<p>Who’s going to be a part of TSP this year? I know I am :D</p>
<p>What’s TSP?</p>
<p>Transfer Summer Program</p>
<p>I believe it’s a 3-4 day camping trip filled with orgies, marijuana abuse, and older UC students acting as your parents, I mean, guidance counselors.</p>
<p>it’s NOT 3-4 days
it’s actually 6.5 weeks of taking classes at ucla :P</p>
<p>It a great way to get acclimated to UCLA… plus if you study its a great way to start the fall quarter with a great GPA</p>
<p>@Dagoberto </p>
<p>I passed on taking TSP classes at UCLA.</p>
<p>I think I’ll be fine with acclimating to college life at UCLA in the fall quarter with all the other transfers. :D</p>
<p>@Cayton not all of us can be bosses like you. X_X (lol)</p>
<p>I also passed on TSP 2 years ago… I have regretted it ever since. but you cant turn back time…</p>
<p>@Dagoberto </p>
<p>Aww, you flatter me. :P</p>
<p>Why do you regret passing up TSP?</p>
<p>because I would have started the fall semester with a 4.0 GPA, would have made my life easier applying to scholarships, interships, research opportunities…</p>
<p>The only reason I turned down TSP is that is biased towards the humanities and social ‘sciences’(lol)… none of the classes really applied to my major. Then Again the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) has a bias towards North Campus majors (but that is the topic of another thread)…I didn’t know the impact GPA plays a role in opening doors…</p>
<p>Hmm, I may well regret not taking classes in the summer, but I suppose that making mistakes like this is part of the learning experience.</p>
<p>@Dagoberto, how is the AAP program biased towards north campus majors?</p>
<p>@Cayton Many reasons…</p>
<p>1) AAP is located in Campbell Hall (North Campus), as they say in Real Estate… Location,Location,Location</p>
<p>2) Most of the full-time staff comes from North-Campus type backgrounds… I wont 100% blame this on AAP since most STEM majors are not interested in working in education (dont know why)</p>
<p>3) AAP has the McNair Scholars program… <a href=“http://aapucla.com/mentoring/mcnair-research-scholars-program/”>http://aapucla.com/mentoring/mcnair-research-scholars-program/</a>
named after famed astronaut Dr. Ronald Ervin McNair.
this program is geared towards research in the social sciences… Even-through Ronald Ervin McNair groundbreaking reseach at MIT dealt with LASER technology (Phd physics major). A research program for URM’s named after Dr. McNair is more appropiate STEM research…</p>
<p>4) There is way more tutoring for "North-Campus’ subjects.</p>
<p>The list can go on and on… there is also exist a bias at AAP towards people that come in as freshman… so as a STEM transfer student I got the double whammy…</p>
<p>again… Im not trying to Bash AAP, I benefited greatly from the program. I just think that north-campus majors benefit more from it.</p>
<p>it benefits North Campus majors? Lucky me then lol</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s basically a mini burning man @burntcorpse </p>
<p>To be fair… they are tryin to burn in an enviromently safe manner (jk)</p>