All UCs (2024-2025)

[midnight vine]

no, fqngz

yes

[harsh spindle]

lower div math classes are for all majors lmao

also not all

[marsh sparrow]

learn how to play bro

[dry pollen]

they're hosted by the math department

[marsh sparrow]

absolutely

[harsh spindle]

honors sequences and 61 in particular, these are proof based classes

[marsh sparrow]

what are you gonna do about it

[worn aurora]

Lowkey the lower div math class here is like a weeder class

[midnight vine]

i kinda know

[dry pollen]

yeah obv

[midnight vine]

and i have a fancy ahh set

[dry pollen]

upper div ls courses grade deflate

[harsh spindle]

for everyone, not just for math majors

[dry pollen]

like neuro, physci, mimg, mcdb, etc

[dry pollen]

I'm still missing your poinr

[harsh spindle]

tf is mcdb

[dry pollen]

all I said is that ucla grade inflates like crazy

[dry pollen]

molecular, cellular, and developmental bio

[harsh spindle]

yeah which is not true

[marsh sparrow]

what?

really?

[dry pollen]

that in no means is true for every major

[midnight vine]

yeah

pu and ill show you

like deadass

[marsh sparrow]

just take a pic bro

[dry pollen]

And I did not say it was true for your major

[marsh sparrow]

ants is due in 3 hrs and i just started

😭

[midnight vine]

💀

ants is insanely hard

[marsh sparrow]

FUCK ME

[midnight vine]

my dad loves poker a lot

[marsh sparrow]

im so screwed

i dont get ts at all

[dry pollen]

but especially in lower div classes, they will grade inflate quite a bit

[harsh spindle]

the implication is that it applies to all, be specific

[marsh sparrow]

why is everything oop

i hate oop

stupid fucking coding im never double majoring in this shit

[dry pollen]

Then don't overthink?

[marsh sparrow]

switching to stats rn

ucla student beef is crazy

[harsh spindle]

don’t generalize?

[marsh sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/rats-fighting-rat-fight-angry-mad-gif-13901914678315108280

[dry pollen]

This was the statement I was referring to

so it should have been obvious that I wasn't specifically discussing the math department

[worn aurora]

professional prompt engineer

[dry pollen]

my friends are cs majors as well and their lower divs so far have been grade inflationary

[dry pollen]

perhaps read the context

[high bronze]

@twilit radish welcome

[twilit radish]

hi

[glad aurora]

davis ds on the other hand 👀

[dry pollen]

also if you look at ucla l&s honors, you can see why I say ucla grade inflates especially considering they changed their honors cutoffs in the last few years

[worn aurora]

CS majors learning state of the art theory only to end up sitting at a desk rewriting old libraries written in an obscure language with 0 documentation for hours

[prime hawk]

Does anyone know what does this mean 😭

[harsh spindle]

I am aware

[worn aurora]

Level of foreign language

[marsh sparrow]

hahaa my other opp from ucla

the day just gets better

[twilit radish]

one sided opping

[worn aurora]

Like usually schools have Spanish 1,2,3,4

[prime hawk]

Ahhh I get you

What if

My school does not have that

[marsh sparrow]

agreed, please stop opping me

[prime hawk]

😵‍💫

[worn aurora]

I have no enemies

[high bronze]

why don't we team up against usc

[twilit radish]

your words not mine

[marsh sparrow]

i dont even think about them

bumahh school

makes ucla look like harvard

[twilit radish]

usc lowkey irrelevant ngl

[harsh spindle]

usc? what’s that

[high bronze]

LOL

[dry pollen]

Not sure why you were attacking then considering the context and your knowledge

[worn aurora]

No that’s where my glorious king’s son attended

[marsh sparrow]

actually just kidding i wouldve taken usc half ride over ucla instate

[high bronze]

u guys are funny

[marsh sparrow]

wouldve paid 20k more per year for usc

[dry pollen]

valid me too

[twilit radish]

ucla people come to telescope night fr

rn

[worn aurora]

That’s also Eric Ou’s territory

[marsh sparrow]

so true

private school + better business

[twilit radish]

LMAOO he was here recently

[harsh spindle]

I wasn’t attacking? I was telling you that you can’t generalize but apparently that’s not the opinion you want to hear so I stopped

[worn aurora]

Yeah he also hosted a party here

Surprisingly

[dry pollen]

I have a pic w him when I saw him walking around

[worn aurora]

Bro was doing a UC tour

Except for Merced

[twilit radish]

this guy ik was his tour guide 😭😭

[marsh sparrow]

@dry pollen just ban him

[dry pollen]

But I wasn't generalizing...if you look at the comment it was referencing a specific statement made by someone else

[marsh sparrow]

ucla students arent allowed to have opinions

[dry pollen]

😭

[dry pollen]

He's lowkey so chill

very short

[worn aurora]

He’s skinnier than I thought

[harsh spindle]

alright

[worn aurora]

I’ve yet to go to seaside

I need to go before the hype dies down

[dry pollen]

Where even is seaside

Irvine?

[worn aurora]

It’s close to oc I think

[prime hawk]

mf

what do I do if I actually graduated this year and am not taking a gap year 😭

bc of a southern hemisphere school

[harsh spindle]

does UC application have a support system

If yes, maybe contact them?

they can help I believe

[tropic minnow]

Yes they do

There is a phone number you can call

I forget if its to the UC Presidents office or a different one

But they can help explain what to do

[harsh spindle]

I remember this sort of thing happening for a lot of November session IB candidates for commonapp

[harsh spindle]

Yep ^ and you can also touch on it in the additional information section (I think there’s one box for education too?)

[midnight vine]

lmk if you want help

[prime hawk]

Ooh good idea

I also put a little note on the additional information section

But I’ll call the number as well

Tyty

[marsh sparrow]

i spent 1 hr on problem 5

[harsh spindle]

No problem! Just for curiosity, are you a November session IB candidate?

