Congratulations to every individual accepted to UCSD, you all worked extremely hard, and you are now witnessing the fruit of your labor. Never forget that this wasn’t easy and that you earned every bit it. To those that got denied, keep your head up, perhaps when this door closed another even more spectacular door opened, there is no singular or straight path to happiness.
Now, I am going to be very detailed in case future bioengineering students are curious as to the formula of success to transfer into the Bioengineering major.
Accepted.
Major: Bioengineering
College: Warren
GPA: 4.00
Prerequisites: Every class my CC offered that was on Assist agreement completed
EC: various clubs including being a Phi Theta Kappa member, two on-campus jobs (not at the same time) including being an on-campus tutor, professional paid internship (I was extremely lucky to land this, I think an unpaid internship would hold nearly just as much weight), several scholarship awards for academic merit or essay, 150 hours of volunteering at a hospital
*Okay I know this sounds/looks like a lot but this was spread over 2.5 years, so it really wasn’t that bad
Other: I was previously accepted to UCSD as a freshman, I had 5 AP tests, I basically hyped my internship, GPA, and creative/communication skills in the essay (although I was told they don’t read the essays by a UCSD counselor), I also had 18 semester units of honors classes.
I’ll end my obnoxiously long post with a John Muir quote, the man from which Muir college gets its name.
“Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.” - John Muir