ALL UC MEGATHREAD 🐻🐮🐴🐻🐱🐶🔱🤠🐌 (2022-2023)

[zealous sinew]

yea it does, but im international so idk why

[tender elm]

https://news.yahoo.com/uc-applications-slow-down-fall-143044853.html

Only 900 seats swapped for instates

[hollow patrol]

Plus 4,200 new seats I think, but yeah.

[tender elm]

Rip OOS

[regal torrent]

this could be good for me but rip oos

maybe we'll even see acceptance rates rise

[frank ridge]

oof

[hollow patrol]

I'm really worries about the Cal l&s major admit change too. Didn't apply for CS but econ is still pretty bad from what I understand

[frank ridge]

Econ is right under EECS for competitiveness, but that was last year

direct admit ought to change thigns

[hollow patrol]

Ubdeclared is that high? Huh

[rigid birch]

kind of a stupid question but does this also affect int'l applicants or only oos?

[hollow patrol]

Both I imagine

[regal torrent]

internationals were the steepest drop

[tender elm]

both

[regal torrent]

in state stayed flat which seems to imply that oos dropped too

[rigid birch]

well, fuck

[regal torrent]

uc schools only offer financial aid to in state students

[worthy tangle]

Wait why is this a bad thing? Less competition is better no?

[regal torrent]

it's bad for oos because they are getting told to get bent

[tender elm]

im in class gtg

[zealous sinew]

at least internationals r safe 🙂

anyone got anything yet?

[lucid bane]

nope

[jagged wind]

nope

[stiff scaffold]

nope

[midnight kernel]

nope

man i sure do hope i get into ucsc

[frank ridge]

nope

[warm burrow]

Hi

[dim sinew]

Updates anyone?

[vagrant briar]

It snowed over there didn’t it

Someone on the Reddit said they had power outages last night

So maybe that affected stuff

[regal torrent]

intls are not safe

rather intls have it the worst

[tender elm]

It did snow

I saw it on the ucsc tiktok

i forgot i followed them lnao

[eager badger]

btw UCSC decisions when

[tender elm]

they'll prob start rolling em out next week

[eager badger]

they said end of feb

oh yeah ig that is next week

[quiet night]

I'm worried af now lmao

[young shale]

yep😭we got more funding n the government wants us to stay in cali so

[quiet night]

I just need to get into davis...

if I get into that I'll be alright

get me the fuck out of ohio

[vivid shell]

do ucs release decisions on the weekends

[zealous sinew]

no

[tender elm]

Nope

[west sorrel]

Usually Friday

[edgy kestrel]

when is LA coming out?

[tender elm]

Prob the 17th

[edgy kestrel]

oh 😭 okay 3 weeks till i get rejected then

[west sorrel]

Anyone know Santa Cruz and SB dates?

Santa Cruz said “by march 20” but it’s usually earlier

[zealous sinew]

by march 15

[tender elm]

https://askmssun.com/uc-freshman-application-timeline/

Scroll down to march

It shows u all the dates from last year

[modest mural]

Wb riverside

[tender elm]

It says it

Click the link

[modest mural]

Oh

[zealous sinew]

@tender elm do I need to satisfy the Entry-Level Writing Requirement if I end up going to UC?

[tender elm]

you will

but its simple

i didnt have it satisfied, but once u enroll u just take a placement test

its called the AWP Analytical Writing Placement Exam

[zealous sinew]

does it happen internationally?

[tender elm]

everyone who enrolls needs to satisfy the ELWR

so with a qualifying SAT or ACT, AP Lit/lang score, or the placement test

[zealous sinew]

yea, I took the SAT, but since I cant speak english, I got a 630 on english portion and i need a 680

[tender elm]

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/elwr/

these are the details

[obsidian moon]

Anyone got idea for the exact result day for UC this year?

[ivory glade]

depends on the uc

[stiff scaffold]

Most UCs come out in waves don't they?

[ivory glade]

Thursday - 30 March 2023
12:00 AM - 11:54 PM | UC Berkeley (RD)

[tender elm]

no most of them release on a set date

we dont know the exact dates

[regal torrent]

ucsd for example always the 3rd friday in march

at like 4pm

[bitter zephyr]

Not necessarily, I got my decision on Friday, March 13th, 2020

I remember the exact date cause it was super significant for me and the day that changed my life for the better

UC Davis that year was on Thursday, March 12th

[regal torrent]

it's always a friday in the middle of march yah

somewhere in the 10s

[bitter zephyr]

oh yeah

I get a lot of emails pertaining to welcome days on my school emails now

means admission date is coming soon

[regal torrent]

are they gonna like announce it

[bitter zephyr]

Well not necessarily

I knew last year's admit date cause my professor was an AO for the school of engineering and he told us

but I don't have that prof now so idk

I just know admit day is soon cause I get a lot of emails pertaining to whether I want to volunteer at admit day celebrations this year

[regal torrent]

lemme know when you have advance intel

[calm atlas]

UCB for the win

[bitter zephyr]

maybe

I have some business with the student services center at UCSD sometime soon

maybe I'll let you guys know if I can find anything

[calm atlas]

Damn congrats 😍

[bitter zephyr]

fwiw the student services center at UCSD is also home to the undergraduate admissions office

[calm atlas]

The only date that I remember significantly changed my life for the worse

[regal torrent]

can you physically pull up and ask questions i wonder

[bitter zephyr]

I don't think you can do that

I mean you can pull up and ask questions pertaining to admissions policies and stuff but I don't think you can ask directly when the admit date is

last time I had business with the student services desk pertaining to this kind of stuff( I was a volunteer worker at the AO my freshman year), I had to show my ID and all

[regal torrent]

damn tell them to accept me alright

[bitter zephyr]

well what's your major and college lol @regal torrent

[regal torrent]

oooookay well here goes

computer engineering > applied math
muir > sixth > warren

[bitter zephyr]

1st major is CE?

