<p>I've been contemplating which school to go to, but it's difficult.</p>
<p>One of my main worries is the competitiveness of UCLA and if I would be able to handle it.
To give a little more perspective, I'm taking 5 AP's, but I'm getting a maybe 3 C's, 1 B, and 1 A with band (granted these are my first C's, I got B's in my past AP's).</p>
<p>Honestly, I'm absolutely shocked I got into UCLA because a 3.93 GPA is definitely not something to boast about. So would I be considered one of the dumber students there? What about in UCSD?</p>
<p>Also, any other comments about anything related to the schools would be helpful! I will be visiting the two campuses (attending the open house for UCLA) later, but it's hard to find out about social life/academic competitiveness from those events.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Maybe you should try taking less APs if you are getting Cs in them?</p>
<p>I heard that UC’s frown upon dropping classes. And seeing that I’m already halfway through the second semester, I can hardly consider dropping.</p>
<p>My question was more about the two schools and how competitive they are.</p>
<p>i read something here about the UCLA open house. but i didnt get anything on my email or anything</p>
<p>when is it? :]</p>
<p>You need to maintain a 3.0 gpa so you could get rescinded</p>
<p>Well I’m not sure if it’s 3.0 for the overall senior year, or if it goes for each semester. It does not clarify in the admissions contract. (Could someone clarify this for me please?)</p>
<p>If it is overall, then I’m still fine.</p>
<p>I believe it says overall, so that would mean the unweighted GPA for both semesters of senior year.</p>
<p>To answer your original question, I’m inclined to say it depends on the AP’s you’re taking—I think in another thread you said you were majoring in CS? So if any of those AP’s are math/science related and you’re getting C’s in them, then UCLA might prove difficult. Otherwise, though, you’ll probably be fine.</p>
<p>hopefully you got super good grades your 1st semster of semnior year cuz that easily cancels out the C’s</p>
<p>i think it also depends on how hard you are working… such as if you work your butt off for those classes and still can’t get higher than Cs its a problem but if you are just not trying you should be fine at ucla as long as you try harder… plus UCSD isn’t gonna be that much easier if it is easier at all :D</p>
<p>UCSD and UCI curve a lot of their classes, sometimes this can be a bad thing. UCLA doesn’t curve as much, this can either be good or bad. So maybe classes will be harder at UCLA, but not as competitive. depends on the class…</p>
<p>Basically what I’m saying is, there is a difference between competitiveness and difficulty. Competitiveness is when you are graded on a curve and losing one point over some stupid detail will screw your grade over. Difficulty is when the material and its depth is inherently difficult to learn, so it really depends on what type of classes you like. I can tell you right now that UCI and UCSD are going to be more competitive than “difficult” per se.</p>
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Depends on your major. As an engineer, I’ve taken about 20 classes and all but maybe one or two have been on a curve.</p>
<p>a comment on the social life:</p>
<p>social life is good, better than most schools of UCLA’s ranking. but needless to say you have to be social in order to be social. but if you want to hangout, there’s always parties/kickbacks, with the exception of finals week, even finals week because some ppl get done early. </p>
<p>a comment about the competitiveness:</p>
<p>depends on your major. popular majors such as Econ and Pre-med tend to get pretty competitive. but that just depends on the person…for example, I got my Econ 41 final in like 2 hrs and i’m just chilling on CC because I already checked my email 50 times and went on facebook 60 times.</p>
<p>Both are great schools. Take your time. Given your major, figure our where you will be happy and where the fit for you is the greatest.</p>
<p>I don’t think you should assume that UCLA will be more competetive than UCSD across the board and they’re so similar in their admit pool that I don’t think it should be a factor in your decision. Within a university the competetiveness and difficulty will vary with the particular major.</p>
<p>I suggest focusing on other factors with the primary one being in which location would you rather spend the next 4 or so years.</p>