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I'm a sophomore at a CC in orange county ca. I am a political science major and I have 3.4 GPA. I signed a TAG agreement with UCSD last semester. I also recently joined my school's honors program. This will give me priority admission consideration to UCLA. Now, with the addition of the TAG requirements, and with the additional Honors courses I will need to take, my schedule in the fall could end up consisting of 22 units. So here's my dilemma...

While I would be extremely happy at UCSD, there's no doubt in my mind that I would much rather attend UCLA and UCB. UCB is where I REALLY want to go. The highest gpa I will probably be able to muster now is probably a 3.5 or so. My question is this: Should I forego some of the TAG requirement classes in order to ease the load of units I will have to take in the fall? If I do this, I will not have guaranteed admission to UCSD, and could conceivably not get into either of the three schools. But I would also not be taking as many courses, making it easier to put up a higher gpa.

So...will a 3.4-3.5 gpa as a poly sci major get me into any of UCSD/UCB/UCLA?

Your thoughts/comments are appreciated..

p.s. I am also interested in applying to a few private schools around the country including NYU, UofChicago, Boston University and George Washington U.

xkebinx

I guess it really depends on the school of your first choice. But if I were you, I would go for honors program classes for LA. Since you have pretty good GPA, I don't think getting into SD shouldn't be too much of a problem. And I heard 80% of the honor program students get into LA. I was also a transfer student with 3.3 GPA and physic major. I got rejected from UCB and UCLA, but I got into UCSD.