damn that might be hard lol

CE/CSE/CS/ECE/Math-CS/DSC are some of the hardest majors to get in at UCSD

[regal torrent]

i am so hoping that if there isn't room they give me a shot at applied math

i really wanna go

[bitter zephyr]

I understand

I was in your shoes at one point believe it or not

[regal torrent]

ucsd admits to the university first so they're a bit more lenient than say ucla

[bitter zephyr]

Applied math is cool. I have friends who do that

[bitter zephyr]

admit rates have been falling though

we are the second most applied school in the UC system

[regal torrent]

my san diego region hs sends a decent chunk of kids every year
but yeah i'm not too happy about declining acceptance rates

[bitter zephyr]

yeah that's a problem

though we are building 8th college and new transfer housing for more students, demand far exceeds supply

[regal torrent]

admittedly there are far more applicants with better qualifications than me

[modest mural]

Wb pure math

[bitter zephyr]

doesn't mean that you won't get in

[regal torrent]

do you imagine a decline as steep as last cycle's

[bitter zephyr]

people apply for different majors

I know ChemE majors who are regents scholars and I was a pretty average student in HS

[regal torrent]

mfs be getting rejected ucsd accepted ucla or rejected irvine accepted uc berkeley
i expect the unexpected

[bitter zephyr]

yep

I got waitlisted UCI/SB/Berkeley and rejected LA back when I applied

direct admit to Davis and SD

eventually got into UCI and SB but rejected Berkeley

screw you Berkeley

[bitter zephyr]

depends on how many people applied

the numbers aren't out yet

[regal torrent]

they are

[bitter zephyr]

oh

[regal torrent]

slightly fewer than last year by about a couple hundred

[bitter zephyr]

I think we may take in more people this year due to 8th college

though I think it'll still be around 25-26% acceptance

[regal torrent]

do you think that 24% is going down or up

oh i see

[bitter zephyr]

slight up

[bitter zephyr]

Pure math is a large major

you should have better chances than say Engineering

[regal torrent]

man just put me to sleep for 3 weeks so i can know my fate

[bitter zephyr]

technically UC's come out next week

[regal torrent]

yeah

[bitter zephyr]

but ok sure

[regal torrent]

i'll prob get riverside

[bitter zephyr]

Riverside isn't bad

my best friend from HS rejected UCSD to go to UCR

he's premed

[regal torrent]

ok but that's kinda meta

[bitter zephyr]

I really don't get the hate and disappointment in going to UC Riverside

[regal torrent]

doesn't riverside have a med school with priority admissions

[bitter zephyr]

it's a great school if you give it a chance

[bitter zephyr]

yes

that's why he went

low competition

UCSD can get hella competitive with Med School apps

[regal torrent]

ez (relatively) path to an md

compared to whatever the hell happens here

[bitter zephyr]

I think you'll get into a good UC @regal torrent

if your grades are good

[regal torrent]

i believe it, for now

[regal torrent]

top 3%

[bitter zephyr]

then you're pretty good

[regal torrent]

in uc we trust

[bitter zephyr]

well I already trusted UC lol

[regal torrent]

in uc i trust

[bitter zephyr]

yes

that's more like it

[regal torrent]

@tender elm

[bitter zephyr]

damn I feel sad now

[tender elm]

let there be light

[bitter zephyr]

my time at UC is coming to an end

just 4 more quarters + summer session left

[tender elm]

aww

ngl the quarter flew

[bitter zephyr]

this quarter was meh for me

better than last quarter for sure

[regal torrent]

4 years is the blink of an eye isn't it

[summer chasm]

OMG

[tender elm]

?

[bitter zephyr]

I don't want to leave UCSD 😦

beach was amazing

on campus life was amazing

I got the best group of friends I could ever ask for

[summer chasm]

Are the ucs coming this month

[bitter zephyr]

March

so in like a week yes

[regal torrent]

is it particularly difficult to make friends at ucsd? i've heard things

[bitter zephyr]

well it wasn't super hard, it just happened

I had a "friend" in fall quarter

no friends in winter quarter

and I met my current batch in spring

[regal torrent]

i got a buddy there right now he says that oftentimes people are too busy to really socialize

[bitter zephyr]

yeah it happens

[tender elm]

i feel that

[bitter zephyr]

I met my batch when I was eating alone at a dining hall and someone tapped my shoulder

[tender elm]

honestly wish i had a group

[summer chasm]

Is uc Davis better than Berkeley for cs

[bitter zephyr]

turns out we were in the same major and same classes and we just started hanging out

we didn't fully click until 2nd year

[bitter zephyr]

you could join us, if you could find us 😉

but it'll happen

trust me

[regal torrent]

ion wanna end up looking for hs friends

no sireee

[bitter zephyr]

you don't or you do?

my college friends aren't the same as my HS friends

[summer chasm]

Are y’all in the same high school

[bitter zephyr]

I already graduated HS lol

like 2.5-3 years ago

C/o 2020

[summer chasm]

Oh

[regal torrent]

ion = i don't

[summer chasm]

Mb bru

[bitter zephyr]

I'm in my 3rd year of college

[bitter zephyr]

I don't get all you Gen Z speech

[summer chasm]

What college

[bitter zephyr]

CSU La Jolla

[summer chasm]

Colarado?

[ivory glade]

never heard of it

[bitter zephyr]

California State University, La Jolla

that's where I go

[summer chasm]

Oh nuce

[regal torrent]

really? it originated in this server iirc

i mean that's how i found out about it

[bitter zephyr]

I want to see how long it'll take @summer chasm to realize my joke

[regal torrent]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/lh3yi6/watch_out_guys_not_all_text_messages_are_from_bots/

from then on i started saying "ion"

[bitter zephyr]

and if he can figure out where I actually go for college

[summer chasm]

?

