<p>no, i believe you for TBP, haha!</p>
<p>about the no socializing: hope you don’t go crazy. “very hard” is subjective, and hey, its not like medical students don’t party also.</p>
<p>Almost impossible. (especially pre-med)</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m going to go with the impossible answers… for science majors at least. Even for me this quarter has been killer… I’m a history major taking two honors courses on political theory and they’ve killed my social life quite a bit (although I still make time to see my boyfriend, family, and closest friends). With the exception of a few people (who may just be smarter than the rest of us), I think that there needs to be a considerable amount of energy exerted towards getting good grades that will definitely cut drastically into your social life.</p>
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<p>HAHA. that’s the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard. Maybe for a 2 year college because students go there normally to complete lower division and GE coursework, which for anywhere you go is going to be an easier experience than upper division courses. CSUs do not hand you anything. You obviously went to some pretentious private university if you’re walking around with that idea. Plenty of my classes at my CSU have been graded on a heavy curve and I’ve had to seriously work my butt off to earn the grade I got… all while working a part time job to pay my bills so I can go to school, eat food, and sleep in a bed.
What makes a CSU different? It’s cheaper, our desks are 50+ years old and our students don’t come out making prissy comments like that.</p>
<p>I remember the night before I received my acceptance letter I had a nightmare about going to a CSU. Everyone I was surrounded were athletes and other really dumb people. I was terrified that I did not fit in at all lol! What a coincidence that the next morning I was surprised with an email with my acceptance to a UC campus!</p>
<p>I don’t know. A good chunk of UCLA students are athletic and smart. Half the guys have an obsession over working out over here. We’re not Berkeley.</p>
<p>That’s right. And will never be as good as Berkeley.</p>
<p>gpa400 you’ve seemed pretty rude and even elitist to an extent. First you degrade CSUs, athletes and CSU students from your “nightmare,” then you make a snide remark degrading UCLA. Maybe you’re joking but karma’s a you know what.</p>
<p>UCLA>Berkeley. UCLA has beaches, Berkeley the dude who sits on the sidewalk selling VERY left-wink bumper stickers…wit ha very long beard. 'nough said.</p>
<p>UCLAand UC Berkeley are all same thing… both have goods and bads…</p>
<p>dont feed the ■■■■■■</p>
<p>■■■■■■ have to eat too…</p>
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<p>That’s probably not true. You never know. Berkeley undergrad is nothing exceptional. Everyone always treats Berkeley undergrad as if it were their graduate school. :rolleyes: </p>
<p>If you look at USNWR, there’s only a 3 rank difference between UCLA compared to a 4 rank difference last year. 3 ranks is not so much when you’re rank 21. ZzzZzzz…</p>
<p>(Ranks are not rigid or forever. In 5 years or so, Michigan went from being above Berkeley to plummeting below Virginia and UCLA. Their descent was slow, apparent, and painful.)</p>
<p>I guess I should’ve worded my original question differently. Is getting a 4.0 incompatible with getting liad?</p>
<p>I must say, I really haven’t been hearing many good things about Cal as of late. For one, I think they just have way too large of a student body.</p>
<p>@theduck</p>
<p>I’m i the EXACT same boat as you dude. I’m also a CCC student, applying to UCLA for molecular bio. Currently 3.8+ and worried as helll about classes at UCLA. I’m willing to work as hard as possible, but I also want to have that social life that I’ve been missing here at antisocial CC. I’ll also be looking for a girlfriend ahah. I know that I can survive at UCSD no problem, but its all about UCLA ya know? I guess all we can do is take the chance and hope it turns out like we planned.</p>
<p>Yeah…that does sound exactly like me. I guess your right, I just wish there was a way to be a bit more sure before making such a life-altering decision.</p>
<p>My 2 cents: Go where you think you’ll be happy, enroll in the program that interests you the most, and don’t let people with there ridiculous opinions about how much better Cal is than UCLA get to you. There isn’t a graduate, medical, or any other professional program in the world that would turn you away because your 3.8+ was from UCLA and not UCB, so cut the nonsense. </p>
<p>Also, there is going to be another ~5,000 undergrad transfer students with the same concerns and attitudes toward being social and getting good grades. So, I think you’ll find a nice equilibrium very quickly. Just relax, decisions roll out in less than two months and come September life is going start being truly kick ass!</p>
<p>^ you said it bro</p>
<p>I think the answer really depends on your major.</p>