All UCs (2024-2025)

[dry pollen]

Also like undeclared undeclared not oh I’m undeclared my first year in berk cause they make us be

[slate mountain]

hi

[midnight vine]

hope for the best, expect the worst

or whatever the saying goes

[midnight vine]

yeah i got that

[slate mountain]

🦾

[karmic rock]

hii. good luck with nursing in California

[slate mountain]

idk maybe my teachers will write an awesome recc letter that carries me

[somber plaza]

[karmic rock]

nursing in California is tough but working there is so nice with the unions

[pale spire]

i have to say cal bear is one of my favorite mascots he's so silly

[crystal yoke]

what thats kinda goofy

do yk when the 2024 data is put in

[midnight vine]

ikr i love oski

[midnight vine]

probably later this month

[crystal yoke]

was that when the fall 2023 was put in last year

cuz i am not ready to see my school's numebrs 💀

[midnight vine]

idk tbh 😭

[dry pollen]

Good for questbridge kids

[slate mountain]

is it because theres too many ppl going for nursing

tempted to do a career switch

[crystal yoke]

actually might be april

the 2023 numebrs were put in april this year

[pale spire]

why are my most similar dialect in texas

[karmic rock]

just move states

[pale spire]

according to the nyt thing

[latent scarab]

My school has their own numbers but I don’t think they’re accurate 💀

[midnight vine]

bruh

[crystal yoke]

the 2022 numebrs were put in febuary 2023

[pale spire]

@dry pollen @midnight vine apparently not my dialect that gives northeastern because my least similar dialects are new york and philly

[slate mountain]

but i like california

🥹

[midnight vine]

damn

[slate mountain]

i cant imagine working in like

alabama

[midnight vine]

my most similar is durham

🔥

[pale spire]

apparently yall should've thought im texan

[pale spire]

dukie my pookie

[karmic rock]

you can do nursing school in another state and test + get your license in California after graduating

a lot of people do that

[dry pollen]

Dang 😭

[dry pollen]

No you’re too normal for Texas

[pale spire]

HELP

[karmic rock]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-spongebob-nick-nickelodeon-no-im-texas-gif-17195321

[karmic rock]

wait.. I'm from Texas

[pale spire]

the dialect test kinda hard for me though because i use a lot of words to describe the same thing

like i say semi, semi-truck, truck, 18-wheeler, and big rig interchangeably

also i use roly poly and pillbug interchanegably

[karmic rock]

I've never heard someone use big rig

[pale spire]

really?

[karmic rock]

or pillbug

[pale spire]

wack

[karmic rock]

yuh

[pale spire]

they're shaped like pill

[karmic rock]

I call it a semi truck or rarely 18 wheeler

[karmic rock]

I've only heard and used Roly poly

[dry pollen]

🤐

[karmic rock]

[dry pollen]

We say roly Poly

[pale spire]

wack ok pill bug is actually a northeastern thing

im just weird

[dry pollen]

You’re the exception

[karmic rock]

yayy

[slate mountain]

:0 thank u for the advice

[pale spire]

i think the fact some regions of england call roly poly woodlice is horrific

who looks at the sweet little bug ball and goes "woodlice"

like thats messed up

[karmic rock]

what do you call these

[slate mountain]

evenci have no idea what they are

spikey plants 💥💥💥

[karmic rock]

you've never had to suffer stepping on them at your house?? 😮

[slate mountain]

nope

[karmic rock]

lucky duck

[dry pollen]

Oh my

[slate mountain]

what are they help

[karmic rock]

stickers

[rocky halo]

What’s a good college ranking for ucsd for business Econ major

[karmic rock]

some get itchy when you step on them

[slate mountain]

ouuuh

sounds painful

[pale spire]

burrs

[karmic rock]

it is 😔

[slate mountain]

🫵🏻 guess who doesnt have to deal w them

🫵🏻

[pale spire]

stickers???? where are you from

[karmic rock]

texas

[pale spire]

wack

never heard that before

i think as a kid i called them spiky balls which i argue is a better name

[karmic rock]

that's the only name I've heard for them 💀

[pale spire]

ive always called them burs

[karmic rock]

some of the backyards in my area are full of sticker plants

[pale spire]

which now in retrospect may be because the first results for "spiky ball plant" return bur

so maybe i just like

searched it up as a kid and thats how i learne dthe name

[pale spire]

sticker plants sounds so funny to me. just like plants plastered in lisa frank stickers is sort of what im imagining

[karmic rock]

idk the actual name for the plant 😭

what dialect test were yall taking

[pale spire]

they're called burs. like the official name

[pale spire]

nyt

[karmic rock]

oh 💀

[karmic rock]

I don't got that

[pale spire]

you dont need the subscription

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

[karmic rock]

for me it's saying I need it

[pale spire]

what

i dont have a subscription 😭

OH I DO

WHOOP I FORGOT MY HIGHSCHOOL GAVE ME ONE AT SOME POINT

[karmic rock]

damn 😔

[pale spire]

sorry :(

[karmic rock]

I found a way bypass it

[somber plaza]

mad goofy

[slate mountain]

do tell pls

🥹

[pale spire]

slayyy

[karmic rock]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/learning/what-does-your-accent-say-about-who-you-are.html
through that link

my city is orange lol

[slate mountain]

i feel like

its very outdated

2013

[karmic rock]

yea but it's fun :p

[slate mountain]

im no longer a californian

yeehaw

[karmic rock]

it's okay I became from Florida 😔

[night shore]

gg but also la > cal im ngl for some majors

[dry pollen]

It was for undeclared

But yeah fs

And cal > la for others

[night shore]

i’d also say sd is pretty comparable

i wanna see how their ai major does a thing

but we’ll see!

