<p>Cog sci for UCSD, UCSC, &UCLA</p>
<p>Psych for UCI, UCSB, and CSULB</p>
<p>Currently a UCM transfer with a 2.9. I went from a 3.3 to a 2.9 because of a rough summer semester. (10 units! I don't know what I was thinking)</p>
<p>what are my chances of getting in?</p>
<p>-UCLA and UCSD were just for the heck of it. The fee waiver covered it so I figured, wth?!
I got into UCSB and UCSC before but chose UCM because it was free.
I'm bored and don't like the research offered.</p>
<p>help?!</p>
<p>chances are pretty much non-existent with that GPA at UCSD or UCLA. you might have a chance at UCSC, which isn’t vastly better than UCM, and maybe a shot at UCSB, but i think you’ll get rejected from the others.</p>
<p>sorry to be harsh, but you don’t have a good GPA. if you had a decent one, then transferring out wouldn’t be too hard (i know someone who went from UCR to UCLA) but since you don’t, your options are very limited.</p>
<p>I need honesty!
I’m going to have to drop out next semester because I’m almost over the max units for transferring. </p>
<p>I know UCLA UCSD are a lost cause. I applied to five schools because I qualify for the app fee waiver. (plus I was rejected from UCLA before).</p>
<p>I just need to know if I’m a lost cause all together. I know I need to get my gpa up if I ever want to get into a MA program. I’m hoping my research experience will give me an advantage.
Should I just stay at Merced?</p>
<p>I know UC Merced is held in lower regard than all the other UCs and even many of the CSUs but if it turns out to be your only option for getting a bachelors degree than you should by all means stay there and get your degree. Once you have your BA/BS from an accredited university a lot more doors are open to you.</p>
<p>My csulb app is for the spring semester; they still haven’t gotten back to me!!!</p>
<p>You’re right. I should just do my best at UCM and get my degree then try and, somehow, get into an MA program. UCM is free anyways…
thanks.</p>
<p>how is UCM free?</p>
<p>bobcat grant+living at home</p>
<p>yea… stay at UCM, you don’t want to lose all your friends you had after transferring out. Many people regret transferring to another school. And once UCM becomes accreditted, it’ll be a good school. plus, UCM is a small school so you’ll have more chance to get research opportunities from professors unlike other big schools.</p>
<p>I agree, find out what is going on and assist with the research, which is possible on the undergrad there I believe still. Volunteer yourself and become a leader and partner with UCD on collaborative projects if you can. </p>
<p>Don’t listen to the haters about UCM being low ranked, its still new. Although not fully developed yet, there are still many possibilities and benefits to being in a young research institution. If you become fully involved into the goings on, there is no reason for you to be bored. </p>
<p>College is what you make out of it. No matter what school one goes to or what degree one gets, one still have to market themselves as the product of the fruits of their own labor no matter what. Many who go to fancy name schools rely on marketing the schools name oftentimes over becoming more self reliant. Embrace the struggle and blaze your own path.</p>
<p>I just got my gpa up to a 3.25 this semester and I’m continuing my research units next semester. Thanks for the advice. You guys are right. I shouldn’t try and transfer. Its expensive and I will have less research opportunities. I’m just really annoyed with the social scene and lack of sports teams. I did swimming in high school and I really miss being active. Majority of the students here are druggie flunkies that couldn’t get in anywhere else or WAY OLDER. I’ll live…</p>
<p>Think about joining a fraternity. You might meet some cool people there.</p>
<p>I’m a girl. I don’t mean to sound like a pretentious **<strong><em>, but the sorority girls here are mean, vapid, and (this is going to sound *</em></strong>*y regardless of the manor I articulate it) they do not have the means to back up the first two characteristics listed. Catch my drift?</p>
<p>There must be some things you are interested in and even though UC Merced is a fairly small university it is likely there are some people there that share some of your interests. You should try to seek them out.</p>
<p>Also, don’t be too quick to dismiss older students. While you may think you do not have much in common with them, many have probably had rich experiences in life outside of academics that you could learn valuable lessons from.</p>
<p>I have a question about UCM not being an accredited school. How does that impact a degree in hand? What if a student starts at UCM when it’s not accredited and then by the time they graduate, it is accredited. How does that impact a degree’s worth?</p>
<p>Only in America where we can get a free UC education and feel bored while acting like a privileged and spoiled child. </p>
<p>You win again Osama Bin Laden.</p>
<p>@Seismomon</p>
<p>While there may be a few graduate and prefessional schools as well as potential employers who will not accept graduates of universities that are not fully accredited, most recognize the UCM is a new university and the accreditation process is a long and complicated one that makes it inevitable there will be a number of years during which the first students at UCM were not attending a perfectly good but not an accredited university that is, however, moving forward with the initial accreditation process.</p>
<p>It is a much more serious problem if a previously accredited school has its accreditation revoked or is unable to renew its accreditation since that almost always indicates that there are serious issues that have arisen and not been resolved.</p>
<p>@Lemaitre1 – thanks for your reply. As I suspected, but the fact that UCM is not yet accredited is often used as a major reason to attend any other school among posts on these forums. From what I can determine, the faculty has been culled from other top schools and the research opportunities are better than average. Seems like most graduate or professional schools would look at the empirical data on the programs and individual graduates and might also let the reputation of the UC system influence their impressions. I wonder if the current lack of accreditation is really a viable argument for avoiding UCM–got to start somewhere, right?</p>