<ol>
<li>CAL</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
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<p>for English & Art History (:</p>
<p>1) Cal 2) LA 3) SD/Irvine ( would be a tough decision if I get into both)</p>
<p>Applied as an anthro major. I’m also transferring from another UC</p>
<ol>
<li>Sjsu</li>
<li>Ucsd</li>
<li>Ucb
Econ/Business major</li>
</ol>
<p>@mattinber haha, oh nice 
I go to DVC near Concord. What about you?</p>
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<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
</ol>
<p>Both for Cognitive Science. Anybody else a cog sci major here?</p>
<p>I love both the name and the atmosphere UCLA provides, but I can’t get over the fact that my major has just so much more substance at UCSD as far as research/employment opportunities go. I am truly stumped.</p>
<p>@bendaddy</p>
<p>For Cogs, UCSD wins, hands down. You’d do yourself a disservice by going elsewhere for that major, lol.</p>
<ol>
<li>Ramachandran - he teaches some undergrad psych courses (logic of perception and stuff).</li>
<li>They had the first cogsci department in the world.</li>
<li>It’s a very well structured, rigorous, and diverse program.</li>
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<p>UCLA is a little bit more… amorphous, so to speak. In the end, the choice is yours, but if it were me, I’d go with UCSD. I’ll probably minor in cogsci if I get in there.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input asphyxiac… A little more research on UCSD’s cogsci dept pretty much demolished my preference for UCLA over the weekend. You said you plan to minor in cogsci if you get in… What’s your major? Something in the CSE dept I presume? I’m almost considering a switch to CS now.</p>
<p>@bendaddy</p>
<p>Yeah - my major is Comp Sci w/ a specialization in Bioinformatics.</p>
<p>UCSD’s CSE department is pretty schweet as well. Additionally, there are lots of fun classes at that campus that are CS themed in other majors.</p>
<p>They have an interdisciplinary ICAM major with courses like:</p>
<ol>
<li>Computer Music ll (4)
Computer synthesis techniques including wavetable and additive synthesis, waveshaping, and sampling. Transformation of musical sounds using filters, modulation, and delay effects. Fourier analysis of sounds.</li>
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<p>and</p>
<ol>
<li>Musical Psychoacoustics (4)
Survey of psychoacoustical phenomena, theories of hearing, and their relation to musical perception and cognition. Techniques of psychoacoustical experimentation</li>
</ol>
<p>And the communication’s department has gems like this:</p>
<p>COCU 177. Computer Game Studies (4)
Course considers computer games both as media and as sites of communication. Games are studied through hands-on play and texts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Course encompasses commercial, academic, and independent games. Writing papers, analyzing games required. </p>
<p>Additionally, the cogsci department (COGS 160) and CSE (190/191) all have a host of cool seminar-type classes where professor’s talk about their research/current research in some specific field (AI, neural networks, biometrics, social networks, neurobiology of motivation, etc…)</p>
<p>The sheer diversity of UCSD’s program struck me as very alluring. Now that I’ve done (even more research) it’s kind of surpassed Cal as my #1 choice for my undergrad. I want to be able to take really fun/stimulating courses that will allow me to discover which direction I want to follow wrt grad school.</p>
<p>My first choice is UCI for their Business Administration program. But with a Gpa for 3.5, I don’t think I have a good shot of getting in since the major is soooo impacted. Chance of me getting accepted is about 1%, so I am already aiming for my plan B which is UCSB. I already TAG with UCSB. It’s not my first choice, but I am still okay going there to continue my education.</p>
<ol>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cal</li>
</ol>
<p>Outside of UCSC (would’ve applied if their Art History dept was better), Berkeley is my favorite campus. However, I can’t see myself being happy living in Berkeley. I’m familiar with Los Angeles and it wouldn’t be too much of an adjustment.</p>
<p>Berkeley because I’d be amazed if I got in and then UCLA, which I’d be equally amazed and wouldn’t have to move or disrupt my life too much. </p>
<p>I also applied to UCI and UCSB.</p>
<p>@uchappytrain yeah the first part of what you said sounds very interesting! haha. maybe ill minor in economics or something. what do you plan to do with history? pre-law? i think you might run into the same problem that i might run into haha. International Relations is really broad spectrum though and i think if i look for the opportunities and apply everywhere I can really get set in somewhere good. maybe at a business, state or federal gov’t, non-profit organization, journalism, tourism (domestic or international), who knows.</p>
<p>My top choice is UCSC (accepted) and I’m a psychology major. At first I wanted to go to UCB (still applied) but then I decided UCSC would be a better choice for me. I have kind of unusual circumstances and will be transferring this fall as a junior at 18. Plus, UCSC is so beautiful and I’m tired of southern california. But maybe UCB for graduate school?</p>
<p>@informalinsanity are you a one year transfer?</p>
<p>UCLA for Art History. </p>
<p>Then Cal, also for Art History. </p>
<p>To be 100% honest, If I don’t get into UCLA, I might even just stay an extra year at a CC, finish out the 3 units of honors credits I have left to qualify for TAP and apply again. After visiting Berkeley I loved the campus, but I didn’t fall in love with the city and cannot see myself totally happy there.</p>
<p>@uctransfer2012 No, I’m a two year transfer. I’ll be a junior when I start in the fall. I don’t think UCSC accepts one year transfer students.</p>
<p>UC Irvine. Second choice is UC Davis, followed by UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara.</p>