<p>I have a decision to make. I was accepted into Humboldt university for spring 11'. I have also applied to a few UC schools; SB, SD, and Davis for Fall 11'. Presently I attend a junior college and I'm halfway through my 3rd year. I changed majors a couple times and have applied everywhere as Chemistry/Bio Chem for my intended major/2nd choice. At this point I am interested in pharmacy but also welcome other options/opportunities. I don't have a lot of experience in the field except for the fact I really enjoy chemistry specifically organic as well as mathematics. I just took the ACS exam, which many students who have complete 2 semesters of organic chem. will take and received a 73 percentile. Most UC's I understand will accept organic for upper division credit if you get above 50 percentile except for Berkley which requires above 70. Although my weakness is my gpa, which is a 2.96 atm. I didn't take college serious to begin with my first year and a half and received many C's. I have many classes completed required for my intended major including; 3 semesters of calc, 3 semesters of physics + labs, 2 sems of chem, 2 of organic chem, differential equations, as well and 1 semester of biology. I am looking forward to moving out of the house to finish my degree at a university, although I don't want to rush it and make the wrong decision. If anyone has any insight they could shine my way as far as my chances at getting into the UC's I've applied to I'd greatly appreciate it. Also, if anyone has had experiences with either school(s) they would be taken into account.<br>
I think up north is beautiful, which is why I applied to Humboldt. I am taking into account wherever I transfer I will only be there for a couple years, but want to take out as great of an experience as I can. Not sure if this matters but I have competed with my current college's cross country team for the past 2 years as well as 1 year of track. And enjoy running/play basketball for fun. If anyone has any opinions please comment, and no I'm not interested in Humboldt for smoking reasons. Thanks</p>
<p>The major problem you are going to have with being accepted at a UC in addition to your GPA of less than 3.0 is that except for maybe UC Merced, UCs like UC Davis require that you complete all or nearly all of your lower division prerequisites for your major at your CCC before you transfer. You are planning to transfer as a chemistry major but apparently have not completed any courses in Calculus, Physics or Chemistry. Your score on the Organic Chemistry test which I assume was achieved through self-study and might even be accepted by the UCs as fulfilling your Organic Chemistry requirement but it is very difficult for me to imagine they would accept a Chemistry major as a transfer at the Junior level who has not taken any Calculus, Physics or Inorganic Chemistry. </p>
<p>Were you accepted as a Chemistry major at Humbolt? CSUs may be willing you to allow you to take your major prerequisites at their campus and are not as concerned about how long it is going to take you to get your degree. However, the UCs want you to finish your degree program within two years of transferring to their campus and usually put a maximum limit on how many semesters or quarters you can remain at the UC after you transfer.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, you HAVE finished Physics, General Chem, O-Chem and Calculus, right? My community college counsellor told me that it is really important to UCs that you have finished the courses listed on assist.org, and if you have done those classes then you will have. With that in mind, I’d say you have a slim shot at being admitted to UC Davis as a bio-chem major and a okay shot being admitted as a chem major because assist.org lists bio-chem as selective. A lot will probably rest on your personal statement. Did you demonstrate in your application how interested you are in chem/bio-chem? As far as the other two UCs – I don’t think you will be admitted to UC San Diego, and I don’t know about UC Santa Barbara. </p>
<p>But – why are you interested in UC Davis? What do you plan to do after you finish undergrad? From what I’ve heard, it is a good idea for chemistry majors to go to grad school. In that case, going to a UC would be more advantageous since you have a better chance of being admitted to grad school from a UC since UCs have a better reputation. </p>
<p>What will you do if you do not attend Humboldt in the Spring and you are not admitted to any UCs?</p>
<p>@ victor3: dude!you’re almost like me.I am also interested in majoring in chemistry.Sadly,though, I don’t have as many pre-requisites done as you do.But the weird part is that I applied for TAG for several UC’s this Fall and I got the TAG for Davis even though I am missing quite a signifiacnt amount of pre-requisites.I guess what got my TAG approved was my GPA(it was 3.01 in the Fall;now it is 2.98 :[ ). So I applied this year to see what happens.</p>
<p>btw,only organic chemistry is an upper division course?</p>
<p>^Yes. Sacramento is small. Of course.</p>