<p>Redirected to Undeclared -.-</p>
<p>Stats-
2270/800IIC/760Chem
4.14 UC GPA
9 AP’s total
4 CC classes, all A’s
Decent essays, average ECs</p>
<p>undeclared engineering?</p>
<p>I'm allowed to enter any non-impacted major.</p>
<p>do bioengin:premed?</p>
<p>Let me understand this, you didn't get into the engineering major of your choice with those stats?</p>
<p>how did you find out? something about an additional screening letter?</p>
<p>All the BioE majors are competitive but those are great stats and you should have got whatever you wanted. Strange.</p>
<p>Perhaps it was my decline in grades? 10th grade (straight A's) -> 1st semeseter Jr. Year (B in Honors Lit) -> 2nd semester Jr. Year (B in honors lit, B in APUSH, B in AP Chem). </p>
<p>I hope Cal doesn't review applications the same way UCSD does :(</p>
<p>Were your APs in math and science 4's and 5's?
3's would definitely have hurt your chances.</p>
<p>"Decent essays, average ECs"</p>
<p>This is probably the part that hurted you. What you think was be "decent" may be otherwise in the eyes of the people who make the decisions.</p>
<p>3 in Comp sci (didn't report it), 5s on rest. Yea I suppose my essays might have been to blame too, but I was under the impression UCSD concerned itself more with objective stuff.</p>
<p>i got into bioe premed and i only had a 4 in ap calc ab and 2 in ap chem :(</p>
<p>ap test scores don't really matter. they're mostly a joke anyway.</p>
<p>AP's a joke?</p>
<p>I know students who have used their AP's to exempt so many credits they graduate in 3 years, or stay for 4 years and double major.</p>
<p>An admissions officer who has to choose between the applicant who has 4s and 5s and the applicant who has 2s and 3s, would likely pick the kid with higher scores.</p>
<p>Where's the joke?</p>
<p>i personally would not use my AP's to skip out of classes and graduate early. AP material is touted as "college-level", but it is a whole new ballpark in college -- expectations are far higher, and I think riding on AP's just to graduate early would doing yourself a disservice. furthermore, AP scores do not need to be reported.</p>
<p>It can be argued both ways. On the other hand, you can use your AP credits to skip of out the weeder lower division courses which tend to weed out the weaker students/hurt their GPA. A weeder course is one in which the course is a prereq. for many majors and serves as a filter to siphon out weaker students.</p>
<p>I ono</p>
<p>I got into bioengineering with the following:</p>
<p>3.85 UC GPA
2340 SAT
800 on both SAT IIs</p>
<p>Well my anger has kind of cooled off because I recently decided Bioengineering was not really for me. My only grudge is: this may ultimately foreshadow rejection to Cal's engineering program :( Oh well there's always UCLA to fall back on to. Unfortunately I applied for and was accepted into its Bioengineering program -- <em>wonders how hard it is to switch majors</em>.</p>
<p>its not hard to switch from an impacted to a non-impacted</p>