<p>for law school it's a Huge difference. i just recently became semi-interested in pursuing law. we'll see what happens.</p>
<p>but for other grad schools the difference is not as significant.</p>
<p>CBrenn86,</p>
<p>A 3.7 can get you into all but maaybe the top 3 schools. Seriously, at that point, the biggest difference is the LSAT score. A 4.0 and a 165 isn't going to get into HLS. A 3.7 with a 172 has a better shot.</p>
<p>You're much better off devoting time to the LSAT or activities. Especially for jobs. Employers would much rather have a 3.7 with internships than a 4.0 with nothing but classes.</p>
<p>If I could repeat this year, I'd apply to more work study jobs. I only applied to one and ended up not getting it.</p>
<p>I've recently been accepted to Cal as a junior transfer student. I applied as a psy major, but now I wish to transfer to the college of Natural Resources to be a nutrition major. When I called Cal, they said this was not possible. But I've heard students at other universities making this jump. Are they just saying this to me over the phone? Do I have a chance of switching majors and colleges once I get to the university?</p>
<p>Right now, I am deciding between Cal Berkeley and UNC-CH. I am really having a hard time deciding where to go. I am really intiminated by Cal and when I visited it seemed to be a very "cold" place. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>And advice you coud give me is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I want to bump this extremely helpful thread :)</p>
<p>… transfer out ;)</p>
<p>What is there to add… </p>
<p>Make lots of friends. Some of them won’t last, but if you’re hitting up a conversation with a lot of people, chances are you’ll find someone you’ll want to keep around. Preferably, find a good friend in your major so that keeping in touch will be easy (not to say that you shouldn’t make an effort to get together with friends even after your mutual classes end). Even easier is to find a club. You’ll already have a common interest and theoretically, you’ll still see that person regularly next semester, assuming you both stay in that club. Oh, and having friends will give you more options when you eventually group together for apartments. </p>
<p>“co-author a paper with a professor in a peer-reviewed journal”
I haven’t done that, exactly…but before my freshman year ended, I co-authored for a poster that was accepted into an international conference. (The main person who devised the experiment was a PhD student, though several professors were listed as co-authors.) Too bad I probably won’t be attending the conference…it’s across the ocean and in the middle of fall semester. =/
Peer-reviewed journal, maybe someday…<br>
^Point of that…yes, you have to be lucky to co-author, but don’t think it’s impossible. You’d be settled after a semester at Cal, right? Pursue research then, if you so desire to. I consider myself EXTREMELY lucky that the person I’m researching under even considered putting my name on his submission, because honestly, compared to the amount of work that he puts into his research, my contribution wasn’t that much…that’s changing over the summer, though. I’ll be putting in a lot more hours in between my summer classes. </p>
<p>Oh yes. Don’t forget about making summer plans–classes? research? job? internship? Someone told me early on, “Really, you only have three summers during college. Spend your time wisely.”</p>
<p>I would go slow…Don’t finish your major in two years, and don’t set yourself on the fast track. Get used to college. Make friends…Lots of them. Some will stick with you for a long time.</p>
<p>Do an internship the summer after freshman year. They’re freaking fun.</p>
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<p>What do you do in office hours, anyway? I never went in freshman year because I thought you only went if you had questions about the course material (and all my questions were easily answered in section). But according to my friends, they just go to chat about movies and school in general with their GSIs, which I found a bit weird. What do you guys do in office hours?</p>
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<p>yeah in retrospect…I would have gone to some place with a better city. turns out that the name of your school doesn’t really matter unless you go to Harvard, Stanford, etc.</p>
<p>well, how do you know that unless you have applied for grad school, professional school or a job and found out the name only matters with HYPMS?</p>
<p>Regretting the choice of Cal and wishing you went elsewhere is different from discovering that there is no reputation or brand value with any school except the biggest Ivy schools, Stanfurd and MIT</p>
<p>Me personally? Never started drinking and been more willing to get counseling at Tang when things got rough rather than work myself up even more over the stigma.</p>
<p>I was wondering why all the old regulars decided to come out of the woodworks. Turns out it’s a 3-year old thread.</p>
<p>^^wow, you’ve been here for a while.</p>
<p>I want to bump this thread again.</p>
<p>I would study abroad.</p>
<p>I would start doing my work the moment I got it, and never have get behind in any reading or assignment in any class.</p>
<p>I would create a solid routine, and stick to it.</p>
<p>I would brainstorm at the beginning of each semester about what I wanted to do and get out of my time, and reflect more.</p>
<p>I would not have taken classes over the summer more than once or twice. There are better things with your time for your life.</p>
<p>I would go to office hours, or schedule meetings with professors and GSIs, just about every week.</p>
<p>I would eat at Cheeseboard even more.</p>
<p>I would abolish the ASUC.</p>
<p>I would work out more. Seriously. I didn’t step foot in the gym once Fall semester, in addition to eating crappy DC food.</p>
<p>definitely make use of work study if you have it-a lot of them are really flexible and it looks pretty sweet for a resume/career fairs</p>
<p>I would do everything the exact same besides attempt to take Math 1B/Bio 1B even though I had AP credit and should have skipped both. And would not do that much of what I did that one night. The end haha.</p>
<p>Oh and report my roommate way earlier than I did.</p>
<p>what did your roommate do? lol</p>
<p>The only question I have about office hours is what to talk about if I don’t need help in the class. Especially since a good GSI is a nice alternative (and more accessible). </p>
<p>And to dobby (or anyone else), how can I get in good enough with a professor to co-author a paper? That seems so driven by good timing.</p>