[midnight vine]

i would've taken usc half ride over berkeley lol

[harsh spindle]

for what its worth, usc students do get some good job offers after graduating

[marsh sparrow]

oops

and for business too

oops

maybe i shoulda went

im definitely below average here

[marsh sparrow]

not as good as berkeley unfortunately

[harsh spindle]

cal is the benchmark so yeah

I would want to rep ucla too and defend our stem programs because we often get overshadowed by the excessive spotlight to humanities but then I would get shit on here so that’s prob not a good idea

[marsh sparrow]

i mean ucla is definitely a fantastic school

im shitting on it for fun mostly

i wouldve went to ucla for anything except for business

over berkeley

where i acc attend

[harsh spindle]

nah apparently ucla students like to shit on their own students lmao, the humanities kids hate it when the south campus majors start speaking

[prime hawk]

No sir

Je suis Australian

and thus southern hemisphere school

[harsh spindle]

that’s awesome

[high bronze]

I'm not a hater ❤️

[prime hawk]

But it follows a similar path to n24 graduates

[midnight vine]

lwk same i think

[prime hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/cute-cat-love-sticker-gif-20955923

Gracias mon ami

[midnight vine]

dude icl i like berkeley's humanities more than ucla

[midnight vine]

scope for improvement!

[harsh spindle]

hey I am with you, the humanities people here are annoying 😂

[dry pollen]

I lowkey feel like it’s the other way around

I feel like the humanities majors here are overshadowed by the stem majors

[harsh spindle]

but the humanities majors outpopulate us like 3 to 1

[prime hawk]

lowk I know someone who is humanities and stem

[harsh spindle]

besides, outside of ucla, we are definitely more known as the humanities school and not the “rigorous stem school”

[dry pollen]

I don’t think I’ve met many humanities majors other than the occasional English major

[prime hawk]

they cool as hell

[dry pollen]

How many humanities majors are there?

[harsh spindle]

quite a lot, lemme check the enrollment stats

[dry pollen]

I’ve only met English majors in terms of humanities, I’ve met far more social sciences students (polisci and business Econ especially) but that’s also largely due to class bias

[prime hawk]

Chat opinions

One of the uc scholarship things is attended school in Hong Kong

If I did attend a Hong Kong school

[harsh spindle]

there are of course some super pretentious stem kids here who shit on humanities 24x7 but they’re a very small minority

[prime hawk]

But did not for HS and do not anymore

Would I tick the box

[harsh spindle]

I think they are implying high school

So perhaps not

[prime hawk]

Fair enough

Thank you again calc

[high bronze]

I know a CS + Philosphy major here

[prime hawk]

Btw for those watching

Calc is short for calculator

[high bronze]

it's just slang

only a select few know that

[harsh spindle]

my full is calcoholic

xd

I got it from a math comp I did in high school

[prime hawk]

wtf is this specific ass scholarship prompts

“Played on the basketball team at Butte or Yuba CCs”

[dry pollen]

Did it mention specifically for hs

[high bronze]

it's hella specific but it kinda worked for me 😭

[prime hawk]

No just school

[prime hawk]

this is actually funny as hell

[dry pollen]

I think a good portion of humanities kids view stem majors as this

[prime hawk]

Student who has resided in Brisbane California while attending hs

[dry pollen]

I would tick it then if it didn’t mention high school

[prime hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-woah-wow-no-way-what-gif-3471224

wahoo!

[harsh spindle]

Unfortunately, the extremist minority gets the most views so it is natural that this is the impression of stem students

[dry pollen]

Worst case worst they reach out and you tell them you didn’t do hs there and nothing happens

[dry pollen]

True

[prime hawk]

frfr

also how are they going to prove things

[dry pollen]

I’m shocked there are so many humanities kids though, I thought there was a greater number of social sciences students

A business Econ major told me 30% of ucla was business Econ

[prime hawk]

like if I tick the box that says gay or lesbian student how they gonna check (not that I will)

[dry pollen]

😭

[prime hawk]

“Kiss a guy on video”

https://tenor.com/view/cats-woah-wow-no-way-what-gif-3471224

[harsh spindle]

Okay so I heard something about this

Something like psychology at UCLA is considered life science and not a social science

[dry pollen]

Yes it is

Under the ls department

[harsh spindle]

and a lot of people are psychology so that’s probably why not a lot of social science

idk what biz Econ is classified as

[dry pollen]

Social science

[harsh spindle]

That major confuses me

[dry pollen]

There’s a huge huge portion of life sciences majors in general

[harsh spindle]

aren’t we like a huge pre med school

coz we have a lot of health stuff?

[dry pollen]

Yeah

[harsh spindle]

yeah that makes sense

[dry pollen]

Over 1200 premeds apply to med school each year from ucla

[harsh spindle]

crazy

respect to pre meds, that’s some intensive ass workload

I personally think math/econ is the better econ major

[high bronze]

respect to the premed + physics people

[dry pollen]

Interesting

Is that just the Econ major

Or is it separate

[dry pollen]

Very few of those

Premed + chem though are also insane

[harsh spindle]

It’s the Econ major offered by the math department

something like how the biz econ graduates weren’t mathematically trained well for graduate economics or something

[dry pollen]

So not the ba

[harsh spindle]

yeah

[harsh spindle]

I have met a lot of

Psychobio premed

[dry pollen]

So there’s Econ, math Econ and business economics?

Wild

[harsh spindle]

there’s a normal Econ too?

tf

[dry pollen]

Yeah cause psychobio is probably the easiest life sciences major that aligns with premed reqs

[dry pollen]

Yeah

[harsh spindle]

and yet there’s no normal business major lmao

[dry pollen]

That’s the ba

[harsh spindle]

Lowkey what’s the difference

In BA and BS

[dry pollen]

I mean them not don’t having a business school is a big part of it right

[dry pollen]

I think it depends on the major

[harsh spindle]

BA has more breadth stuff?

[dry pollen]

Cause like for HBS and Public health the ba and bs have very very different course reqs

[high bronze]

yall use the word "breadth" too ?

[harsh spindle]

I see

[harsh spindle]

That’s what I assumed would be applicable for BA

[dry pollen]

Depends on the major

I don’t have a breadth but ik psych does

[high bronze]

what does the word "breadth" mean ?

