<p>I don’t think money should factor in at all. Certainly resources should factor in when you separate schools into tier levels of endowment, but throwing every school into a pile and factoring in something that could so drastically alter a ranking despite more important academic variables at play is foolish. Compare the academic levels of individual departments and you will get an inequality of funding despite rankings of that department (For example you could find a financially low budget outranking an ivy league with twice or three times the budget in certain departments)</p>
<p>@lakerforever24</p>
<p>“none of the other UCs are worth paying for besides ucla and cal. might as well go to CSU if u wanna go to riverside or merced”</p>
<p>I’m not even sure you even think before you say things.</p>
<p>The elitism and generalizations in this thread is strong.</p>
<p>@predictthisflick: no i don’t :). but regardless, about 90% of my thoughtless comments are far more sensible that 90% of people’s critical thoughts</p>
<p>well, i’ll be the first to actually “talk” about another uc besides putting it down or comparing it to LA or CAL. I really think Irvine, Davis, and Santa Barbara are pretty awesome overall. Are any of you hoping for one of those three or banking everything on CAL & LA?</p>
<p>I’m perfectly all right with going to Davis if I don’t get into UCLA or Berkeley. I’ll get my bike tuned up and everything. :p</p>
<p>Sb is awesome. The girls are hot, the campus and area is beautiful, it’s a lot of fun, the weather’s great. It also has a top computer science program (my major). I may even choose it over Berkeley, though I’d probably choose UCLA over either. We’ll see what happens. Davis also seems really cool. I’d choose UCSC over UCI though, but UCI over UCR.</p>
<p>the whole point of this thread is lost. its annoying all you cal and la people think that the other uc’s have nothing to offer but w.e to each his own i guess.</p>
<p>i would say this:</p>
<p>everyone wants to go to UCLA/CAL, but the next tier of UC undergrad campuses (UCSD, UCI, UCD, UCSB) have a lot to provide, are well ranked, and are entirely worth going to. in fact, the difference between CAL/UCLA and the next tier of UC schools can be argued to be negligible when applying for grad school, etc; there just isn’t that big of a difference between them in terms of prestige. </p>
<p>as for the next tier, there is less incentive to go to these campuses (UCSC, UCR, UCM), though UCSC is probably the best of that bunch. UCR and UCM are still good campuses, but they aren’t nearly as respected/well ranked and the perceived value in attending these campuses might be low.</p>
<p>@Cupertinotransfr LOL dude this entire forum…nah, this entire website is drowning in eltisim hahahhah</p>
<p>You can always expect a “Cal vs UCLA” or “Cal/UCLA vs other UCs” thread to get derailed during the first 2 pages.</p>
<p>99.999999% (pretty much 100%) of people choose Cal and UCLA over the lower ranked UC’s. It’s not notable to get into a great school like UCSD out of community college because all you have to get is a measly 3.0, which almost anyone can accomplish in community college. The OP doesn’t seem to comprehend that the only UC’s worth talking about on this forum are UCLA and Cal. Threads like this one (that address inferior UC’s) aren’t really a big deal.</p>
<p>oh and OP, it’s spelled T-A-L-K-S</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone mention on here wanting to go to UCM.</p>
<p>@anonymousername</p>
<p>you’re assuming that every single student applying has TAG. When I worked in the transfer center I found out that out of 10,000 students that apply only about 1,500 applied or actually qualified for TAG. That means the rest MUST have a much higher GPA than 3.0 in order to be competitive. The tough part about TAG is having all of your courses completed at the end of fall, not the 3.0, which many seem to fail at doing anyways.</p>
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<p>wrong. look at admission statistics for freshmen and transfers at UCSD:</p>
<p>transfers average GPA was a 3.33</p>
<p><a href=“http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/enroll/aptrans.pdf[/url]”>http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/enroll/aptrans.pdf</a></p>
<p>freshmen average GPA was a 3.94 (unweighted)</p>
<p><a href=“http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/enroll/ap.pdf[/url]”>http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/enroll/ap.pdf</a></p>
<p>A 3.33 is not that big of a leap from an easy 3.0. Unlike Cal & UCLA, where one needs to have a 3.5/3.6 to just be competitive, UCSD and subsequent UC’s don’t really require as much work. That’s why no one talks about inferior UC’s in transfer admission.</p>
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<p>Completing coursework by fall semester is a matter of planning and execution. A middle school student is capable of this task.</p>
<p>A 3.5 to 3.6 shouldn’t be that hard either, unless you’re a math or science major.</p>
<p>@Anonymous</p>
<p>That 3.94 freshman GPA is weighted. The footnote clearly reads
They are using weighted GPAs. Even Cal/UCLA average freshman UW GPA is below 3.94.</p>
<p>Furthermore it’s very possible to trabsfer in to Cal with a 3.0. I personally know one young lady who did so. She didn’t have any TAP (not offered at my CC) nor IGETC completed either. The fact is, getting in as a transfer to Cal/UCLA isn’t really all that difficult either. Unless of course, your major is impacted; which was not the case for this young lady.</p>
<p>why is it just such a big deal that Cal and UCLA are talked about the most, If someone really wants to talk about other UCs, start a thread about them or it, if its just one. damn not that difficult.</p>
<p>true, i didn’t see that it was weighted. But the point still stands that it’s no spectacular feat to transfer into one of the lower tiered UC’s compared to UCLA/Cal and that’s why no one takes disscussions about UCSD, D, I, ect seriously.</p>
<p>“Furthermore it’s very possible to trabsfer in to Cal with a 3.0. I personally know one young lady who did so. She didn’t have any TAP (not offered at my CC) nor IGETC completed either. The fact is, getting in as a transfer to Cal/UCLA isn’t really all that difficult either. Unless of course, your major is impacted; which was not the case for this young lady.”</p>
<p>I know a lady who transfered to Cal with a GPA < 3.0 (I think it was around 2.7). Though, it was a chicano studies major…</p>