<p>Haha, you crack me up. You made that same ridiculous post earlier in the thread, and I disqualified it to no response from you. Now here you are again with the same nonsense.</p>
<p>Here it is again in case you missed it (though I am sure you didn’t and avoided it because you are a tool).</p>
<p>"That’s quite the paper tiger you have there. Let’s have some backup statistics?</p>
<p>Can’t seem to find the similar stats for Cal, but for UCLA, the average GPA for history majors admitted was 3.72, a healthy amount above the curve.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate is also lower than many other majors because it’s impacted. I wouldn’t be surprised if these numbers are similar for Cal. As for a CSU, I would guess a 3.0 (possibly lower) can get you into most any major."</p>
<p>You remind of that other stalker guy who was upset he got rejected from UCLA and Cal so went on a stalking frenzy of everyone who got into UCLA, especially history majors. Grow a sack, sir.</p>
<p>Edit: Oh History, I see. Though I’d never understand why anyone would choose to spend their college years reading endlessly about things that happened hundreds and thousands of years ago, I wouldn’t necessarily categorize History as a “joke of a major”. I personally find it quite challenging having to read 100 pages or so every week.</p>
<p>the average gpa for your major just demonstrates how easy the courses are. your prereqs are literally the “easy-A” classes everyone else takes for their GE’s.</p>
<p>and stalking? someone here needs to curb your insanely egotistical posts.</p>
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<p>Well I was accepted to UCB and UCLA so you’re wrong there.</p>
<p>look at the majors at UCLA that have the highest avg. gpas… history… communications… bus econ… certainly none that would be considered a difficult major. </p>
<p>The average gpa admit for the School of Engineering of Applied Science is a 3.76. The average gpa admit for College of Letters & Science is 3.61. As a matter of fact, The School of Engineering has the highest avg gpa of all schools. </p>
<p>Let’s now look at by majors for Engineering:</p>
<p>Damn, and after all these years I thought Engineering was for rocket scientists! They just have it so easy, don’t they?
MORE RESPECT FOR HISTORY!</p>
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<p>“The average gpa for your major just demonstrates how easy the courses are.”</p>
<p>lol, ***? Or maybe we just worked hard to get a high GPA?</p>
<p>And the difficulty of a major is highly subjective. An engineer can have a difficult time writing a paper on fashion design… Why is everyone hating on each other? Seriously, lets just all go to our respective schools and do as well as we possibly can and stop talking $hit. </p>
<p>however:
UCSD>UCI, but that is just stating the truth/obvious.</p>
<p>The quality of a program has lot to do with the metropolitan it’s under. </p>
<p>Berkeley has the advantage of being right next to the Financial and Technological Center of the West (and of the World i.e. Silicon Valley) so the school gets a lot of Fundings in these sectors.</p>
<p>UCLA has the advantage of being smack in the middle of the Entertainment and Media Capital of the World, hence the reason why its Communication Studies and Theatre Art and Cinematic Studies are among the top in the nation. </p>
<p>San Diego has a hugely developed Bio-Tech industry (i.e. Salk, Scripps, Burnham), thus the reason why UCSD has such a powerful Life Science & Engineering Programs. If San Diego was to diversify its economy more, I can guarantee that UCSD’s programs will stand shoulder to shoulder with Cal and UCLA.</p>
<p>Flip through some whoswithwhatnow’s older posts…You’ll start to see the trend. Most of it is bashing on Asians and math majors or other “easy” majors. Nomination for dumbarse of the year? I think he beats that other ■■■■■.</p>
<p>UCSD is in the biotech capital of the world, it doesn’t need to stand shoulder to shoulder with UCLA and Cal since it is what it is and its students are fine with that.</p>
<p>That’s kind of a stupid post, history majors don’t have to take any hard science or math and engineers don’t have to take any arts or humanities, so their GPAs are boosted because they only take classes they’re good at.</p>
<p>The lowest GPA admits tend to be hard science majors in the College of Letters and Science who have to take hard science and math classes as well as liberal arts and humanities classes. Very few people are good at both.</p>
<p>If you look at the course requirement for hard science majors such physics and chemistry, there are no liberal art or humanity classes as the pre-reqs. It’s all math and science.</p>
<p>The Engineering majors take, in addition to hard science classes and math, computer classes and, surprisingly, English Composition classes (See Chemical Engineering).</p>
<p>You need IGETC for College of Arts and Sciences, which is about a dozen liberal arts courses, as opposed to College of Engineering which requires two English classes. As for the computer classes, do you expect an engineer to fail those?</p>
<p>It’s harder to get a good GPA as a pre-science major than as a pre-engineering major.</p>
<p>Fair enough.
Let’s compare the numbers again.
This time, I compared the average GPAs of the APPLICANTS for the Engineering majors vs “Hard Science” majors. These numbers should be appropriate sources in comparing the GPAs of the “pre-reqs” taken as we will assume that most applicants have completed pre-reqs for their respective majors as well as the IGETC in the case of hard science majors, and it should measure the difficulty of the pre-transfer courses for all applicants, not those of the special top few that got admitted.</p>
<p>Although the avg seems to be slightly lower for the hard science majors, the difference is small enough to be deemed insignificant to come up with a definite conclusion as to whether one is “harder” than another.</p>
<p>That’s a worse comparison, many applicants don’t complete pre-requisites, 90 units or IGETC and are rejected because of it. Your first comparison was better because everyone in it completed pre-reqs/IGETC.</p>
<p>Your argument was that because the hard science has to complete IGETC (meaning they are required to take liberal arts class) the GPA tend to be low. If an applicant chooses not to complete IGETC (which isn’t actually required for admission), then following your reasoning, he/she should have a higher GPA than had he completed IGETC, meaning the admits should have a lower GPA than otherwise indicated. The numbers do not seem to be following that pattern, however.</p>