[harsh spindle]

I think the CS majors have a technical breadth requirement

[high bronze]

like GE ?

[dry pollen]

Could not tell you

[dry pollen]

Yeah they have something like that

[dry pollen]

Wait doesn’t Berkeley have a lot of breadths

[harsh spindle]

Have you tried Anderson cafe

[dry pollen]

No I actually haven’t gone to Anderson yet

Is it nice

[harsh spindle]

It is

[high bronze]

depends on major too

[dry pollen]

Ohh ok

[high bronze]

im BS and i basically don't got any

[harsh spindle]

A lot of people don’t know about Anderson so that’s kinda good xD

[dry pollen]

I will have to try later

[dry pollen]

Really I hear about it all the time

[harsh spindle]

As in, they don’t visit it very often

[dry pollen]

I haven’t gone cause it’s so far and it’s easier go to the Eng library

[harsh spindle]

So it usually doesn’t have a lot of lines

[dry pollen]

Makes sense

[high bronze]

for as many times ive been to ucla ngl a lot of these places still seem kinda foreign to me

[harsh spindle]

I remember there being BA math at Berkeley when I was applying

[dry pollen]

They’re foreign to me and I’ve been here for over 2 months 😭

[harsh spindle]

I have explored ucla a lot

[dry pollen]

I need to go to Berkeley

[worn aurora]

Why did I have to choose the most unemployable difficult major

[harsh spindle]

I think I know the campus pretty well

[dry pollen]

Any recs for study spots

[high bronze]

ima visit ucla during my break since i live farily close to campus

[harsh spindle]

Biomedical library, the Matthias botanical garden, seas cafe and engineering vi 1st floor outside lounge

[worn aurora]

Berkeley campus seems like a nightmare for disabled people

[dry pollen]

I actually do not like the biomedical library

[harsh spindle]

Tbh, if you’re pure math from Berkeley or ucla, you shouldn’t be worried about employment lmao

[dry pollen]

Botanical garden is nice though

I haven’t been to the later two

[worn aurora]

Math -> cs grad school pipeline

[harsh spindle]

Oh really? Well I suppose more people know about it now

[harsh spindle]

fr

[dry pollen]

Yeah when I went it was quite loud and it overall just didn’t give me university library vibes

It felt like my public library

[harsh spindle]

that’s fair xD

I haven’t been to Powell yet

[dry pollen]

It’s icky

[harsh spindle]

I like YRL 5th floor

[dry pollen]

If you ever go only go to night Powell

[harsh spindle]

Got it

[dry pollen]

Yrl is so nice but so far

[high bronze]

It was sprinkling today

[harsh spindle]

Man LA weather is so weird right now

I was sweating around 2 pm

[worn aurora]

Hot take but I hate that tower

[dry pollen]

Yeah it was raining back home

[harsh spindle]

but it gets so fucking cold at night

[dry pollen]

It was quite warm

[dry pollen]

Yeah I’m actually freezing rn 😭

[high bronze]

all good it's not everyone's cup of tea

[harsh spindle]

exactly

[harsh spindle]

I feel the same way about ucla campus

real unfortunate if you’re at Hedrick summit at the top of the hill and your class is in Dodd hall

[dry pollen]

Yeah it’s terrible

That was the first thing my friend’s sister told me when I asked about accommodations

[harsh spindle]

yeah, although I don’t really know what more ucla can do

when the campus is pretty much spread across the hill

at least they tried though :/

[dry pollen]

Yeah they have ramps!

[worn aurora]

I don’t think I ever toured ucla

[harsh spindle]

come on bruin day

you get a lot of free stuff

wait my bad

you’re already freshman

lmao

[worn aurora]

Lmao

I heard they don’t even check

[harsh spindle]

prob, when you have like 8K first years, it’s hard to check 💀

[worn aurora]

True

Wait what if I go and get free stuff then flip it

[harsh spindle]

go for it

I didn’t get the opportunity to go to bruin day

[high bronze]

they gave some pretty cool stuff on bruin day

[harsh spindle]

international moment

[worn aurora]

Like what

[high bronze]

my favorite thing was the tote bag

[harsh spindle]

I think you get a tshirt, pens, stickers, bottles, lanyards and stuff

[worn aurora]

Damn

wtf

[harsh spindle]

and free food?

who can say no to free food

well actually idk if there was free food

would be crazy if they charged for it

[dry pollen]

Yes

I have a pic of my haul

[marsh sparrow]

yuck

[high bronze]

nicee

[harsh spindle]

Woah

All I can show right now is a Jane street tshirt lmao

[midnight vine]

dude i dont have that much merch from being a student here for like 5 months

well i think non wearable stuff wise i have a lot

like pens and mints and stickers and lanyards

but i only have one crewneck

no cap no tube top nothing

its so bad

[tropic minnow]

I have a cool shirt and some lanyards, I think thats it

They have some cool merch here, its just that it costs money to buy them and I'm trying to save

[midnight vine]

yeah this

[harsh spindle]

I saw a 400 dollar varsity jacket at the ucla store

[tropic minnow]

What the hell

I think the worst I've seen is an $80 dollar plushie of Sammy

But it was like a big plushie and a good one

[harsh spindle]

My bad it was 328 dollars

And after sale, 262

They definitely made it more affordable after that sale!

[twilit radish]

lmaoo yeah hes friendly to everyone but small guy

[tulip relic]

i just got done with my piqs

i’d like someone to review them for me 😭 🙏

[high bronze]

feel free to DM

[marsh sparrow]

dont feel free to DM

[tulip relic]

why

[marsh sparrow]

feel free to DM

[tulip relic]

oh

[marsh sparrow]

dont feel free to DM

[warped dome]

[high bronze]

got my first choice classes both sems but im not sure if that is rare rare ? my roomate had the same exp

[zinc spruce]

im waitlisted for all my classes and have backups for my backups 💔

[high bronze]

noooo

do u have a phase 2 in mind ?

