<p>I got rejected from UCSD with a major of bioengineering. I have heard that bioengineering is very competitive.</p>
<p>Does anyone know of a website that has the percentage of freshman acceptance with a major in bioengineering so I can see just what my chances were?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to post information</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone that got in!
UCSD would have been nice to go to but I do have backup schools</p>
<p>may i know what your stats are? just wondering, since i am a junior, and i am interested in bioengineering too</p>
<p>@luvswimming2</p>
<p>I read somewhere that the acceptance in somewhere near 25%, so don’t be too hard on yourself.</p>
<p>@tigerash, the review process is kind of subjective. I got accepted for bioengineering and can post stats if you want.</p>
<p>Glass Half Empty: 75% chance you won’t get into BENG! If you have backup schools go there. You don’t want to be here waiting to get in, not get in, and then feel like you have wasted two years of your time and money not to get into the major you want. </p>
<p>You could later ask about inter-campus transfers. Apply as a freshmen at your new school and see if you can get in that way. I know peolpe who have done that, UCR to UCSD. Or if not you can always do inter-campus visitor program and come to UCSD for 2 quarters. It’s not much but it’s something.</p>
<p>@photolover12, yes please! i would love to hear your stats! and what do you mean by saying that the review is quite subjective?</p>
<p>@tigerash
G.P.A (weighted): 4.19
G.P.A (unweighted): 3.67
ACT: 31
Rank: Top 15% of class for both unweighted and weighted in class of 900 students</p>
<p>One A.P. class sophomore year. Three A.P. classes during my junior year and am currently taking four A.P. classes and one honors class.</p>
<p>EC’s:
I am involved in the mentoring program at my school, my school’s community service organization, my school’s National Honor Society chapter, my school’s Spanish Honor Society chapter, sign language club, diversity task force, and a member of the executive committee for the statewide diversity conference that is held at my school annually.</p>
<p>I volunteer weekly at my local library and at a hospital.</p>
<p>I have also run on my schools cross country team, though I wasn’t varsity level, and I dance Indian classical dance.</p>
<p>Also a female engineer major.</p>
<p>What I meant by subjective is that in I think the admissions officers look more holistically at a candidate rather than only grades(though they are still important). They want to be able to gage the applicant’s character. I know someone that also applied for bioengineering whose grades and G.P.A were far better than mine, but he is also very full of himself and it reflected in his essays which is why I think I got accepted and he got rejected.</p>
<p>oh, but i think one of the main reason you were accepted, was that you are female. that must have made you stand out from the applicants.</p>
<p>Her being a female definitely shouldn’t have any bearings on her application… The college admission would be sexist otherwise.
The main reason she got in was because she is a strong applicant; not because she is female lol.</p>
<p>^ THIS lol She is a very strong applicant </p>
<p>~Also: You are accepted to the school first then to your major. If you were rejected from UCSD it had nothing to do with what major you applied for since they don’t even look at that until after you’re accepted. (If you got into the school but rejected from your major you would be accepted as undeclared.)</p>
<p>Technically her being a female shouldn’t affect her application but as you know, engineering majors lack women and I’m sure the CSE department would like more women coming in to balance the male-female ratio.</p>
<p>Women have an advantage with getting jobs in the CSE department here. All the professors give tutoring jobs to women first even though there are equally qualified men. I’ve seen situations like this happen first hand. Apparently it is because they are trying to make CSE more diverse.</p>
<p>Hi, sorry to bump an old thread but I’m applying for bioengineering too and I am super nervous! I just submitted my uc app yesterday…</p>
<p>Asian Indian Female
UC GPA: 4.67 (Unweighted: 4.00)
ACT: 34
Ranked 2 out of 600</p>
<p>SAT II: Math II: 770, Chem: 740, Bio: 650</p>
<p>EC:
Two month internship in India under a gynecologist. <a href=“Took%20patient’s%20medical%20history,%20observed%20the%20head%20doctor”>11</a>
Intern in an Indian Lab <a href=“observed%20pathology,hematology%20departments,%20made%20notes%20on%20current%20technology%20in%20Indian%20Labs”>11</a>
CSF [9-12]
NHS [11-12]
Helping out Bhutanese Refugees. Giving them hygenic products and tutoring in English [9-10]
Seva International <a href=“Helping%20out%20the%20homeless,%20participating%20in%20food%20drives”>10-12</a>
9 years of Indian Carnatic Classical Music (participated in some competitions) [9-12]
Member of BeWise (Better Education for Women in Science and Engineering) <a href=“With%20BeWise%20I%20was%20researching%20current%20technologies%20in%20bioinformatics%20companies%20and%20labs”>9-12</a>
Interact Club [11-12]
Rotary Youth Leadership conference (RYLA) 2014 [11]
Reading Legacies (I read to preschool children every Monday for 2 hours) [11]
One week crash courses in Java, HTML,C++ [9]
Robotics Team [9]
Took one semester of Japanese [9]
Can speak somewhat conversationally fluent Kannada (my family’s native language)</p>