Is csu not a school

[bitter zephyr]

CSU is a branch of schools in CA

CSU La Jolla doesn't exist

[regal torrent]

this age-old a2c meme

[bitter zephyr]

CSU La Jolla is a joke for UC San Diego

[summer chasm]

What college are you in the

Oh

[bitter zephyr]

cause UC San Diego is in La Jolla and we like to joke around with our neighbors down south in San Diego State University

SDSU is the true Cal State San Diego

[ivory glade]

^

[bitter zephyr]

yeah it's a great school

[ivory glade]

🙏 i get aid

[bitter zephyr]

are you in state?

[ivory glade]

nooo

so sad

[bitter zephyr]

then it might be difficult unless you qualify for FAFSA or something(oos)

gg if you're international

[regal torrent]

i'm an instate hopeful, please put mom and dad's tax dollars to work

[ivory glade]

so many cogsci students at sd

[bitter zephyr]

yeah most go to Cog Sci-ML

mostly full of CS/DSC rejects(joke)

[regal torrent]

cs rejects go to math-cs

you see i think if i don't make ce i might switch to math-cs but idk if i wanna sacrifice that much of my dignity

[bitter zephyr]

yeah it's either Math-CS, Math-Computational, or Cog Sci- ML

DSC is about as hard as CE/CS to get in

[regal torrent]

applied math is based but i would need to go to grad school

[bitter zephyr]

Math-CS doesn't do a lot of CS but good luck

you could always minor in something like DSC

my friend is doing that rn

[regal torrent]

i don't mind a bit of math

actually math-cs is mostly math lol

[bitter zephyr]

I'm Engineering lol

[regal torrent]

i don't mind a lot of math

[bitter zephyr]

we do too much math

[bitter zephyr]

Honestly, I just see the Math-CS majors get memed on the UCSD class of 2024 discord

[regal torrent]

if i switched to math cs i would never admit it

"what are you studying" "ummmm math"

[bitter zephyr]

well a girl I know is doing Math-CS

[regal torrent]

the only girl in the whold program

[bitter zephyr]

but yes, the UCSD survival handbook does say that you should never disclose that you're Math-CS unless you want to shred your dignity

[gilded rain]

how well do cs majors match up with the stereotypes in your opinion?

[bitter zephyr]

rule number 141

[bitter zephyr]

very much

they're the ones we like to shred on while making memes

[gilded rain]

oh geez

[bitter zephyr]

yes, we engineers are a interesting bunch

[gilded rain]

i would like to believe that they aren’t social inept creatures that solely speak in code

[regal torrent]

in high salaries we trust

[bitter zephyr]

you'd be mistaken

very much mistaken

[gilded rain]

😭

[bitter zephyr]

I've hung out with one too many CS/CE/ECE majors to know the truth

[regal torrent]

if the bar is that low, then it's my time to shine

[bitter zephyr]

you'll be grinding on hw so much that your hair starts greasing up and smells

there's a reason why Geisel 2nd floor reeks

[gilded rain]

i gotta resolve myself for when i get to school and realize that so many of my fellow asians are gonna be cs

[bitter zephyr]

and it's because of a certain major on their computer

[bitter zephyr]

I'm a non-CS Asian lol

but yes, you better wake up

[gilded rain]

you’re doing god’s work

non-cs asian gang rise

[bitter zephyr]

yes I said I was non-CS but I never said I was non-STEM lol

[gilded rain]

that’s fine lmao

[bitter zephyr]

the apple never falls too far from the tree

[gilded rain]

i’m gonna be a physics major

so like

[regal torrent]

i assume you guys are gonna count ce, goodbye

[gilded rain]

basically a hair away from being cs lmfao

[bitter zephyr]

I thought Chemical Engineering was far away from being CS

[gilded rain]

hybrid moment

computer engineering no?

[bitter zephyr]

little did I know that literally every problem I solve requires some angle of MATLAB

[regal torrent]

yeah

because i love coding

but i also fw electronics

[bitter zephyr]

go to ECE lol

oh wait, CE basically does the same thing as ECE except for a few EE classes

[regal torrent]

both cse and ece offer ce

[bitter zephyr]

yes

[regal torrent]

this confused the hell out of me

[bitter zephyr]

I know

[gilded rain]

friend’s older brother is a physics major, apparently matlab is the death of him 💀

[bitter zephyr]

MATLAB kills

but there's a program much worse than MATLAB

[gilded rain]

this is like the one thing that i’m dreading as a prospective physics major

the fact that i’ll have to learn basic programming anyways

[bitter zephyr]

Oh you're going to face a lot of pain lol

[regal torrent]

i got respect for physics mfs

y'all smart

it scares me

[bitter zephyr]

Mechanical Physics is fun af @gilded rain

Electricity and Magnetism is my bane

I got an A in MechPhysics while I got a B in E&M

screw you E&M

[gilded rain]

i’m interested in nuclear physics bc i wanna contribute to the future of energy

[bitter zephyr]

I barely tried in MechPhysics

[gilded rain]

but i fucking hate chem

[bitter zephyr]

ahahahah I hate Chem too

[gilded rain]

🥶 sigma student

[bitter zephyr]

BioChem is my poison

like BioChem is my first and only C in college and life

[gilded rain]

i couldn’t either lol

[bitter zephyr]

hell I had fun in OChem but BioChem was just not it

[gilded rain]

man i’m not looking forward to my chem classes in college

i should have a more forward looking mindset, but chem just aint it

[bitter zephyr]

you won't do much Chem in Physics I feel like

outside of maybe Chem 130/131/132

@gilded rain are you just doing plain Physics or are you adding a specialization?

