UCSD Bio majors here!

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>I’m getting so anxious!</p>

<p>3.76 GPA
Tag/IGETC
Major: Human Bio
Pre-reqs: One year Bio w/ one year labs (equivalent to BILD 1-3), one year gen chem (equivalent to CHEM 6 A,B,C and 7L), one year calc-based physics (equivalent to PHYS 1A-C and 1AL-CL, one year calculus (MATH 120A + 120B).</p>

<p>Missing OChem, which SD counts as Upper division, and one semester of Calc.</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone!!!</p>

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<p>Major: Biological Sciences</p>

<p>GPA: 3.93
Major GPA: 4.0
Pre-reqs taken: 2 semesters of calc, 2 semesters of bio, 2 semesters of gen chem, 1 semester of ochem
IGETC: yes
TAG: yes</p>

<ul>
<li>applying from CCC as international student</li>
<li>missing 2nd semester of ochem and 1 year of calc based physics</li>
</ul>

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<p>GPA: 3.65
tag / igetc
Prereqs = molec bio, genetics, 2 sems of bio, 2 sems of gchem and finished 1 sem ochem and working on 2nd sem of ochem, anatomy, 2 sems of calc based physics, 2 sems of calculus…</p>

<p>wow been at a jc for too long… :(</p>

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<p>I am about a <em>bit</em> below average for UCLA’s Bio program which I’m assuming is higher than UCSD’s. I have no TAG though and missing a class from being IGETC certified, which resulted from a major oversight on my part. I wrote about not being able to go to UCSD out of highschool because of family and money problems and how I’ve been on a mission to go there ever since. I was never about grades, I just couldn’t ever focus - it was my sat score that got me into places and now that doesn’t matter.</p>

<p>First thing I’m doing when I get to a UC is to use their health insurance plan to get my adhd script refilled. Ha.</p>

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<p>"For admission purposes, this cohort will not be affected until fall 2011. Until then, transfer students will be admitted to any biology major without restriction. In fall 2011, the target number of new transfers will be 200. The UCSD Admissions Office will rank, according to transfer GPA, all students that applied. Admissions is solely responsible for admitting transfer students and for assuring that a target of no more than 200 new transfers will enroll as Biology majors.</p>

<p>The DBS expects transfer students to have completed all lower division course work for the requested biology major at the time of transfer.</p>

<p>For all students admitted to UCSD as a non-biology major, guidelines/procedures listed below apply."</p>

<p>Ok there is no way I will be admitted if it’s ranked by transfer GPA. A ranking of 200 students out of thousands means 190 of them will be 4.0s and 10 will be 3.96s. Unless it dips into 3.7 range, and there is no way in hell this is going to happen, I am through. Ah truth hurts.</p>

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<p>if you meet TAG requirements and finished igetc you’re admitted but no major you have to pick something else that’s non impacted</p>

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<p>I want to do graduate work in biology. UCSD is the best there is in the UC system for bio and if I can’t do bio there I really don’t see a point in going and then trying to transfer into their biology department, which again is done by ranking within the school. I am sorely hoping that I am misinterpreting the statement I quoted above and that it applies to UCSD students trying to switch their majors but I wouldn’t hold my breath. </p>

<p>They will have to offer admission to a lot more people than 200 since a bunch of 4.0s would also get into UCLA and Cal, so there might be a sliver of hope. I’m just really discouraged.</p>

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<p>lol, quit stressing. life is good bra. hang loose fo realz</p>

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<p>"Check the UCSD transfer statistics from fall 2010. For your major, you have a wayyyy higher gpa than the average admit. "</p>

<p>where’d you get those statistics from?</p>

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<p>@ Kevin,</p>

<p>and dude, if your gpa >3.7, your in business. thats still a competitive gpa. i bet you 3 bux that your gonna make it in.</p>

<p>last year, only 7% of the applicants had a gpa >3.9. About 419 people got in as bio majors. lets seeee nowww… so we can assume that only 30-40 of the bio transfer students had a gpa>3.9. That still leaves about 160 spots left. Kevin, your doing good man.</p>

<p>@ Rachel,</p>

<p>gl.</p>

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<p>Note the word ENROLL there. the 200 number is NOT the number of people they will admit. Assuming that their target presumes, say, a 60% yield rate, that means they will admit at least around 330 people. I’m willing to bet it will be somewhere in the 350ish range.</p>

<p>As others have pointed out, that means people with about a 3.7ish and above are pretty much “safe” IMHO.</p>

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<p>^This is true.</p>

<p>I ran a table in the UC statfinder system and stitched a few pieces together to create a relevant table for this discussion.</p>

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<p>It looks as though there was a ~30% yield rate for bio majors with GPA’s 3.6+, so to enroll 200 students, they might actually admit closer to 600. Granted the data was from 2009, as that is the most recent year available, and it is very likely the admit pool has become more competitive since then.</p>

<p>Edit: Stats</p>

<p>Biochem/cell bio
GPA:4.0
IGETC:yes
TAG:yes
Pre-reqs:Completed</p>

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<p>bump.</p>

<p>any bio related majors get notified yet?</p>

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<p>i still have reviewing applications :/</p>

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<p>Nothing yet for me…</p>

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<p>Are the GPAs you guys listing major GPA or overall GPA? They care more about major GPA right?</p>

<p>Does doing TAG for bio give some sort of advantage than the bio without TAG?</p>

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<p>^posting overall GPA</p>

<p>TAG gives you an advantage of getting into the school just no advantage for your major.</p>

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<p>Gotcha. I thought that if they are deciding between two bio majors the same GPA/prereqs and one did TAG and one did not, they’ll let the person who did TAG with the advantage.</p>

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<p>If they did that that would be awesome :(</p>

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<p>they are giving the TAG biology students the advantage. This is based on the assumption that my CCC counselor is correct.</p>

<p>@ rachel,</p>

<p>where do you get your sources from? all of my counselors (whether it be planning and/or transfer counselors) told me that even in BIO majors, TAG students have the ADVANTAGE, but no guarantee in. So for example, if a 3.7 tag student were to be against a 3.76 non tag student and it is a borderline decision, they would choose the tag student.</p>

<p>Despite this fact, its obvious that UCSD is going to choose a 3.96 GPA non tag student over a 3.0 TAG student. </p>

<p>gl everyone!</p>