[dense epoch]

It’s gunna shit the first year

[night shore]

yeah agreed

[dense epoch]

I would advise against it cuz ur gunna be like the guinea pigs

[night shore]

especially those who try to transfer it the first year

the articulation is 100% gonna be trash

[dense epoch]

U also won’t know if it will or will not be good without knowing the performance of the graduating classes

[dense epoch]

Def

[night shore]

yeah

there will still be people tho

tbh might unironically tell people to apply ds

and ai

😂

[dense epoch]

Def people going into, but I’d recommend cs or DS

[dense epoch]

Haha sell for them

Kidding don’t do that

[night shore]

i do not recommend ds actually

like unironically

they suffer the issues of a test curriculum

and some institutions just slapped ds on their stats degree name

berkeley is. fine? for what it is

it’s just applied stats with domain emphasis which is why it wokrs

[dense epoch]

True

[midnight vine]

i love the domain emphasis

[night shore]

i mean that’s what ds really is at the end of the day

applied stats

[midnight vine]

ave what should I domain emphasis in

[night shore]

uhhhhhhhh

what do you wanna do

[midnight vine]

funsies

currently im looking at econ

bcuz I have everything else covered

[night shore]

econ cool

i’d recommend it for quant

that or computational

econ also cool for finance

trust fund

6’5

blue eyes

[midnight vine]

real

[night shore]

smrith i believe in you

honestly any domain emphasis is cool i’m ngl

[high bronze]

I’m never doing quant (clip this chat)

[night shore]

but unfortunately my middle name is indecisive

ds minor is coool for what i wanna do (indecisive)

apparently gracie is pinning stuff on users who go to UF in the UF thread so if anyone who’s gonna go to a uc wants to write about themselves i’ll pin it

[high bronze]

I don’t really got much to say as a prefrosh though in terms of experiences at the UC

is it about the application process ?

[night shore]

she just pinned stuff ppl are comfy with answering

[midnight vine]

ooooh I'll do that

[night shore]

yea :) i’ll probably make one too

[crystal yoke]

do tell

i wanna take this quiz

[karmic rock]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/learning/what-does-your-accent-say-about-who-you-are.html

through this link and scroll down until you find the quiz link

[night shore]

wait

wait a second

why are you here

sobs

[dense epoch]

Just minor in cs or ststs

[night shore]

i’m a stats major

so ds minor seems alright

they have data c88c which is only available elsewhere in the cs dept

[dense epoch]

Do cs bro

[night shore]

can’t

don’t feel like risking gpa over physics

[dense epoch]

Physics isn’t in cs? Right

[high bronze]

I don’t think physics is required for CS at Berkeley

For EECS it is since it’s BS

Physics 7a/b

[night shore]

yeah i really don’t feel like applying differently everywhere though

especially with the why major question

[high bronze]

Ah ok

[night shore]

bc then illl have to explain the cs stuff

[high bronze]

gl on ur apps

[crystal yoke]

Who still on UCSD cuz apparnelly someone called on CC and the person said they closing the WL at the end of the month

idk how credible but LOL

[somber plaza]

@dense epoch gl bro

[night shore]

#1207795407002796142 please

Thank you

[sweet citrus]

Uhh we locked that lol

I told them to come here from now on

Aka their respective school

[night shore]

Oh

I did not know that

[sweet citrus]

It was on #📢-announcements

[night shore]

My bad oomfs

[crystal yoke]

its ok loll

[slate mountain]

erm how heavily does uci consider altenate majors

🦕

[night shore]

Depends, but alt considerations are never guaranteed

[high bronze]

I think by a lot. I put CS as my main major, then software engineering as alternate. I got software engineering. But what made it weird was that I got regents lol.

So I got regents but not my first-choice major

Made perfect sense

[night shore]

Yea

If you get admitted and it isn’t your first choice, it’ll usually be your major or undeclared programme

[midnight vine]

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses-majors/berkeley/

[forest grotto]

im debating applying to ucsd for environmental science or marine biology, does anyone know the general pros and cons of the school?

[midnight vine]

fall 24 stats dropped 🙏

[night shore]

https://admissions.uci.edu/admitted/faq.php

Transfer admit rate is pretty high

[night shore]

Cool

[slate mountain]

thank u yalls

🫶🏻

[night shore]

Np :) if you want you can look at the transfer data to see how impacted your major would be (although the rates will be much lower)

[shy saddle]

pros: it's on a coast

[night shore]

@shy saddle oh you know jas?

Just noticed shared mutuals

[shy saddle]

jasbutts or jjasmine?

[night shore]

jjasmine

Former is a crazy name

[shy saddle]

not irl, but we're in the eecs discord

[night shore]

Yea

She’s EECS as well iirc

[midnight vine]

wait which UC alumni are you

[night shore]

Very well known in transfer circles

[night shore]

Probably cal

I think he mentioned it before

[midnight vine]

he should verify

[night shore]

Trol

I would be surprised if he was lying tbh

[midnight vine]

oh i dont mean bcuz i think he's lying i just mean to boost credibility

[high bronze]

Fire

[night shore]

Ohhhhh I see

[shy saddle]

oh there's a verify?

[night shore]

Yea

[dry pollen]

It’s great for marine bio their collaboration w scripps is fire

[night shore]

#🤖-bot-commands message @shy saddle

[midnight vine]

https://discordapp.com/channels/786557653924708373/790757157717016618/1268999388068577291

LOL

[night shore]

Wow

[somber plaza]

so basically it's over for me

ill pray on uci though

[forest grotto]

cool!! i might apply then since im writing the uc app anyway

for environmental/biological majors, is ucsb better than ucsd?

[dry pollen]

I’d say ucsd is better but ucsb has a more diverse range of majors

For example they have aquatic biology and zoology which basically no other UC have other than ucd maybe

[forest grotto]

ohhh interesting i like that

[dense epoch]

UCSD has an overall good and competitive bio program

[dense epoch]

I’d also like to add uc Davis has a good bio program, mainly in the area of veterinary

[forest grotto]

thank you!!