[gilded rain]

for now i’m just gonna do general physics yeah

i’ll explore for the time being

[gilded rain]

and see what catches my attention

and then if smth does, i’ll pivot and specialize

and if things rlly hit rock bottom, i guess i’ll become an engineer or programmer

or worse, a business major

[bitter zephyr]

I am a Management Science (Econ+ Finance) minor at UCSD @gilded rain

so there's that

[gilded rain]

lol

[regal grove]

funny but mean

[bitter zephyr]

Engineering + Finance

[gilded rain]

i saw a vid on ig of a guy walking into a business lecture at ucsd

[bitter zephyr]

who would've known

[gilded rain]

recorded the projector

they were learning how to calculate slope

lemme see if i can find that vid

[gilded rain]

at least it’s not business administration

i feel like ba kids are stereotypically the ones with cushy jobs lined up at their dad’s company after graduating

@bitter zephyr https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjEdCn6JQwJ/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

[tender elm]

ive seen this kid a few times on campus

he's internet famous

[bitter zephyr]

fun fact, the guy who shot the instagram is my roommate and friend

great to see other people know him

[bitter zephyr]

he's my roommate lol

I got pics with him and stuff

[tender elm]

bruuuuv

[bitter zephyr]

yeah he shoots stuff in the apartment

[tender elm]

thats crazy

[bitter zephyr]

yep

[bitter zephyr]

yeah I kid you not, I have his personal Discord and stuff

damn it's a small world

[tender elm]

He's A-List

[bitter zephyr]

yeah

you may see me in some of his videos

cause we shoot together

here's a pic with me and Nathan and stuff

I'm in the center

[tender elm]

what a guy

is this the natural history museum?

[bitter zephyr]

yes

[tender elm]

i thought

i was there like 10 years ago

[bitter zephyr]

yeah I'm from LA

gotta explore SD lol

[tender elm]

sam

[bitter zephyr]

but yeah being roommates with Nathan is my claim to fame lol

I literally talk to him on a daily basis and have even argued with him lol

I live a pretty boring life lol

[gilded rain]

oh shit you’re roommates with nathan?!

damn

[bitter zephyr]

yep

I am roommates with Nathan

[gilded rain]

wild, man

[bitter zephyr]

it's a small world lol

[gilded rain]

it truly is

love his vids bashing on majors

those are great

[bitter zephyr]

yeah they're interesting to put it lightly lol

[young shale]

What's the structural engineering major like at ucsd

[bitter zephyr]

they're kind of the forgotten ones lol

like we forget they exist

[young shale]

NAWWW😭I went to ucsd last week and don't they have a whole building

[bitter zephyr]

the big names are CSE/MAE/BENG/NANO/CENG lol

[young shale]

With those 3 broken pillars in front of the building

[bitter zephyr]

they share it with NANO and CENG lol

[young shale]

Damn rest in peace😭

[regal torrent]

i hope you guys like the beach because it got boring for me

i've been way too many times

[bitter zephyr]

and NANO/CENG takes 2/3 floors lol

[bitter zephyr]

I mean my lab is next to the beach lol

it doesn't get boring for me

[young shale]

💀why did they leave the doors open on the weekend bc like I could have gone in and stolen some stuff

[bitter zephyr]

but yeah it's understandable

[regal torrent]

having grown up in the area mhm

[tender elm]

ive stll never been

not even in the past

[bitter zephyr]

lab hours for me are during golden hour so they're pretty good

[young shale]

going to sd from the oc is a shock💀💀the skid row is so bad

[tender elm]

skid row is LA

[bitter zephyr]

I've walked through downtown SD lol

[young shale]

downtown😻😻

[bitter zephyr]

it's a lot safer than OC/LA

lmao

[young shale]

ur so brave wtff

[regal torrent]

ok pranav you gotta take him

[bitter zephyr]

dude I traveled through Greyhound lol

[tender elm]

ive walked thru skid row

too

[young shale]

waiting for the trolley and 3 different homeless people came up asking for a lighter to smoke weed or smtn

[tender elm]

sounds ab right

[bitter zephyr]

the Greyhound stop at SD is at 12th and Imperial lol

it is hella dirty/sketch but I walked through

[regal torrent]

the sd trolley is something else lmfao

[bitter zephyr]

just gotta keep eyes all over

[regal torrent]

there be csgo knife fights on the trolley

[young shale]

it is the bus is worse tbh

[bitter zephyr]

I usually use it between UTC and UCSD lol

it's super safe up there

[young shale]

everyone smells like piss

[bitter zephyr]

going to downtown can get sketch

[bitter zephyr]

I travel on the 201/202 and it's not bad

[young shale]

YEAA UTCC>> the Santa Fe stop is so pretty

[gilded rain]

oh yeah what is public transit like in sd? if i happen to attend, i wanna know if it’s viable to go back and visit friends in oc

[bitter zephyr]

public transit is pretty nice

[regal torrent]

one time my friends got off the trolley and the door closed before i could and the trolley just kept going

[bitter zephyr]

much better than LA

[regal torrent]

scariest shit ever

[gilded rain]

sweet

[young shale]

only way is through the pacific Surfline (train)

super nice but it's like $27 one way

[bitter zephyr]

I bought an Amtrak ticket

Surfliner is great

[regal torrent]

if you're a minor all sd public transport is free

so i be pulling up everywhere

[bitter zephyr]

well if you're a UCSD student, public transport is also free

Fall through Spring quarter

[young shale]

yeep get that one app and request a youth account like a day before u to sd

go

[bitter zephyr]

nah I just use a student account

it's free

for me too

[young shale]

ucsd seems pretty exiciting why is it known as uc socially dead😭

[bitter zephyr]

it's not lol

UCSD is pretty alive

[regal torrent]

i actually really like to visit when i have the time because i just step out of the mall and take the blue line

[bitter zephyr]

we're not crazy like UCLA though

[bitter zephyr]

yep the blue line is the lifeline

[regal torrent]

and bam hop off the trolley at the engineering dept

[bitter zephyr]

I take it all the time to transit between UTC and UCSD

my apartment is halfway between UTC and UCSD so I just take the 201/202 bus loop

[young shale]

oh yea what's the construction for

[regal torrent]

damnnnn you're a commuter AND you got friends? king shit

[bitter zephyr]

on the weekends, I go to UTC for lunch, take the trolley down to UCSD, grind for a bit at Geisel and then go home on the bus

