCI = Integration. As you can see, Calculus has completely left my brain, hence my fear of moving up to multivariable :P</p>
<p>You actually got me opening up my Calculus notebook again. Nostalgia xD. I have no idea about infinite series though, whatever those may be.</p>
<p>Major: Linguistics
GPA: 3.91
Applying to: UCLA, Cal, UCSD (TAG), UCD or UCSC
IGETC: Done
Major Pre-req: Done by Spring 2012</p>
<p>EC: Don’t really have much pertaining to linguistics… but AGS Honor Society, Humane Society volunteer, currently working at a dental office. </p>
<p>Will my EC’s be the death of me? Haha!</p>
<p>how competitive is UCI for business administration? UCI doesn’t allow TAG for business admin, so it is kind a strange.</p>
<p>GPA atleast =?</p>
<p>^ The UCI Rep said this morning that BizAd and Biological Science are the only 2 impacted majors at UCI, and she also said average GPA was around 3.7. Go to collegeconfidential, make an account and view that video if you want to :)</p>
<p>That major is super competitive. You can expect it to be the first choice of many students, and the second choice of Haas applicants and UCLA’s BizEcon applicants. You should know you are competing with some of the best students at CCC :)</p>
<p>@iMunster: I don’t see any reason you can be rejected from any of those schools… EC is not important, and those that you list are significant enough. I wouldn’t say 100% for LA and Cal (100% for other schools though), but you have ~80-90%. Gl ;)</p>
<p>All,</p>
<p>Im currently attending a community college, hoping to transfer to UCSD (muir). My
question is, should I follow IGETC or should take my prereq classes for neuroscience major? If, i do take my prereqs is it only the classes listed on assist.org or do I also have to take english 1A…etc</p>
<p>@ iMunster: Nope! You’re good. EC’s will not be the death of you lol. You’re in everywhere.</p>
<p>@ Ferrari: Biz Admin at UCI is one of those anomalies in the transfer process. It’s actually quite competitive. Ideally, you’re going to want a 3.6-3.7+ GPA. I remember last year that it admitted a small number of transfers, though I can’t remember exactly how many.</p>
<p>@ ajpaul: If you’re asking what takes precedence (IGETC or prereqs) for UCSD, it’s always IGETC…and in general lol. You do need to have 2 semesters of English as well. Just definitely finish IGETC :).</p>
<p>To all: I think this year I’m going to keep count of how many chances I give out and compare it to how accurate I am. Should be interesting!</p>