I would be so down. But I have to volunteer at cal poly.-. Just let me know if anyone here is hawt
And to tether off what umberial just said, yeah math is usually just focused on itself with maybe applications to one thing at a time. But humanities requires a multicultural and cross disciplinary approach to understanding. Scientists are great mathmeticians. Which is why they spend their days in a cellar crunching numbers. Humanists are out in the world making differences on a much larger scale. #CHASSISNUMBER1
@uchopeful414 - I’d also be happy to promote the availability of your couch/living room to anyone at Highlander Day who may be interested - but I will need a 20% referral fee (just off first month’s rent).
I can understand Precalc or any higher level of math if this was for the B.S. degree in Psychology - but this is for a B.A. - for instance, UCI’s B.A. program for Psychology only requires Statistics.
Ha ha, @Eterion, your hustle is respectable.
This is my last plug about math.
While it’s true you won’t need algebra in everyday life; my math teacher debated this extensively. Math in itself is a language, just like you learn any foreign or native language to communicate. Except you use math to communicate through the sciences which are each based on each other.
Math > Physics> Chemistry> Biology> Psychology> the rest
Just don’t approach it in hate, doing so will continue to make the rest of your classes feel like an eternity. The only reason you need precalc is to have the LOGIC of making sense. Then you go off and do stats or math closer to your respective field. The variant here is what school you choose to go and what they offer, are they more hands on or theoretical.
Declined
Computer Science
GPA is a 3.70 have all available pre-reqs but one Physics class
Will have IGETC done by the end of spring.
I also TAG’ed to UCI.
Applied to UCI, UCR, UCSB, UCD, and UCSB.
Accepted! FINALLY
My bad UCSC also. Not two UCSB haha.
@kamiture not sure if you are talking to me. I don’t need pre-calc. Not a part of my major. I will say I really and truly do not believe that math is like a language. I have yet to find math as easy as learning a language.
“I know enough math to take care if finances. However, I do not understand why higher level math is necessary. I have a math based learning disability and I have been put into a system that is literally set up to watch me fail. It is fine to be bad at humanities, but be bad at math? Wow, you’re an idiot then. Humanities are important in a very global sense. Math has specific focuses. Humanities had taught me much more about people, communications, and how to be a decent human being than math will ever do. Higher level math should not be a requirement if your career doesn’t involve it. There should be a math for life course.”
I have to disagree with you on this one. Your major is not what you are supposed to be, if that makes sense. You are not expected to attend college and just know one thing pertaining to your major. You’re SUPPOSED to be well-rounded (i.e. - know a little bit about the humanities, sciences, and mathematical subjects). Your learning disability, forgive me, should not be an excuse as to why you do not do well in certain courses.
Mathematics is very relevant to everyday life, but if you are not willing to recognize or appreciate this, that is on you.
Accepted! Yay! =D
Major: Business Administration
GPA: 3.86
IGETC: Will be completed by end of Spring
Prereqs: Will be completed by end of Spring
TAG: Nope
Accepted: UCSB, UCR
Rejected: -
Pending: UCD, UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI
So I noticed on my GROWL financial aid report it says in bold red letters “Please accept or decline your awards by May 1, 2016.” But as a transfer we are supposed to have until june 1st. So if we take until june 1st are we going to get no work study or institutional aid? This is real important for people looking to hear from places like Davis that don’t send out acceptances until the end of april.
I (think) got accepted to UCR today! I honestly haven’t checked since… March 22 because UCSB was my first choice and I got in. I’m a psychology major, and I have a 3.2 gpa. For anyone wondering!
Good luck to everyone waiting<3
No, I’m just saying it in general. The consensus on this thread was getting disheartening.
@UCLAFFF I never said I that I shouldn’t be a well rounded student. Nor did I use my learning disability as an excuse. In the current system, people like me are at a disadvantage.Many community college students are stopped in their college journey simply by algebra (Attempting to find the article I read about this, will edit later). A math learning disability makes this issue even more severe. I do not use my disability as an excuse, I work with it as best I can. I can guarantee you that I essentially bled a vein to get through my algebra classes. When I failed, I looked up what had worked for other people with my learning disability and found that online class worked for many people, so I tried it and found much more success, I went to tutoring, asked the instructor for help, and even though it takes me triple the time to do homework compared to my classmates, I did it.
