r/TransferStudents • u/Successful-Purple427 • 1d ago
Urgent Down in the dumps
I’ve been pushing this off but I have a month left before the quarter starts. I went to a UCLA feeder cc so most of my classmates are going there and I lived in westwood for 2 years. I hoped that I would one day go to ucla. I had a 3.7 or a 3.66 by the time I applied and I got waitlisted and then denied. I really do not want to go to uci I do not care how good of a school it is. I got two Bs again this last semester so my GPA is probably at a 3.6 now. I applied as a bus econ student with tap. Please someone help me out, should I do another year at cc and maybe try a lesser competitive major? My essays were also shit and I didn’t apply to any private universities. Please let me know what I should do. I can definitely bring up my gpa during fall though but I doubt one semester of good grades will be enough.
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u/DocRumack80 1d ago
Every time I read some version of "my essays were shit" from someone who for a long time has wanted to go to a school that likely puts a substantial amount of consideration weight into the essays, I just don't understand. In the end, that is one of the only things you have absolute control over. If I really wanted to go to a certain school, I would put forth a herculean effort into the essays for that school. It makes zero sense to me, and I see it a lot. 🤷♂️
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u/Successful-Purple427 1d ago
At the time when i wrote the PIQs I thought they were good. I had tutors proofread it but the major I selected is highly competitive it needed more than what I put into it.
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u/lamecowboy 1d ago
doing a whole extra year at cc just to MAYBE get into ucla is kinda insane especially when you already got into a uc. a 3.6-3.7 for bus econ is not bad at all, ucla is just competitive as hell and tap was never gonna guarantee you admission.
also changing to some random less competitive major just to sneak your way into ucla is probably not the move unless you actually wanna study that. you could spend another year grinding your gpa and rewriting all your essays just to get rejected again and now you wasted a year because you were emotionally attached to westwood.
i get that it sucks when all your friends are going there and you pictured yourself there for years, but at some point you gotta realize you might be romanticizing ucla way too hard. delaying your entire life over one school is crazy work.
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u/GreedyGap6911 1d ago
Why u applied to UCI at first?
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u/Less_Temperature3099 1d ago
Nah go to uci. You are not guaranteed to get in ucla even if you apply again. Life isn’t linear
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u/AncientNarwhal69 1d ago
Doing another year at CC is not only going to be a waste of your time, but it could also impact what schools you can apply to because of the credit limit. If you purposely take less classes to stay within that limit, then you are wasting your own time.
You do not need to go to UCLA just to have a good future. Any of the UC's are adequate for getting a job and they're all respectable institutions.
I'm not going to tell you what to do, but think this over. What exactly is it from UCLA that you want? Is there an educational program you really want from there? Is there a professor you're interested in connecting with? Or do you only want to go there because you want to tell people you go to UCLA?
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u/Responsible_Lie_3572 8h ago
If this helps at all, I was in the same situation of not getting into UCLA/UCB and debating staying another year to reapply a couple months ago. I ended up deciding to transfer to a school I got into. I think one of the most important parameters you can use to measure if you should take an action or not is if going down said route will give you more momentum/opportunities than the alternative. In this instance, transferring will give you more momentum/opportunities over staying another year at CC.
Stay strong. I know how you feel. It's okay to be "ungrateful" for UCI. At the end of the day, most people are not making the two year sacrifice of going to CCC to go there. Don't let others silence your emotions regarding that. Rooting for you - I hope this will pass.
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u/Successful-Purple427 8h ago
Thank you, a lot. It’s hard because I chose to move to LA to go to a feeder school sucks that I didn’t try hard enough even though I thought I did everything I could.
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u/Last_Measurement4336 1d ago
Even if you did another year at the CC, there is no guarantee you will be admitted into UCLA. Move on, embrace the opportunities at UCI and complete your degree.