<p>@shibbiman
Revelle shouldn’t be considered the worst college for GE’s by default and everyone doesn’t hate it. I’m in Revelle and I had only 1 extra GE to complete. It can suck for some majors, but if you’re in one of the sciences you can actually transfer to Revelle and not have any GE’s to take if you’ve taken a foreign language or can fluently speak another language. Most of Revelle’s GE’s overlap with the lower division sequence for majors like Biology, Chemistry, Engineering so it isn’t bad at all because you already have to take Calculus, Chemistry, Biology, etc. As a humanities or social science major, like for Comm, Revelle probably isn’t a good choice. </p>
<p>Also about Warren, Warren only requires you to choose 3 courses outside of your discipline. So for communications that means 3 courses outside of the social sciences. That doesn’t automatically mean hard sciences. As a Comm major she’d be able to choose 3 classes in the Arts / Humanities majors. So those are departments like Visual Arts, Theatre, Philosophy, Literature, History, Religion, and various cultural studies – or anything in the sciences if she wanted. </p>
<p>@Sockhermom
Also, one college to look into is Sixth, which I feel like rarely gets mentioned. Sixth has some very interesting ways you can fulfill their GE’s and as a current UCSD student had I know that, I actually would have chosen Sixth college as my first choice when I applied. Sixth has two requirements – CAT 125, which varies by quarter but it’s really just a public presentation/communication course and a “practicum” requirement. The practicum requirement can be anything from studying abroad, independent study/research, internships, various 4 unit upper division courses, etc. So, the practicum requirement has a lot of options and interesting ways in which it can be completed and many students fulfill it by participating in things they already planned to do like research, internships, study abroad or one of their upper division major classes.</p>
<p>The only advice I’d give your daughter as a Comm major is to probably avoid Revelle, unless she has a real passion for science. Other than that she’ll probably be fine with the GE’s at any of the other five colleges. I would say just in terms of flexibility if she wants to have a lot of input in picking her GE’s Sixth, Warren, and Marshall have the most flexibility for transfers and allow you to pick from various classes or extracurriculars(Sixth). I’d follow those by Muir, often regarded as having the easiest GE’s for freshmen, but IMO the previous 3 are more flexible for transfers. Last would be ERC which only requires two courses but there really isn’t much flexibility. You’re required to take their MMW 21-22 sequence, which I’d say are more Humanities classes. If she enjoys Humanities and studying about the world then it might be a good choice for her.</p>
<p>Last, I recently answered a thread about the same question that it might benefit you too look at:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1554988-ucsd-tag-ranking-6-colleges.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1554988-ucsd-tag-ranking-6-colleges.html</a></p>
<p>A lot of it is a repeat of what I typed here, but I think I briefly touched on the social aspects that being in a particular college can affect, which really isn’t much like shibbiman mentioned.</p>