looking for guidance

capuchin · 11-17-2007, 01:39 AM

hey guys, i'm a student at Santa Barbara City College and I'm planning on transfering on fall 09. It's my 3rd year here and I had a rough start. I did horrible on non-transferable courses but on all of my transferable classes I have all A's and two B's. My gpa is a 3.34 but my gpa with only the transferable classes is a 3.65. I don't know what schools I should go for. I was thinking UCSB but my psych prof. and one of the councelors are pushing me to shoot for UCLA. What do you guys think? Any comments welcomed.
Thanks,
Capuchin

fijeeboi · 11-17-2007, 02:12 AM

UC's base admissions on the UC GPA. From what I hear, they don't pay much attention, if any, to the non transferable classes. You definitely have a good shot at UCLA. The link below shows the profiles for admitted students at UCLA.

UCLA Undergrad Admissions: Profile of Admitted Transfer Students by Major, Fall 2007

fijeeboi · 11-17-2007, 03:43 AM

Ok I guess I was wrong. UCLA takes takes overall GPA into consideration for psychology. You still might have a shot though.

Thedude44 · 11-17-2007, 07:12 AM

Just apply and see what happens.

capuchin · 11-17-2007, 11:20 AM

I did some research and was looking at UCLA's website and for psychology the average gpa was 3.6something. You guys think I would be able to raise my overall gpa to a 3.6 with 29 units? Since the major prep's are very different for most schools should I focus on other schools?

capuchin · 11-17-2007, 11:22 AM

lol, fijeeboi the link you gave me was the one I was looking for and it took me ages to find. you guys are good! thanks

comehere1234 · 11-17-2007, 04:48 PM

capuchin, UCLA is a crap shoot and if you have the positive grade trend or/and with TAP you have a chance to make it into UCLA.

capuchin · 11-17-2007, 05:09 PM

comehere1234, i'm not shure what you mean by crap shoot but I have good grades in all of the classes that transfer to UC's and I'm in the TAP program.

capuchin · 11-17-2007, 06:34 PM

oh, I forgot to ask if you guys think if volunteer work and internships might better my chances to get in to UCLA?

comehere1234 · 11-17-2007, 06:50 PM

Volunteer and internships does count but what really counts is your grades and if you are in TAP then I think you a match just explain in the essay why you did you do bad in those classes

Edward04 · 11-17-2007, 07:38 PM

Stop worrying about whether you'll get in...and start working on getting in (strong personal statment, etc).

Good luck!

capuchin · 11-18-2007, 01:12 AM

I'm just really stressed out because I'm putting a lot of my marbles into this basket (ucla's major prep is a bit different than UCSB's so if I don't make it to UCLA I will still need two more classes to fulfill UCSB's major prep) but your right Edward, I should worry more about working on getting in. Thanks for everything guys!