I phase 1'd the classes in which i have no reserved seating in

working fine, eecs 16a still has like 150 seats open

[burnt ridge]

please take me into ucsd/uci/ucb/ucd 🙏

thhank you UC overlords

or UCSB

[zinc spruce]

Yea I think i'll get off wl for physics and maybe chem, for the rest i'll prob end up doing breadths

[high bronze]

oof what physics ?

ill be doing 7a during sophomore fall

im gonna get touched

[zinc spruce]

currently enrolled in 7a but i did a swap request for 8a so i'll probably end up in 8a

i'm 1st on the waitlist so we'll see 😯

[high bronze]

goodluck fam

[zinc spruce]

u too 🫡

[marsh sparrow]

Same 😦

Waitlisted for msth54

☹️

[worn aurora]

i have an 8 am every day next quarter am i cooked

[tulip relic]

i cant tell if you're joking or not

[fringe wyvern]

its 2024, jokes are banned

[marsh sparrow]

feel free to dm

dont feel free to dm

[midnight vine]

What major

[dry pollen]

Noooo

Just get priority next time

[marsh sparrow]

Jump

No I just slept though my time

[dry pollen]

Id jump into the sea

It’s pretty bad tbh based on your time

[midnight vine]

@high bronze whats your enrollment time

[high bronze]

it was 11:30 am 😭 so maybe i did get lucky

[midnight vine]

no bc mine was 9 am

i genuinely think we have priority enrollment

what was your enrollment time for fall

[midnight vine]

dawg just switch discussion sections

[high bronze]

same exact time

[midnight vine]

damn

i had 11:20 for fall

so i think i have priority lwk

we'll see

@marsh sparrow math 1b and nusctx 10s are filling up 😭 😭

mfw

lol

[dry pollen]

They tell you if you have priority lol

Idk how it works at Berkeley but at ucla enrollment times are random

So you can def get all good enrollment times

[high bronze]

We prob just got lucky

But I’m so glad I’m getting English out of the way

R1a completed by this sem and r1b next sem

[desert escarp]

I think im gonna have 8am physics MWF and 10am python TTh

[midnight vine]

cooked

[midnight vine]

i know people w regents who werent told they have priority so idk

[dry pollen]

Weird

[high bronze]

They signed up for classes like a month ago huh

[dry pollen]

For us it’s a whole week early

[dry pollen]

Yeah checks out

[high bronze]

Cuz that’s what my friend said

[dry pollen]

And it also says priority

[high bronze]

He had to pull out his laptop in the middle of English 💀💀

[dry pollen]

I wasn’t explicitly told I have priority in an email or anything

[high bronze]

Our portal doesn’t say that explicitly either

But yeah if u have a way earlier time u prob got priority

[dry pollen]

Yeah like we have dates that are for priority

11/03 to 11/06 was priority

[high bronze]

Just did the big c hike @midnight vine

[midnight vine]

huh lemme ask again

[midnight vine]

thats crazy

i've been meaning to

but i've only done fire trails

[high bronze]

Kinda fortunate to live in foothill

Beautiful tree

[ornate abyss]

k

[dense epoch]

Berkeley lowk got nice ass view

[high bronze]

can i dm u some photos ? i dont think i can send them here cuz it got people with their faces

[dense epoch]

Sure

[worn aurora]

Wait my friend lives in foothill bruh

I visited last week and almost twisted my ankle going up the cracked concrete slope

[midnight vine]

live laugh cs61a

[ornate abyss]

wow the UC channel is so active while the CSU channel is dead

goes to show what this server's members prioritize

[sweet citrus]

Tbf cal state app also is easy

No essays or anything

[ornate abyss]

not what i meant

i meant like

"oh is it a good school for my major"

"is it good campus"

"good entertainment"

[worn aurora]

app takes less work so there's less resistance to applying

[tulip relic]

finally got some people to review my essays

[midnight vine]

also a lot of it is me and the other berk students yapping lmao

[marsh sparrow]

I mean what did you expect

[tulip relic]

me who applied to some of the calstates (9 of them) if my uc plans do not go to plan:

[dry pollen]

Nah not everyone apply to cal states

I personally didn’t as an in state resident

[midnight vine]

same

[lost oyster]

PIQs RAAAAH

is the cc -> uc pipeline for bio/biochem cooked?

[worn aurora]

i applied to like 2

[worn aurora]

not at all

[dry pollen]

No

[dry pollen]

Something to keep in mind depending on the cc/UC is that the rigor will vary a lot and a lot of cc students in those subjects tend to struggle and not do as well in the upper divs at ucs

Obviously not everyone but a lot of people struggle fs

[sweet citrus]

Chat go watch the UC Davis football game on ESPN+ in an hour if we win we go to playoffs

[warped dome]

Davis has a football team?

[ornate abyss]

bros a fake californian

[marsh sparrow]

why lol

some people dont need to

[lost oyster]

csus are like insanely easy to apply to tho

[marsh sparrow]

😂

[dry pollen]

No csus are just not that great for bio

[dry pollen]

They’re very very solid

[coarse tree]

Yeah they’re not very research centric

They’re more practical applications

So not good for pre med

[tropic minnow]

Apparently only the UCSC and UCD MUN teams can leave the state this year for oos competitions

[elder fog]

California in general is not a great place to be as a premed, even for undergrad

[dry pollen]

Yup

[elder fog]

better to build connections at a school that may actually accept you 🤣

[dry pollen]

UCR apparently has strong bias towards ucr ug?

Idk if that’s true but that’s what I’ve heard

[elder fog]

UCR just has strong IS bias

I don't know if it's necessarily UCR ug bias, it could be more so a selection bias trend where people from UCR ug are more likely to choose UCR med over other options

[dry pollen]

Yeah I mean ca med schools are ridiculously difficult but a lot of in state students don’t have a choice

[dry pollen]

IS?

In state?

[elder fog]

interstate

[dry pollen]

Ohh

[dry pollen]

I see

[elder fog]

UCSD prob best premed ug school in Cali, pretty holistic admissions

well all of Cali has holistic admissions, just too many apps 🤣

[dry pollen]

I’ve heard this but I’d hate ucsd

So not for me

UCSD is also just too chill

[elder fog]

the reality is the undergrad you attend has virtually zero bearing on your med school app prospects

so that's fine

[dry pollen]

True

Unless you go to a school that takes ugs into their med school 😭

[tulip relic]

im currently preparing to send my sat scores to the schools im applying to

just curious here if i decide to officially send my scores to the ucs

will there be anything

[coarse tree]

UCs are test blind

[tulip relic]

oh

oh so they're considered for admissions?

