<p>^ As title says. Fall '12 transfer student. AMA</p>
<p>What does AMA stand for?</p>
<p>Ask Me Anything! A fellow redditor I see? :)</p>
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<p>I guess I should have been more specific. I applied as a bio major to all schools. ^ Ask me anything!</p>
<p>^ not really specific enough, it would be nice to post your stats + major which you have already did.</p>
<p>What was your gpa, stats, etc.
What school did you choose and why?</p>
<p>Major:
UCB - Molecular and Cell Biology
UCSD - Molecular Biology
UCI - Biological Sciences
UCD - Animal Biology</p>
<p>GPA:
cGPA - 3.7
mGPA - 3.9</p>
<p>Lower Division:
IGETC completed
All prereqs completed except one year physics, calc 3 </p>
<p>EC’s:
Club involvement (leadership position), teaching assistant multiple times for chem and bio courses.</p>
<p>I ended up choosing Cal for a number of reasons: opportunity, location, challenge, prestige, diversity, DeCal courses, friends that are already there.</p>
<p>What’s the circumference of a circle?</p>
<p>^lol, good question</p>
<p>I don’t get how people apply to more than one or two UC’s?</p>
<p>How did you go about fulfilling all the prereqs for each UC?</p>
<p>Let me explain, I want to transfer to either Berkeley or UCLA some day for psychology and I know how to do assist.org and the IGETC and all that. All the Berkeley and UCLA psych requirements are enough to keep my busy for two years, so how do I mix in other UCs (specifically ones I can TAG to)? I want to apply to let’s say Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara as well as UCLA and Cal when the time comes, but it doesn’t seem possible to take all the classes assist.org tells me to for each UC. Aren’t UCLA and Cal’s prereqs good enough for UCSC and UCSB?</p>
<p>Yeah it does seem weird to me how they dont overlap more. </p>
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<p>Your best bet is to pick the one school that you most want to attend and then fulfill all of the reqs for that one school and worry about taking care of the others secondarily. I always used that as a rule of thumb when I was advising other students, I did so because the councilors at PCC are so unreliable. That said, I can back the previous statements b/c I was accepted at UCLA, UCirvine, and UCSanta Barbra.</p>
<p>@gettingthatfosho, As earell92 said, you should try and focus your first and/or second school picks reqs. In my case, the biology reqs are all quite similar. Your looking at the general bio courses, four chemistry courses, calc 1,2 (calc 3 for UCSD), and then the one year physics. I actually took other courses that weren’t even reqs for my top schools like stats and human anatomy. </p>
<p>Assist is a great tool and you should try to coordinate your completion of the lower division reqs as efficiently as possible. </p>
<p>@Ramfan661, depends on the radius of the circle!</p>
<p>What’s the square root of 64:)</p>
<p>8 something? -___- I used to be good at math, then we started playing with imaginary numbers…</p>
<p>Well I always go like this: 64
/
2 32
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2 16
/
2 8
/
2 4
/
22
So then you have 2x2x2
x 2x2x2 = 64
& 2x2x2= 8! </p>
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<p>Okay, thaks that sounds pretty straightforward. UCLA is my main focus, and Berkeley is my other dream school. I would be beyond happy to attend either one some day. Anyway, UCLA will serve as my #1 potential transfer destination (more practical for me anyway; live in soCal dad went there, great psych dept.) and I will focus on the psych prereqs as listed on assist.org, which are very clearly spelled out and workable along with the IGETC. Actually, most, if not all of UCLA’s required psych courses are included in the IGETC. Then I’ll just add on some Berkeley courses. There’s only a few I would need, mainly bio classes. Next would be any requirements left for my back up UCs that I can TAG with. </p>
<p>Aghh, this is tricky. Sounds stressful to have my the requirements for my safety zone schools on the back burner. Maybe by the time I can start knocking em out I’ll have a good amount of overlaps from UCLA and Berkeley. Maybe I’ll just go to town on those UCLA and Cal courses and not look back. I don’t know, thanks for your help though. Was UCLA your primary with UCI and UCSB as backups?</p>
<p>You guys are legitimate mathematicians!</p>
<p>Do UCs honestly weigh LD pre-reqs heavily when it comes to admissions? I got into UCSD (Psychology) and I had seven missing pre-reqs (eight, since I also would’ve had to take Pre-Calc to fulfill the Calculus requirement). I also got into UCI’s CogSci Psych major with six or so missing pre-reqs. And trust me, my GPA did not help either. </p>
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<p>Why u no apply LA??</p>