is there anyone who goes to NYU, UCLA, UCSB, POMONA, UCI, im interested in goin there n i wanna know what people who go there think about those colleges??
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
Cal Poly Pomona? If your major isnt engineering, dont bother applying there.
For UC, apply to UCLA, UCI and UC Berkeley only.
Whats you major ?
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
Judging from your location.....UC DeAnza would not be bad option....
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
^ lol .. are u a saratogan too??
not cal poly pomona.. just pomona college.
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
I did a lot of research on all those schools and visited most of them when doing my undergrad, i think we could help you more if we knew what you are interested in studying. :)
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^^Lest, I don’t have the good fortune to live in an affluent locale…but close enough…
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well im not sure what i wanna study, either business, econ, architecture, real estate.
anything thats not to science related.
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oh n i'll tell you what else i dont wanna be,
a doctor, lawyer, engineer, ( yeah the desi careers)
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
Personally I would go to either Berkeley or UCLA . How's your GPA and SAT scores?
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i have a 3.5 ish. and havent gotten my sat scores yet..
i would prob go to ucla over berkley if i got it ( did u know ucla took like (9% of its applicants this year) but i heard that at ucla people are scary smart, and berkley its nice, but its 45 min from home..
is uci really the davis of so. cal?? ( cus its got tons of desis too)
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
UCLA and UC Berkeley are the most competitive and selective schools out of the entire UC system.
Rest of the article here: UC Reduces Its Low-SAT Acceptances
UCI = University of Chinese Immigrants. Its a pretty good school overall, better ranked than UC Davis. There are infact more desi at USC and CSU Fullerton comparatively.
Call Poly Pomona has a pretty good architecture program from what Ive heard. But you can never go wrong with UCLA and UC Berkeley, whatever your choice of major may be.
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
UCLA people are scary more than smart, kidding!
Anyway yeah their (UCLA and Berkeley’s) admission has gone up, in 2001 when i grad. from high school you had to have a good 3.80+ GPA and 1150+ SAT scores, to get admission. Not to scare you or anything. You might want to step it up by doing lots of community service, National honor society, better yet come up with a club at your high school.
Ugh i still have nightmares about USC, those jerks.
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
ive thought about comm college, but i really really dont wanna stay here for 2 more years.
i volunteer alot, im in a club, and am gonna take some classes at a community college this summer,
my sat scores are above 1000,
did u go to usc, was it that bad??
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
sara to be honest, you have better chances of getting into UCLA as a junior transfer student from a community college, provided your GPA stays above 3.5 there. Apparently, its not just the SAT scores UC looks at and 3.5 GPA in high school is good but not enough unfortunately.
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
^thanks, and ive kinda realized that, it sucks too cus when i was a freshmen i thought getting into college was gonna be easy ( damn those smart asians)
but i think ive moved past the ucla only thing, what are my chances at other colleges.. is it sucky too.
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
You know if you want to study business or finance, Baruch college is really good. It's part of CUNY, The City university of New York, but the fact that it's public doesnt make it any less prestigius or academic than NYU or Columbia.....
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
Sara aara,
ever heard of this- a system called “dual enrollment”
For many students, college life begins in high school
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 Posted: 4:17 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) – In his third year of college courses, Malcolm Webb is becoming a skilled welder and working toward an engineering degree. Not bad for a high school student.
The 17-year-old is a junior at Snowflake High School in northeastern Arizona. He also is enrolled at Northland Pioneer College through a system called dual enrollment (this program is NOT similar to advanced placement courses in High school). He earns both high school and college credit for the advanced work, meaning he is on faster pace to join the work force than others who will finish high school next year.
Today, it seems, college is not just for college students anymore, according to two studies released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal agency.
Some 57 percent of all colleges and universities had high school students taking college courses for credit in 2002-03. Among only public schools, almost all community colleges had high schoolers enrolled in courses, as did most four-year institutions.
“It’s becoming more common for us in this area,” said Webb, who leaves his high school setting to attend college welding and math classes. “It feels good going to the college campus. You’re not just surrounded by everyone of the same age. In a job, not everyone is going to be the same age or from the same background. … This helps me a lot in life.”
Most high school students who take college courses are part of a system in which their schools reach agreement with colleges about shared credit, course offerings and other details. Other students enroll directly with colleges if their school has no such system.
Some 813,000 high school students took college courses in 2002-03; that’s about one in every 20 high school students. The percentage would be even higher if the numbers were narrowed to the students in grades 11 and 12 who typically take the college classes, said Susan Sclafani, the assistant secretary for vocational and adult education at the Education Department.
These college courses – offered in high schools, on college campuses and elsewhere – are separate from popular Advanced Placement courses. More than 1.1 million students took AP exams in 2004, which can lead to college credit, depending on how well a student performs.
The two studies released Wednesday reflect the first federal estimates of dual enrollment and dual credit, based on surveys of college and high school officials. Sclafani said the results are limited and do not offer the same room for analysis that firm enrollment numbers would.
But whatever the number of high school students in college classes, “it’s probably not enough, when we consider the number of students who could benefit from it,” she said. That especially is true for 12th-graders who often have free time as they near graduation, she said.
The classes are credited with giving students access to a wider range of courses, helping families save money and engaging young people in the college process. In 38 states, there are dual enrollment systems, with various levels of detail on matters such as course quality.
Schools in rural areas and with high minority enrollments are the least likely to offer courses for which students could earn dual high school and college credit, surveys found.
The Bush administration has proposed a $125 million program to encourage states to set up dual enrollment systems, particularly for poor and minority students.
Among other highlights from the studies:
–89 percent of colleges said the curricula of the courses taken by high school students were the same as they were for regular college students; 3 percent said the courses were specially designed for the high school students; and 8 percent said the curricula varied.
–26 percent of college programs on high school campuses were taught by college instructors, 32 percent by high school instructors while 42 percent used both.
–40 percent of colleges said high schoolers and parents paid part or all of the tuition for the college classes, and 19 percent said there was no charge for students and parents. The rest of the colleges reported varying amounts of payments by students and parents.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/04/06/early.college.ap/index.html
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
sara- i would go to an outta state public school but my parents wouldnt let me ( cus we have some public colleges in cali too.. ) thats sucks cus i would hella love to go to college in ny.
so if i wanted to go to a small college it would have to be one in cali.
so im also tryin to find colleges that i would want to go to in so. cal ( cus i really have to get outta Toga)
Re: Nyu, Ucla, Ucsb, Pomona, Uci,
Why not email the MSA/PSA lists at the schools? I know NYU has an active one.
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would msa/psa help me get in?? or would they just tell me stuff about the school?? cus ive been to a couple of their sites.