<p>Hi, I'm a student at CCC, and will transfer to UCSD next Fall(2014) through TAG program...
my major is going to computer science, and in my application for TAG, I have to mention which college of ucsd i'm most interested in!</p>
<p>is computer science part of Warren college?! or Sixth college?! or etc</p>
<p>I will finish up to 60 units at the CCC, how many more units do I have to complete until I get my bachelor?! and how many units do we have to complete to get masters?!
Do you have to pass many English courses(or non-major courses)? my first language is not English so that's a concern, it's easier for me to grasp computer and math courses!</p>
<p>I got all information about housing and board, I know that I can't get a room in Warren or any other sixth colleges and will have to get a room in an structure that is only for transfer students(which is good I guess) but what are ur way of transportation in college?! can we bring car?! how much for the parking?</p>
<p>I'd really appreciate it if someone could answer above questions.</p>
<p>The colleges don’t have anything to do with the students’ majors. Any student can have any major in any college. The only differences between the colleges are their GE requirements, but since you’re a transfer student, you may have completed many of those requirements already. Warren is convenient because many of the CS and engineering classes and labs are over there, but since you’ll be living in transfer housing (Village apartments), which is in ERC, this probably isn’t very relevant to you.</p>
<p>I have no idea how many more units you need to complete. Go to the computer science website and look up the curriculum for your major. You should be able to look at your degree audit (I don’t know if you have access to it yet, if you were just admitted, but you should be able to find it in tritonlink), and it will show you your major’s and your college’s requirements, what courses you need to take to fulfill them, and what you’ve already fulfilled.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how it works with transfer students, but each college has it’s own writing sequence that is required. Muir and Warren are known for having the shortest sequences (two courses). I don’t know if you can fulfill those requirements with your transfer credits or if you have to take the courses at UCSD. I’d recommend trying to get into either Muir or Warren, though, if you’d like to take the least amount of writing classes.</p>
<p>Village is the transfer housing, and it’s nice there. It’s a different environment than the other dorms, but you’ll be able to meet a lot of other transfer students and upperclassmen. You can bring a car, but a parking pass is pretty expensive. Parking can be difficult during class time (from like 8am-4pm), so I’d recommend that you not move your car during that time because you’ll probably lose your space. Check UCSD’s transportation website for the cost.</p>
<p>well…that’s confusing!! I thought people choose their colleges based on their majors! I have taken most GE requirement like Physics, Economic, English and Calculus! Since you said most Engineering and CS classes are in Warren, then I guess I’d go with it! what’s the closest college to the Village?! which one would u recommend for me?! a foreign transferred computer science student!</p>
<p>I don’t have access to degree audit or tritonlink, have not transferred yet…I just wanted to know an estimation, I guess it’s almost the same number of units for all computer science students! in my country, we had to pass around 120, not sure about here!</p>
<p>Jacob and Warren are different colleges. There’s 6 in total. Those are just 2 of them. I think most engineers go to Warren but it really doesn’t matter (please correct me if I’m wrong)</p>
<p>lol… uh…
these are the six colleges: revelle, miur, marshall, warren, ERC, and sixth.
