How tough are classes at UCSD?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>Luckily for me I only took CSE11 and CSE20 before dropping the major :O</p>

<p>CSE11 helped a lot for my current job, though</p>

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<p>Maybe your structural engineer roommate could've embaraced his feminine side and taken ballet -- guaranteed A for every guy who takes it! - astrina</p>

<p>Hilarious, 'cause one of my colleagues decided to take salsa dancing. He had to work his tail off. He got an A, but he said he put so much time into the class.</p>

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<p>Arent some of the classes just based on the scale of T.A.s??</p>

<p>This could be a biased topic. IMO the humanity classes are harder only for having to convince T.A.s while Science/math classes are more so knowing the concepts and knowing how to think a certain way to manipulate them. - OoPurestOo</p>

<p>Writing classes are definitely more subjective. I'm sure if the TAs have been handing out too many As and Bs, they feel more inclined to hand out Cs, to somewhat fulfill the bell curve. And I always joked that you don't wanna be the next paper the TA will grade, upon realizing her boyfriend just broke off the engagement.</p>

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<p>When I TA'ed for Econ 3, something like 75% of my section was A or B, rest were C's, and only 1 F. It wasn't multiple choice, so I had to grade subjectively. Professor said if your section is doing great, don't penalize by curving them.</p>

<p>I don't know if this mantra is applicable to all departments.</p>

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<p>There are easy classes and hard classes in every department, and there are even easy professors for the hard classes (and visa versa). If you are really grade conscious (which I do not approve of), the easy classes are easy to find. And if you find that every class you are taking is too hard... Maybe it is time to consider a major change. </p>

<p>I found the hardest classes to be classes that required writing (MCWP 40 and LTFR 2A come to mind). I was bad at figuring out what the TA's really wanted in those classes. </p>

<p>Some upper div bio classes are very difficult (I'm looking at you mam phys...) but some are pretty easy (like BICD 120...). The LD classes seem to be difficult only because they are so competitive. And as a TA, I have been instructed to be lenient in grading in more than one bio class...</p>

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<p>How about easy 100 or 200-classes? Science class. Anyone?</p>

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<p>The Center for Student Involvement supports some 500 UCSD registered student organizations and serves as a clearinghouse for everything related to student groups, Greek life, community service, and leadership opportunities.</p>

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<p>@lwj0128</p>

<p>That’s essentially what every other pre-med student is going to be taking, so, yeah. I think you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>Chem6A and Math20C are by far your hardest class.</p>

<p>Everything else should be cool beans.</p>

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<p>the average GPA at UCSD, i think is somewhere around 2.8, and thats including all your BS majors like Liberal Arts and Communications.</p>

<p>The school overall is extremely hard. If you are a normal student, take your weighted HS GPA and minus .75 GPA points, if you can achieve anything higher than that, you are well above anyone else at the school.</p>

<p>Even the “easy” classes at UCSD are not really that easy just because you would be competing against everyone else. For example, I got a 96 on one of my OCHEM tests and it ended up being a B or some **** because it seemed like every student and their mothers got 90+.</p>

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<p>Just my 2 cents,
The lower division classes I have taken so far are not as hard as I imagined
I’m currently taking cat 2 bild 3 cogs1 math20d, just remember to go to lectures for your humanity course. I’m pretty eff up right now for skipping a few lectures as I realize my final (5 hrs from now) is going to be based on lecture materials and readings…</p>

<p>As for bild3, it’s actually a lot of work! Not sure if anyone here had Woodruff before, but his tests are pretty challenging considered the breadth of the material and the specificity his questions asked for.</p>

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<p>Where are you get your data from?</p>

<p><a href=“http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/gpa/index.htm[/url]”>http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/gpa/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;