UCSD Psychology Honors Program Needed for Grad School?

UCxDreamer
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:35:56 +0000

@oongaboonga‌ yeah I’m pretty mad at myself for not taking some of those courses this year. I took two psych courses in part because I needed one course per semester that I actually enjoyed for my own sanity, and in part because I didn’t understand that lower division psych courses would get me absolutely no closer to my degree and were basically a waste of units. I figured out that meeting the basic upper division and lower division requirements for psych along with the two other courses needed since I’m in Thurgood Marshall, I could technically take 3 courses per quarter if I do summer session. I expect I’ll take 3 this fall and 4 per quarter after that, so I should be able to graduate on time. It definitely still sucks though, I would love to just focus on psych and not worry about calc and bio. I considered looking into doing some of those at my CC to lessen the workload, but I’m worried that would look really bad on grad school apps and it would be weird taking a semester long course while the rest of my courses are on the quarter system.

The only other school I’d really consider is UCSB, but UCSD’s psych program is so much better that it would probably be a poor decision made for the wrong reasons. Have you decided on UCSD for sure?