The purpose of the college application is more than getting an education. It’s a way to test your effort and performance in high school. Seeking recognition and accomplishment is a common nature of human beings; when you lose such motivation to achieve something, you need to reflect on your life instead of college application, why don’t you want to do it? Simply, why not?
Your question reminds me of the story of the Philosopher. Once, a male philosopher was proposed by a wonderful woman. The philosopher didn’t know whether he should have a marriage relationship or not, so he refused and said he needed time to calculate it scientifically. After 30 years, he finally concluded a classic philosophic argument: "If there is one thing (neutral, not against the law, ethics, and common sense) you don’t know whether you should do or not, it deserves a trial so you can experience it. " That’s the same for college applications.
I think they were referring to yield. But I don’t see UCSD as being an outlier here… the UCs as a whole have low yield (other than B and LA) probably due to the majority of kids applying to several of them.
SD is indeed a really good school… and so are the other UCs.
In my UC application, I mentioned I planned to take a community college course (a-g course) for spring 24, (This course doesn’t show up in high school transcript, but a separate CC transcript). Unfortunately I couldn’t take this class as this class was full and instead I took a different a-g course, How should I inform the UCs I have applied about this change?
Is there a standard procedure?
None of them take academic updates, unfortunately. My daughter somehow managed to underreport at least four semester-long classes. By my count (which is hopefully wrong), that would put her at like 21.5 a-g years, which is probably out of the running for all UCs she applied for — Berkeley, LA, SD Irvine and SB. She emailed all of them, and all refused to take any updates or corrections.
This is literally the response I needed. Honestly, thank you. I agree, we should be proud of ourselves for even being selected for the video interview, and I hope that we’ll end up at Cal, and if not, life moves on honestly it isn’t worth the stress. What bugs me is accepted students who laugh about how they got into MET with a 3.7 GPA and weak ECs and that they didn’t even want MET in the first place and won’t attend, thereby taking spots of people who are more deserving. At the end of the day, it is what it is, and we should just focus on making the most of our last few months of senior year. Thanks so much for this post btw, it really made me feel better about myself.
They are excellent and the professors often teach them as a labor of love and with genuine interest in the subject. It’s also invaluable to have small class instruction and discussion as a freshman, and in something as important as written communication. My daughter is a third year in media studies. I think she waived half of the college writing requirement, and so took one semester class. It set her up very well for success in her upper division social science and humanities classes. I’m a writer and I saw a massive improvement in her command of language and structure, rhetorical sophistication and ability to cite text. It’s disappointing to see STEM and other students disparage the requirement; they too need to write well. Anyway, my d and her friends all enjoyed those clssses.
i thought UCSD was also considered top notch in bioengineering, cognitive science, marine science etc. i am also surprised that it is not considered more desirable than UCB and UCLA. the location of ucsd is also amazing.