[night shore]

They’re very known for their vet programme

[midnight vine]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-Isg7CPJiP/

uofcalifornia

The UC application for fall 2025 undergrad is now open! Embrace your #bratsummer and get started early! Link in bio.

#brat #college #collegeapplication #universityofcalifornia

Likes

6270

Instagram

so wannabe

[shy saddle]

https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=21&JobOpeningId=71213&PostingSeq=1

should i apply

[midnight vine]

😔

bro wtf is that salary

my fws pays more

😭

[somber plaza]

Just go to uc Irvine and work there ez

[shy saddle]

bruh bout to quit my fulltime and alternate between admission and part time ski instructor
sounds so much better than driving to the office every morning

[dry pollen]

What’s fws

[midnight vine]

federal work study

[dry pollen]

You qualified for it oos?

[midnight vine]

yeah

[slate mountain]

u mentioned u have good ECs and awards

its ok

[dense epoch]

Is this for ur school?

[somber plaza]

no average

everyone

[dense epoch]

For what school

[somber plaza]

berk

[dense epoch]

Well no duh

Gpa will be high there

Just look at ur school king

Don’t look at avg

[somber plaza]

:(

[dense epoch]

Check ur schools avg admitted or percentile gpa. That legit gives u an idea of where u are at

[latent scarab]

Berkeley cares the least about grades anyways

[dry pollen]

Dang I thought work study was through aid

Is it not

[dense epoch]

Man seems like ucsd still won’t send anything

[jade lava]

has no one really been moved off the ucsd waitlist?

[crystal yoke]

Not recently

[crystal yoke]

someone on CC said they called and were told final results at the end of the month

[jade lava]

end of august???

[crystal yoke]

apparnetly yes

are u also on UCSD WL

[jade lava]

yeah

[jade lava]

theres no way

doesnt it say aug 12 on the portal

its getting too late lol

[crystal yoke]

where u commited rn

[crystal yoke]

wait fr? where, inmight be blind

[jade lava]

yeah it says aug 12, if not sooner

end of august would be crazy

[crystal yoke]

screenshot for me the part that said aug12 cuz im blind

[jade lava]

i cant post images 😑

Transfer Waitlist Decision Update - July 31, 2024

Thank you for your patience. While we were hoping to make all admission decisions by the end of July, we need a little more time. We will make all final decisions by August 12, if not sooner.

If admitted from the waitlist, you will receive an email regarding your portal status update and you will have five days from the date of the update to accept the offer of admission through the Applicant Portal.

Visit Frequently Asked Questions to learn more about the waitlist process.

this is copy pasted tho

[midnight vine]

it is lol

[warped dome]

its possible ive seen worse get in

all good yall

[dry pollen]

They gave you aid as an oos???

[crystal yoke]

Oh im not a transfer

so its different for me

Freshman and transfer waitlists are different

[slate mountain]

should i put undeclared or nursing for uci's major
im like 80% sure im not getting in for nursing and im not so confident abt listing undeclared as an alternate major

but if i list undeclared as my major and then i dont get into nursing in my 2nd or 3rd year (assuming i get into uci) then im also kind of screwed

[shy saddle]

Better to be screwed now than 2 or 3 years from now

[warped dome]

just list nursing. you might get lucky who knows

[knotty pebble]

guys, i am so confused

where are you guys finding the info that the deadline is nov 30?

isn't the deadline dec 2? 😕

[rancid grove]

nov 30 was the deadline last year so maybe thats what it was assumed to be this year but instead its dec 2

[knotty pebble]

so the info for this thread is wrong?

[dense epoch]

its decemeber

[tropic minnow]

Its December now, it was November last year but they are giving you guys this year an extra two days

[knotty pebble]

Okay, thank you!

[slate mountain]

okay

[midnight vine]

not gift aid but work study and loans yes

[slate mountain]

WAIT can i ask how work study works
do you get to choose what type of work u wanna do or is it assigned :0

do u get paid

🦕

[midnight vine]

its a form of financial aid so there are some jobs that are only available for work study students, there's a separate portal where everybody who's hiring lists their jobs and you can choose which ones to apply to and where to work and all that and yes you get paid, for uc berkeley its anywhere between $18-25/hr depending on the kind of work

the funds go directly to your bank account but you can choose to put it toward your college

on your end its just like a regular job but on the employer's end, work study kids are more enticing because the federal government pays a portion of your salary so they pay less

[slate mountain]

ohhhh

that sounds awesome

🥹

thanks for explaining

[midnight vine]

no worries!

i learned about a lot of it through a2c lol so happy to give back (:

[slate mountain]

:D

[night shore]

Fyi not everyone will be eligible for work-study

[midnight vine]

the only thing is that you're not guaranteed to get a work study job (at least afaik) so if you dont get a job you're kinda screwed but also there are a LOT of jobs and someone or the other is always hiring so should be fine

[night shore]

Yea ^

[midnight vine]

i think the library has like 500 open positions

which is not a lot if you think about it but yes

[night shore]

In the UC system there will usually be a split of work-study favoured/mandatory jobs while there are other jobs that do not require work-study

[slate mountain]

oh

[midnight vine]

true, but at berkeley you can convert loans to work study so although i was only eligible for $250 of work study, i converted some of the loans they gave me to work study so now i have a lot more work study

[night shore]

Yes 😋

[high bronze]

Fire

[night shore]

Hi oonova

[high bronze]

Hello

I am currently at Knott’s Berry

[tropic minnow]

Good theme park

[night shore]

Fun, hope it went well

[dense epoch]

rejected ucsd

[somber plaza]

NOOOOOOOO

oh well

you're stuck with usc now

[night shore]

Gg sorry

[pale spire]

did ucsd only drop waitlist now what 😭

[night shore]

They be late ab it tbh

[pale spire]

what losers

[night shore]

