<p>How many C's, D's, or F's did you get, and where did you get in? Also, let us know if they were major pre-req's or not.</p>
<p>2 C’s, 1 D (AR), 5 F’s (AR + retaken for A’s), 9 W’s
Philosophy: UCLA, UCSD, UCSB
besides the 2 C’s and another 2 or 3 B’s, all other classes were A’s.</p>
<p>2 C’s in English writing and composition. UCB, UCLA, UCD, UDSD, USC.</p>
<p>if you’re overall GPA is decent does it really matter how many C’s you got? what if someone has a solid 3.5 but has like 3-4 C’s/C+'s? don’t the unis only look at your overall gpa?</p>
<p>hey pinkerflloyd, what was ur overall gpa? my friend has a 3.3 and is trying to get into ucla next yr for phil, does he have a chance? (he has TAP at least)</p>
<p>It seems it’s flexible given how impacted the major is, can anyone procure a list of the least-impacted majors, and hence the easiest to get into transfer-wise.</p>
<p>Womens studies, Japanese studies…etc, seems to me these would be cake to get in</p>
<p>women’s studies…represent!</p>
<p>i had a 3.41 in november and a 3.5 after the winter course update.
i should mention that of the last 17 classes i took, 16 were A’s and 1 was a B.
i imagine that the sharp upward grade trend played a lot to my advantage.</p>
<p>So basically you messed up your first year with a bunch of F’s and what not. Then you got nearly straight A’s for the next year and a half and it shot your GPA straight up…and this trend, did you mention it in your essay?</p>
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<p>I’d like to hear the answer to this question as well. This is basically what I did, and I’m still waiting on admissions decisions for winter quarter at UCSC and UCSD.</p>
<p>I can’t answer for Pinker, but 3.41 doesn’t say “a bunch of F’s and what not” to me so much as “a few As and slightly more Bs.”</p>
<p>2 F (AR), 1 No Pass, 2 C-, 22W</p>
<p>Psychology: UCLA, UCSB, UCI</p>
<p>overall 3.3 gpa I think, 4.0 for last 2 years at a CC. Had TAP as well.</p>
<p>^ can we know what your major was?</p>
<p>“Psychology: UCLA, UCSB, UCI”</p>
<p>oh sorry for skimming, i had a rough night… </p>
<p>well yeah, maybe UCLA saw your upward grade trend. getting in with a 3.3 is pretty surprising because psychology is really impacted i believe. being TAP certified probably had a huge impact on your admission imo</p>
<p>I had a 4.0 in my pre-req classes and pretty solid essays showing how the cause of all my bad grades and my Ws stimulated my interest in psychology. I was denied at UCB if it matters.</p>
<p>Yea but Pinker said he got 5 F’s. So I’m assuming it was in his first year. My question is about what his essay topic was…particularly, was it about the sharp trend in his transcripts or not. </p>
<p>Also, it seems that people who messed up had like 4.0’s in the last coupld of semesters or in prereqs. From what I have seen so far, this can be even more important than overal GPA no? Look at some people on here with 3.3 overall, and 3.4 overall, yet they got in because they had upward trend and the 4.0’s were recent. I was wondering if someone deliberately got B’s the first semester or two with the strategy of creating the visual “effect” of an upward trend. </p>
<p>Also, would you say a 4.0 in prereq’s alone gives an average gpa (like 3.3 and below) an added boost?</p>
<p>For a heavily impacted major like psych I would say pre-req GPA carries a good amount of weight in admissions decisions. Ad-coms are trying to decide if the applicant will be able to preform in their respective university departments and that’s where pre-req gpa comes in.</p>
<p>Also, I would definitely NOT purposefully under preform to show an upward trend. Upward trends must come hand-in-hand with a legitimate cause for the lack of performance and eventual upswing, and trying to BS one will not turn out how you would like it to (what you describe is tantamount to cheating). You would be amazed how many other bipolar addicts there are out there, and what one thinks is a unique story can be just another essay to the committee. When ad-coms look at “upward trends” they aren’t interested in the raised gpa as much as they are at what the applicant has learned from the experience. This is where holistic admissions becomes beneficial. </p>
<p>Also, I am pretty screwed for graduate admissions.</p>
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^ FEEEEEEEEEEEL you on that one… if i’m going to need a 168+ on my LSATs and a 3.75+ for the next two years to even be considered by the schools i’d ideally like to attend…</p>
<p>if you’re young and reading through this thread: get your **** together, or get ****ed with later on… </p>
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<p>as for my essays… i barely addressed my poor performance. i mentioned being “disengaged in monotonous classes” and talked about how, in my personal reading, philosophy excited me. </p>
<p>in the third essay portion, i also wrote a little sentence about how academics are now at the top of my list of priorities, how i wish i’d placed them there sooner, yatta yatta. </p>
<p>i didn’t mention specific reasons for any given F, figuring to draw attention away from, rather than to them.</p>
<p>all in all, i made it clear in my essays that i take responsibility for my poor performance. what i didn’t do was try to justify it.</p>