<p>I was looking at Assist.org to check out the pre reqs for communication studies at UCSD, and I found out that there were exactly no pre req at all for me to take. I entered different community colleges as well and they were all the same. On assist it says that the courses will be taken at UCSD, does that mean as long as you have finished IGETC you can apply for communication? How does it work at UCSD?</p>
<p>Basically that’s true. Got into ucsd as a communication major this fall. You don’t need any pre requisites and pretty much none of your communication classes transfer over. Just get your IGETC done and you’ll be fine.</p>
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<p>If you transfer in as a Comm major and have completed IGETC, do you still need to complete the individual college requirements? Also, any suggestions as to the best college for a transfer comm student who will not live on campus? Thanks</p>
<p>Yes, even with IGETC every one of the six colleges will still have individual GEs that they require from you. It depends on what college you join though that will affect the GEs needed. The good news is with IGETC most colleges only require 2 or so more GEs for graduation. As a freshman, the college you joined determined where you lived and some other aspects. However as a transfer (and you’re living off campus too), your college choice won’t change anything for you socially or activity wise except your GEs. Personally I would put Revelle last on your list as their GE requirements are the worst and every UCSD student i met regrets choosing Revelle. Muir or Marshall will give you the easiest GEs and the last 3 are about the same however don’t choose Warren either if you don’t want science classes as GEs. Besides that, everything else concerning your experience at UCSD will be dependent on you! Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks for the response shibbiman, that helps!!</p>
<p>@shibbiman
Revelle shouldn’t be considered the worst college for GE’s by default and everyone doesn’t hate it. I’m in Revelle and I had only 1 extra GE to complete. It can suck for some majors, but if you’re in one of the sciences you can actually transfer to Revelle and not have any GE’s to take if you’ve taken a foreign language or can fluently speak another language. Most of Revelle’s GE’s overlap with the lower division sequence for majors like Biology, Chemistry, Engineering so it isn’t bad at all because you already have to take Calculus, Chemistry, Biology, etc. As a humanities or social science major, like for Comm, Revelle probably isn’t a good choice. </p>
<p>Also about Warren, Warren only requires you to choose 3 courses outside of your discipline. So for communications that means 3 courses outside of the social sciences. That doesn’t automatically mean hard sciences. As a Comm major she’d be able to choose 3 classes in the Arts / Humanities majors. So those are departments like Visual Arts, Theatre, Philosophy, Literature, History, Religion, and various cultural studies – or anything in the sciences if she wanted. </p>
<p>@Sockhermom
Also, one college to look into is Sixth, which I feel like rarely gets mentioned. Sixth has some very interesting ways you can fulfill their GE’s and as a current UCSD student had I know that, I actually would have chosen Sixth college as my first choice when I applied. Sixth has two requirements – CAT 125, which varies by quarter but it’s really just a public presentation/communication course and a “practicum” requirement. The practicum requirement can be anything from studying abroad, independent study/research, internships, various 4 unit upper division courses, etc. So, the practicum requirement has a lot of options and interesting ways in which it can be completed and many students fulfill it by participating in things they already planned to do like research, internships, study abroad or one of their upper division major classes.</p>
<p>The only advice I’d give your daughter as a Comm major is to probably avoid Revelle, unless she has a real passion for science. Other than that she’ll probably be fine with the GE’s at any of the other five colleges. I would say just in terms of flexibility if she wants to have a lot of input in picking her GE’s Sixth, Warren, and Marshall have the most flexibility for transfers and allow you to pick from various classes or extracurriculars(Sixth). I’d follow those by Muir, often regarded as having the easiest GE’s for freshmen, but IMO the previous 3 are more flexible for transfers. Last would be ERC which only requires two courses but there really isn’t much flexibility. You’re required to take their MMW 21-22 sequence, which I’d say are more Humanities classes. If she enjoys Humanities and studying about the world then it might be a good choice for her.</p>
<p>Last, I recently answered a thread about the same question that it might benefit you too look at:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1554988-ucsd-tag-ranking-6-colleges.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1554988-ucsd-tag-ranking-6-colleges.html</a></p>
<p>A lot of it is a repeat of what I typed here, but I think I briefly touched on the social aspects that being in a particular college can affect, which really isn’t much like shibbiman mentioned.</p>
<p>dilapidatedmind-I just emailed this info to her–she if filling out her app now and was totally confused as far as colleges go–she is NOT a math or science person so her aim is to avoid any more math or science but I don’t think that is possible. She took math through Stats, and for science Physical Geography/Lab and Biological Psychology but I guess no matter what college she chooses she will need a few more. Thanks</p>
<p>^Sorry if I wasn’t clear earlier, but she should be able to avoid taking math and science courses after transferring with IGETC as long as she doesn’t pick Revelle. No matter what college she picks, she’ll have a few extra GE’s to complete, but for most of the colleges those don’t have to include math and science courses. I tried to paraphrase the requirements in the previous post and in the link to the old thread I answered. But here are also the direct requirements on each of the 6 college websites that lays out exactly what their GE requirements are for transfer students. </p>
<p>ERC - [General</a> Education Requirements for Transfer Students](<a href=“http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu/academics/gen-ed/transfer-ge-req.html]General”>http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu/academics/gen-ed/transfer-ge-req.html)
Marshall - [Transfer</a> Requirements - Thurgood Marshall College :: UC San Diego’s Third College](<a href=“http://marshall.ucsd.edu/academics/requirements-transfers.html]Transfer”>http://marshall.ucsd.edu/academics/requirements-transfers.html)
Muir - [Degree</a> Requirements](<a href=“http://muir.ucsd.edu/academics/degree_reqs.html]Degree”>General Education Requirements)
Revelle - [Transfer</a> Students IGETC/TAG](<a href=“http://revelle.ucsd.edu/academics/grad-requirements/igetc-tag.html]Transfer”>http://revelle.ucsd.edu/academics/grad-requirements/igetc-tag.html)
Sixth - [Transfer</a> Requirements](<a href=“http://sixth.ucsd.edu/advising/requirements/transfer-requirements.html]Transfer”>General Education Requirements for Transfer Students)
Warren - <a href=“http://warren.ucsd.edu/_files/academic-forms/transfer_ge.pdf[/url]”>http://warren.ucsd.edu/_files/academic-forms/transfer_ge.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thank you, thank you and thank you… I don’t think looked at transfer requirements…just college requirements!</p>