Fr

[crystal yoke]

its ok me too man

[crystal yoke]

bro i dont get why they ghosted for months when they could just have closed when everyone else did

[pale spire]

dude fr

did anyone even get off the wl this round?

i feel like im only seeing rejects

[somber plaza]

My friend did

[crystal yoke]

what

[crystal yoke]

same

i just assumed this round was like a closing the WL round

[somber plaza]

She got off waitlist

[crystal yoke]

what major

[pale spire]

OH SLAY

ig they didn't keep it open for no reason then

at least

[crystal yoke]

i guess so then

still tho

[somber plaza]

Education

[crystal yoke]

they could have let most of the people off the WL eariler

[crystal yoke]

i havent heard of anyone else getting of the WL so maybe it was a super small wave

[pale spire]

yeah

honestly i just think its annoying stalling out the waitlist THIS long

[crystal yoke]

gives me UCB flashbacks

[somber plaza]

Interestingly so

[pale spire]

like atp most people are like a week from moving in

[crystal yoke]

RIGHT??

i move in like next week

aug15

[pale spire]

yeah

like its so stupid

[crystal yoke]

they could have closed

when every other school was closing

[pale spire]

fr

[crystal yoke]

after a whole ass year

this process is finally over for me

[dense epoch]

Today?

[somber plaza]

Not today

[crystal yoke]

oh

how long ago

cuz we were just talking about today

as in i havent heard of anyone being accepted today

[pale spire]

oh

so maybe it was all for nothing

[somber plaza]

Maybe

[crystal yoke]

perhaps

[high bronze]

USC is great GGs though they made an L choice

[dense epoch]

ty unova, but man stings a bit cuz ucsd was original dream school

[somber plaza]

i remember that

dyt if i start manifesting ucsd today ill get usc

[crystal yoke]

nah after rejection im realizing maybe its for the better cuz quarter system goes quick yk

[blissful zephyr]

wsg

my username is ucsandiego

i am a representitive of the school

[somber plaza]

im going to love you.

[blissful zephyr]

why

[somber plaza]

so i can go to usc

[dense epoch]

yes

[dense epoch]

u fcking betrayed me

[night shore]

UCSD waitlist gone fortransfer too tw

[blissful zephyr]

did u get into usc fish?

[dense epoch]

Ya I did

[blissful zephyr]

honestly W man

usc expensive asf but thats HUGE

[dense epoch]

ty. i remember i dmed u abt ucsd

[blissful zephyr]

all good man

u know i work for the school right

[dense epoch]

Oh really damn.

Why did u have to reject me

[night shore]

Student workers probably aren’t doing ao work

[pale spire]

You do?? Do you do graphic design for them or smth?

[blissful zephyr]

maybe

[pale spire]

Cryptic indeed

[vivid glen]

berkeley or la

[dense epoch]

um how abt no to both

[vivid glen]

nuh uh

pick one

[dense epoch]

get into one first

kidding sorry for being harsh

but me personally ucla

just for the funs

[vivid glen]

not applying 😁

[dense epoch]

bruh

then whyd u ask

[vivid glen]

im just silly and goofy like that

[short furnace]

neither

the best UC #1 ever is UC Davis

[opal igloo]

real

[sly storm]

Is it me or does the UC NPC overestimate the cost of attendance

Like I tried the systemwide calculator and the individual school calculator, and the individual school calculator was showing prices that were literally 60% of the UC NPC

[night shore]

I mean UC COA quite literally comes down whether or not you get certain scholarships and there’s not much to begin with anyway

[dry pollen]

It depends on a lot of other factors like if you’re getting insurance, what dorm, meal plan, etc

[night shore]

Yea this too ^

[short furnace]

yeah exactly

[dense epoch]

Unsure but check to see if they accept by major

Pretty sure it’s in college of computing

But if ur goal is to get into it and tech, id recommend u major in just cs

ic, what specific are u interested abt ux, like ux research

def recommend cognitive science

ux design is more related to psych and a bit of cs, cognitive science combines those together

ucsd and berkeley are best for cogni sci

i do believe informatics is still gud for this then as well

[somber plaza]

ux design mentioned.

this would go with ucsd

[dense epoch]

honestly if u wanna get into graphic design i wud also recommend graphic design if this major is availble

its most likely the best major that will give u the best foundation

ux research id recommend cogni sci tho

[grim dove]

hellooooo

[night shore]

Hellooooo

[covert egret]

https://irap.uci.edu/undergraduate-admissions/

[somber plaza]

wait thats crazy yields

wait why's it harder to get uci engineering as a cali citizen than oos 💀

[grim dove]

How is it there? How are the professors in general?

[covert egret]

There's a select couple of professors (Thornton, Wongma, Shindler) who make up the excellence of the CS program. Some of the other professors are alright and there's a large portion of professors which I would consider bad (poor teaching skills / not rigorous enough)

If you're careful about the professors you select though (aka, selecting the excellent ones), you can cover your entire lower division classes with them and also take the most fundamental upper division computer science courses (aka algorithms) with Shindler resulting in a decently strong base

Professors in GENERAL (all other majors / divisions) I've found to be generally good

[grim dove]

Gotchu gotchu

[covert egret]

I'm definitely extra critical towards the CS department for obvious reasons, but overall for a student who actually tries to involve themselves within the extracurriculars here, UCI is pretty great

[grim dove]

That's good

I'm not applying as CS, butbjus5 wanted to get the gist of things over there

[covert egret]

Oh overall it's fairly decent I think

I don't think you'd regret coming here, but you'd definitely be left wondering how the quality varies between here and other schools

We're good, not great

[short furnace]

good morning university of california

[high bronze]

Good morning

[pale spire]

how are my fellow californians doing

[dense epoch]

I’m suffering cuz of how school is starting

[crystal yoke]

packing clothes for move in next week

[crystal yoke]

when do you move in

[dense epoch]

August 21

[crystal yoke]

oh mines augst15

[night shore]

🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

[short furnace]

Nearly done with finals

(summer classes)

[high bronze]

Same

[high bronze]

So true

[pale spire]

wdym

[pale spire]

i really need to get on this (im procrastinating like CRAZY). i really dont wanna figure out the art supply situation with moving out ngl

[somber plaza]

uci engineering is 50% acceptance rate oos 🥺

and 20% instae 🥺

[crystal yoke]

LMAOOOOO I relate, ive been procrastinating too

[dense epoch]

I’m not ready for school

[pale spire]

Me neither 🫠

[short furnace]

broski you got that trust

[high bronze]

Same

[warped dome]

thats wild how they rpefer oos

mfs

they should prefer us

[shy saddle]

$15k vs $70k
Which do you take

[night shore]

Obviously the $70k because of prestige 🤪

[night shore]

Do also note that oos can also be a combination of various intl + students in other states. I guess demographics-wise it could be possible Cali is still dominant

https://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/mastplan/MasterPlan1960.pdf

The Big File

Gotta be one of the funniest names I've seen

https://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/mastplan/welcome.html

This hasn't been updated in years though

Still relevant to this day https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1090870296157896724.webp?size=48&quality=lossless&name=pleading

[warped dome]

nah newsom should do smthing tho. ut and unc and umich all have massive advantages for being instate

its dumb asf for us

[night shore]

They actually prefer Cali cc transfer students than anyone else (including instate cali prefrosh @warped dome)

[warped dome]

i feel like all states have their own flagship prfer cc

[night shore]

It's not as bad as Cali's

Page 224. It says Upper 40% for Cal States, Upper 15% for UCs

There's a more worse statistic recently though

https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/California-master-pan-topic-brief.pdf

12.5% for UCs, 33.3% CSU

[warped dome]

that seems fine honestly. there are like 9 ucs for.a reason

i might not be fully understanding it but it just seems like what texas does with ut

[shy saddle]

Umich charges extra for engineering and cs

[night shore]

If you think 57k students only for UCs is reasonable sure ig

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/581668923322269709.webp?size=48&quality=lossless&name=mikulook

https://dof.ca.gov/forecasting/demographics/public-k-12-graded-enrollment/

[warped dome]

oh nvm now i understand. but i still think they should give preference to cali students

[night shore]

Yea lol

[warped dome]

how much extra?

[night shore]

I think they caught heat ab it recently? I forget & don't have a source but someone said they overadmitted intls or have an intl preference because 🤑

Idk though

Nor can i care

I'm a Cali cc nepo baby so

[warped dome]

i remember reading that like unc has 80+ percentage of kids being in state

like bro

[night shore]

Yea

Idk the stats rn but like

Yea

Do recognise that their projected in-state is supposed to be like top 15% in-state freshman kids then 40% Cali cc kids

[warped dome]

i just mean that instead of berk and ucla being 10% for like everyone. maybe 20% for instate. still competitive but helpful for us

[warped dome]

ive had too many bad experiences with cc instructors

[night shore]

Completely fair

[night shore]

I still think that the in-state freshman kids is kinda lackluster

Eh

I'd definitely bump it up higher

Wtv

[shy saddle]

Idk off the top of my head

[short furnace]

I barely made it in lol

[night shore]

But also do realise that certain majors may not follow this trend

Depending on major it may be less impacted

For CS you want to cure cancer

[somber plaza]

Oh nice, I’m not making it to ucs

[night shore]

What’s with grace

[somber plaza]

I got an email from penn state that referred to me as grace

[night shore]

Bro is an egirl

[somber plaza]

Switching sides for this one

[night shore]

It’s okay you’ll always be my bro

Wtf

[somber plaza]

Tyty

[night shore]

Shep’s agab will always be a mystery to me

[warped dome]

p sure it doesnt work like that. i think that was proposed

[night shore]

Definitely

[warped dome]

because i know numerous people outside the top 1/8 whove made it into top ucs

not recruits

not diversity too

[night shore]

Yea

It’s definitely a lower number

And is 100% not the reality of the UCs as a whole

But do realise it is different because of various departmental priorities and impacted majors

Since UCs usually accept school/major

[warped dome]

most definitely

lsa especially shouldnt be impacted

[night shore]

Yea L&S definitely not

[warped dome]

defo for college of computing/engineering tho

[night shore]

I’d say it’s a lot worse for COE

[warped dome]

def

[warped dome]

business schools too

merage and haas

[night shore]

Yea

Business

Basically any major the school is known for is very likely to be impacted

Holy shit someone at my school got into caltech

She did not strike me as nerdy as all and did not do any research iirc

[warped dome]

💀

[night shore]

That’s crazy

Oh she took something there

Bruh

[warped dome]

lmaooo did you get linkedin baited

[night shore]

Nevermind she’s still a senior

[night shore]

No I got INSTAGRAM baited

😔

It’s so funny

[warped dome]

💀 she listed on insta. thats wild

[night shore]

I KID YOU NOT

LOOK

how could you blame me

[somber plaza]

Caltechadmissions is wild

[night shore]

Fr

[dry pollen]

They do

[dry pollen]

UCLA does too

[night shore]

I think this might’ve been for certain departments having more intl student distributions than other departments

Nevertheless Cali students are still prioritiesed

[dry pollen]

If you look at the class distributions eighty % of people attending are instate

[night shore]

Uts still a consideration that certain departments will have a “weaker” distribution than others

[dry pollen]

I’m talking about the overall

[warped dome]

dang really suprising

[dry pollen]

Also there was just new legislation like 2 years ago that required ucs to take more in state people if they wanted funding

[warped dome]

i read in 2013, it was 90% + for most of the ucs

[warped dome]

amazing

[dry pollen]

They’ve grown in popularity a lot since then

[dry pollen]

Yup so they’re def trying + there’s elc

[warped dome]

elc?

