<p>I also applied there, but I don't know how to rank the colleges. What should I rank applying as econ/poli sci?</p>
<p>Each college has its own GE requirements, some require more science and math than others and some are regarded as being more difficult than others.</p>
<p>Sorry I didn’t answer your question specifically, hopefully someone with more knowledge will post more information.</p>
<p>I was a poli sci major at UCSD. I would highly recommend putting Sixth and Muir as your top-2 choices. The requirements vary between the colleges, but I only had to take two Sixth-specific classes to satisfy the requirements and one of those was covered with research units, so I only had to take one actual class (CAT 125, which was insultingly easy.) </p>
<p>Here’s a pretty good blog post that explains the differences between the colleges:
[The</a> Six Colleges of UCSD – A Ranking Guide for Applicants | The Rebertian Times](<a href=“Blog — chrisrebert.com”>Blog — chrisrebert.com)</p>
<p>All that said, as a transfer, you’re only going to take a couple college-specific courses anyway. All the poli sci/econ classes you take will have students from every college in them. For example, there’s no “Sixth College” Poli 165, there’s just a Poli 165 that students from any college can sign up for.</p>
<p>This is very confusing. :/</p>
<p>What part of it?</p>
<p>Like what’s the difference between the pre reqs etc… I thought as soon as you transfer with major pre reqs you can start immediately on upper divisions, and each college was just based on majors.</p>
<p>I was confused too. I chose the easiest colleges as my number 1 and 2. I applied there for no reason. I have no desire to go there and I’ll most likely get denied anyway. hha</p>
<p>The GE requirements are NOT major requirements. The requirements you have for your college are completely unrelated to the requirements you have from your major department. They’re basically requirements you need for graduation. You don’t have to fulfill them right away, you can leave them for your last quarter if you want and they have no affect on your major coursework. As long as you meet the pre-reqs for an upper division major class you can take it. You don’t even have to finish ALL of the lower division first, just that specific pre-req.</p>
<p>My advice on picking a college is to go to the separate college websites (google “Sixth GE transfer requirements” or something similar) for each college and see for yourself what you’re comfortable taking in addition to your major classes. Each college has their own focus and thus own requirements, so it’s completely subjective which college is best for you. It really depends on your interests and your major, how many GEs you’ll have to fulfill and whether you’ll enjoy them or not.</p>
<p>UCSD Colleges - PDF:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ucsd.edu/_files/6collegescompared.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucsd.edu/_files/6collegescompared.pdf</a></p>
<p>So what you’re saying is that each college has their own LD GE pattern??</p>
<p>Yeah once you transfer you will immediately start taking upper div courses. In my time at UCSD I think I only took two lower div courses: Poli 30 (every poli student has to take it at UCSD, you can’t transfer credit in for it) and Poli 40 (it was an elective to satisfy the 180 unit requirement.) </p>
<p>The college requirements are completely different, and like I said there should only be a couple that you have to take. I think the Sixth College CAT requirement is 3 courses long for freshmen, but only 1 is required for transfers and then you have a “practicum” course you have to complete, but I got that covered with research credit. It honestly wasn’t a big deal.</p>
<p>Anywhere but ERC and Revelle.</p>