[coarse tree]

They’re not considered for admissions

At all

[tulip relic]

i see

so there's no point in sending them?

[coarse tree]

Mhm, no point

[tulip relic]

lemme guess the same for cal state

[coarse tree]

Mhm

[worn aurora]

They can only be used to fulfill entry level requiremens, like your ACT English score can help place you in English

But that’s only after, you can’t even submit the test scores in the application if I’m not mistaken

[tulip relic]

i did not attend a school outside the us

[midnight vine]

why

[tropic minnow]

No clue

They just mentioned it and moved on

[midnight vine]

sat and act scores can still help for requirements after you've committed to a college

but for admissions, no

[midnight vine]

damn

[tropic minnow]

Yeah

Also either Berkeley is spending bank on their travel or they just ain’t fundraising cause apparently a ticket to a conference last year was like 1k

[midnight vine]

💀

i know they've held fundraisers this year tho

[tropic minnow]

Yeah that was a ticket for last year I don’t know this year so maybe it will be cheaper

[worn aurora]

UCs have an entry level writing requirement (ELWR) prior to enrolling which you can waive by either ACT english/reading score or AP scores

[tulip relic]

i got a 3 on the ap lang exam

oh and as for the sats im off by 10 points

670

[forest grotto]

whats the sat score needed? 680?

[tulip relic]

yes

i got a 670

[forest grotto]

damn thats so rough

[tulip relic]

though thankfully i have a 3 in ap lang to makeup for this

[forest grotto]

do they take ap lit? i dont want to take the ap lang exam lol

[tulip relic]

yes

can confirm

wdym

i mean the writing requirement takes a 3 in the ap exam

lit and lang

[forest grotto]

i didnt know you could convert ap scores to sat scores 😭

[tulip relic]

^

[forest grotto]

a 3 is passing anyway

[tulip relic]

yeah

yes

undergrad writing requirements

its ok

im a senior in hs rn

[worn aurora]

A lot of schools take 3’s for credit, why would you not submit it?

[tulip relic]

^

exactly

[midnight vine]

yeah at Berkeley I think only for the reading comprehension requirements you need 4+ everything else takes a 3

[lost oyster]

UCs dont want my 5s 😐

[dry pollen]

Don’t go to La or Berk if you want a bunch of AP creds to actually count for geneds

[lost oyster]

😦

Not like im getting in tbh

[midnight vine]

it counts at Berk lol

[deft thorn]

Think about an academic subject that inspires you. Describe how you have furthered this interest inside and/or outside of the classroom.

For this prompt, can it be club as an academic subject? Robotics

[dry pollen]

my friends said it didn't

maybe it depends on your major

cause my friend is able to declare her major cause of cc classes only but wasn't able to get out of most of her geneds via ap

[midnight vine]

for all colleges except breadth requirements you can skip all geneds w AP regardless of major

you can also do breadth requirements at cc

[dry pollen]

🤷‍♀️ maybe she's mistaken

idk that's just what she told me

College of Letters and Science
Computer Science
Computer Science Principles: Score of 3, 4, or 5 satisfies the Quantitative Reasoning requirement.

English
Literature and Composition: Score of 4 satisfies Part A of the Reading and Composition requirement; score of 5 satisfies the entire Reading and Composition requirement (Part A and Part B).

Language and Composition: Score of 4 or 5 satisfies Part A of the Reading and Composition requirement.

World Languages and Culture
Chinese Language and Culture, French Language and Culture, German Language and Culture, Italian Language and Culture, Japanese Language and Culture, Latin, Spanish Language and Culture or Spanish Literature and Culture: Score of 3, 4 or 5 satisfies the Foreign Language requirement.

Mathematics
Calculus AB: Score of 3, 4 or 5 satisfies the Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
Calculus BC: Score of 3, 4 or 5 satisfies the Quantitative Reasoning requirement.

Statistics
Score of 3, 4 or 5 satisfies the Quantitative Reasoning requirement.

wait that's hardly any aps what

[dry pollen]

we get our quantitative reasoning done via ap too but that's a UC wide req for us, it doesn't fulfill the gened, our lang/lit is the same as yours, same w language, same with calc

you guys don't get more credit though??

[midnight vine]

this is what I mean by geneds😭

And American institutions and history

[dry pollen]

those aren't geneds for us lol

those are uc wide reqs

[dry pollen]

wait so like you can use aps on all of these?

https://lsadvising.berkeley.edu/seven-course-breadth

[midnight vine]

.

[dry pollen]

so you guys have double the geneds essentially

[midnight vine]

?

[dry pollen]

cause you consider uc wide reqs geneds

Wait nvm

either way the point still stands

[midnight vine]

a gened is basically any course you're forced to take that doesn't count for your major

[dry pollen]

this one

[dry pollen]

we have different geneds and uc wide reqs

for example writing 2 at ucla isn't a gened in that you don't actually need it for college of letters and sciences but you need it for ucla

we also have to finish writing by sophomore year whereas geneds can be taken throughout your 4 years

[deft thorn]

can someone please help with this

[shy saddle]

Yes

[dry pollen]

yeah

[deft thorn]

alright thank you

[midnight vine]

oh there's only one gened for all colleges separate from the UC requirements and that's American cultures but those reqs can overlap w/ breadth requirements so it's basically just your college's requirement

[dry pollen]

I see we also can overlap yeah but it won't be counted for geneds if you use ap

like I skipped quantitative reasoning w calc and stats but I still have to go take math courses cause of the gened req

[midnight vine]

yeah you wouldn't need that here but most premed people take math anyway for med school reqs

[dry pollen]

but my friend at ucsd skipped out of her math geneds + quantitative reasoning w calc

[dry pollen]

you guys don't have a math gened req?

