I applied for a global health major- my personal statement was on public mental health. I am missing one pre-req, 2/3 I have down. Got regents into UCI with honors but no reply from ucsd.
major- psych, alternate is anthro (for UCLA, UCI, UCD-tag, UCB)
tap- yes
honors- yes
major pre-reqs- all done, currently finishing two for my alternate major
miscellaneous-
-VP of honors society
-volunteer intern at UCLA hospital for 3 years
-currently working at clinical psych’s office 24hrs/week (help with administering diagnostic tests for personality disorders etc etc)
-worked as student tutor in learning disabilities center
volunteered in Pets for Vets (finding service dogs for veterans)
-one of 23 ambassadors for the dean (competitive, get a scholarly stipend every semester)
-Miss Santa Monica title holder (worked with the boys and girls club promoting drug abuse prevention and awareness)
-co-founder of a UCLA charity group for fundraising art therapy projects for cardiovascular trauma patients (people who almost died of heart disease, recovering after intense surgery), worked with chief of cardiothoracic surgery
-volunteered at a nursing home for the memory impaired
-volunteered at VA hospital, guided dance therapy research groups
–>total: about 315 hours of volunteering, 275 from UCLA hospital, 40 from pets for vets, VA, and the boys and girls club.
High school activities:
-placed as finalist at ballet competitions
-won numerous piano festivals (Bach, Schubert, Chopin)
-varsity track
-captain of poetry club, we placed at state competitions
-ballet and piano for past 15 years
Personal Statement: wrote on how I developed skills of resilience and unconditional work ethic through my experience with pain. My grandma raised me so when she passed of a cardiac arrest 3 years ago while regressing in Alzheimer’s, my life felt like it split in half below my feet. Then in the second prompt I went on a nerdy-ass tangent of what I want to pursue in public mental health (want to study epidemiology of psychiatric disorders among childhood and adolescence) and how having a podcast program at the nursing home helped me learn of the comorbidity (simultaneous disorders) of neurodegenerative diseases (like alzheimer’s, huntington’s) and impulse-control disorders.
*******Also, does ranking the schools give them an option to consider you for placement into another school or is it just solely based on major and then they try to throw you in wherever? Does having numerous schools and us placing preferences give us any leverage whatsoever?
@grimmghost jesus christ why would you type all of that out…this is a message board for other random ass teenagers not admissions officers at schools lol
@grimmghost That’s…A LOT of ECs! I heard UCSD doesn’t care about ECs and barely cares about your essay, but if you have a 3.84 for global health then you’re probably fine especially if you got regents for UCI.
@Brian1990 I don’t think anyone here can tell you what your chances are of getting in if you just say you got a 4.0. If you have all your prereqs done then I guess you’re pretty much guaranteed to get in, but you probably don’t if SDSU said no.
@nepusr I hate to break it to you, but OOS+impacted major means that you’ve got a lot going against you :/. I think your chances are pretty slim for comp sci tbh, but maybe you could get in undeclared and switch into comp sci.
@Brian1990 As long as you have your pre-reqs done, you should gain admission. Don’t be discouraged so much by SDSU; they are a different beast. People get accepted to Berkeley and rejected by SDSU. SDSU is very particular about enrolling residents of the San Diego area (not sure if this applies to you).
Hey guys I know Im touring myself in doing this this but could someone please chance me
GPA-3.7
coming from SBCC
junior transfer
major- poly sci, law and society
IGETC- completed
62 transferrable units
completed all prereqs except for 1
extra-curriculars- Poly sci club, geography club.
essays- kinda good
so when I sign in to my application, i can go through the housing tab-> off campus housing->ucsd students and sign in. i am also able to list myself as an available roommate. is that a glitch or something?
I can also do that. I can list myself as a roommate. I called UCSD admissions and housing. Housing said you have to SIR before you can list yourself as available, and the admissions had no clue what I was talking about. I don’t know if this is the infamous “housing trick” or not, but let’s hope this means we got accepted. Past people say the housing trick works. @usubstitution@PantherDuck
@grimmghost We’re using UCSD’s past threads as an indicator for when the decisions will be released. The second batch, historically, has come out five weeks after the first, which indicates that the next batch will be this friday.
I’m quite certain that the UCSD email isn’t indicative of anything. I asked 5 of my friends at my CCC, and 4/5 had the email. 5/6 if I include myself. Their stats aren’t great either.