<p>I’m still trying to decide which UC to go to, and UC Davis is open to me(as in I am admitted).</p>
<p>Someone told me UCD has grade inflation issues and the average gpa is 2.9 while Cal is 3.2 and UCSD is 3.0 and UCD doesn’t give you much time to study for your finals as much as Cal and UCSD. </p>
<p>Also the same person told me UCD is lagging in the Shanghai world rankings.</p>
<p>That would be grade deflation, but no, I don’t think UC Davis has that problem (at least not any worse than the other UC’s.) If that’s true, I would chalk it up to UCSD and UC Berkeley having harder working and/or naturally smarter students who get accepted compared to UC Davis.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about Shanghai’s world rankings. Something tells me no one’s particularly qualified to assess the quality of education at Universities across the entire globe.</p>
<p>Isn’t UC Davis’s rank equal to UCSD?</p>
<p>I cannot comment with certainty on Davis’s time to study for finals vs say Berkeley or UCSD, but I’d imagine that it’s the same for Davis and San Diego as both operate under the quarter system. Maybe you get more time at Berkeley due to the semester, but I can’t completely say with certainty. </p>
<p>As for rankings, I don’t think they’re the end all be all of life, but I do think that UCSD is ranked slightly ahead of UCD in most rankings and UCB would be ahead of UCSD. I’m sure you’d be getting a quality education at UCSD or UCD if you liked it more then Berkeley.</p>
<p>(I’m assuming you got accepted into UCSD, UCD, and UCB given your question.)</p>
<p>I’m a Psychology major, know anything about the Psychology undergrad major in UCD vs. UCSD?</p>
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<p>By USNWR, yes. But UCSD has a lower acceptance rate than UC Davis, partially because UC Davis is larger and able to accept more students. A lower acceptance rate (when applicants are similar) means higher caliber students, regardless of rankings.</p>
<p>In terms of Psychology, the two schools are pretty comparable. The only thing is that if you’re interested in Cognitive Science, UCSD may give you more resources. UC Davis tends to be more geared towards Biopsychology, whereas UCSD has a world renowned Cognitive Science department. But to be honest, if you come to UC Davis you could always major in Psychology and minor in Computer Science if that’s something that really interests you.</p>
<p>Wait but I thought the average student GPA who is accepted to UCD was 3.9 while UCSD was 3.5?</p>
<p>Also I looked into some things and it seems that UCSD has a higher rank because of more nobel laurates in the faculty. I checked that out and none of them are psychology professors, they’re all medical or chemistry and a few economics professors; but nobody I would come in contact with. Also, I checked that UCD has 32 professors in their cognitive science department while UCSD has 16 I think?</p>
<p>Now does anyone know how the two compare when it comes to undergraduate focus? I heard UCLA and even UCB tend to be those universities where the undergrads are ignored and the focus is on the grads, does this occur in UCD?</p>
<p>I know were are getting off topic but yeah, I still want to know about the grade inflation/deflation thing going on too.</p>
<p>where did you guys find the average gpa of the UCD students?? i want some source of credibility…</p>
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<p>1) I would really appreciate it if you would calm down. A difference in opinion is no reason to undermine everything I have to say. I have found false objectively information you have propagated on these forms, but I corrected you politely and moved on.</p>
<p>2) UC Berkeley has an acceptance rate hovering around 20%. UC Davis has been around 46% for the past few years. My intention wasn’t to offend anyone, but instead to show that students who are accepted to UC Berkeley have a higher average GPA and SAT/ACT score than those who are accepted to UC Davis. These are good indicators of work ethic and/or natural intelligence, which are in turn a good indicator of college success. Also, notice I said if the statistics were true. If it is true that Berkeley and UCSD have higher GPAs than UC Davis, I’m curious what you would attribute it to. The schools are easier?</p>
<p>@ tigerash:
[Undergraduate</a> Admissions: FAQ by Topic](<a href=“Undergraduate Admissions”>Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.ucdavis.edu/about/facts/uc_davis_profile.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucdavis.edu/about/facts/uc_davis_profile.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Note that these are the statistics of students that were admitted in Fall 2012. I can’t find sources for average GPA of current students, but I’m pretty sure that varies by major.</p>