[dry pollen]

The guaranteed top 9%

[warped dome]

get a. UC no matter what? right? i remember that happens for like merced and riverside

[dry pollen]

Yeah

[warped dome]

the UCs overall had much higher acceptance rates thi syear?

i saw davis went up to around 45-50

[warped dome]

hm i must have seen different statistics

[dry pollen]

It was about the same overall slight improvement

[warped dome]

honestly thought sd,irvine, and sb would be worse

[dry pollen]

They seemed a lot worse than they actually were

[warped dome]

fr. i think CS and engineering just tanks the ar

[dry pollen]

Eh it depends

[warped dome]

*perception of AR

[dry pollen]

Oh yeah fs

Cause ucsd cs is like 3%

[warped dome]

cal poly slo cs is like 7% 💀

[dry pollen]

Cal poly takes a ton of regional people

It’s much higher if you live in the slow area

Apparently it’s not really that awesome according to my friend who got in

[warped dome]

they are a target/safety list for me

[warped dome]

really? it seems like such a beautiful plac

e

slo

[dry pollen]

Like the program

Not the area

[warped dome]

oh lmao. yeah sort of makes sense

[night shore]

Yea we were also talking about departmental distributions as well

[warped dome]

they have pretty good recruiting from what ive heard

[coarse tree]

Hello uc people

[warped dome]

in terms of tech and the area

[dry pollen]

Are you planning on gunning for ucs

[dry pollen]

Ah ok

[dry pollen]

I heard it’s just the slo area

My friend turned them down for Davis cause of their recruiting not being great

Outside that area

[dry pollen]

Hey hey

[coarse tree]

Go bruins rahh

[warped dome]

dang really. the amount of analysts ive seen at FAANG from orfalea is insane

[dry pollen]

Fr you next year 💪

[dry pollen]

I mean take it w a grain of salt cause she didn’t give me sources but that’s what she told me

[coarse tree]

I’ve decided to speed run my UC app this weekend cause I’m not gonna have time once school starts

[warped dome]

probably. might apply to a few local ones like santa clara. i think the only publics oos will be umich, ut austin, and udub and IU

[dry pollen]

Umich and us aid oos is interesting, gl

No cmc ed?

[shy saddle]

actualy just statistical error. average UC major rejects 0 students per year. CS, engineering, econ, and business, who lives in LA/Berkeley & rejects over 100,000 each year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[night shore]

LMAO?

[coarse tree]

This is so wildly inaccurate

[night shore]

Bilbert is trolling jay

😭

[warped dome]

88k on net price calculator so definitely not

[coarse tree]

Ohh

[shy saddle]

google spiders georg

[night shore]

OH

[warped dome]

the piq seems hella easy tbh

[night shore]

Is there a reference here

[crystal yoke]

Santa Clara? thats a private school

[night shore]

"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy [sic] just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn [sic] should not have been counted

Okay this is actually funny

[warped dome]

yeah but they mind give good merit schol

[coarse tree]

There are 4 but yeah

[dry pollen]

Dang

[night shore]

Freshman is four mandatory PIQs right

[dry pollen]

CMC still has merit said too

[coarse tree]

Yeah. So is transfer if you count major prep

[warped dome]

i aint getting merit from CMC. that place is too good tbh. and im p sure its not too much. honestly i think the only thing stopping my family for fin aid is how much our house costs lmao

[night shore]

Transfer only has one mandatory PIQ but of course you probably wanna do all four

[dry pollen]

You never know it might work out! And real 😭

[warped dome]

"In the Class of 2022, 75% of the families with incomes between $150,000 and $250,000 qualified for need-based assistance. " this is on their website. when i used net price calculator, it gave no aid whatsoever lmao

[dry pollen]

Dang 💀 yeah I’m guessing your house fs then or other houses

[warped dome]

bay area housing costs kick in right again

[crystal yoke]

hm at least for me they didnt give too much merit lol

[warped dome]

how is aid for ucla? do they give anything

[crystal yoke]

ur instate right?

[warped dome]

damn. i think they give full rides and stuff so

[dry pollen]

I didn’t get anything you have to be below a certain income

[warped dome]

yeah but might as well try

[crystal yoke]

their full ride is a part of their honors app

[warped dome]

yep then its not happening

[crystal yoke]

only 5ppl get it i think

[warped dome]

oh fr? how did you get the scholarship otherwise?

[crystal yoke]

oh mine was like a small 10k scholarship

total COA was still 50k for me including scholarships and grants

[warped dome]

probably ed people. i know they love ed

[warped dome]

yeah scu is hella expensive for no reason

[crystal yoke]

oh i EAed

and then i did the honors app

and i got WL for honors

and WL for honors means i was probably rejected for the full ride

its called the johnsons scholars or smth

[warped dome]

yeah makes sense

[warped dome]

what major are you doing at unr?

[crystal yoke]

mis

managmenet info sys

[warped dome]

oh wow that seems cool

[crystal yoke]

that was my major at SCU too

[warped dome]

are you instate for that? just curious because legit no one i know has heard of scu outside of the bay/ca

[crystal yoke]

btw to give u a headsup, SCU doesnt negotiate/match merit scholarships, i tried

[crystal yoke]

im in the bay area

[warped dome]

dang

[somber plaza]

for engineering irvine is like 20% instate

[crystal yoke]

bro i did business for irvine and got rejected

[somber plaza]

and 50% oos

[crystal yoke]

is uci competitive for business

[warped dome]

merage? right

the biz school

im planning on applying

[crystal yoke]

busines info sys

[dry pollen]

Yeah

Business admin is competitive

The rest are easier

[warped dome]

honestly i might just apply econ irvine and transfer into merage if i want to

[night shore]

Business admin is very competitive

Prereqs pretty free though for transfer

Ngl

[crystal yoke]

oh i did business info systems

[warped dome]

yep we going with that

[somber plaza]

business is the most competetive right

[warped dome]

no cs and engineering are still more competitive at uci lol

[dry pollen]