[bitter zephyr]

it's a 10 minute commute

[bitter zephyr]

new Transfer housing

[young shale]

damn what about that stage area it was taped off too

[bitter zephyr]

that's the Epstein amphitheater

kinda like the meme of campus cause of the Epstein name and the fact that we never really asked for it to be built in the first place

[young shale]

YEA WHYD THEY NAME IT THAT

😭could have been anything else

[bitter zephyr]

idk donor money

[young shale]

but nope Epstein was the best name they had in mind

[bitter zephyr]

money talks

[young shale]

icic best uc campus fr

[bitter zephyr]

yeah we are the best

cope and seethe UCLA and Berk

to a lesser extent, UCSB

[young shale]

ucla was ok😭too many stairs never seen ucb tho

heard it's horrifying at ucb

[bitter zephyr]

UCB is just too hilly + homeless people all over the place

if you think UCSD has too many homeless people, you aren't surviving Berkeley lol

[young shale]

yep ucm has a really nice campus too but it's in the middle of nowhere

[regal torrent]

the thing about ucsd is it's so damn big

[bitter zephyr]

it's actually not super big lol

all your classes are on west campus

[young shale]

Fr go to uci if u don't want to see any homeless people 😻

[bitter zephyr]

15 minute speedwalk cross campus

[regal torrent]

whatif you live in 7th

[bitter zephyr]

7th to Revelle is a mile

7th to Warren is also a mile

Measured on my Apple Watch

[regal torrent]

if i get put into 7th istg

[bitter zephyr]

I used to live in 6th

[regal torrent]

i ain't walking a mile to class

[bitter zephyr]

I've walked lol

great exercise

[young shale]

everyone must be super fit

[bitter zephyr]

I walked from Revelle to 7th(Rady) before

speedwalked at that too

I've even walked from 6th to Scripps lol

[frank ridge]

lmao CSU La Jolla

[regal torrent]

my brother actually got an interview for rady

i hope he gets in

[bitter zephyr]

that's easily 1.5 miles one way lol

down a massive hill

[bitter zephyr]

I take classes at Rady

Rady lecture halls are amazing af

hands down best lecture halls on campus

[regal torrent]

ranking wise ucsd rady is ehhhh a good ways down

but rankings suck

[bitter zephyr]

rankings suck lol

my professor taught and did research at Harvard Business School ok

we have world class faculty at Rady

Forbes and Fortune 500 companies come down to interview us

[regal torrent]

now i really hope he gets in

[bitter zephyr]

yeah rankings really don't do justice for our school

we have world class faculty all over

some of my profs have worked for the US Government and other high level jobs before coming to teach here

[regal torrent]

in general ucsd is up there

in terms of name recognition

[bitter zephyr]

my Physics prof did his BS at MIT, MS at Caltech, and did his postdoc research at CERN with UCSD

[regal torrent]

it's not the 2nd most applied to university in america for nothing

[bitter zephyr]

man was cracked af

[regal torrent]

but judging by rankings

ucsd business is crazy slept on

[bitter zephyr]

yeah we're often overshadowed by schools like UMich/Berk...

but we are pretty good

[tender elm]

My mgt prof worked at Enron LMAO

If u know what that is…

[alpine dirge]

why am i worrying even though im still a soph

[bitter zephyr]

you still have way too much time lol

[tender elm]

A2c can be toxic

Esp for sophomores

[bitter zephyr]

best you could do now is to build those extracurriculars and make sure that your grades are the best they can be @alpine dirge

[alpine dirge]

my grades kinda suck
do they primarily look at soph/junior years?

[bitter zephyr]

I believe A2C shouldn't be allowed for sophomores and stuff lol

[alpine dirge]

bc i kinda farted first sem 9th

[bitter zephyr]

yes

[regal grove]

uc does not care 9th grade

[bitter zephyr]

I had bad 9th grade grades too

[tender elm]

Not really

[alpine dirge]

ah

is 1 B soph like bad

[tender elm]

No

[alpine dirge]

is taking precalc h soph bad

[bitter zephyr]

@alpine dirge UC does care in the sense that they want to see improving grades

@alpine dirge No and No

[tender elm]

Can’t get anything lower than a C

[frank ridge]

I had 8 B's in 9th grade and got into Berkeley EECS

[bitter zephyr]

1 B in soph year won't kill your chances

[alpine dirge]

what about courses in general

[bitter zephyr]

and H precalc in 10th grade is also pretty advanced

[alpine dirge]

wait fr

[frank ridge]

I did this

[alpine dirge]

cuz like 30% of people at my school r taking bc rn

[frank ridge]

Just take hardest the school has and you're good

[bitter zephyr]

UC cares about whether you took the hardest classes you can

[alpine dirge]

and theres like 3 people who alr like full time community

college*

[bitter zephyr]

@alpine dirge dude I think you have a serious case of impostor syndrome

don't care about what others do

that's what I tell to everyone who comes up to me worried about college apps

[alpine dirge]

literary my school 💀

[frank ridge]

^

[regal grove]

how so

[frank ridge]

Pranav is 10000% right

[regal grove]

they said they dont care i thought

but they still see them

i thjink

[alpine dirge]

is aerospace a hard field to get into

[bitter zephyr]

Looking at my admissions file, my AO just read my 10th/11th grade grades

[frank ridge]

UC doesn't care about 9th grade as long as it wasn't < B's imo

[alpine dirge]

and is it bad i did not take physics yet
(taking chemh rn but prob phys h next year)

[bitter zephyr]

9th was just used to see if I improved

competitive

[tender elm]

Yea

[alpine dirge]

wait as in hard or easy (im guessing really hard)

[bitter zephyr]

it's hard to get into

[frank ridge]

Dude you're good

[regal grove]

wait can u request to see ur admissions file to the university u attend

[bitter zephyr]

yeah

FERPA

[regal grove]

so u see how you were judged basically

[bitter zephyr]

yeah

[frank ridge]

Oh shit

[regal grove]

so how were u judged

[bitter zephyr]

yep

that's all they tell you

how many points you got on your app

[frank ridge]

I'm definitely asking to see my file then lol

[bitter zephyr]

and the closer you get to 1 point, the more chances you get at hitting an admit

[regal grove]

so what is the minimum for an admit

[bitter zephyr]

submit a FERPA request with Berkeley on your admission profile and you'll get it

[regal grove]

like a 0.8

[bitter zephyr]

my score was around a 2.5/5

[frank ridge]

hell yeah

[bitter zephyr]

then again, I had my SAT/ACT scores to back me up

[regal grove]

wait when did u apply

fall 2020?

