<p>If you haven't heard back from UCSD yet, chances are you will be receiving your rejection letter in the mail within the next few weeks.</p>
<p>Even if you’re a transfer app???</p>
<p>yeah, thats strange. That would be weird if thats for transfers as well. And also, I thought all freshman heard last saturday. Sure seemed like it for how many people were posting. Also I heard there sending out a second batch for transfers tomorrow. That would be weird if that applies to transfers when were told that they haven’t made decisions on all applicants.</p>
<p>Tomorrow? YES!!! Where did you hear that? I better be in that batch, I’m starting to freak out.</p>
<p>I heard it on one of these forum posts. Don’t take my word. I’m in the same boat as you are, ill see it when I believe it. Don’t get too excited just by me saying stuff.</p>
<p>Man the worst part is this admissions lady actually told me that doing the TAG doesn’t mean 100% acceptance, if the applicant numbers are way off they start rejecting TAG transfer apps or something. </p>
<p>That would seriously suck.</p>
<p>Don’t worry. I highly doubt there done sending out acceptances. Also, it doesn’t make sense what the person that started this post said because they’ve been sending out rejections/acceptances at the same time. It’s not like cal states where they’ve sent out acceptances first then rejections. We’ll all find out sooner or later though soon. Just hope it’s not till end of april but if that’s how long it’ll take, ill accept it. I’d rather have them take there time to make a real decision than have them rush it by having people call and keep bugging them about it. Just hang in there guys we’ll find out regardless within the next month.</p>
<p>:( Nothing yet. I really should stop obsessively checking.</p>
<p>If I can’t log in does that mean they’ve rejected me? Or is it just some kinda server maintenance? Any of your incoming freshmen had this problem when your decisions came down?</p>
<p>It definitely is some kind of server maintenance. It has happened to me a number of times before I learned that I was accepted. </p>
<p>Your decision hasn’t come out yet?</p>
<p>No :(. Transfer decisions take quite a bit longer apparently.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you, kkiiji. I know you’ve had your sights set on UCSD for quite some time now.</p>
<p>Would be fun to have someone to talk to about beh. neuro, too.</p>
<p>Thanks! I’ve got my sights set on Professor Ramachandran, been looking into his work, very fascinating. In fact I’m trying to get him to guest speak at a very popular philosophy forum that I’m a regular at, not sure if he’d be up for that kind of stuff. I’m gonna try to invite him in person…</p>
<p>He’s too busy to do anything. I was a research assistant in his lab and I saw him once all quarter. His grad students say they only see him once a week at lab meetings because he’s running from meeting to conference to lab to class to etc.</p>
<p>The problem with these world-renowned professors is that they are not accessible most of the time.</p>
<p>It’s only a casual guest speak thing :(. We got Noam Chomsky! No way Ramachandran is busier than Chomsky 
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<p>By the way did it take a lot of requirements to get that lab assistant job? I so need to hit that up!</p>
<p>I think the only firm requirement is a 3.0 cumulative minimum. I was referred by another professor to join his lab, though. I was done after that one quarter as the tasks I was doing was very menial and there was no potential to conduct actual independent research.</p>
<p>My current lab let’s me do partial experimental designs after a quarter probationary period.</p>
<p>Hmmm do you think any psychology oriented (biopsychology, behavioral neuroscience) labs would accept a biology(neuroscience) major as an assistant? It shouldn’t really matter too much should it? </p>
<p>Your current lab has to have a lot more requirements than 3.0 cumulative right?</p>
<p>Same requirement. I’m in the Psych honors program, though (I suggest applying your first quarter there, even if you’re a bio major), so the professor is familiar that the students in the program have to write a thesis and will let us brainstorm research topics.</p>
<p>My lab is run by Stephan Anagnostaras. Look him up on psy.ucsd.edu. There are at least a couple of people in the lab taking it as BISP199 instead of PSYC199.</p>
<p>Ahh I’m very confused. I’m allowed to apply my first quarter to a psych honors program as a biology major? Also the lab is interchangeable between two different fields? O_o </p>
<p>I am very very unfamiliar with how things work over there. Could you give a brief explanation please? :)</p>
<p>Also look into CogSci and Psychiatry departments (lots run fMRI, EEG, ECG, ERP, etc testing). There are also UCSD research labs all over. My former employer, HNRC (hnrc.ucsd.edu), does neurobehavioral battery testing and clinical psych diagnostics. Every so often, I see openings for lab assistants (paid; not RESEARCH assistants), which can lead to a fairly strong letter of rec since a lot of the staff and faculty there are awesome.</p>