Some majors have like multiple reviews

[somber plaza]

?but

[warped dome]

wdym but

[somber plaza]

there was a chart i saw somewhere one sec

[warped dome]

wdym. i know that happens for like if you apply to a specific program

[somber plaza]

business

vs engineering

[warped dome]

tef

tf

dang

[night shore]

My reasons for attending UC Davis are several. Firstly, UC Davis sounds a bit like "U C", and honestly, who doesn’t want to be seen? I figure if I hang around long enough, someone might just mistake me for an agricultural expert and hand me a shovel. Plus, "Davis" has the word "vis," which is short for "vision," something I'll need as I dramatically procrastinate on my thesis about the psychological well-being of vineyard grapes. As well as this, none of my family members have ever attended UC Davis, so I think I should. I am from a middle-income family with no meaningful contributions to society, so I believe that UC Davis, like a lush field of opportunities, should give me a chance to grow.

[somber plaza]

versus info and comp sci

[somber plaza]

uc david

[warped dome]

no way thats right. 35% for info sys is wild

where did you get this

[somber plaza]

yo forgot to mention moo

[somber plaza]

15 percent acceptance rate

36 percent yield

[warped dome]

oh

[somber plaza]

https://irap.uci.edu/undergraduate-admissions/

seems business is the hardest for uci

[warped dome]

dyk if they have this for other ucs

business admin right?

shit

[somber plaza]

i think uci is the only one that releases publically

you could file a request indepenently at colleges when you get in tho

[night shore]

Yes ^

You can try to extrapolate for ucs though using transfer data

[warped dome]

what do they categorize by? is econ a social science lmao or what

[somber plaza]

i feel like econ would go under the business school

could search it up

!google what school is economics under at uc irvine

right it doesnt work here

[warped dome]

this is some horshe shit. 55% FOR OOS AND 20 FOR INSTATE

[somber plaza]

yes

that's what i mentioned

okay econ is under social sciences

[warped dome]

thats for school of social sciences yeah

[dry pollen]

Like they have the initial review and a secondary one

I think for impacted majors

[warped dome]

thank god business isnt an impacted major at mid tier ucs

[somber plaza]

thats crazy

[warped dome]

engineering is impacted at most UCs rip

[somber plaza]

berkeley taking in 9%

[warped dome]

💀 at least you arent cs

1%

[somber plaza]

i might have to switch majors

cause eecs is still cooked 💀 3%

[warped dome]

lmao

[warped dome]

wait do you want electric engineering or what engineering?

[night shore]

Eeks

[somber plaza]

electrical engineering

problem is

[warped dome]

damn thats the most competitive one

[somber plaza]

so many people are applying eecs because it has cs in the name

not for ee

im cooked by that

[shy saddle]

just mention in your PIQ that you're a real engineer not a coder

they need people to actually take the circuits classes

EE 105 was a good chunk mech e majors who just didn't think they could get into eecs

(idk if this really works)

[warped dome]

💀

what major are you at berk

[shy saddle]

i think they're finally going to split eecs into cs and ece soon

or cse and ece

[somber plaza]

couldve done it earlier but noo

[shy saddle]

me? i was in eecs.

[warped dome]

was? what did you transfer to?

[somber plaza]

bro...

[warped dome]

oh shit he graduated

mb bruh

[somber plaza]

LMFAO

[warped dome]

i see pink and think they still in college

[shy saddle]

real life

it sucks

[warped dome]

swe? or what are you up to now?

[shy saddle]

i want to go back

[night shore]

He was.

He's in real life now

[warped dome]

real life sucks

[shy saddle]

LOL swe isn't real life. "i'm just going to codesignal leetcode an app dashboard swift saas. daddy zucc gave me the reverse linked list interview so i got the $200k tc offer menlo park." <- statments dreamed up by the utterly deranged

i'm a hardware engineer at a company that does space stuff

[somber plaza]

linked list 😨

[warped dome]

honestly i expected most eecs bros go to swe. i know most of the met fellows do that. either business or swe

[shy saddle]

yeah software pays more and it's easier tbh

[warped dome]

how was the ee part? ive always heard ee is hella hella hard

[shy saddle]

it is 😭

[somber plaza]

the weeder part

[dry pollen]

Lol yeah

[warped dome]

are you business major? i remember a while ago you said you applyed environmental sci or smthing to dartmouth

[dry pollen]

No im a lifesci student

[dry pollen]

Yeah I would have switched to bio or something

[warped dome]

oh wow thats p cool. are you going to go pre med or go up the academia route?

[dry pollen]

Premed or ore veterinary I haven’t decided

[warped dome]

vet sounds like such a cool job. treating animals seems much better than treating humans lmao

[dry pollen]

Lol I love both people and animals so it’s a very hard choice

[uneven gyro]

what do i do if like my activities are all cs/stem related but i actually hate it and want to apply to a l&s major 😭

what should i apply to

like uc wise

[dense epoch]

lol just apply l&s

[uneven gyro]

😭

[dense epoch]

I was so conflicted abt this that I applied cs to all my schools I shud have just applied engineering

[uneven gyro]

but like won’t they think i’m tryna pull something

[dense epoch]

They don’t care

[uneven gyro]

with like straight up only cs ec’s

[dense epoch]

Just show that ur passionate abt ur major through ur essays

And ur chilling

[uneven gyro]

ohh smart

okay thanks

[dense epoch]

Imma be honest

UCs seem to legit care the most and prob only gpa

And course rigor

[covert egret]

nursing

[somber plaza]

the secret boss that hides behind computer science

[covert egret]

71 admitted out of 5870 in 2023

[night shore]

UCI nursing is absolutely messed up

Regardless of freshman or trsnsfer

Hi Jay

Jay left wtf

@coarse tree

I saw you

[warped dome]

nah ive seen low gpa kids get into econ, and other majors. if its like stem your cooked, but othewrise your fine

[pale spire]

Not true at all

My friend with higher gpa and rigor didn’t get into many UC’s I did

[warped dome]

curious what major did you apply with?

