<p>@GTarrant
yeah pretty much. your comment should be at the top of every chance me thread page lol.</p>
<p>@sdhope
yeaaaah i like seeing what the competition is as well. </p>
<p>@anyone.</p>
<p>just apply anywhere and hope for the best. you have a 0% chance if you don’t apply and x-percent if you do apply.</p>
<p>@nujabes Where did you hear that winter semester is the last semester to boost up your grades? The end of fall semester is the last one the UCs will see before decisions and thus its your last chance to raise your gpa</p>
<p>@socali909 Whoa, you said “winter semester” and “fall semester.”</p>
<p>Its either you’re on the semester system and there’s a Fall semester and a Spring semester, or you’re on the quarter system and there is a Fall, Winter and Spring quarter. There is no such thing as a “Winter semester.”</p>
<p>@smith415</p>
<p>Some schools have Winter Intermission where you can take a few selected courses. It’s accelerated and usually lasts about 3 weeks. Very similar as if you were taking Summer courses.</p>
<p>I’m so confused. I heard they don’t even look at your app until you send in your FALL grades. But now people are saying it’s winter too?</p>
<p>P.S. I thought EC’s didn’t matter–just GPA, pre-reqs (IGETC and major stuff), and essay? All I do is eat, learn, work, and sleep :/</p>
<p>The UC’s do not consider Winter intermission grades… Example: SMC has a winter intermission and even if you update that you completed a class over Winter with an A they won’t care. Fall grades are the last update they consider.</p>
<p>@Itachirumon what about Berkeley psychology?</p>
<p>@aninstance - i love how you said “all i do is eat, learn, work, and sleep”. that’s pretty much my life too. except my “work” is tutoring - and that’s not even through an organization, just my private services. so i’m hoping UCs don’t raise an eyebrow at that.</p>
<p>to answer you, from my POV: UCLA, Berk are the ones that look at ECs as a larger part of their app-admissions. the others, i’ve heard, also look at ECs, though not as much. the fact that you WORK? should somehow explain why you don’t do ECs, though - again, it varies from UC to UC.</p>
<p>@Pinoiako916 – I don’t have the bio courses for it, according to Assist (last I checked) it requires a LOT of bio done, so I just don’t have the courses, otherwise I would love to put Berkley down.</p>
<p>What I’m banking on is them seeing I’m going to retake the bad courses and make my GPA look better and they’ll send me the Spring Update form, then see I do well (assuming I do) in the Spring and accept me based on that.</p>
<p>@TagUrIt: If you can get above a 3.0 by the end of this fall, then yeah I think you can get into UCD, UCSC, UCM, UCR, and maybe (maybe) UCI. If you can’t you won’t get into UCI, UCD, and maybe even not UCSC.</p>
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<p>Possibly the best post I’ve read on these boards.</p>
<p>my counselor has stated winter session are the last grades to boost your admission gpa. i wanted to know if this was true back in may sooo if you don’t believe, go ask your college counselor. i thought about not sharing this info because it could create more competition but whatevrs.</p>
<p>i decided to email the UC-admission office to double check.</p>
<p>Here’s an odd question: I have to submit the TAG by next Thursday… but I can’t see my counselor (honors counselor is busy until then… was supposed to see her tomorrow but I have a Stats test instead) until Friday. Is it possible on the classes that I’m putting down as “Planning” to put down the ones I know I’m going to take and then file a quicky update within a week? I can probably guesstimate what classes I’ll be taking but I don’t know what Honors courses will be offered in the spring, they haven’t told us yet. But I want them to see I’ll be retaking the Spanish 100 and History 100 (or 103, or whatever it ended up being History of Western Civ) It’s just how the dominoes fell but I still want to submit the TAG as accurately as I can.</p>
<p>so this is what i got,</p>
<p>The GPA for Fall Quarter, 2011 is calculated from the UC-transferable courses you’ve taken through the end of the Fall term, 2010. We will request your fall grades and an update of your spring, 2011 courses during mid-January, 2011.</p>
<p>uhhhhhhhhhh wdfff.</p>
<p>My turn,
UCLA
Major: Biochem
GPA 3.5
Ecs: Sports
IGETC: one more class for completion</p>
<p>@phantomazero I like the large post you made above. It kinda reminds me of the memo Jerry Maguire wrote to his office. It was pretty inspirational.</p>
<p>Anyways, I mostly disagree. </p>
<p>College counselors don’t tell you what you really need to know. They’re too afraid to give you a definitive opinion on your actual chances. When I transferred to UCLA, I became an expert on the topic. I probably knew more about TAP and average UCLA admitted GPAs than any counselor at my CC. This website kept my finger on the pulse. </p>
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<li><p>Yea you can get **general **statistics from UC websites about the average admitted GPA per major, etc, but on this board you get stories from specific individuals case by case, and finding out if they were rejected or not, you get a **specific **sense of what the UCs are looking for.</p></li>
<li><p>Counselors often don’t know what they’re talking about. I always tell people to meet with multiple counselors, back to back, to take rigorous notes, and to cross check all information between multiple counselors as well as multiple other sources. Additionally, students should also come on college confidential and use it as an additional source of influence. All sources of information should be taken into consideration. There is no single complete source of information, not even a counselor.</p></li>
<li><p>This is a pretty valid point of yours. I don’t like all this “I play to get straght A’s” stuff either. But whatever, if some students want to put their GPA goals in writing, I won’t complain.</p></li>
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<p>I mean “@GTarrant” not “@phantomazero.”</p>
<p>The moderator imposed 20-minute time limit on editing the message expired before I noticed my mistake :)</p>
<p>Hi,
i am really stressed out. So any help would be extremely appreciated. </p>
<p>UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, UCSD </p>
<p>Major: Economics</p>
<p>I know econ at ucla is very competitive and impacted which makes me extremely nervous because i have a 3.6 gpa. but if i check on ucla stats average admission gpa to econ is 3.94.
I have all my prereqs done accept the second Calculus which i will finish over winter.
prereq gpa is perfect 4.0.
only a C from my 10th grade community college course and a C in my anthro class from last spring is drowing my gpa.
But i have alot of volunteer work, art exhibitions, 3 internships, honor society, student body, president of several clubs, participated in ucla culture shows, ucla volunteer work, i am also in scholars program at santa monica college.
i will be TAP certified.
I have all my prereqs done accept the second Calculus which i will finish over winter. </p>
<p>Do u think i have a chance at getting in???
I am passionate about economics. And no matter how much my counselors are tellin me to change my major i want to stick to it because thats what i want to study.
i really want to go to ucla since i love the student environment there. </p>
<p>Can u guys kindly guide me on what might help me? or should i even keep any hope?</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>@Salon26 - I got into UCLA Pre-BizEcon in Fall 2007 with a 3.46 UC transferable GPA (TAP). I know that the average gpa for admitted transfer students has had an upward trend since 2007 but never underestimate the power of TAP. I would be surprised if you don’t get into UCLA. I am a little biased though since I am a huge proponent of and believer in TAP.</p>
<p>I loved UCLA. I love Westwood. I loved the parties, the LA nightlife, and I loved riding my bike to Santa Monica beach in the summers. Those were my glory days haha.</p>
<p>you need multi variable calc for UCSD econ. check assist.org</p>