<p>Hi 2015 Applicants!</p>
<p>I know a thread already exists for 2015 UCLA, but I thought I would start one for the Application in general.</p>
<p>A question to start off: Is anyone else having problems uploading info from UC TAP? It says my info is not available.</p>
<p>I suggest that if you continue to experience problems with transferring the information you need from UC TAP to the application, you should just fill out the application manually. It may be annoying and inconvenient, but it won’t take too long and you can just reference your UC TAP when doing so.</p>
<p>That’s my plan if it doesn’t work out soon. I’ve emailed the support team, so I hope to hear a response soon.</p>
<p>Good luck with that.</p>
<p>And hey, you have way more time to work on this application than we fall 2014 applicants had last year. Consider yourself lucky. :)</p>
<p>I remember that feature not working for me either, just had to manually redo it. If you have the discipline and time I suggest starting personal statements early. Make couple of drafts and forget about it for a month. What you thought was perfect then will look like cringe worthy mess a month later. Another tip is to triple…quadruple check to make sure your application is correct. You do not want to deal with the stress later where you’re admitted, but have admissions possibly judged again due to one single error. Also, your high school transcript itself won’t matter, but if you’ve taken AP exams and/or community college classes in hight school then be sure to report those accurately. Good luck</p>
<p>@Cayton, I’m living up to my username. I got a response already from the UC support. She said that it has been down and will hopefully be fixed soon, but reiterated what you already said about doing it manually.</p>
<p>Thanks @jonjon03 , I will take your advise seriously. I plan on checking everything repeatedly.</p>
<p>@luckie1367</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, which UC’s are you applying to? </p>
<p>Best method to have our application fees waived? </p>
<p>@ocnative UCB, UCD (TAG), UCLA, UCSD, UCSB (? I keep changing my mind)</p>
<p>@glara11 I believe they base the wavier on information you supply on the Application about household and annual income. You can receive up to four.</p>
<p>@glara11 </p>
<p>If you and your family don’t make very much money, you’ll get a fee waiver. Be honest, though.</p>
<p>@luckie1367 </p>
<p>Applying to Berkeley and UCLA, huh? @ocnative and I have this thing going on where we try and steer applicants to our preferred schools. He tries to persuade them to go to Cal, and I try to get them to UCLA, if they’re accepted to both schools.</p>
<p>You better choose UCLA if you get into both… >:P </p>
<p>Hahaha we shall see then. To be honest, I think I would be happy at either (assuming I am accepted :-?? )</p>
<p>@luckie1367 What major(s) are you thinking of applying as? GPA? EC?</p>
<p>Berkeley: Psychology
Davis: Psychology, alt: Philosophy
UCLA: Psychology, alt: CogSci or Philosophy (I haven’t decided)
UCSD: Psychology, alt: CogSci
UCSB: Psychology (?)</p>
<p>All pre-req’s met by end of Fall, GPA 3.6 (? Still waiting for summer grades), EC’s: decent, Essays: Still in progress</p>
<p>@luckie1367 </p>
<p>You can’t go wrong with either UCLA or Berkeley for Psychology…but if you do get into both, choose Cal 
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<p>Good stuff bro! Let me know if you need any help with Psych.</p>
<p>I don’t want to alarm you, but Berkeley is changing the lower division/prereqs for Psychology: <a href=“Tier I: Prerequisites for Fall 2014 Freshmen/Fall 2015 Transfers | UC Psych”>Tier I: Prerequisites for Fall 2014 Freshmen/Fall 2015 Transfers | UC Psych; . This is the important part:</p>
<p>Quantitative: A total of 3 courses is required. Students must take Psych 10 and two additional quantitative courses.</p>
<p>Psych 10: This is the Psychology 101 Statistics course that all Psych transfers are required to take. It’s crosslisted this semester as Psych 10 and Psych 101, but it looks like they’re going to phase out calling the class 101.</p>
<p>PLUS Two courses from the list:
Math 10A & 10B
Math 1A & 1B
Math 54, or Math 55
Stats 2</p>
<p>*NOTE: In addition to Psych 10, the following combinations are recommended: Math 10A-B (highly recommended), Math 1A-B, Stats 2 with Math 1A, or Stats 2 with Math 55. </p>
<p>Stats 2 is the old Statistics requirement.
MATH 1A-B is Calculus
MATH 10A-B is Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics
Math 54 is Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Math 55 is Discrete Mathematics</p>
<p>Thanks @ocnative ! Both are excellent schools, I just hope I get in considering my GPA is a bit low.</p>
<p>@calbro Wow! Thanks for the heads up. They haven’t made the change on Assist yet, so I really appreciate you telling me here. Also, I am a girl but I do respond to ‘dude’ as do most Californians.</p>
<p>My apologies and best of luck.</p>
<p>No worries, and thank you! Please let me know how your experience at Berkeley goes!</p>
<p>@luckie1367</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Berkeley and UCLA teach psychology differently(Not sure if this is true. Just what I heard). Berkeley is said to have more of a social science approach to teaching psychology whereas UCLA emphasizes the biological aspects of the discipline. That makes it all the more interesting since UCLA and Cal are tied in the psych rankings on USNWR.</p>
<p>Perhaps you should take this into consideration when deciding which school to go to if accepted into both.</p>