[bitter zephyr]

my grades weren't super great but I 99th percentiled both SAT and ACT

[bitter zephyr]

yes

[alpine dirge]

wait is this equivalent to 2 classes (1 year) for soph year

[bitter zephyr]

yeah

[regal grove]

yeah i think i glad sat doesnt matter anymore

cuz mine is pretty mid lol

[alpine dirge]

ah shit then my gpa is much lower than i thought

[frank ridge]

UC's only use the capped GPA to determine eligibility

[bitter zephyr]

so was mine

[frank ridge]

In reality they use you're weighted uncapped

Your*

For admissions

[bitter zephyr]

my UC GPA was like a 4.16 or something like that

[alpine dirge]

wait oh

[bitter zephyr]

true weighted was like 4.3

[frank ridge]

your*

[bitter zephyr]

@alpine dirge I suggest you get off A2C though

[frank ridge]

^

[bitter zephyr]

it's not good for people like you

[frank ridge]

Don't stress yourself out

Just do the best you can and be passionate about what you do

You'll be fine

[bitter zephyr]

this

[alpine dirge]

k

one last question

is this the "capped" weighted or uncapped

[gilded rain]

uc admissions files are pretty bare bones tho, no?

[frank ridge]

Pretty sure that's capped

[bitter zephyr]

yeah they are

[gilded rain]

compared to private unis

they don’t rlly provide much

[bitter zephyr]

I was just looking at what basis I got admitted

[gilded rain]

ah gotcha

[bitter zephyr]

all I got was like how many points I got to get admitted

and the fewer points you have, the better

[regal grove]

can u see ur admissions file for uni u dont go to

but u got admitted

[gilded rain]

no

[frank ridge]

But don't worry about that

fr just do the best you can and you'll be fine

[bitter zephyr]

you get ranked between 1-5 and the closer you get to 1, the more likely you get in @gilded rain

at least that's the process at UCSD

[regal grove]

so what exactly is in an admission file then

like notes and stuff

[bitter zephyr]

yeah

[gilded rain]

interesting 🤨 my mind would think that more points means better

i feel like it would be more of a checklist system

[regal grove]

well 1 means the top

[frank ridge]

Maybe UCSD admits people in a more traditional matter like Stanford

[regal grove]

like first place

[frank ridge]

Grading you 1-5 on different things and then giving you an overall score

[gilded rain]

but then again, that’s why i’m a high schooler and they’re the aos

[bitter zephyr]

this is exactly how it works

my overall was like a 2.5/5

which is an admit

I think 3/5 is the lowest they'll go for admits

3.5 maybe waitlist

4-5 most likely rejection

[regal grove]

i wonder how a harvard admission file would look like then because there are probably a ton of cracked applicants but they simply dont have enough space so it would probably be hard for AO to see who to reject

[worthy tangle]

What percentage of determining admission would you guys say that grades have a say in

[frank ridge]

Stanford is similar. People say 2-/3+ is borderline at Stanford

[bitter zephyr]

I'd say 50% for UC

[frank ridge]

Stanford grades from 1+ to 5-

[bitter zephyr]

now that they took away the SAT/ACT

[regal grove]

how important would u say state residency is then

[gilded rain]

i’m still so surprised uc doesn’t take letters of rec

[frank ridge]

Very

[regal grove]

yay

[frank ridge]

Sometimes they ask for it

[bitter zephyr]

very little

[frank ridge]

if you're a borderline candidate

[gilded rain]

for supplementals tho

[frank ridge]

Well if you're oos you are fricked

[bitter zephyr]

mostly for demographics + tuition

[gilded rain]

ik berkeley asks for it

[frank ridge]

And bay area kids get rekt by UC's

[gilded rain]

but just in general, the fact that they don’t have that as a requirement baffles me

[bitter zephyr]

maybe near the end when they're trying to fill in major quotas that'll play a role

but in the overall app, it's very little

[regal grove]

this year they said they would admit more in state i think

cuz apps dropped

for int

[frank ridge]

Yeah

[frank ridge]

I heard that if you're in state you're competing with your school but if you're oos, you're competing with the whole oos pool

[bitter zephyr]

idk about that statement though

[dim sinew]

Did UCSC come out?

[bitter zephyr]

I know they allocate an AO based on region but idk how true that statement is

[regal grove]

no

[frank ridge]

its just a rumor so

[dim sinew]

Ah rip

[bitter zephyr]

yeah idk

[frank ridge]

Probably wrong but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked similar to that

[regal grove]

u play brawl stars im guessing

[dim sinew]

Lol yeah

[young shale]

ohh that would make sense like every year the same amount of kids get into the ucs

[zealous sinew]

@tender elm Is it easier to transfer from an in-state Community college to a high-ranked UC or transfer from a low-ranked UC to a high-ranked UC

[tender elm]

CA CC to UC everyday

UC to UC transfer is always difficult

Bc ur already at a 4 year, they don’t really want u to switch out

[alpine dirge]

i have had 2 teachers from berkeley and they are like the worst teachers

my english teacher last year
and my current chem teacher

and yes i dislike their class bc i got b's

[regal torrent]

my math teacher went to uc berkeley but transferred to ucsd

which is pretty based imo

[sterile horizon]

Do yk when the first uc results will be

[sterile horizon]

They asked for me

[regal torrent]

next week

[sterile horizon]

Do yk which schools

I’m so nervous

[regal torrent]

riverside, santa cruz, merced

safety uc's come first

[sterile horizon]

Do yk when ucla and Berkeley might be

[regal torrent]

ucla dropped on friday the 18th last year so by that logic it'll be friday the 17th

berkeley confirmed march 30

[sterile horizon]

Why so late 😭

[regal torrent]

they said it in an email check yo inbox

[sterile horizon]

I don’t get all the emails my friends been getting idky

[regal torrent]

that's a problem

that email shoulda gone out to literally everyone

[sterile horizon]

Wait nvm I got it

I didn’t get the ucla one

But I was able to log into my portal

Do yk when Irvine might come out

A bit before ucla?

