<p>I am a sophomore in UCSD majoring in biochemistry and cell biology major. Current GPA is around 3.40 because I did badly on the English courses (Theres three classes and I have a C+ in one of them, the other two I got a B- and a B). Other than that, my major classes are ok and I only got a B in one of the major class and the others are all As and A-s. By the end of spring 2008, I will have 118.5 quarter units. One more thing, I am pretty sure I will get a 4.0 this quarter because I dont have to take any more English classes and that will pull my GPA up to 3.5-ish. Is it possible to send them my grades after fall quarter ends? If possible, will they look at my grades for the fall quarter? And what will be my chances of getting into UCLA? </p>
<p>One more question, is UCSD a better science school than UCLA? I personally like UCLA better </p>
<p>I applied to UCLA, Cal and UCSD last year, and got rejected from UCLA in Biochemistry. I had a 3.79 from UCSC. I got accepted to Cal and UCSD.</p>
<p>I didn't finish UC Reciprocity though. At UCLA, Biochemistry is hella impacted. So it's more difficult to get in.</p>
<p>IMO I want to say UCSD is better in the sciences. UCSD is known for its grad school in the sciences. and i always thought about UCSD being a better science school in general. I also think it's easier to find jobs around UCSD since it's in la jolla, and a lot of biotech companies are there.</p>
<p>that is not comfirmed yet. they are not going over the budget yet until beginning of next year so we dont know if they are cutting admissions or not. some people recently asked ucla rep and they said they are not cutting admissions so lets not make assumptions yet.</p>
<p>it doesn't even make sense that they would cut uc to uc transfer rates. it makes MUCH more sense for them to cut ccc transfers. they're already losing money on someone going to a uc. to transfer them over doesn't mean any more loss. but taking in an extra ccc student does mean more loss. so, i highly doubt uc to uc transfer rates will go down.</p>
<p>Since your a UC Student, they are already losing money each year for your enrollment. So why should they really bother with your request to transfer? It doesn't mean they will get more money from you , but they will be losing money if they take you over an OOS or INTL student.
As for CC Students, I'm sure they'll factor in the household income more now than ever. There are other reasons why students decide to attend CC besides performing poorly in high school or not being able to afford college. Maybe some of them didn't want to attend a UC other than Berkeley or LA. As for those that did, they now realize they don't want to either and are now applying once again for Berkeley and LA. This is basically their last chance and please spare me from the "Oh I just want to see if I can get into a better school" BS. You don't like it there and that is the reason your are transferring and the only reason you are telling yourself that UC to UC transfers will still be fine is because you don't want a degree from whichever UC you are currently at. It's true, the recruiting done at UCSD is atrocious.</p>
<p>Actually, biochemistry is probably better at UCSD since they are pretty well known for biotechnology disciplines including their Biomedical Engineering program being rank 1 or 2 in the U.S.</p>
<p>lol ucsd is better than berk for bioeng, berk even admits it. i just want to go to berk or la cuz they are better for what i want to do.</p>
<p>the funny thing is, a uc student with the same gpa has a higher chance of getting accepted to transfer than a ccc student. no lie, look up avg gpa of transfer from uc and from ccc on statfinder.</p>
<p>so say we're an out of state student at ucsd then... how would that affect our admission to say ucla or something? because i'm already paying a ****load as an OOS</p>
<p>I believe the CCC-UC statistics on Statfinder, I just think that UC-UC transfer situations are more unique and because of that fact it would be difficult to try and draw conclusions based on a limited data set (~600 UC applicants a year vs 11,000 CCC) especially when one considers the fact that admissions are done on a departmental level. </p>
<p>I'm not saying that I don't believe the numbers in front of me, I am saying that I think one should be skeptical when they look at the UC-UC rates and should draw careful conclusions. </p>
<p>A lot of the transfers are from students at other UC's who don't get access to certain obscure/unique majors that are only offered at the largest UC campuses, Berkeley and LA. Consequently the acceptance rates for UC-UC transfers to these schools may seem higher than they actually are, relative to UC-UC transfers for impacted/popular majors like Psychology, Economics, History, Communications etc, which a majority of students are applying to.</p>