<p>Good question.</p>
<p>I checked the link I was given and it only has data for Berkeley and San Diego:
[National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com/]National”>http://www.gradeinflation.com/)</p>
<p>I checked out grade deflation for UC Davis but couldn’t find much, I did find something on the Sociology department:[Grade</a> Deflation at UC Davis | History News Network](<a href=“http://hnn.us/node/11918]Grade”>http://hnn.us/node/11918)</p>
<p>Also about UC Davis acceptance rates, if you look up UC Davis on google it seems the acceptance rate for this year is 39.4%</p>
<p>UC Davis’s reputation and ranking has been increasing in the last few years, and some might say that it has surpassed UCSD’s ranking. However, it really depends on on what major you are going for. Different UCs have different strengths and weaknesses. I have chosen UC Davis over UC San Diego for these reasons. Also, do not trust those inaccurate foreign rankings. </p>
<p>I can’t say much about UCD’s grade deflation, but it has been getting more and more selective over the years.</p>
<p>Hmm based on what do you say it’s growing in reputation? Perhaps it’s becoming more selective? </p>
<p>UC San Diego currently ranks higher overall, but equal to UCD in Psychology. </p>
<p>I want to feel proud of where I get my B.A. Where you graduate from forms a part of your identity and the experiences you have.</p>
<p>Though maybe it’s more than just rankings? I mean UCD has a very nice arboretum, and it has a leaning toward agriculture stuff, something that interests me since I have a heavy interest in environmental stuff, food movement, and sustainable resources and have thought about majoring in grad school about ecological anthropology.</p>
<p>[Transfer</a> admission profile | UC Admissions](<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/davis/transfer-profile/index.html]Transfer”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/davis/transfer-profile/index.html) I was just looking at UCD’s acceptance rate for transfer last year is 58% and 45% for freshman, and this year is around 38%?? Dang what a huge drop-down.</p>
<p>That’s for overall, not transfer. Transfer is typically more lenient than freshman.</p>
<p>Also I am talking to the person who told me about this, as in the initial topic and he claims that UCD has the lowest average student GPA of 2.9 and has a 2 hour final with little dead day gap and a quarter system and thus it shows it’s harder to get a good grade and thus it will be harder to get into grad school. What do you think?</p>
<p>saboten: You are way over-thinking this thing and relying too much on misinformation and poor stats! Everyone has his/her opinion about the schools. My daughter attends Davis (she had a 4.4 gpa at acceptance) and we live in the UCSD area.
Here’s what you need to know about Davis: Each student is responsible for his/her own grades and class schedules. You go on days that YOU selected to fit YOUR OWN schedule. Final schedules are whatever the professor listed on the syllabus.
If your friend can’t deal with a quarter system then that’s his fault; it’s called planning and managing your time! All the big boys and girls learn to manage their 10 weeks. SD is also on a quarter system. Each dorm at Davis has a tutoring center along with writing centers that help you. The smart kids go to tutoring; it’s not the other way around. Davis is not as cutthroat as LA or SD because the professors actually make themselves accessible and want you to learn.
Davis is an aggie school, 40K bikes on campus! It’s huge! The wineries donate millions of dollars for the continuing development of vintners, Hence you have the Mondavi Center for the Arts. Quit freaking-out and go on the schools’ websites and see the virtual tours of the schools, that should give you some accurate information.</p>
<p>He’s not my friend, just some guy I found on Yahoo! Answers who claims to know a lot because of family members and keeps talking about how UCB has top psychology professors from Stanford, Oxford, etc and about Yale Law school(which I have no plans of going). He showed up when I posted questions about going to UCD vs. UCSD and if I should secure my UCB admission in jeopardy on Y! answers. I thought I double check his claims because as I learned from my community college, that’s a good thing to do is to verify or check a person’s claims.</p>
<p>I checked and UCD does have a combination of Psych professors from UCB, UCLA and ones like University of Illinois etc and well has more professors actually.</p>
<p>I feel that you should look deeper than pure rankings. Choose where you’d be the most happy.</p>
<p>Like I mentioned before, UC Davis does not have grade deflation compared to other UC’s. Choose the school you’ll enjoy the most.</p>