<p>I really wished I went to a psychic or something because I took a class in which no one walked out w/ an A, no one! I really wished I talked to dean about this but I found out like a year too late. The class was like a GPA death trap.</p>
<p>Fall quarter 2008: My first quarter at UCSC, I was doing extremely well in my courses (A+, A, A). I finished one final and only had two more to go, so everything was looking great on my part. I get a call from my friend in San Jose saying her parents got in a huge fight and both of them started to take out their anger on her. I knew she wouldn’t be safe there (emotionally), so I told her I would go drive over there and let her stay at my dorm at UCSC. When I finally merged onto highway 280, some drunk driver passed out in front of his wheel and swerved right at me. The roads were a bit wet when I tried to get out of his way, my car flipped, and then I apparently got hit by another car (I don’t remember the ordeal).</p>
<p>I was in the hospital for several weeks, so I tried to plea with my professors that I could take my finals once I get out. One professor already left the country to work in New Zealand and the other one said that it was too late for me to take an exam (even in my situation). I was in long fights with student services about this because these finals were worth 30-40% of my grades. I had to eventually settle with two C+'s, instantly killing my GPA. I would currently have a ~3.9 if this didn’t happen, but ehhhhh… that’s life?</p>
<p>Man, some of these stories are really sad. Life sucks sometimes, I’m sorry. But it’s ok- because now we’re all going places! No worries right?</p>
<p>Anyway, WAY too many stories here.</p>
<p>My Calculus teacher accused me of cheating on an assignment. I wasn’t. Bloop, there goes a whole letter grade. I tried to explain, but he told me to “stop talking or he was going to report me to the dean.” I stomp out of class and go to the counselors. She tells me there’s nothing she can do about it. BS.</p>
<p>Huge accounting project. Choose a company, do a bunch of statistical data and look at all their 213329848239 financial statements and do a bunch of analysis. 4 people- me, another girl who works, and 2 fobs (I go to De Anza). We split up the group work, and only the girl and I are doing the work. I tell the fobs to do the work, or I’ll be kicking them out of the group and reporting them to the teacher. I hate group work…anyway, one of the fobs proceed to send me a very eloquently written paragraph. Hm, looks suspicious. I copy and paste the whole paragraph into Google only to find the EXACT same word by word paragraph on the other site. What the crap. I reprimand the fob and tell them to do the work right. Ended up with me and the other girl who actually did the whole project. Our group was small to begin with too (4 people- but others had 6) so there were only 2 of us doing the entire project. Screwed me over in that accounting class :(</p>
<p>Man, after reading this thread I’m glad I haven’t had to put up with much group work! Seems like I’ve had it pretty easy when it comes to the classes I’ve taken as it’s all been pretty smooth sailing.</p>
<p>My biggest sort of screw over came recently, and it’s arguable. UCSD putting me in Roosevelt kinda f’ed me since I’m an EE major and I can’t write to save my life (I’m good at math and problem solving, grammar and writing to me is like trying to teach relativity to a 1st grader and I knowingly acknowledge my strengths and try to play to them). So ERC will delay my already 3+ year time to graduation and kill my gpa and unless I get it sorted out in the next 10 days I’m staying at JC for another year (on the upside I’ll be a shoe in for Math/Econ or Applied Math at UCLA which would keep me focused).</p>
<p>@UCeric2010: Just curious, what was your ranking for ERC? I got pitched into Revelle, and it was like my 5th choice. For me it turns out to be okay because I have most of the GEs already completed (surprisingly enough), but it was still a shocker. It sounds like you weren’t expecting to possibly get put in ERC.</p>
<p>@jamesinho, it was my 3rd or 4th choice I can’t remember, I asked my friend at UCSD for help and he said Warren and Muir would be the best for me and I just kinda randomly did the other four since I figured I would get into one of my top two. You’re right I was totally not expecting it at all and it was a pretty effective way of ruining getting accepted to college for me as I was literally telling everyone at the end of Fall 09 when I finished my IGETC requirements how excited I was that I was done with all classes that would require BS essays. I’m not giving up yet I’m on the waitlist to get out but I’m going to contact the provosts of ERC and Warren and the head of admissions and what not and plead my case as this is the last barrier preventing UCSD from being a good option for me and I would really like to go there but ATM it just doesn’t work for me.</p>
<p>@UCeric2010: Oh man, sorry to hear that bro.</p>
<p>I think I can speak for everyone here when I say the school budget cuts are the biggest academic screw over in history.</p>
<p>^ Most definitely.</p>
<p>@UCeric</p>
<p>bro, you should just go to UCSD. MMW won’t even be that bad. Here’s the easy way out:Take MMW 1 (No writing required) 4T( Specifically for transfers where they basically hold your hand) and 5 or 6 abroad for 5 weeks during the summer or something, and whaddayknow, you’ve knocked those out of the way.</p>
<p>Whhaaat? Can you exchange colleges with someone? I got into Marshall, and I won’t be attending UCSD if you prefer Marshall to Revelle… we can write up a report or something? Sorry that you got put into your 5th choice! Most of my friends and I all got into our first. Yea- Warren would have been a good fit for you; I think most of Warren is engineering. Sucks that you worked through this year with the college apps and now you gotta do them again next year!</p>
<p>@politricks: normally I would agree with you, but I’m an electrical engineering major who is very behind on pre-reqs so my first quarter is going to be Calculus 3, Phys 2A and Chem 6A (they say take only 3 your first quarter to adjust to the quarter system). After that if I want to even attempt to graduate in around 3 years I need to take 4 engineering/science classes a quarter (which they don’t recommend) + summers. I’ve gotten to be a better student over the years but I can’t see myself being able to take a course load like Vector Calc, Electricity and Magnetism, Engineering Computation, Intro to Digital Design AAAAAAAND MMW and doing well. So yeah it was already going to be a struggle for me but MMW just pushes it over the edge into being completely unrealistic as I don’t even know if I can handle just 4 engineering classes at the same time let alone a writing intensive (which I suck at) class on top of them. </p>
<p>Just think of it this way, a normal transfer needs 90 units to graduate made up of about 60-80 units for their major + 10-20 of GE or whatever the hell they want to take, in my case I have 136 units (if they don’t count my C++ programming class which they probably won’t) of just classes for my major to graduate. So yeah unfortunately IMO I need to be in a college pretty relaxed with GE’s (only 1 writing class or just free GE’s where you can take something your interested in) for my plan to be realistic, I mean IGETC is about the only thing I have done so to slap me in a GE intensive college is basically making me a freshmen again.</p>
<p>UCeric2010: sorry i didnt mean i had a 4.0 before that class, that was my first semester (one year transfer) so all i had when I applied was the 18 units I took in the Fall plus 21 AP units that don’t help out my gpa. and out of 18 units, that 5 unit B did bring me down to a 3.72 (wouldve had a 4.0 otherwise).</p>
<p>but wow, yeah some people have such tragic stories. 
though i do have to agree that budget cuts are one big screw over for pretty much every public school student out there.</p>
<p>nothing<em>at</em>all: that really sucks, I would think that having a B in a class that was completed would be better than an in progress and it seems like a lot of econ transfers had calc 2 in progress looking at the acceptance thread.</p>