<p>Regarding:
“After that, they had (X-X1) spots left. That’s where I’d imagine IGETC/TAG, non San Diego residents with all pre-req’s come in. After that, IGETC/TAG non SD residents, with none or only some pre-req’s. After that, SD residents no IGETC/TAG with pre-req’s.”
The accepting body is for BioEngineering is Jacob’s; they could care less about IGETC/TAG. The Colleges suffer that. Jacobs just looks at your GPA for necessary classes, and your statement of intent (goals); and go from there. As an asside: BioEngineering at any University that I know of is a ‘major in process’, ie. they DO NOT have their **** together. At UCSD it goes in THREE directions at once, and is sort of an ‘intro’ to those areas… with a B.S. degree, you come out of it insuffeciently trained in any area to be worth much. Also, at these Engineering Colleges, BioEngineering is where Engineering students that arn’t cutting it end-up. It is a rather well populated major. Note this difference for instance: in Computer Engineering you must take 18 lab courses; in BioEngineering, there are only four (?!).</p>
<p>I’m transferring to Jacob’s in the fall and I was accepted into Sixth… Awesome.</p>
<p>As far as IGETC, TAG, and prereqs all go, you should take advice from those who are transferring or already have. If you want admission, take easy IGETC courses to bring up your GPA which will help you TAG into a few UC’s. If you want to do well after you transfer, prepare yourself the best you can by taking prereqs. </p>
<p>Keep in mind, engineering majors have a lot of prereqs and a lot of them require a lot of time and dedication. You’ll find that a lot of engineering students will stay three years at a CC and only take IGETC classes during the summer. They do this to better prepare themselves for the roller coaster that is engineering upper division courses.</p>
<p>So in conclusion, if you want to do well and eventually attend grad school, you should study hard and rock your prereqs even if that means slowing things down and staying an extra year, its worth it I bet! But if you have very little interest in going to grad school or saving money, do IGETC and get out of your CC. These students will most likely end up staying another year at a UC (which is wayy more expensive) and not do as well in the required lower division courses as oppose to taking it in a CC. This is only my 2 cents…</p>
<p>PS. I know a couple of people who did the second route (IGETC and TAG with minimal prereqs) and I know that they won’t do well at UC’s; considering that one of them cheated their way through Calc 1 and Physics 1 which are jokes compared to vector calc and e&m (I’m not even going to mention how hard dynamics and materials was…) and the other rocked his IGETC classes but barely passed Calc 1 with me. Don’t get me wrong, they’re nice people and I hope they do well but if I were them I would’ve tried to really understand the material before being thrown out in the ocean with the big, scary sharks…</p>
<p>@ TatterSalad: I’m a little unclear why Sixth is so bad for engineering majors? I tried for Warren then Muir but that sheet ain’t happening… As far as I know, Sixth only does two GE’s that don’t take up too much time…</p>
<p>I’m an engineering major that is transferring to Sixth college too… </p>
<p>I am a bit lost why that college is so horrible. I just randomly picked my order of colleges for transferring which was probably a bad idea in hindsight.</p>
<p>I too took the prereq way and did not finish my IGETC. I am missing 3 classes for IGETC and hopefully will complete 2 of them over the summer. I am hoping that they won’t make me take extra classes just because I am missing one class.</p>
<p>I can’t agree more with the prereq way, even if you do get into whatever school you wanted. A lot of the upper division classes have prereqs like chemistry or calculus. It will set you way behind not being able to start completing your upper division classes and many of the upper division classes are sequences. I myself am going to be set behind a little bit because I have not finished IGETC, but I can always fit GE somewhere into my schedule.</p>