<p>Do a lot of people from UCSD make it to a top 10 grad school? (ie. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. - the prestigious schools)</p>
<p>Approximately what percent do? And is it much harder to get into a top 10 grad school from a "relatively speaking, lower tier" place like UCSD?</p>
<p>It seriously depends what field you're talking about. The quality of a school's program is based on their faculty and graduate program -- typically undergrad doesn't matter all that much. UCSD holds its own in the sciences (my friends from chem alone are distributed are UCSF, berkeley, harvard, MIT, i'm at columbia) and I've heard their neuro program ranked as tops in the nation ... but if you're trying to go for, i dunno, a top-notch business school and the only business we've got here is our fledgling school of managmenent*, i'd say it's more difficult.</p>
<p>*Not dissing the rady school, it was just something that came to mind</p>
<p>a lot of the people i knew in my classes made it to those ivy schools</p>
<p>or "know"</p>
<p>since they are still alive and all</p>
<p>UCSD is a solid place for undergraduate education. I would assume that, given the traditional grade deflation at public schools, a high GPA at UCSD could potentially compete with a high GPA from, say, a top ranked private school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answers, but just to elaborate and make my question more clear</p>
<p>I'm specifically talking about an engineering major, preferably Bioengineering or Materials, Mech. Engineering (whichever I can get into)</p>
<p>Do I have a very good, good, mediocre, or very little chance of getting into a top name and prestige grad school like UPenn, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc.</p>
<p>Considering I get maybe not perfect, but definitely solid good grades of course.</p>
<p>And approximately what percent of kids from UCSD get into these top prestige grad schools. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>How about you get into college and then ask the advisers who have actual data on this? You know, do the logical thing.</p>
<p>I scratch my head when I read some of the posts here. Are you sure you want to go to college? I mean, it's not for everybody...</p>
<p>No problem in advance!!!!!</p>
<p>Grad school for what? Besides Stanford, I don't think the other ones have reputable (if any) engineering schools. If you're talking about business school, med school, law school, then know right off the bat that taking an engineering major is going to affect you a lot more than your undergraduate school. The average engineer at UCBerkeley can expect to get a 2.8 GPA, and a 2.9 at UCLA. That's going to put a damper on Ivy dreams a lot more than being at a public school is.</p>
<p>Peppers, I'm thinking about doing undergrad Engineering and then Business or Law for grad school. Just wondering if it's harder to get into some top 5 school from a, relatively speaking, lower tier undergrad school like UCSD, compared to a more prestigious undergrad school like Stanford.</p>
<p>roflkeke, Well that's the thing - I still need to pick where I want to go and am asking this question to help me decide. I have gotten into a top 15 school and am pretty sure I can get into UCSD. However, I live in CA so I don't know if I want to spend that extra money for a top 15 school as an UNDERGRAD. Hence my question if its harder for undergrads at UCSD to get into a top grad school than for undergrads at, say Harvard.</p>
<p>Also there's the thing of getting a good GPA and passing all your classes.</p>
<p>You're getting ahead of yourself. Don't pick the undergraduate school based on what you want to do after. A lot of people make that mistake. Pick the school that will make the four years smoother for you. If you find yourself hating your school, you won't even get to graduate school.</p>
<p>So bottom line: Don't think about it, just pick the school you would rather spend four years at.</p>
<p>Well honestly, I'd rather spend my four undergrad at that top school. The thing is - is I'm hesitant because it costs so much more, since I'm an in-state student for UCs</p>
<p>It depends on the major. But I've seen certain Yale graduate department filled with people with undergraduate from UCSB, yes the party school.</p>
<p>There is nothing lower tier about UCSD. It's become a school that has name recongnition not only in cali but also across the U.S. If you are one of the rare breed who could pull off a great gpa in engineering from UCSD, you will basically get into most elite engineering grad schools in the U.S. An undergrad engineering degree from UCSD is looked upon very highly. </p>
<p>The insanely hard part is pulling off that great gpa in engineering at UCSD. I had big dreams and aspirations to make it to other great schools in our state, like UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, and Cal Poly for grad studies. </p>
<p>But after now studying at Davis in electrical engineering, I now see how tough it is to even pull a 3.0</p>
<p>Also, you need to realize that it's not all about gpa. The quality of research you do as an undergrad and your letters of recommendations also counts very much when it comes to being accepted into grad programs. As far as if UCSD will give you any disadvantage of getting into those elite U.S. engineering schools, no instead you would be at a huge advantage over most others. The hard part is pulling off that amazing gpa though. It's just easier said than done.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses!</p>
<p>Now my question is: if I've averaged 98% in all my high school AP math and science classes w/ 5's across the board, will UCSD engineering be that much harder? My high school's courses are very rigorous (no easy A's).</p>
<p>Basically, do AP classes give a realistic taste of college's engineering expectations?</p>
<p>You will find college work to be far more conceptual and much more difficult. Good AP scores will get you out of a few weeder courses.</p>
<p>On the topic of APs, I heard that if you have AP credit, you don't take less courses Freshmen year, you just take the next level up.</p>
<p>hey kid, ucsd's bioengineering program is 2nd in the nation behind johns hopkins. good luck getting a 4.0 in that department, let alone a 3.5. </p>
<p>now to answer ur question, if u can seriously pull off a 3.5 in bioengineering with good undergrad research and good recs, i guarantee you'll get into at least 1 ivy if u think prestige is everything. its all about what you do in college, not where you go to college.</p>
<p>UCSD to UCLA for graduate school? </p>
<p>What do I need for this to happen ?</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies everyone - I think I got my questions answered.</p>
<p>bman14, yeah I know it's true that prestige isn't everything, but it's just been my dream since I was like 9 that someday I could get into one of those ivy league schools that I've only awed about - just the tough competition makes me want to try to get in I guess. I'm honestly not that concerned about how my life after college will be - I'm just really diggin' the build-up process.</p>
<p>I would be going as an undergrad, but I'm afraid I won't have any money for grad school if I burn it up these first four years.</p>
<p>the people i know from ucsd engineering who went on to ivy league schools are not the common average student. they are the ones that, say, out of a classroom of 200 people score way above the average score in ALL of the exams in ALL of the different classes. so while the average on a midterm is maybe 45%, they CONSISTENTLY would score around 90%.</p>
<p>can you perform like that?</p>