[tender elm]

might be the same day as ucla

uci, ucsd, and ucla

maybbb

[regal torrent]

that's what happened last year

just sit tight, you'll get your decision

[sterile horizon]

Alright. This waiting game is rlly nerve racking

[regal torrent]

i feel you

i legit only applied to uc's

[sterile horizon]

Same

[regal torrent]

acceptances are on the way, trust

[sterile horizon]

I didn’t apply to a single csu

[regal torrent]

are you instate?

[sterile horizon]

Yh

Hbu

[regal torrent]

mhmmm

instate gang rise

did you read the article? apparently they made more space for us this year

[sterile horizon]

Ucla last year with 9% acceptance is crazy though

[sterile horizon]

No buts that great news

[young shale]

😻 love live laugh gavin newsom and funding public eduation

bro really made it easier and cheaper to go to instate college

[modest mural]

All decisions for those schools?

[sterile saffron]

saving the best for last ig

[west sorrel]

@bitter zephyr what do you think about the study abroad opportunity at 7th?

The majority of my friends put 7th 1st or 2nd for that 💀

[tender elm]

what college r u from pranav?

[bitter zephyr]

Sixth

[bitter zephyr]

I guess it's pretty good

but I'll ask my friend who's in Seventh

[tender elm]

Gawd damn ur lucky

[gilded rain]

i mean in the context of the general uc application, not supplemental requests or anything else of that sort

[autumn trellis]

Does anyone know when the UC decisions come out? I know UCB comes out around 3/30 but I'm not sure about the rest

[bitter zephyr]

they all happen sometime during the month of March

as for when, who knows

Berkeley is the only one that releases its admit date

[lethal quarry]

Berkeley W

[tender elm]

is it really a W
all the UCs have until march 30th
and UCB chose the last day lmao\

[bitter zephyr]

lmao

Berk sucks

[lethal quarry]

nonono berkeley is truly a W :)

[dim sinew]

berkeley is the best UC?

lmao

[ruby vapor]

nah Berk sucks

[tender elm]

fuck UCB

[civic verge]

Cal*

[tender elm]

Cal State

[civic verge]

Sorry you don’t attend the flagship university of the UC system.

[tender elm]

ucsd tritons rise ✊

[bitter zephyr]

Ok Berkeley simp

Berk students have no sense of fun

at least we have beach

[civic verge]

Beach?

You mean the beach a 20 min walk away?

That smells like shit cause of the sea lions?

[civic verge]

UC Socially Dead

[bitter zephyr]

yeah why don't you actually try to step on campus sometime

[civic verge]

I have

[bitter zephyr]

you know, there's something we have that Berkeley students don't

the ability to walk to class without getting hounded by homeless people every time I step outside

[civic verge]

Ever taken MTS?

Worse than any homeless people in Berk

[bitter zephyr]

yes lol

Press x to doubt lol

lived in LA before

you cannot get worse than that

SD homeless are actually tolerable

Bay area and LA ones aren't

[civic verge]

Imagine going to a college ranked in the top 20 for ugliest campuses

[bitter zephyr]

I wonder if #1 is Berkeley lol

cause when I went on campus, it just looked like a bunch of building blocks

[civic verge]

Berkeley is beautiful

[bitter zephyr]

Man has a serious case of Berkeley Goggles

[civic verge]

The only buildings I found nice at UCSD was Sixth

Everything else was just awful

[bitter zephyr]

yeah we don't talk about Marshall

[civic verge]

Oh yeah

[bitter zephyr]

Hmm I wonder what the best building on Berkeley campus is

[civic verge]

Forgot to mention how some of you guys lived in tents

[bitter zephyr]

the Campanile lol

[bitter zephyr]

ah you came during the strike

I see

[civic verge]

Nah I come every now and then

[bitter zephyr]

at least we don't protest every night like what Berkeley is lol

[civic verge]

That doesn’t impact students

Living in tents does

[rare carbon]

Ucla ❤️

[civic verge]

Unless you need a GSI

[bitter zephyr]

Hmm lets see

Berkeley has much higher Cost of Living

[civic verge]

For a much higher quality of education

[bitter zephyr]

ehhh I think all UC's provide quality of education

[civic verge]

Quality, sure, but not equal quality

[bitter zephyr]

I used to think like you but my friend at UCR is doing much better than I am (bang for buck wise)

[bitter zephyr]

not exactly true

cause no one f'ing cares where you went for undergrad when job hunting

it matters to what you bring to the table(skill wise)

[civic verge]

For certain disciplines it does

[bitter zephyr]

Engineering doesn't matter

[civic verge]

Nobody is hiring a CSU San Marcos grad over a Berkeley grad

[bitter zephyr]

Ok I guess the campus stereotype of Berkeley students being elitist pricks is the truth

[civic verge]

True, especially CS

CS is just leetcode

[civic verge]

That’s UCLA

[bitter zephyr]

yeah glad you realized lol

I mean I see more Berkeley students raid our UCSD subreddit than UCLA students

and the ones who do are pricks so...

