<p>i feel like i would enjoy sd or la much more than irvine, im also a 1st year bio major with a 3.7ish gpa</p>
<p>for SD, do TAG. Minimum GPA of 2.8 gets in and it is NOT hard to complete it, especially since you're a bio major, the hardest part is probably over.</p>
<p>TAG is only for community college students. I would say you would have a decent shot at both schools. The only thing that is really holding you back is that you are not a community college student. Try to figure out what UCSD and UCLA require for their prerequisites and do the UC GEs.</p>
<p>by GEs do you mean the breadth requirements or just the lower division major requirements</p>
<p>i feel that i cannot complete all the gen ed requirements by next spring because next year i have to take ochem,bio, and physics to complete the lower level requirements of my major</p>
<p>just stay at UCI... it seems like your science major..(Bio) UCI is good enough</p>
<p>im currently at UCI and I've applied for transfer, and yes, you are correct in saying that you can't finish your GE's- i didnt. you just have to take some GEs at the new school, not a big deal.</p>
<p>finishing bio, ochem and physics in 2 years is possible, but hard and i dont even think you're required to finish physics before you transfer( i may be wrong)</p>
<p>i dont think too many bio majors at UCI take physics in their second year.
if you've taken physics in high school, then physics should be no problem.</p>
<p>3.7 can get you to many places as long as you can keep it up. we've only had 1 quarter and thats nothing so it all depends on the next year. i had a 3.9 the first quarter and now i have a 3.5. go figure.</p>
<p>where did you apply to guyy?</p>
<p>its quite cumbersome</p>
<p>i applied to Cal (chemical engineering) and LA (bioengineering/chemical engineering).</p>
<p>current 2nd year UCI biomedical engineering: premedical</p>
<p>I applied for transfer because the current BMEP program at uci is pretty much useless so i figured that I might as well somewhere else, but now it turns out that i'm going to change majors whether I am accepted or not so getting accepted to either one of those schools will be a plus, although I might not be going considering the easier classes at uci.</p>
<p>by the end of spring I will have taken chem 1A-C and labs, math 2a-3d, physics 7A-E and labs, chem 51A-C and labs, writing 39b/C, over a year of research (199's), some of my major classes and ONLY 3 non-science GE besides wr. I did not plan to apply for transfer until fall 07 so my coursework not really "transfer bound".</p>
<p>since UC to UC applicants generally have lower GPAs (2.3-2.4 for my major) than those applying from CCC, it is very difficult to make yourself stand out. For me, the things that make me stand out the most are:</p>
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<li><p>Research/lab experience(Bio 199 or you, BME 199 for me). Not too many 1/2 or even 3rd years have research, yet i was still able to obtain a position. this is one thing that probably no CCC student will have.</p></li>
<li><p>i've been working at hoag since freshman year so that's kind of a plus, but i bet CCC applicants have volunteer experience too.</p></li>
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<p>dont go crazy on classes though, since they have a limit on units- which i found out just a few weeks ago- in which a student can be accepted. i actually had to cut back a little.</p>
<p>off topic- probably just like you, i wanted to go to medical school and everything, but now i dont so good thing i had all the engineering classes as back up. molecular biology has scared me away and im actually doing pretty decent in that class.</p>