<p>For those of you who transferred (particulary those who transferred last year) from a community college, has your performance declined, stayed the same, or improved?</p>
<p>I'm also curious about this.</p>
<p>Declined, because UCLA counts +s and -s and my CC didn't. Otherwise it'd be the same, or higher. </p>
<p>It's hugely annoying.</p>
<p>I heard UC Berkeley's Business classes are easy though; it's just that the competition is extremely harsh.</p>
<p>Most classes at universities (warning- non-science/math/engineering- i can't speak for those) aren't actually hard. It's just usually the grading that kills you. And for those types of classes it isn't even competition, it's just that things are graded much, much differently than at CCs. </p>
<p>I still maintain that my CC classes were more difficult than my UCLA classes, due to various factors.</p>
<p>i thought once you hit upper divisions you're done with the weeders.</p>
<p>Yeah but it's less about being a weeder and more about things just being graded much more strictly than at other schools. Work which might have gotten you an A+ at CC might manage to get you an A at UCLA in an upper div class, or it may get you a B or a C, depending on the professor/ta and the quality of other people's work in the class. Also, they're much more liberal with A-s than they are with As, which end up hurting your GPA.</p>
<p><strong>allie</strong></p>
<p>By how much has your academic performance declined since attending UCLA? What GPA did you end with at your CCC?
What GPA do you now have at UCLA?
WHat is your major?</p>
<p>Yes, all UC's count A- as lower than a 4.0--which I think is kind of stupid, since an A+ in a UC is the same as an A, a 4.0. This leads to a lowering of GPA, so be prepared for this.</p>
<p>I have also heard that UC Berkeley's business classes are easy, but getting IN to the program in the first place is the difficult part.</p>
<p>expect it to drop</p>
<p>My academic performance hasn't declined at all. If anything, it's improved. But my GPA, which I consider to be different and not always representative of the true quality of my work, has declined somewhat. I left my CC with a 3.82 and right now I'm hovering around a 3.65, expecting it to be around 3.75-3.8 by graduation in June since I don't really have any "challenging" courses left. </p>
<p>I'm a Comm Studies major.</p>
<p>Starryqt- The same thing (about the classes being easier than actually getting into the major) goes for Comm at UCLA. Ridiculously selective but not super hard once you're in.</p>