[civic verge]

Probably the same dude with dozens of accounts

Or might not even be a Berkeley student

Nobody has time to do that at Berkeley

[bitter zephyr]

yeah you guys are too busy grinding stuff out for HW/midterms to have fun lol

chad quarter system vs virgin semester system

[civic verge]

Quarter system is so stupid

Tests every week

[bitter zephyr]

so what, always on your A game

[civic verge]

No time for fun

[bitter zephyr]

fight or perish

[civic verge]

If you fall behind you’re fucked

Semesters allow clutching

[bitter zephyr]

it's a dog eat dog world out there

you gotta fight or perish

[civic verge]

Not to mention how competitive UCSD is

Might be worse than Cal

[bitter zephyr]

we are the second most applied school in the country lmao

more people apply to us than Cal

[civic verge]

Doesn’t matter, Cal is the flagship

[regal torrent]

yeah, a sinking one

[bitter zephyr]

I think UCLA became the new flagship a long time ago

Berkeley is flagship in name only

[dim sinew]

there's something else you don't have tho, a better CS program

Don't get me wrong UCSD certainly is a top 10 CS program but just not comparable to Berkeley in terms of CS

[dim sinew]

No it doesn't, my sister went there and I've been there at least 50 times

[ruby vapor]

it sucks

[dim sinew]

says the guy who has never been there

💀

👍

[static citrus]

at least ucsd students are taught by real professors not grad students

(berkeley pls accept me tho)

[dim sinew]

Are you saying grad students are dumb?

[static citrus]

nah but i would rather be taught by professors and be able to meet with them after school

so i can develop a relationship and get a rec letter

for grad school

[dim sinew]

I mean sure but that's such a small negative

[static citrus]

yea ig

[dim sinew]

I think Berkeley is more worth to go than San Diego if you get Berkeley

[static citrus]

i would still go to cal but its not much better than ucsd

[dim sinew]

unless you are from San Diego and you wanna stay close

[dim sinew]

Well Idk what your major is

but for CS, imo, I'd say there is more of an advantage going to Berkeley

[static citrus]

cs

[static citrus]

btw would u go to ucla over berkeley?

for cs

[dim sinew]

Gotcha

[dim sinew]

Nope

[static citrus]

aight

[tender elm]

guys

[static citrus]

i would be happy to get into either lol

[dim sinew]

I agree lol

I'm prolly not getting into any of the three...

[static citrus]

😭

uc be too tuff

[dim sinew]

benz

[dim sinew]

😦

[tender elm]

join ppt night

[dim sinew]

Good thing for me is I'm instate this year

so 900 extra seats?

pls put me in one of those lol

[dim sinew]

Why

[tender elm]

bc im presenting

[dim sinew]

Oh

[lethal quarry]

did anyone apply to UCLA alumni scholarship

if so, did u need to create an account or smth

[sterile horizon]

Thx for reminding me I need to do that

And idk for ur answer

[sterile saffron]

LMAO same

[lethal quarry]

lol i figured it out

y do they make u apply b4 ur admitted…

[dawn zealot]

how do you do this

[lethal quarry]

they sent an email, go to the link and make an account

[sterile horizon]

Cus u can go to another school and still get the scholorship I think

[lethal quarry]

oh shit rly 💀

[regal grove]

Does Santa Cruz come out this week?

[spice pike]

i hope so 🙏🙏

[sterile saffron]

yeah theyll start releasing either today or tmrw

[past root]

sourcE?

[sterile saffron]

check your admissions portal

it says there

[gilded kindle]

when do other UCs come out then

approx date

[past root]

thanks!

[sterile saffron]

berkeley releases march 30

other than that, no idea

[gilded kindle]

i see

thanks

[vagrant briar]

UCSC: late feb-march, waves
UCR/UCM: early march
UC Berkeley: late march
UCI: march, waves
SD/LA/SB/Davis: mid-march

• UCSD/LA have come out on the same day for the last 2 years, both times unannounced. Year before SD was exactly a week before LA

[regal grove]

ucr and ucm scheduled to also come out this week i believe

[gilded kindle]

ahh i see

thankss

[regal grove]

https://askmssun.com/uc-freshman-application-timeline/

this was from last year

scroll down to march

and u will see when they released decisions last yeart

[idle garnet]

looks like some people got their decisions for UCSC.check Reddit

[stiff scaffold]

UCSC CAME OUT

[jagged wind]

ope

[past root]

atooo

got in for cs

no message about honors college or schoalrship tho

[jagged wind]

same

[past root]

does that mean i didn’t get anything

[jagged wind]

honestly probably :((

lowk thought id get a scholarship from ucsc

[past root]

bruhh

same

[jagged wind]

hey at least we got in !!

[past root]

yup yup true

but without honors or scholarship i doubt i’ll go tbh

[jagged wind]

same

[zealous sinew]

for UCSC?

[zealous sinew]

did you get an email?

[stiff scaffold]

No I checked randomly

[zealous sinew]

where does it say?

[stiff scaffold]

Application Status and Info

And Admissions Messahes

[zealous sinew]

oof mine just says this

can you send a screenshot of how it looks like?

[past root]

mine says contract, acceptance, major update, and then application received

[stiff scaffold]

Rip

[past root]

i had 3 unread

i think only comp sci majors are out

and prolly only acceptances

cause it’s first wave

[stiff scaffold]

Yea that is possible

[jagged wind]

nah i got into math

i wish we got scholarship lowk but i’m so happy i got in

[zealous sinew]

so if I didn't get it, does that mean i got rejected?

[vagrant briar]

Why rip

[jagged wind]

maybe later for scholarship

[stiff scaffold]

O woops

Wrong message

[spice pike]

stop my heart dropped when i saw that some ppl got in 😭😭

[stiff scaffold]

Also I meant rip

To reply to

EKmaster

Cuz it did not come out for them

[covert dock]

Got into Santa Cruz for applied math early

[whole whale]

W

[spice pike]

stopp im so scared do u think their gna send more later?

[jagged wind]

same omg slay