UCSD TAG: Major Prep Unfinished

anavera
Thu, 04 Jul 2013 05:36:24 +0000

Hello!

So my situation is this:

I plan on doing TAG for UCSD (my one and only chance!) and initially I was going to apply as a Linguistics major, but I recently heard about the new Public Health major that is going to be launched at the school in the coming Fall and realized that that is something I’m very much interested in studying. So my question is this: what are my chances of getting into the school if I apply as a Public Health major, despite the fact that I will only have taken about half the major prep classes by the end of Spring 2014?

I am nearly done with the IGETC; I just need one humanities course and a physical science + lab, which I plan to complete by Fall. I am in the process of doing the honors program (I will have the required 15 units by Spring) and my GPA is currently 3.91 (ASSIST Certified Classes only). It’s 3.81 w/ Non-ASSIST Ceritified Classes included.

I’m thinking maybe just applying as a Public Health major in my TAG app and listing Linguistics as my second choice when I do the regular UC app. (Which brings up something about the UC app–I had a counselor tell me that there is just one app for both TAG and the regular UC transfer. =/)

Also, I’m a little unsure about whether I’ve satisfied the two-course English and one-course Math requirement. I took AP English and AP Stats, both of which I 3’s for. And I also took English 1B last Fall. Is that enough to fulfill the requirement?