<p>@ njoy, i got in as a Chemistry major. i chose ucsd over ucla though.</p>
<p>i concur with lilaterila</p>
<p>lilaterila,</p>
<p>I mean if one has a 2.5 at their CC, but turns it around and pulls off a 3.5 or above at the UC level and decides to go to grad/med school, then what?</p>
<p>Who here has actually applied and gone through the process of getting into a grad school?</p>
<p>Raise of hands?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>RS, nobody (here) knows what it takes to get into a particular grad school with a specific major. Because if they successfully went through it they’re too busy to waste their life on internet forums (unlike moi).</p>
<p>I’ve done lots of research on econ grad school.</p>
<p>For the top programs you need a 3.7 or higher with A’s in specific upper division math and econ courses, and at least a 770 on the quantitative GRE.</p>
<p>why do you waste your time on internet forums sophee lol </p>
<p>anyway the stats for grad school are public, and its pretty commonsensical that doing bad in a cc will reflect badly when applying but a great upward trend might reverse that. I dont know what to think, lots of people tell me that they will take UC students of CC’ers but i think they are just jealous that we get into their schools with half the effort they put forth in high school. idunno its an interesting subject, med school is cutthroat regardless of cc or not (3%?) just kick ass once you transfer and you will be good. as for law and other fields i have no idea.</p>
<p>^^ of = over**</p>
<p>well if u can get into a UC with such GPAs, I find that rather unfair. So why should any1 work hard in high school if theres always this shortcut?</p>
<p>^ I dont think CC is in any way a shortcut, I’ve had countless nights of late night studying, essay writing, and a combination of both. Not because I procrastinated, but because some of my classes were quite hard and took a lot of work to complete. Working hard in high school means you get to enjoy 2 extra years of UC fun, as opposed to being stuck in a place for 2 years where people only care about getting to their UC and thats it. Community College sucks, I assure you. The social scene is basically non existent.</p>
<p>Community College is absolutely a shortcut. The academic effort one has to put in to get in as a transfer to UCLA or Berkeley is in my subjective assessment about 1/4-1/2 of the effort required to get in as a freshman. Community College does suck however- I seriously wonder if the 2 years of dead social scene is worth the acceptance to a better UC than your freshman option.</p>
<p>I do actually believe that the transfer process to the UC system is unfair to the freshman applicants. I know a guy with a 4.2 weighted HS GPA and a 2020 SAT who got rejected at Cal, yet my roommate here at Cal got a 1770 SAT in high school yet got in with a 3.5 GPA in Community College. Which one do you think is smarter?</p>
<p>The freshman with the 4.2 GPA… It’s just that I worked so hard to go to the university im in. and other kids that I know had a really low GPA, totally slacked off in high school and now spend all their time taunting me about how they’re going to UCB, UCSD, or UCLA after their two years at a CC.</p>
<p>Studies show that UC transfer students do just as well non transfers upon arrival to UC. Dont see what the problem is here. I screwed off in high school, joined the Marine Corps, got out and decided that I wanted to go to college. I couldnt go back to high school and do better. The transfer process made it possible for me to get into UCSD. Believe me if I would have put the effort in during high school I could have gotten a 4.2 also. Transfer students are smart kids who just needed a second chance. Not everyone is honed in on going to college right out of high school. Quit hating.</p>
<p>Well said, USMC.</p>
<p>Don’t forget that some people just plain cannot afford it. </p>
<p>I got into Cal out of high-school, but for the sake of my parents, I choose to attend a CCC and transfer out. I have good friends around here, so I do have a social life. But be assured, if you hope to acquire many new friends at a CC and have a booming social life that you’d expect a freshman at a 4 year to have, good luck. </p>
<p>People pretty much go to class and go home. It is very hard to get any close friends at a CC, unless you become active in clubs and things(which I highly recommend).</p>
<p>It’s not a shortcut, but on paper, going to a CCC would theoretically be the best option for anyone hoping to attend a UC.</p>
<p>in this case, no one should go 2 a UC as a freshmen. Why bother with the expenses? and the stress? and the hard work? just go 2 a freakin CC 4 two years.</p>
<p>No, we need people like you to go out of high school, it makes transferring less competitive.</p>
<p>I really don’t appreciate people putting down the hard working transfer students that I have known, that have gone on to great UC’s like Santa Barbara, Irvine, Davis, and especially with my best friend, Berkeley. She was by no means a slacker in high school, she choose to go to our local community college because of the cost effectiveness and the fact that our circle of friends decided to do CC together. I choose the same path for the same reason, although I admit I didnt take high school serious either. BUT, that does not mean that I am not as smart, nor as hard working as the rest of you. I just needed to find out what was important in life by experiencing the real world… and luckily I found out that school was important. I am now sitting on a 3.5 GPA, and will be ready to apply by next fall.</p>
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<p>high school is way easier unless you go to an “elite” high school.</p>
<p>what you mean to say is freshman admittance is more competitive, which is because most kids would rather do 4 years at a UC than 2 years at CC first.</p>
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<p>Smarter has nothing to do with it. Grades are about how hard you work and how much time you dedicate to studying.</p>
<p>I finished in top 10 at a public high school, took 11 ap classes at our school, and worked very hard.</p>
<p>I will admit that in comparison to a full load of ap’s at high school, community college is no comparison.</p>
<p>But would I of still rather of went to a UC straight out of HS?</p>
<p>Hell yes I would.</p>