[tulip relic]

my dad is a permanent resident of california (condit bill) though he also shares the same address with my mom who lives with me and rn im going to ask him about his california address
do i use the same address as my mom or his california one

[midnight vine]

not for l&s

[dry pollen]

oh wait we don't either

[midnight vine]

so he doesn't live in California?

[dry pollen]

we have physical sciences

[tulip relic]

he does

[midnight vine]

yeah

[midnight vine]

so yeah you'd use his California address

[dry pollen]

but all the bio majors require it anyways lol

[tulip relic]

thanks

[harsh spindle]

there's a math gened?

isnt that just quantitative reasoning?

which you can also fulfill with some CS classes

[harsh spindle]

yeh afaik there's no math gened, it's quant

at la, only your CC credits can get you anything noteworthy

AP/IB do jackshit

[dry pollen]

No I was mistaken it’s physical science

[dry pollen]

That’s what I was saying yeah

Berk is essentially the same except UC wide reqs

[harsh spindle]

o

[sweet citrus]

@glad aurora https://www.instagram.com/p/DCSELbEowME

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[coarse tree]

Would being a freelance journalist be work experience or extracurricular activity for the UC app 😭

[tulip relic]

i heard ucd has cats on campus

[coarse tree]

Like I’m an independent contractor (self employed)

[tulip relic]

like in the physics area

[coarse tree]

But it is a paid job

[tulip relic]

yes

[sweet citrus]

https://www.instagram.com/cheetodaily

[tulip relic]

work

[coarse tree]

Yes is insane, I asked which

[tulip relic]

yes cheeto

[coarse tree]

Slay

[midnight vine]

work exp i'd say

[coarse tree]

Kk

Gotta change it then

Cause I had it as ec

But I realized that didn’t make sense

[midnight vine]

jay can you help me rq in #🏡-verified-village about something

[coarse tree]

Sure

[sweet citrus]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C4_yigjO4DL

sharedclub

Happy spring break everyone!
We wanted to thank everyone who came to our llama event put on before finals!! We had a great time seeing everyone and hope we were able to put a smile on your face before finals! The llamas also loved the attention!☺️🦙
We hope to see you all again soon! 😸😸

Instagram

This too

[tulip relic]

LLAMAS?

[sweet citrus]

The second one is a selfie I got with one I’m just covering my face

[coarse tree]

Llamas slay

[sweet citrus]

But they let us feed them

And gave us brushes to brush them

There were 3 of them

I didn’t even know the event was happening I just left class and saw llamas on the quad

Frisbee dog from picnic day

I didn’t get good doxie derby photos unfortunately

There’s a recording here tho https://video.ucdavis.edu/media/2024+Doxie+Derby+04-20-24/1_4xxekdmq/28577162

The tickets are free but they run out hella fast

These are the three photos I got the one of the family I forgot if they won their round or got second place

I wanna photograph the doxie derby again so I can get actually good photos but I don’t wanna join picnic day board again

Bc my main issue is I didn’t realize my camera’s shutter speed would go high enough for the dogs running until it was way too late and even then the photos were a bit grainy

I am decent at framing photos I’m just not great at everything else

I would post more in #🎨-hobbies but I’d get demolished by that one junior who always posts

[dry pollen]

DOXIE DERBY OMG

That is so so so much

[tulip relic]

dogs

[glad aurora]

nicee lol

[glad aurora]

there were also sheep at wellman

[sweet citrus]

Can you pet those tho

[glad aurora]

ooo good question, I dont think so

[burnt ridge]

i need a miracle

🙏🏿

[tulip relic]

i wanna be your girl gimme a chance to see

[slate mountain]

i dont think im supposed to have this section

the "after 12th grade" tickbox

because i havent graduate yet

but i put in my graduation year correctly

can anyone help with this issue 🥲

[slate mountain]

this is in the EC section

[midnight vine]

i think everybody has it automatically

you just wouldn't tick that box

[tulip relic]

oh you don’t have to check that bc you’re in high school rn

those are intended to be for transfers

iirc

[slate mountain]

okay, tysm

[unique cradle]

If i enrolled in calculus 2 in a dual enrollment course and plan to drop the course spring of my senior year should I still report the class as planned or not

[burnt ridge]

not planed

[unique cradle]

I had a 3d engineering design course during freshmen year and I forgot what I did… do i put it under extra coursework in my activity and awards section for uc apps

[desert escarp]

why would you drop it

[unique cradle]

The prof is awful and I know I will fail it

[half karma]

should i put national merit if the ucs are test blind

[harsh spindle]

yes, the score isn't going to be used in consideration of your admission but national merit is an achievement which you can add to your application

[half karma]

cool ty

[uneven gyro]

submitted my app

i’m getting like a rush of happiness this is not real 😭

[noble kraken]

ello

[dry pollen]

Yay!!

[burnt ridge]

hell o

[tulip relic]

the piqs are driving me mad ngl

like yes ik i have to tell not show

but i've given mine to review to a number of people and they're all saying different things

[silent nymph]

Yeah i dont rly get what im supposed to do either but

Im just doing whatever i feel like for each prompt 😭

[tulip relic]

just write how you speak

what’s what i’m going for

[frosty ibex]

hell yeah 🔥 !!

idk how to work on my piq, for one of them i adapted from a common app supp but i feel like it's not as straightforward as the UCs want it but idk how to do this fr 😭

[uneven gyro]

nooo u got it

[burnt ridge]

hm

they do say give back to the community

hmmm

should. I

i know some valueable uc piq informationo

[warm relic]

help the community

[dry pollen]

No one likes a gatekeeper and a baiter

[sweet citrus]

guarantee he knows jackshit

itll be something ripped off the website at best

[dry pollen]

Real

[strange cloud]

on today's episode

[tropic minnow]

Truly how horrible for this man (he's 6'2 btw)

[strange cloud]

i know right (he's 6'2 btw)

[warm relic]

He’s 6’2 btw

[cyan fog]

Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side.

What exactly are they looking for in this question?

I wrote my commonapp ps on my obsession with coffee brewing and how i applied the values i learnt from it

do you think that might work here?