[latent scarab]

Berkeley is said to be an exception

[dense epoch]

I’d have to agree with this one

[warped dome]

a lot of other UCs are lax. i know the real sticklers are ucla and ucsb

most others are relatively holistic

[latent scarab]

yeah actually I know people with less APs and worse GPA who got into some I was waitlisted at. But my essays werent very good.

[warped dome]

i think the ucs care a lot about ECs

[latent scarab]

pretty much everyone at my school had the same ECs (sports, club, job, volunteer; very few had internships or research) I didn't know many people with "good" ECs, but most people ended up faring ok

[marsh sparrow]

what uc r u at]

[warped dome]

i think thats where the grades put everyone on over each other then

[latent scarab]

yeah im not sure how accurate this is but I've heard they compare you in the context of your school, so maybe if no one's ECs are that great at your school they don't judge you too harshly

[latent scarab]

la

[warped dome]

yeah i think thats right

[coarse tree]

?

[night shore]

Hello.

[night shore]

Yeah on the flip side if everyone is busting their ass out because of school culture

You’re cooked

If everyone is special

Nobody is

(Have fun at Merced though I guess)

[marsh sparrow]

fire

[dense epoch]

I don’t think UCs care enough dawg like most other schools, maybe like Berkeley does tho

[pale spire]

I applied with neuroscience

[warped dome]

ive seen ton of low gpa good ec kids get into mid tier UCs. it really depends on the UC. berk you have a shot. ucla and ucsb is hell no. ucsd, uci, ucd are all possible as well

but also

then again major/college you are applying to really matters

[dense epoch]

imma be honest, im not saying ucs only care abt gpa, but for my school as long as u are top 5 percent of ur class, ive seen kids basically kids clear if not get most of the ucs without no problem with regents

[marsh sparrow]

wtf

They get regents that easily?

[dense epoch]

thats true all the kids who did apply engineering and cs did not necessarily get this result tho

[dense epoch]

ucsb ya

[marsh sparrow]

oh yea

[dense epoch]

my friend got uc davis regents

[marsh sparrow]

it says they accept only 200 but idk if that’s true

It seems like a lot more than 200 get it from what I’ve heard

[dense epoch]

and ik another who got regents for all, except la and berk, but is going la

[warped dome]

lsa is definitely much more holistic

[warped dome]

instate probably

[dense epoch]

for sb def not lol

[dense epoch]

im instate yes

[warped dome]

yeah makes sense

[dense epoch]

idk tbh still

gpa is a huge factor for ucs id say

[warped dome]

lsa definitely cares a lot about piqs from what ive heard.

really really cares about them

[marsh sparrow]

email said 200 haha

not sure tho

[warped dome]

did you sweep UCs?

[dense epoch]

thats crazy, lol i think just from my school we had 5 or 6 regents for ucsb

[marsh sparrow]

yeah that’s completely insane

never seen that before

[marsh sparrow]

all the ones i applied to yeah

[dense epoch]

ngl our school year was insanely cracked.

[marsh sparrow]

didn’t apply to sc, m and r

[dense epoch]

like our year was kinda known as the tryhard year

[warped dome]

my year is the same so im looking forward to see where everyone is going

[dense epoch]

good luck!

[warped dome]

its going to be hard to top last year. we had 5 stanford admits. it was wild

[marsh sparrow]

damn r u a Cali school

[warped dome]

yep

most kids did end up going to the UC system tbf

[marsh sparrow]

fair

We had hella stanfords this year too

[dense epoch]

we were uci heaven

[opal igloo]

we had all of them ngl

LA were all valedicts

[dense epoch]

same

[opal igloo]

SD and berk were top 10 remaining

irvine was like

and riverside

were everyone else

[dense epoch]

its kinda crazy tho the two stanford and one harvard kids from my school were neither valedictorian

[opal igloo]

yah most of the ivy league kids were not valedict

[pale spire]

Where did valedictorian end up going?

[dense epoch]

cornell, haverford, ucsd, uci, ucla, ucla, ucla, ucla, uc berkeley regents, jhu

[warped dome]

yeah i was looking through common data sets for uci, ucsd, and ucsb

ucsb only considers gpa to be very important

uci and ucsd care much more about talent and ecs

[dense epoch]

i got in ucsb, but rejected uci and berk

ucsd and ucla later did not want my ass

[warped dome]

must have had high gpa lol

[shy saddle]

Maybe y'all should be drafting/editing your PIQs instead of trying to interpret statistics

Heck if you spent a few hours working instead of on discord you'd have the extra $70 to apply and see what you get

[high bronze]

🔥🔥 real advice here

[pale spire]

Why so many

[dense epoch]

our school has 10 valedictorians 💀

wait nvm

scratch one of the ucla

it was duke

[pale spire]

What

That’s goofy

[dense epoch]

we indeed are a goofy school

with too many tryhards this year

[pale spire]

Did they all tie or smth?

[dense epoch]

put me back two years ago, i might have been op 7 percent then

[dense epoch]

some ties some just close

we always just have 10 valedictorians

[pale spire]

Oh wacky

Do yall not have salutorians then?

[dense epoch]

we dont

[pale spire]

Interesting

[high bronze]

LAUSD?

[dense epoch]

holy shit i thought u figured out my school district but no

[high bronze]

It’s goofy, it’s cuz lausd has it so that if ur gpa is > 4.0 ur considered Valedictorian

[short furnace]

I was a biology major

[marsh sparrow]

how u alr a college freshman brodie

[short furnace]

I took classes over summer there

Got an ID and everything and they count towards units

if it don’t count I’ll take off the role but surely that works

[marsh sparrow]

Oh valid