<p>I am hearing sad stories from some junior college students who did not get into UCB-UCLA or Cal Poly. Any good news out there for students transferring to Davis?</p>
<p>I did… I didn’t apply to Cal Poly or UCLA, but I was rejected from Cal for not meeting the english requirement (I thought taking 2 english classes was sufficient, but I needed 3). Strangely, over on the UC Transfer forum some strong applicants were rejected from Davis but accepted to UCLA and Cal.</p>
<p>These are my stats for Cal…</p>
<p>4.0
Applied from: a CCC
Major: EECS
Academics: Missing a major requirement (part of an English series), all other prereqs that articulate are done (only CS61B articulates aside from the core), tons of additional CS classes that aren’t prereqs (shell programming, assembly language programming, C programming, etc.), and a statistics and applied discrete math course that don’t articulate as well
Units: ~100 semester units
EC’s: Working 20 hours/week, robotics/hacking group, engineering/math summer camp for minorities, football/baseball in high school etc.
Essays: 1st essay was super passionate (9/10), 2nd was okay (6/10)
Hooks: 1st gen., low income, and transferring from a low income and underrepresented region of california</p>
<p>For Davis, little is considered aside from GPA, location and prereqs. My GPA is the same for Davis as Cal (obviously), I live within an hour of Davis, and I was missing 3 prereqs for CSE. So… I got in not being all that strong of an applicant. I attend school with a girl that didn’t hear from Davis until the 30th, which is odd considering our stats are pretty similar. I think she got into EECS at Cal though.</p>
<p>I got into UC Davis, Cal, UCSB, and UCSC</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0
Transferring from: Monterey Peninsula College
Major: French
Prereq’s: missing one
Essays: BS
Other: disabled, having to deal w/doctors, physical therapy, etc.</p>
<p>I think I’m going to choose Davis over Berkeley.</p>
<p>I got in as well</p>
<p>GPA: 3.4
From: Santa Rosa JC
Major: Political Science
Prereqs done
No W’s</p>
<p>Didn’t get into Berkeley, so it’s Davis for me :D</p>
<p>Darkstorn - SRJC? I go there for a couple classes 
And going to Davis in the fall!</p>
<p>My friend got accepted into Davis and UCLA :)</p>
<p>I got into davis too. Got rejected from pretty much everyone else so Davis was a surprise.</p>
<p>Where are you all planning to live? On campus or off? It looks like renting a room is almost half the price than living in dorms. But dorms are prefurnished and closer to the already huge campus.</p>
<p>What are your guys’ thoughts?</p>
<p>I’m going to Davis in the fall, I got accepted as a Psych major. I’ll be living off campus. I sign the lease for my condo this Friday! It’s in North Davis which is a pretty popular area to look for an apartment because of the frequent bus lines and close shopping centers. I’m still not sure about the whole castilian transfer housing thing that everyone on here is talking about. If it is true and your only dorming option as a transfer is Castilian I’d honestly look into off campus housing. Castilian is a part of Cuarto which isn’t even on campus, so for the person who mentioned living on campus because of its proximity to everything that wouldn’t be the case. While it isn’t a mile away it would probably be a few minute bike ride to campus, though I believe the bus line stops outside. There are also plenty of apartment complexes surrounding campus(some closer than Castilian). It also would be cheaper living off campus as opposed to the dorms and apartment living gives you the ability to buy and cook your own food and eat when/what you want.</p>
<p>I got into Davis and Merced but am choosing Davis for the quarter system. Oh, got in as an Anthro Major from Folsom CC</p>
<p>Accepted.
Choosing Davis over Cal because of the environment.
Psychology
GPA 3.97 overall (stupid dance class)
GPA 4.00 major
All prereqs done.
Planning to change into the Psychology BS (not a big stretch)</p>