[worn aurora]

oh yeah i've seen that one

but he's got a point though how do you steal 8 3D printers

[warm relic]

Depends since common app is 650 and uc piq is 350

[worn aurora]

my friend and his berkeley friends got together and pasted their piqs on a google doc and then sold it as a "guide to get into Berkeley" for like $30 a copy or something

he said it probably won't do shit but like he gets a free bag off it so

cant complain

[cyan fog]

yes ofc, its just that it will be easier to writr since i have smth worked out

i just wanna know what theyre looking for in that prompt

[warm relic]

It’s a bit vague or else it would be limiting if that makes sense but it’s just about your creative side and how that’s expressed, but more specifically they should be able to learn about you as a person, and that can come from you writing about your thought processes through things, steps u took to solve a problem, what you learned, things like that

[cyan fog]

okay yeah that makes sense

ty

ill think through it

[warm relic]

A common pitfall when ppl do them is focus too much on the problem (like on the significant challenge) and not how they dealt with that and grew from it, etc

Like the greatest skill I did not put a hard skill like sports or something

[worn aurora]

that's pretty much the structure to answering every college prompt

context/background -> challenge -> what you learned/how it shaped you as a person (or how it developed your interest for your field)

[warm relic]

Yes I’m saying a common issue is ppl focus too much on the challenge

[cyan fog]

mhm

[cyan fog]

yeah i have 1 piq left and i really cant decide what to write about

im not even sure what constitutes as a skill, talent, creative side

😭

kinda blanked out

[worn aurora]

anything tbh, if you can relate that to some broader theme even better

like you could say art contributes to your perspective on the world or approach to challenges idk

[strange cloud]

i should start my piqs

[warm relic]

Don’t stress too hard about it, I had no clue what to write either and wrote about random stuff, it’s more open ended than you think

[cyan fog]

Alright yeah

But I don't want to waste it either

[warm relic]

For sure don’t do that, the only advice I can say is the most cliche but also the most important, be yourself and tell them about you

[cyan fog]

Yo btw what are you studying at ucsd

[midnight vine]

wait this might be the strat

[harsh spindle]

time to make some extra cash scamming kids online

[worn aurora]

building my "personalized college admissions consultant" startup which is just a chatgpt wrapper that charges $25 a month

[harsh spindle]

exploit the system

[midnight vine]

you're not even doing anything wrong tbh, you're not scamming people or forcing them to buy it

[warm relic]

Computer science

[cyan fog]

how has it been

[warm relic]

I have no coding experience so it been a bit tough but not too bad

[cyan fog]

are you in state

[worn aurora]

Fellow uCSd student

[worn aurora]

Same logic scammers and drug dealers use

[midnight vine]

touche

[warm relic]

Yes

[warm relic]

Yea

[cyan fog]

Would you recommend it to someone who is intl considering the tuition fees and all 😭

[sweet citrus]

https://youtu.be/MXW1PV61Pt0?si=DuTk8QkwyBppBsYf

Man

We used to get such cool shit

[warm relic]

Uhhh well idk major in something you’re interested in and if it doesn’t work out you can always switch, tons of ppl switch majors throughout college and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to major in and I just picked cs

[warm relic]

Oh wait now I realize what u meant by this 😭

[tulip relic]

do any of yall here have tips for the piqs

i’m done with my drafts

[burnt ridge]

well major is show not tell

[tulip relic]

ik

no

tell not show

[noble kraken]

ive heard the opposite for piqs

[tulip relic]

yes

[burnt ridge]

i was told show not tell

[noble kraken]

didnt an AO once say you can use bullet points 💀

[burnt ridge]

😭 😭

what

[noble kraken]

for everything else yeah

but i think piqs are special

[burnt ridge]

i thought thats the general rule

interesting

interesting

[noble kraken]

yes

[tulip relic]

piqs are tell not show

[noble kraken]

but rules have exceptions

[tulip relic]

yes

uc is a case

[noble kraken]

just try to max out your content

dont worry about writing as much

[burnt ridge]

what 💀

[tulip relic]

they like their essays vanilla unlike commonapp who encourages diction by adding chocolate and sprinkles

uc just wants you to tell

content > your colorful writing

[noble kraken]

college essay guy:

[tulip relic]

yes

i’ve also asked some people who go to uc (or are applying here) and they all say similar things

[burnt ridge]

i mean realistically no one has done this

right

[noble kraken]

well bullet points is a bit far

but like you get the gist

[burnt ridge]

dang

now im rethinking my entire uc essays

i need to read some examples

ok nvm

im fine

im reading college essay guy

[tulip relic]

bullet points…

iirc on the uc website simply listing your accomplishments on your piqs will reduce the impact of your words?

[noble kraken]

yeah

[burnt ridge]

honestly

[noble kraken]

like obviously don't go that far

but yeah you should maximize info not style

[burnt ridge]

kinda hard to get ur points across w bullet points imo

[tulip relic]

just type like how you speak

imagine yourself one on one in a room between yourself and an ao

[burnt ridge]

yeah

[noble kraken]

yeah

and cut down the buildup

[burnt ridge]

my hook is the only really descriptive and creative writing

[noble kraken]

like personally in my essays i have a big build up to the main point

[burnt ridge]

is that fine

[noble kraken]

maybe don't include that

have a lot of examples

relate to your activities

[burnt ridge]

yeah my ucs are pretty much example heavy on my activties

3 of my piqs are kinda realted to my ecs

[noble kraken]

bring it back to your 13 points of review

[burnt ridge]

would a descriptive, imagery type of intro be bad 💀

[noble kraken]

not necessarily

just limit it

[burnt ridge]

its like 10 words

[noble kraken]

what ive heard is that they have a LOT of applications to read

[burnt ridge]

or some

[noble kraken]

so they get tired

[tulip relic]

most of my essays have minimal ties to my ecs

[noble kraken]

so thats why they say not to go overboard w writing

[tulip relic]

like i wanna tell the aos as much info about me as i can

[burnt ridge]

oh i just use my ecs as examples

[burnt ridge]

yeah its mainly my hooks only

eveyrthing is like j straightforward answering the prompts w examples

[noble kraken]

i think its fine

ngl i hate these piqs 😭

[tulip relic]

i just answer the question then detail my processes

[noble kraken]

cuz i write very creatively normally

😭

[tulip relic]

same lol

[burnt ridge]

i dont

i just thought colleges like it when u express creativity

[noble kraken]

i gotta dumb down my writing for this

[noble kraken]

they do

but this is uc 💀

[burnt ridge]

uc is a very intersting system

💀

no top garunteed admission

[tulip relic]