But in the case of math, I personally believe that not everyone has to learn math the same way. If a class was offered that taught math for people who don’t learn math in a way that is, simply put, mathematical, then rates of passing a math class would improve. No lie, the only way I actually began to succeed in math was to find context, look up the history and the WHY of math. I do not say that I am put into a system that is set up to watch me fail simply because of my disability, I say the system is set up to watch people fail because it has no room for differences. I work best when I can use words. People say to use word problems, yet this doesn’t work in context to what I find easy to understand. What helped me to really get algebra and is slowly helping me understand statistics is simply the WHY. Why do I have to do it this way, why does this particular formular work the way it does? I really do believe that math is essential for day to day life, but the way it’s taught, and the options we have is not for everyone. There should be a mathematics for life course. The closest i’ve seen, and really liked and been able to grasp, were things like unit prices, interest rates (i.e. how much you put in and how much it will grow in X amount of years) and things involving measurements, logarithims in real life applications, and so on. I really liked physical geography because the formulas had a specific application to the real world. Plug in the number, get how an actual weather system or weather phenomenon works.
Anyway, what i’m really trying to say is that math doesn’t allow for people who aren’t math-minded. If we taught a higher level mathematics class that approached math in a way, for people who are not STEM majors, in a way that approaches math holistically and with more real-life applications, that I think it would work well for a lot of people. The closest I have seen is a math for liberal arts majors, but in a lot of cases it isn’t college transferable, even though many catalogs list it as being such.
I was just accepted!! I was so scared ahh
Major: Psychology
GPA: 3.15
IGETC: Will be completed by end of Spring
Prereqs: Will be completed by end of Spring
TAG: No 
is anyone else still waiting for news from UCI for psychology and social behavior?
@kamiture I feel you. Like tl;dr really, but I just don’t like the SYSTEM. I think math is important, just not how the system has it currently. I get really annoyed about it, especially when people are like “Don’t blame your disability.” which I hear a lot. No, it’s a big part of the problem. I literally can’t trust the numbers I write down due to my brain and hand not working together. IT’s a pain to have to quadruple check every thing, and I mean everything. I didn’t get diagnosed until I was 20 and was told repeatedly i just need to try harder throughtout school, but all the resources I found just DID NOT work.Once I knew what the problem was, it was really a matter of learning how to learn. With a toothpick. and a big rock in the road. slowly but surely. 
@PassTheSushi Congratulations! What school is your first choice?
I’m a psych major and still waiting on UCSC, UCSB, UCM, and especially UCI 
@umberial At the moment, I’m not sure! I’m torn because of my major. I’d really like to get into a business school but unfortunately the competition is crazy for Berkeley’s Haas and Irvine, so I’m thankful I got into Riverside’s business admin.
I’m leaning towards SB because of the econ/accounting major and the Big 4 is always scouting around the area. I’m keeping my options open though! It’s too early to tell.
@thecuteoneishere (lol your username) congrats! Is UCR your first choice? A lot of people seem to be really into irvine or SB for psychology.
@PassTheSushi that’s awesome. You will have somewhere to go fo sho, which is a big help in the rest of the wait process. xD
Accepted!
Just found out this morning, it must have changed sometime between 6 and 8 this morning I was starting to get worried since I didn’t have the best stats
Major: Global Studies
GPA: 2.8
IGETC: Will be completed by end of Spring
Prereqs: Will be completed by end of Spring
TAG: No
My GPA dipped the last two semesters but I talked about it in my personal statement (I’ve had to work three jobs due to unforeseen financial hardships, AND still take at least 12 units each semester)
I was hoping to get into at least one UC so I wouldn’t have to pay for the deposits or fees until the beginning of the fall semester :-bd