<p>If you are TAG’d with UCSD, and I mean you finished up your IGETC with a 3.0 or plus, then you are in. UCSD did make some mistakes and declined some people even with their TAG, but the ones who called them back and got their application reviewed…they got back accepted.</p>
<p>I’m a witness! I saw all this happen. Plus I met with the rep, she was really nice and she told me that people who TAG into non-impacted majors should get in. If they get rejected, that’s a mistake made by them. That’s why they have it online now. Last time they had to deal with piles of apps.</p>
<p>In a small nutshell, I went to Palomar for years, thought I was good to go for TAG (I was initially a TAG student back when you had to sign a contract and it was a 2.8 GPA requirement… bet most of you don’t remember that ) then got horrendous information from a counselor at Palomar who put me on a path that had me taking math in the spring before my transfer rather than the fall, which resulted in my TAG getting nullified last year. I got accepted to UCI, which is where I’m at now for this quarter, then I’ll be dropping out and re-enrolling in CC for one semester and taking one unit, then going to UCSD as a TAG student in the fall.</p>
<p>Hey, I live near you and went to Palomar! Parking there is HORRENDOUS; switched to MiraCosta where finding a spot only takes a few minutes. Plus the instructors seem like they’re actually enjoying life.</p>
<p>Best wishes in having a much smoother time transitioning to a UC school, and make sure Wendy Homuth isn’t your counselor ;). One thing I learned is to make your own two-year plan and research the entire transfer process before seeing a counselor, but I’m sure you know that already.</p>
<p>@raacheeel: Nice! Where do you live/what CC did you go to?</p>
<p>@HotCholoate: Yeah parking is brutal, but that’s usually only for the first week or so until everyone drops classes. It’s amazing how quickly the herd things at CC. I actually live right behind Palomar in San Marcos… I used to walk to class rather than deal with parking. </p>
<p>And yeah, I’ve had great experiences with Palomar counselors and I’ve had atrocious ones. Sadly, it was the atrocious ones that screwed me much more than the great ones helped me. Are you going to UCSD?</p>
<p>@Grimes99: Even after the initial weeks fly by, parking was always a pain in the ass for me at Palomar. Last year, I had foot surgery and my doc gave me a disability parking decal, so that issue was resolved for a few months :D. Parking in the very front is the bomb diggity… only took me 3-5 minutes to walk (or hobble) to class. Not sure if you’ve ever ventured out to MiraCosta, but there’s far less students so classes are considerably easier to squeeze into, plus the lots are smaller and more spread throughout campus. Even on the most crowded hours of Monday mornings, it’s still really easy to find a spot.</p>
<p>Not attending UCSD yet. I should actually be finished with college (c/o ‘10) but screwed around for so long, and now I’m just getting myself back on track. I wish I did everything in a timely manner, especially before all Biological Sciences majors became impacted n’ all. :(</p>
<p>@raacheee: Dang. Well La Jolla will be nice </p>
<p>@HotChocolate: I went to the Esco Palomar campus for my first few years and walked to class for the time I spent at the San Marcos campus when I moved to San Marcos, so I guess I wasn’t aware of how bad parking was there. I’ve never been to Mira Costa CC.</p>
<p>I dicked around too dude, no worries, haha. I’m a 2005 HS graduate (granted, I graduated a year early, but still… I should be way done by now.) I’m hoping to graduate in a year using this summer and next and I’ll have 16 quarter units from UCI after this quarter so I should be able to do it.</p>
) then got horrendous information from a counselor at Palomar who put me on a path that had me taking math in the spring before my transfer rather than the fall, which resulted in my TAG getting nullified last year. I got accepted to UCI, which is where I’m at now for this quarter, then I’ll be dropping out and re-enrolling in CC for one semester and taking one unit, then going to UCSD as a TAG student in the fall.</p>