“not like the other girls”

[burnt ridge]

like ut

"i wanna be different"

[tulip relic]

their admissions is practically russian roulette

[burnt ridge]

no instate benefits too

😭 😭 😭

[tulip relic]

one person can be accepted into berkeley while rejected from riverside

[burnt ridge]

prolly yield protection

dont uc prefer oos over instate cause they get more money

[tulip relic]

yeah

davis is like 60% for oos

[burnt ridge]

well uci mainly

[tulip relic]

not sure about irvine but they have a lot of international students iirc

[burnt ridge]

interesting

my friend got wl at ucsc but got into purdue somehow last year

for engineering

but ucs are nice schools

[tulip relic]

they all have their own quirks

though at my school the amount of people who apply there are in the single digits

[burnt ridge]

really

are u oos?

[tulip relic]

i go to a competitive hs in texas

[noble kraken]

they do have instate benefits

[burnt ridge]

tuition costs mainly

i dont think anything else

[noble kraken]

but also acceptance

[burnt ridge]

💀

nah

[noble kraken]

i think only 10% of students are oos

[burnt ridge]

well i guess

easier to apply?

3.0 min for in state

and 3.4 for oos

[tulip relic]

yeah

[burnt ridge]

but realistically

regardless wherever ur from

[burnt ridge]

UCI

💀

i heard they accepted more oos than in state

[tulip relic]

international students

[burnt ridge]

that to

[tulip relic]

mostly from asian countties

[burnt ridge]

apperently IVY leagues as well

[tulip relic]

yeah

[burnt ridge]

have higher in state

like my friend who moved from india

hes considered international student

when applying

dudes got a huge boost in chances of getting in

[tulip relic]

irvine?

[burnt ridge]

nah stanford

[warm relic]

Yes I was very straightforward

• I asked for my admissions file back and they said they gained insight from 2 of my piqs

[midnight vine]

tbh my piqs were creative while still being straightforward

[noble kraken]

this is on their website

[burnt ridge]

u can get ur admission file back?

they leave comments on it and all?

[dense epoch]

Yes u can

They said my uc application was shit hot garbage ass disgusting ugly asf

[pallid stratus]

AHHHHHHHH IM CRASHING OUT THIS APPLICATION IS GONNA BR THE DEATH OF ME

sorry had to get that out

[warm relic]

They didn’t leave any comments for me but just gave me ratings for parts of my app but yes you can

[worn aurora]

Same

[frosty ibex]

tem says straightforward is good but focus more on clarity rather than being Boring

[worn aurora]

Maybe that’s why they’re called personal insight questions

[dense epoch]

Aye if u can’t get into a uc, u will get into usc

[worn aurora]

USC didn’t want me

Even though I lovelebron

And Bronny

My glorious Prince James

[dense epoch]

USC engineering has got me stressed

[worn aurora]

My cs assignment is being too extra

[warm relic]

K

[marsh sparrow]

skull

[strange cloud]

https://down-bad-rankings.web.app/american

LMAO

@tropic minnow

ur #5

[sly storm]

Was anyone at UC Berkeley last week? I swear, Saturday afternoon there was this random group of people shouting "Hawk Tuah nation" for like 10 seconds before they dispersed

[tropic minnow]

Just like our mascot (do NOT look up how the Banana slug reproduces) we are down bad

Honestly I'd say it tracks to an extent

It depends on the college

UCSD though

Surprised

But yeah I'd say it depends on the college, not the overall institution, but still accurate

[strange cloud]

have you SEEN the sub lately

its wild lmao

[tropic minnow]

Mfs are LOSING it over the height problem

[strange cloud]

lmfaoooo its so funny

[worn aurora]

mfs when they're 5'12 and not 6'0

[tranquil peak]

for ucs do the activities have to be I did x, y, z

or can it be more fun

[worn aurora]

it can be anything

hobbies count

[tranquil peak]

no i mean when im writing the description

[tropic minnow]

Meanwhile there's that one guy who's losing it over the women who suffer in this world (he's 6'2 btw)

[worn aurora]

one time when I was trying to take out my laptop I and I accidentally took out my 5 feminist literature books in front of the entire class

silly me

[tropic minnow]

Oh the horror of showing how much of a feminist you are

[worn aurora]

i got so embarassed and started sweating and when i was trying to reach for my vicuna wool cloth i accidentally took out the keys to my ferrari

[tranquil peak]

hi guys

someone please reply

for ucs when i submit lets say i submit to one uc can i go back and edit the PIQ after

[glad aurora]

nop

[tranquil peak]

or activities asnd all that other stuff

[glad aurora]

i dont thikn so atleast

[tranquil peak]

oh ok-

are u able to check or anything?

pls begging

[glad aurora]

not rly

you can dowload your app

[tranquil peak]

wdym

[tranquil peak]

what dis mean

[warm relic]

Pretty sure u can’t and even if u could there’s not much point

[strange cloud]

i started calling all the girls after lecture and telling them they're valued (i'm 6'2 btw)

[midnight vine]

you can see what you submitted but you cant change it

[silent nymph]

9th grade for me was still middle school and the subject names on the transcript are very broad (says “science” for biology and chemistry and such) what should i put for the subject area

Im thinking science i could put as interdisciplinary science maybe 😭 idk
Or i just put one of them and write about it in additional info

[slate mountain]

this is so real

ik someone who got rejected from every UC except berkeley and riverside

ends of the spectrum

also

if im planning to pursue nursing in the future

would human bio or general bio be a better major

there's also biochem, bio sciences, and chemistry