Any cognitive science majors?

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<p>I applied to UCLA, UCB, UCI, and UCSD.
Aiming for UCLA or UCB.
I have a 4.0, under cognitive science (unimpacted with like a 38% acceptance rate)
I have 27 UC AP credit units (7 APs) 22 Semester units (7 classes fall/summer), currently in 17 Semester units (4 classes spring)
I am trying for a one year transfer.
For prereqs:
6/9 except for the 2 C++ classes and 1 Java class. (UCLA),
1/5 for UCB
I was extremely active in highschool school government (graduating president, junior senator, keyclub treasurer, volunteer club president), volunteering (keyclub, special needs kids, do something, hospital), and won a couple of large scholarships (one 1,000 the other 40,000 over four years), class superlatives, valedictorian (I forgot to include).</p>

<p>I dont want to list all my rewards in the aims of sounding braggy, cause its not that miraculous. Im still involved in asg and volunteering currently. I work also as a bio assistant.</p>

<p>For UCLA:
Anyways, I have been scared cause these 3 classes were extremely hard to find, and I ended up taking a bunch of languages classes as filler of the 60 units, because the prereqs were only offered at one school near me (Glendale CC). By the time I found it, the classes were full and I couldn't find it elsewhere. </p>

<p>For Berkeley:
Almost no place had their prereqs, other than discrete math, which I couldn't enroll in. </p>

<p>I know missing prereqs is important for UCLA/UCB, but this major is unimpacted and these classes were hard to find. But it still freaks me out.
Looking at upper division course work, compsci stuff doesn't even seem necessary if I decide not to take compsci electives. For UCLA atleast, its mostly psychology + a mixture of things.</p>

<p>Anyone else in cogsci not fulfill these prereqs?
Or if anyone know if its terrible-- I really couldn't find articulated courses for them.</p>

<p>Thanks if anyone ends up responding!</p>

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<p>Cognitive science is a GREAT major! I believe if your school does not have the pre-req you’re absolved from having to take in advance. And most likely others are in the same boat.</p>

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<p>I’m not a cognitive science major, but I will tell you this: if the pre-reqs for your major are not offered at your community college, the UCs will generally not hold it against you.</p>

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<p>You at least took Calculus or Analytic Geometry and Calculus, right? </p>

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<p>@Ocnative I took Calc B/C in hs and got an AP score of 4, (crying cause not a 5) which qualifies for Calc I, and I am currently taking Calc II with a good A atm, although they won’t see it ofcourse.</p>

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<p>I applied for CogSci for UCB and UCSD. I’ll make you feel better about your impressive stats. I only have a 3.5ish. I wrote about my illness some - not a sob story but an explanation for a shaky semester and why I can only attend part-time some semesters. Non-traditional student (no HS stats to even list). </p>

<p>I guess I have a few EC’S (working 2-3 jobs at a time, a few clubs, lots of volunteer I did including when our school district laid off librarians for a whole year, was asked by my CC to tutor in their tutoring center, Dean’s list many semesters in a row before I became ill)</p>

<p>They know the prereqs for CogSci are hard to find, so I wouldn’t worry too much. I’ve taken Intro to Biopsych, Calc I and II, General Psych. No Discrete Math or MATLAB, but I’m a computer programmer and know multiple languages and have taken lots of CS courses which may help a little. I know I will most likely not get into UCB due to GPA. But I think you have a very good chance!</p>

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<p>@cayton do you think they’d reject me, thinking I should take another year just to fulfill those three prereqs by trying to enroll at gcc as my main cc? thats what im afraid of atm. I heard gcc is hella crowded, and I ofcourse would LOVE to get out and go to UCLA now.</p>

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<p>@elmermmhmm‌ </p>

<p>I don’t think they’ll reject you. If they accept you, though, you’ll have to do some catching up at their school. In the worst case scenario, you can apply again next year with more pre-reqs completed. If you maintain your GPA, hope for the best, and prepare for the worst, you’ll be at UCLA or Berkeley one way or the other eventually. Just my opinion.</p>

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<p>@credulitykills‌ I wouldn’t consider me impressive, but thanks man. Thank you for replying, cause I was afraid I was the only one having trouble finding these courses. I know they get mad if someone doesn’t take like a chem which is everwhere, but these are at few places. You having an illness and working 2-3 jobs at once is tremendous and impressive to me, I could never fully handle that kinda stress. Anyways since you like compsci and are involved already, I know ucsd is very compsci based, compared to ucb who’s department is really knew for cogsci. I really hope you get into berkeley though, if you like the area.</p>

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<p>I applied to UCLA and Berkeley for CogSci. 3.71GPA, UCLA TAP, finished all prereqs for UCLA except one programming course not offered at my CC. Missing 2 for Berkeley. I’m pretty confident on UCLA, but Berkeley is a coin toss for me.</p>

<p>As others have already said, if there are no courses articulated on assist at your CC for your missing prereqs, you should probably be fine. </p>

<p>It’s nice to see other CogSci majors here! I’m mostly interested in the artificial intelligence and computational mind side of cognitive science, as well as some neuroscience. The thing is, I got into UCSD as a computer science major already, so I’m quite conflicted, because compsci will probably give me a better foundation on artificial intelligence and its a more lucrative major. I also heard that UCSD has one of the best CogSci programs in the world since it started the first CogSci department, so I could always minor in CogSci there. </p>

<p>I think I might just go to UCSD even if I get into UCLA/Berkeley. Hm…</p>

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<p>CogSci major here!</p>

<p>Applied to UCSD, UCSC and UCB, UCSD and UCSC accepted me. Haven’t completed requirements, just IGETC, but have a 4.0 and have been working at a neural computation lab at UCSD for ~3 years.</p>

<p>Decided to apply to Berkeley on a whim but haven’t completed the only 2 pre-requisites offered at my school (Calc & Analytic Geometry/Discrete Math). I’ll take them during the summer since I can transfer those classes to either UCSD or UCB.</p>