Jacob is the school of engineering; it’s NOT part of the six colleges. </p>
<p>@bolandgoo: When you are admitted, you are sorted into a college. When you choose a major, you are sorted into a department/school. And you are right about this being confusing. Every other school on the face of the Earth works as you initially thought! </p>
<p>Since you are a transfer student, the only concern you’d have for choosing a college is their GE requirement. You’d live at the village probably, the fact that CS classes are usually in warren has no bearing on you; if you were sorted into sixth, it’d be the same situation anyways. That being said, for a computer science major choosing between warren and sixth, warren GE are the most compatible (in that there are more overlapping courses so you’d finish faster if you’re smart about it).</p>
<p>And as for your other question: ERC is closest to the village. Just google the UCSD map. The layout is very simple.</p>
<p>edit: oh another thing. Since you said that English is not your first language, I should give you a warning. If you are not exempt from the English placement test and happen to fail it, you are required to take SDCC. I don’t know if this is the same situation for transfers, but non-transfers would have to keep taking this course until they pass. I know students who got decent grades in writing courses but still happened to fail the course first time around. I also know of a student who still haven’t passed after TWO years. Just a friendly warning.</p>
<p>According to this ( [BS</a> Computer Science | Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego](<a href=“http://cse.ucsd.edu/node/239]BS”>http://cse.ucsd.edu/node/239) )for a BS in computer science, there’s 52 units of lower division requirements, 40 units of upper division requirements, and 36 units of technical electives. I have no idea how many of those you would still have to complete, but I would imagine you’d need to take at least all of the upper division classes. There’s also a BA in computer science, which I suppose would have different requirements.</p>
<p>The only thing that matters in the colleges is GEs, and they usually have you rank them. Generally, Muir and Warren are considered to have the easiest GEs. Revelle and maybe ERC are considered to have the harder GEs (as in, there are more of them). Go to the colleges websites and look up their GE requirements to see if you would need to take extra classes or if you fulfill all of the requirements.</p>
<p>Just off the top of my head, I say UCSD requires at least 180 units to graduate. CS usually ends up graduating with units close to 200. Give or take.</p>
<p>Gosh 200 units?! that would definitely take more than 2 years to complete…at least 3 years I guess! cuz I will finish only 60 units in two years(4 semesters) in my time at CCC!</p>
<p>working while going to school is out of question then!</p>
<p>I’ll be done with all lower division courses till next year…all math and physics are done! only some GE and upper division courses will remain, although I have finished some Java and programming languages!</p>
<p>Warren would be my pick. And since I’m an engineering student, I’ll be a Jacob student automatically.(right?!lol)
Thanks</p>
<p>I have another question for Computer Science transfer students…
I will transfer Fall 2014, and as you know there are two ways, TAG and UC application
I wanted to go with Tag, cuz it’s more reliable, but for UCSD they need me to finish IGETC by the end of Spring 2014…now my major is Computer Science and even in the website Assist.org it says it’s better for Computer and Engineering students not to follow IGETC since we have so many major requirements to finish up…based on that, I took mostly major prep courses these past semesters at SMC, I will be done with Math and calculus, physics and have taken Java, C, C++ so far…but no way I finish IGETC by the end of Spring 2014!
I meet all the other requirements for TAG though…GPA 3.6 etc etc…do u guys think I should apply for TAG, and if they really care if I finish IGETC to be considered for TAG?!
or do u think I would get in by UC application?! GPA is 3.6, and have done many courses related to computer science…the only problem is I have not done ANY extracurricular activities in college, because I work outside of the college to provide for myself and family!!! so that’s mainly why I wanted to go with TAG cuz they don’t care about extra curricular activities! however I just figured out I won’t be done with IGETC!!!
any input from transferred students would really help! do u think I wold get in by filling out UC application?</p>
<p>I was looking at the course list for CS in UCSD(link below)
[CSE</a> Undergraduate Course Descriptions | Computer Science and Engineering](<a href=“http://cse.ucsd.edu/undergrad_courses]CSE”>http://cse.ucsd.edu/undergrad_courses)
I couldn’t believe UCSD does not offer courses that specialize in JavaScript, PHP, HTML, Python etc etc…Is the only programming language they teach is Java and C++?!
this was a blow since I really liked taking fun courses like android or ios courses(they even offer them here at santa monica community college!!)</p>
<p>Once you learn the foundation of object oriented programming, along with one of the major languages, they’re all pretty much the same thing with different syntax. It’s like forcing someone to take a science-based calculus, then taking business calculus just to understand all scopes of calculus. I’m pretty sure if you take a science-based calculus, you can very easily figure out how to apply it to business without spending thousands of dollars for a class. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, you will be exposed to that in a variety of different languages while you are here that are not listed on the curriculum. The focus of those classes may not be to learn the new language, but rather, it would be how implement them better using data structures and algorithms.</p>
@azizas I transferred in with a 3.5 GPA. I think I’m a very special case though… almost every other transfer I’ve met has a 3.8 GPA+. Don’t let that get to you though, apply and make the best of what you can!