UCSD Colleges Ranking

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Hi everyone,

Do you think my colleges ranking is okay?

Everyone says to rank Revelle last because of their GEs, but I think I only have to complete 1 GE. Since I will have 3 semesters of physics, 3 semesters of calculus, and 1 semester of biology completed by the end of spring along with my IGETC.

Here’s my ranking for the colleges:

  1. Revelle - 1 chemistry
  2. Muir - 1 writing
  3. Sixth - 1 writing, 1 practicum
  4. Seventh - SYN100, 1 high impact course (not sure what this is)
  5. Marshall - 2 upper division courses (one of the two must be a writing course)
  6. Warren - 1 writing, and 2 upper division courses outside of my major
  7. Roosevelt - 2 writing
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What major are you applying into and what is your alternate major?

GEs are one factor that students consider when ranking colleges. AP credit (which is different for each college) is another. Finally, the location of each college may matter to students. Some colleges are farther away from from the center of campus.

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Sorry if it wasn’t clear but I’m a CC transfer, that’s why I ranked them purely based on GE requirements since transfers get put in different housing from their college.

I don’t have any AP credit either, but my CC accepted 2+ years of Spanish in high school and marked the foreign language requirement as complete on my IGETC. My sister was accepted into Revelle as a freshman and they made her take a foreign language at UCSD even though she also did 2+ years of Spanish in high school. But I don’t know if it’s the same for transfers.

I’m hoping to get into CS with Math-CS as my alternate major.

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Revelle general education requirements says that if you have IGETC as a transfer student, you need only complete the math and natural science portions of the listed general education requirements (these specify more rigorous math and natural science courses than what is allowed to fulfill the math and natural science categories of IGETC).

For whatever reason, IGETC for UC has a foreign language requirement that is satisfied by high school level 2, even though UC campuses or divisions that have foreign language graduation requirements generally have a higher level requirement than that.

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So then I only have to do the 1 chemistry course, right?

Looking on assist.org, I will have the equivalent of these courses completed for Revelle’s GEs:
MATH20A, MATH20B, MATH20C
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PHYS2A
PHYS2B
PHYS2C

Then I should rank Revelle first.

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If you want to minimize remaining GE and prefer chemistry over writing, yes.

The “avoid Revelle” is usually seen with frosh applicants, particularly non science majors. But does not necessarily apply to everyone.

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You seem to have this analysis very well figured out! Maybe you could write an app to guide future transfer applicants through the college-ranking decision :smile: