<p>EC's and Personal Qualities that will be listed in essay/application:
Hospital Volunteer.
Honor Society "Alpha Gamma Sigma" - Volunteer
Medical/Clinical Volunteer in Argentina Summer 2006.
Proficient in Spanish and Mandarin.
Resided in Malaysia for 13 years prior to living in the U.S.
Raised in two very different cultures, upbringing of a Chinese and Burmese heritage in Malaysia.
Travel experiences in Australia, Mexico and Thailand(I think this is particularly good since my major is about "globalization" and what not)</p>
<p>The GPA is what I predict I'll be getting by the time I apply to UCLA this Fall 2006. If not I'm still pretty sure my GPA will be over a 3.5
What do you think my chances for UCLA would be for the Global Studies major? Looking at my EC's, grades, personal qualities and etc.</p>
<p>Oh and also, I'll be completely my IGETC and major prep also in the two years. But I won't be able to complete this course "Intro to Globalization" since my CC doesn't offer it!</p>
<p>You look like you've got a very good chance! Also something to keep in mind, sometimes no CC will offer a course that UCLA wants in your prereq, for the simple fact that they want you to take that specific class at UCLA. I'm a history major, and had meet all but one of my prereq's before I transferred. There sure enough was one class (History 97 if you're wondering) that was required that I take here.</p>
<p>I was choosing between International Dev. Studies and Global Studies at first. But yeah ended up choosing GS instead, seems more interesting. It's a new major too! IDS is impacted though that's the thing, but that's not the reason why I chose GB.</p>
<p>Prediction (since that is NOT your real GPA): Good shot!!!!! Definitely a PREDICTED MATCH for UCLA!</p>
<p>Hey you are "Proficient in Spanish and Mandarin." and you are "upbringing of a Chinese and Burmese heritage in Malaysia."
Wow, that is very special indeed. What language can you speak fluently (native style)? How about what language can you read and write proficiently (native style)?</p>
<p>I come from an odd background and I think I'm getting lost with my own identity, haha.
I speak a chinese dialect at home. Although when I was in Malaysia, I went to Chinese school and that's how I learned to speak and write mandarin, I can still speak and write it though, it's really not that different at all from the chinese dialect.
I'm pretty good in spanish, I learned it when I came here, although it's not as strong as my mandarin though. I have a lot of friends from different backgrounds so sometimes I try to practice with them.</p>
<p>Sad thing is, I don't even know Burmese eventhough that's my culture, haha. My mother never taught me! Except eat, sleep and shower, basic stuff.</p>
<p>Oh man, i have a classmate who came from a Southern American country and he is good at Chinese and Spanish (native style). However, he is different from you that he does not relate to Burmese.</p>
<p>I'm sure I'm not that great compared to native speakers, and I'm sure your friend is better in spanish than I am, heh.
I wish I can learn every major language in the world! But of course, that isn't easy.</p>
<p>In my old school in Malaysia we had to learn Malay also(national language of Malaysia besides English), but it was my worst language and I didn't really have any passion to learn that language anyway.</p>
<p>Try to do the honors program at your CCC, if you can Yams...</p>
<p>It'll increase your chances dramatically, most especially to UCLA because most honors programs give you "priority admission" upon completion. The figures my honors program advisor gave me were like 90% of students who completed HITE (our honors program) got into UCLA...</p>
<p>I did have the chance to join my Honors Program at my school but I decided not to because it was very inflexible(for my major etc) and notorious(especially my CC). A lot of people I knew that already transfered advised me not to go on to the Honors Program at my school. I was having a huge dilemma about whether or not to join the Honors program, but in the end I decided not to. And I feel like I'm not really missing out too much since the TAP program in my school only offers priority consideration instead of guaranteed transfers.</p>
<p>Well I really didn't know too much about it in the beginning, a lot of my friends who were in TAP for my school didn't like it so I took their advice and decided not to join. It was quite a dilemma.</p>
<p>I just never knew about CC at the time, Would have consulted here if I knew of it.
But my friend who goes to UCLA got in w/o TAP and it was mostly her and some other people who didn't have TAP and got in that convinced me to just do so.
So who did I listened to? Them. Afterall, they didn get into UCLA.</p>