<p>just got the appeal rejection from UCI and I never bothered to appeal to LA or Berkley. I did however get my appeal accepted to muirs at sd. I am kind of bummed that irvine didn't work out even though I keep hearing SD is the better school. I guess my only choices right now are sd in the fall or another semester in community college and try to do irvine again? seems like a pretty stupid idea though</p>
<p>ucsd is a really good school, go there</p>
<p>UCSD is a good school, but if Irvine is where you really want to go, saving money by doing another semester of cc is not that bad.</p>
<p>SD is WAY better.</p>
<p>uh, the most important question here is: what major?</p>
<p>though La Jolla/SD is just an all-around better place than Irvine.</p>
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<p>No, it’s not. In engineering and a few sciences, yeah. for almost anything else, no. (In fact, the humanities are much stronger at UCI.)</p>
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<p>Having spent quite a bit of time in both place, I’m going to have to disagree.</p>
<p>P.S. I am a UCI student.</p>
<p>UCI is closed for winter. They very well may be closed for spring as well. Accept UCSDs offer if you want to finish on time. If not, you may end up a year behind.</p>
<p>Generally, without being major specific, UCSD has more “prestige” than UCI (which is grouped with UCSB and UCD). Although both schools are easy to get into as a transfer…</p>
<p>Irvine is just a big congested suburb with track housing and a homogeneous population in my opinion.</p>
<p>La Jolla is just beautiful.</p>
<p>Funny, I know plenty of people who didn’t get into SD as transfers.</p>
<p>The average gpa of transfer students accepted last fall was:</p>
<p>At UC Irvine: 3.46
At SD: 3.48</p>
<p>Source: [University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder/default.aspx]University”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder/default.aspx)</p>
<p>Oh, FFS. Does every thread have to turn into a “this school is better than that school” debate?</p>
<p>poli sci major folks</p>
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<p>yes…yes it does</p>
<p>Not much of a debate actually…Just stating some facts off general college rankings and the perceived understanding of one school having more “prestige” than the other. The OP felt bad about the rejection from UCI so giving him some positives about UCSD would be appropriate in this thread. </p>
<p>To mar_mar: If you sign a TAG with UCSD then getting in should be cake walk.</p>
<p>sndebrosse,</p>
<p>Do you REALLY have to come to the UC TRANSFERS thread to try and defend the honor of UCI? You’re not even a transfer student. Stop already, no one cares!</p>
<p>Yes, because perception is everything, and there are a lot of misperceptions out there. Students constantly refer to these threads as a source of truth.</p>
<p>Btw, don’t be ridiculous. People care. Read your own posts for evidence of that. If you don’t want to see this kind of discussion, then I’m afraid you’re on the wrong website.</p>
<p>isn’t poly sci better at ucsd than uci?</p>
<p>I’m not trying to be a jerk about this, but average GPA of accepted students isn’t really a great measure of a school’s quality in my opinion. Many students apply to safeties they don’t plan to go to which effectively raises the average GPA of students accepted. I think average GPA of students enrolled would be a much more appropriate measure of the quality of the transfer student body for a given school.</p>
<p>sndebrosse,</p>
<p>What I meant is that you’ve been at this for a long time, and every time that you try, there remains a general consensus: UCI < UCSD. You always try and pull some specific aspects of UCI and glorify them, but don’t waste your time. You’re right that perception is everything, and you solely trying to antagonize a set precedent of perception is only making things worse. Unless your eloquent classmate (I forgot his name on here) comes to help you out by cussing everyone out again, I just don’t see it.</p>