<p>I plan on using TAG to gain admission to UCSD this upcoming fall. I am, however, so very much confused on everything having to with the Colleges that you get placed in. </p>
<p>What are the differences?
Are some better than other?
If so, could somebody rank them and list why?
Also, what's up with additional GE's upon arrival? </p>
<p>I saw for John Muir College they require a, "1 three-course sequence in Mathematics." While on my IGETC I only need a single Stats class. Does that mean that once I'm there I would have to take a bunch of calculus classes??</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm just really confused on everything.</p>
<p>Go to assist.org. Pick the community college you want to transfer from and select the university you want to transfer to (looks like UCSD). Your school should have some document that shows you what IGETC courses there are and do all of those. What is your major? They probably require that for an associates.</p>
<p>As far as additional requirements because you’re TAGing you will complete most of the GEs at each of the colleges with IGETC. For many of the other UCs IGETC automatically satisfies your GE requirements, but because UCSD has the six college system each college has different requirements and most of them will require you to take a few additional courses. For transfer students there isn’t a great deal of difference between the six colleges. The difference as a you may have already noticed comes down to what GE courses you’ll be taking. It’s completely subjective what GE requirements will be most/least beneficial to you. So I suggest you visit each college’s website and go through the requirements to figure out in which college you’ll be able to take GEs that best fit your interests and schedule in the two years you’re there. At Muir, you don’t have to take a three course series of math, you satisfy that already with IGETC for your TAG. You have to look at what the specific requirements are for transfer students, here they are links:</p>
<p>I would encourage you to go through the links and form your own opinions about which GE requirements are best for you because it’s entirely subjective as it can vary depending on what courses you’ll also be taking for your major. For example, many people think Revelle has some of the harder requirements because they require additional math and science courses besides basic IGETC. For myself, as a biology major, since I already complete most of those science and math classes I’ll only have to take 1 GE, a foreign language course, to meet all their requirements. For someone that’s a humanities major they may have 5 or 6 courses to also complete. So go through them and form your own decisions based on what courses you’ve already taken and will have to take after you transfer. Bear in mind also that you may not necessarily get into your first choice. I didn’t I was placed in my second choice, which actually turned out to my benefit. So thoroughly do your research and make sure you have a clear idea of what the requirements are for at least your top 4. They usually will accommodate you in one of your top 3 choices.</p>
<p>I’m a Sixth college graduate (this past June) and to be honest, the only real difference is which college-specific courses you want to take. Go through the requirements for the each and see which one seems like it’ll suck the least. I did research work at Sixth and thus only had to take one Sixth-specific course (CAT 125) on top of that. ERC has to take a series of “MMW” (Making of the Modern World) courses which I hear are terrible.</p>
<p>Dilapidated & Grimes THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. I’m gonna certainly take a look through those when I get some time later tonight. I’m a poli sci major so I only need a few classes for my major so I have some time to take plenty of other classes. </p>
<p>@Dilapidated - Thank you really, I can’t start to tell you how informative and helpful your answer was.</p>
<p>@UCSDorNOTHING: I was a poli sci major as well (IR focus) and would definitely recommend Sixth if you’re looking for easy college-specific courses. You only have to take two specific Sixth courses (CAT 125 and Practicum) as a transfer and CAT 125 was an absolute joke. The practicum is what I got taken care of with my research, but there are practicum-specific courses you can take if needed. </p>
<p>All other courses you take will have nothing to do with which college you end up in. For example, if you take Poli 150A (politics of immigration), chances are you’ll have kids from all six colleges in your class. There’s not a Poli 150A for Sixth, one for ERC, one for Muir, etc.</p>