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UCSD Waitlist Fall 2019 Transfer
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Major: CogSci
Gpa: 3.82 (1 D in Calc 2 which hurt me a lot)
Major prep: Done except Linear algebra
IGETC: Done
International student
CogSci had 42% yield rate last year. I think it is relatively low?. I am going to SIR to UCI. I hope I can get a spot
GPA: 3.7
Major prep: done
in-state UC student
CCC Transfer
GPA: 3.5
Major: Computer Science
Major GPA: 3.6
Major Prereqs: Calc 1 - 3, Linear Algebra and Physics 1 & 2. Currently taking Discrete Math. Also finished 2 programming courses but only 1 articulates directly
IGETC: Done
Gonna be hard to wait even longer for UCSD, but I'm lucky enough to be already admitted to UCI with a scholarship. Good luck to everyone!
Major: CS
GPA: 3.85
Waitlisted UCSD
I got rejected from UCI and i dont even know what the reason was
Also CS had like 50% yield rate last year. What does that even mean for our waitlist guys?
gpa: 3.8
didnt have the cs classes for major pre-reqs areticulate to school's
CCC Transfer
Major: Psychology
GPA: 3.22 (Cs from my first year really put a dent in my GPA. I'm so grateful to not be denied.)
Major Prep: Done
IGETC: Will be completed Spring 2019
I am also waitlisted at UCI. Best of luck everybody!
-Psych major from CCC
-3.3 something GPA
Hopefully my spring quarter grades won’t factor in because I’m taking calc, chem, and java right now.
-Accepted to SB, Davis, SC, and Riverside but really hoping to get off the SD waitlist
Accepted: CSULB, CSUSM, CSUM, UCR (all for International Politics)
Waitlisted: UCSB (pre-political science), UCSD (PoliSci-Int Affairs)
Rejected: UCB (sociology), UCLA (philosophy), SDSU (study of religion)
UC CUM GPA: 3.13 (Got an F last quarter when I was taking courses at 2 different CC's and 1 university lol..luckily the class isn't major prep and I already have more than enough credits). I'm originally from Wisconsin and moved to San Diego and started school immediately after I got out of the Marines. I really struggled acclimating to school again, especially not having family or friends (and living on my own) when I first moved here. Now I'm just starting to make a solid group of friends and I really would love to stay in SD! Even if Stanford was like, " here's a 100k scholarship to our school", I'd be like "nopeee". I've done quite a bit of traveling, and I can definitely say that having good connections is THE way to thrive.
IGETC: Done (I have 66 transferrable credits as of Fall 2018)-taking 14 credits this Spring and only 3 of those are part of major prep for UCSD, while the others were for fun or to cover requirements at CSU.
Major Prep: 1 IP this Spring(Contemporary International Politics) which I will get at LEAST a B in. Poli 102 and 103 I completed back to back in the summer of 2018 (which I think is saying something). Poli 30 I will take at UCSD and according to Assist, " PS 30 is not included in the introductory sequence-NO COURSE ARTICULATED Course must be taken at UC San Diego." In a nutshell, I have taken or am currently completing every political science course that any CCC offers.
I have been attending a San Diego CC year round (Winter-Spring-Fall-Summer) for two years.
Volunteer: Just a one time event helping military families and their kiddos (it's the only volunteer work I have verification of).
EC: Marine Corps Veteran and lived/worked as a Network/Windows Server Administrator in 6 Asian countries for two years. Lots of leadership serving as a Sergeant on active duty. Wrestling and Coaching, involved in intervarsity campus ministry, involved in "Ask an Atheist" in Balboa Park San Diego, Amateur mountain climber ( I climbed Fuji when I was in the Marines haha).
Awards: Team Awards from wrestling, medals from the military for helping with Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, work in South Korea etc., and High Honors in High School- I said, " The smile that was on my mom's face when I told her I'd be graduating at the top of my class is more than enough reason to add this award to the list!"
Work experience- Military, uber/lyft, poultry handler on an organic farm, sales rep/ delivery driver at an industrial distributor.
Essays- Part of me wishes I wouldn't of written these the night of the deadline haha...in hindsight though, my only regret is that the grammatical errors portray lack of preparation (but that's been my life as a Marine though, having to adapt, even without "proper" preparation). Other than that I think they show the true me, raw and unfiltered. I described my love for dancing, finding and encouraging leadership in all peoples, even in the "outcasts" of society, the detriment of instant gratification (particularly sexual), especially on the apps of our generation..i.e. Tinder, Bumble, etc.. On the required PIQ (prep for major), I talked about the power of love (unorthodox, I know) and how completing a degree in order to help others (shared satisfaction), is much much more fulfilling then to pursue a degree to achieve personal/private satisfaction.
USODE ethnicity (does this really have an impact? LOL..maybe idk): African American or Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, White...I really am all these things haha
Human Biology
GPA: 3.27 (3.4 after winter quarter)
Accepted: UCSB, UCSC, UCD, UCR, UCM, Cal SLO, Sac, SF
Waitlisted: UCI, UCSD
Rejected: SDSU
So what do you think about 50% yield rate? is that high or low ? what are our chances to get into CS?
Thanks so much bro