<p>Hello, I'm currently a student at UCSD. I was admitted for Winter 07, so I actually only completed 2 quarters. I really do not like UCSD and I want to drop out. I can't decide on a major because the majors they have just DON'T interest me. I'm doing very very poorly (probably about a 2.0 yikes). Financial problems, housing issues, the list goes on. I don't feel that I'm learning anything, just memorizing bs that doesn't interest me and probably won't help me with my future career. </p>
<p>So, I want to drop out of UCSD, attend SMC, and transfer to UCLA. I'm taking summer classes at SMC right now, and I really like it there. Would it be simply idiotic to drop out of UCSD? I want to know if I even have a chance of being accepted to UCLA. Would my 'dropping out of UCSD' or low gpa lower my chances of getting in? What would I need to accomplish to make sure I get in? I don't want to regret dropping out. >.<</p>
<p>Also, if anyone could give me a basic overview of what I would need to do? starting from dropping out to applying as a transfer student? I really really need help, and you guys are the only people I can ask. Please help me!! I want to drop out asap and start attending SMC this fall (Sept 07). </p>
<p>Most likely your chance of getting in to UCLA will decrease because of your UCSD's GPA(2.0). If I were you I won't drop out of UCSD and do better in next quarter! good luck!</p>
<p>you are in a really tough position because, although smc seems like the right place to go, your gpa at ucsd is really low and will decrease your chances at UCLA. If you can pull a 4.0 at smc, which is very possible, and assuming that you keep that 2.0 at ucsd, then ur gpa might climb up to somewhere in the region of a 3.0 (?); that would still be below UCLA's average (which is a 3.4)</p>
<p>I mean, a 3.0 is not way below it, but its possible that if you complete the honors program, get a 4.0, complete the required 60 units, with 30 units completed at a community college, and have a really good essay, then good news may come :)...</p>
<p>and if you really hate ucsd, then apply to other schools as well! (just in case)</p>
<p>WARNING: it is very difficult to get back into the UC system after leaving it to go to a CC. I know several people that got into Davis and Santa Cruz straight from high school and attended a few quarters. They decided to go to a community college and then transfer back. They had their reasons to do so, but when they were ready to transfer and applied to several UC, they were reject by everyone. Their grades and records were pretty good. So if I were you, be very careful. The only options they had left to transfer were to CSU.</p>
<p>I went to Davis for a year, hated it, came home, did two years at a CCC, and am off to UCLA this fall, for an impacted major no less. My GPA at Davis was ~3.4 though. But I think TAP saved my ass. Seriously, I'm glad I left Davis. Being somewhere you're miserable is no way to be a good student.</p>
Being somewhere you're miserable is no way to be a good student.
So true. A 2.0GPA with only 30 or so qtr units shouldn't be so bad. Get a really high GPA at SMC and complete the scholar's program and UCLA should be no problem for you.</p>
<p>belindur, you have a few options at the moment and you should evaluate each to determine which will serve your interest the most. I understand that you are not having a good time at UCSD and it is difficult to earn good grades in an atmosphere you feel that is not concered with academic enlightenment for anything other then regurgitation. You could drop out of the UC system and continue at a CC bringing up your GPA, and apply for a transfer. You will run into trouble come transfer time though because if you leave yor GPA at UCSD as is you will surely not be in good academic standing and that applies at all UC's, which will make your transfer into UCLA that much more difficult. Reevaluate why your doing so poorly at UCSD and ask yourself why you expect a academic revial to happen at SMC or UCLA, your goals are possible but you must now destroy the precedence that you alone have set.</p>
<p>I am in the same situation as you. I just did a year at UCSD and hate it, and am applying to transfer for winter quarter. I have a 2.46 and am scared that UCSB and UCSC won't accept me. I went to talk to a counselor at UCSD about transferring, and he actually brought up the idea of going to Santa Barbara City for a little bit, and then try to transfer in, because UC to UC is basically put at the bottom of the list. </p>
<p>It is really hard to even think about dropping out of UCSD and going to a CC, but I have actually heard of a lot of people who had done that. I think that UCSD is a really hard place to fit in at. None of my friends this past year were happy there, and quite a few people were applying to transfer with me. I think it is ridiculous that a college won't accept you because you didn't like one college, so did poorly, so decided to go to a CC to finish up undergrad. I haven't researched the validity of that yet, but I guess that would be something to talk about in the essay portion. </p>
<p>The way I am seeing it, is that I am miserable enough that I think whatever the consequences are in the long run, just getting out of there will make it worth it. I think that if you go to a CC and get around a 4.0, it shows that you are serious, that you were having a hard time at your previous college for reasons other than just work load and that you want to try it somewhere else.</p>
<p>Whatever you do stay under 80 semester units because if you excede this number you may not be considered at a UC. *This only applies for students that have taken credits outside of the california community college system you can take as many credits as you like from a CCC only if those credits are only from a CCC.</p>
<p>Yeah...the walking is why people want to transfer out...
I am in Revelle and every single rumor about the place is true. Part of the Revelle dorms are designed to be antisocial. The fact that UCSD does suites makes it really hard to make friends with people who live by you who are not in your suite, because there are 12 other people living with them. The workload for science majors is ridiculous. My best friend is in a similar major at another school, studies probably 1/10th of the amount I do and her GPA is higher (mine was higher in high school). I found that not only did the classes have tons of homework and studying required, they are not interesting/any fun. </p>
<p>The school is in the middle of La Jolla, so students either live in apartment complexes about 1.5 miles away, or they live 5 miles away in Pacific Beach. All the fun is in Pacific Beach, but if you don't have a car, you have no way to get there, because buses stop running at 10 F-Sun. </p>
<p>If you are going to college to ONLY study, then UCSD is fine. If you want to go exploring, have fun, this isn't the place. I have non science major friends in Muir, and it was still the middle of second quarter by the time they got the chance to go exploring.</p>
<p>One of my main beefs with it is that I am from a rural area, used to backpacking and camping and being NOT in the city and was looking for something different and realize that I cannot handle it. I am also used to a more social life than what is there...</p>
<p>i am a current freshman at UCSD and to tell you the truth i dont like it. I got into UCLA and did not choose it for some weird reason, even though now i wish i had. I would like to transfer there ASAP, but would the only way to do that be through a community college? please answer fast.</p>
<p>i know some people that go there that seem to like it, of course they are in a sorority and have never lived in campus, freshman year i think they lived in on or off campus apartments, and one of the goes to sdsu to party and one is currently on semester at sea, i think they only went there because they were science majors</p>