<p>When I mean higher tier UC, I really just mean UCLA and UC Berkeley. Mid Tier, I mean pretty much all of them except UC Riverside, Merced, and Santa Cruz. What would you rather have?</p>
<p>i.e. 3.66 at UC San Diego or UC Irvine, etc.</p>
<p>3.13 at UC Berkeley/UCLA</p>
<p>High gpa at a low tier.</p>
<p>Lower GPA at a higher tier. Neither will get you graduating at the top of your class but a degree from UCLA is far more valuable to employers than one from UC San Diego. Of course, if you intend on going to Grad school then low tier and higher GPA is better because that’s just what Grad schools want to see.</p>
<p>3.6 mid tier. Yeah name recognition will help you in the job search but a bachelors degree isn’t really going to help you find a good career these days.</p>
<p>LOL @ tbafaloukos’s post. Unless you’re applying to a top tier company like Google, employers don’t give a **** where you got your degree from. Get real dude.</p>
<p>high GPA, without a doubt. The difference when applying to schools and jobs between “high tier” and “mid tier” is barely existent, the only real difference that I see is that UCLA and UCB are in significantly better locations than the rest, so you would have a more stable alumni network and more internship or job opportunities. UCLA and UCB are the only ones that are heavily recruited in certain fields, but if you have a 3.0 than you won’t be recruited anyway so it’s a moot point. </p>
<p>To the person who said that to employers there is a big difference between UCLA and UCSD…no. Just no. If you have a 3.0, having your degree from UCLA might still help you get a job over someone from say, a low level CSU (like Stanislaus), but the CSU student might still win you out if their GPA was significantly higher or they had a better resume. The only time the UCLA name would help a 3.0 GPA applicant over a 3.6 UCSD applicant is if the employer was a UCLA alumni. But that’s completely out of your hands and obviously all schools will be somewhat represented in different companies, so again, a moot point.</p>
<p>Ha, well…seeing as I just transferred to Berkeley I guess I know what my choice is…but I mean, even if my GPA does drop, I really can’t see myself dropping down by around 0.9 points, especially since my major is a social science. Well, even if it does, I wouldn’t give up the chance to study here for anything. If my GPA does drop considerably, I’ll take some time off and find a good internship to strengthen my grad school application. I just couldn’t give this up.</p>
<p>Like most have pointed out, it all depends on what your post grad plans are.</p>
<p>Depends post-grad. If you are looking for grad school, the high GPA will help you.If you are looking to go into a big firm for ex. the big 4, your GPA will stand out.</p>
<p>Name recognition IMO isn’t as big anymore. Ivies, UCB etc. are all nice but what’s the point if you struggled?</p>
<p>Obviously the BEST scenario is high tier, high GPA but I would always take higher GPA over the university tier.</p>
<p>The fact is, you don’t know whether or not you’d get a higher GPA at say, UCI than you would at UCB. Shoot, you might get a higher GPA at UCB than you’d get at UCM!</p>
<p>^Exactly right.</p>
<p>lower GPA, top tier.</p>
<p>sincerely, the guy with a higher GPA at a mid tier.</p>
<p>“Lower GPA at a higher tier. Neither will get you graduating at the top of your class but a degree from UCLA is far more valuable to employers than one from UC San Diego. Of course, if you intend on going to Grad school then low tier and higher GPA is better because that’s just what Grad schools want to see.”</p>
<p>I second this</p>
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<p>UCSD is considered by many to be more academically rigorous than UCLA(which is a party school)</p>
<p>Yet most would consider UCLA to be far more prestigious than UCSD.</p>
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I wouldn’t say far more prestigious. With that said, I’d attend UCLA over UCSD or even UCB if given a choice.</p>
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From Payscale:</p>
<p>Top State Universities By Salary Potential - Starting Median Salary - Mid-Career Median Salary
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) $48,200 $96,700
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) $49,200 $91,100</p>
<p>Uh no. As you can see it’s worth $1000 more starting, and $5600 LESS mid-career. (I go to neither of these schools btw)</p>
<p>Employers are not going to sit there and look up University rankings when they interview a new hire. Nor do they care what the difference between UCSD and UCLA is. A lot of bigger corporations actually pay a 3rd-party company to do degree verifications and that’s it. They’ll know where you went but what they want more than anything is actual work experience. The only exceptions I can think of are firms like the big 4 where they look at your GPA. They recruit from all the CSU’s and UC’s and invite potential recruits for interviews based on their GPA. They don’t put weight into the school name or prestige.</p>
<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>My cousin is in UCSD Sophomore history major with a 4.0 GPA. He wants to go to law school. Now we are discussing if he should transfer to Berkeley next fall because it is closer to home. We don’t know how hard it is to maintain a 4.0 at Berkely. Any advice or suggestions? Thanks.</p>
<p>Just started fall semester at Berkeley last week and from what I can tell the courses are definitely not easy but reasonable. Most likely I will not achieve the same GPA I had before transfer (3.85) but I’m happy with my choice to attend the #1 public university in the world!</p>