r/ucadmissions

I'm a CC transfer who got into all UCs except Cal. I'm from LA so was considering UCLA, but I took my family's advice of living in a new place and going to a "chiller" school where I'd hopefully enjoy life more.

Now I'm at UCSB and miserable. Housing is nowhere near worth the price, I don't fit into the culture, job opps seem dry as hell compared to LA, and now I can only see my boyfriend on weekends. I chose this school because I thought I'd be happy here, but I don't see a point in being here if it's not even fulfilling that requirement. (I don't mean to diss UCSB, I'm just saying why it's not for me.)

I want to reapply to UCLA for Fall 2027. I already have 66 units completed from CC alone and I'm worried about being ineligible for transfer if I do this year at UCSB because of the unit cap. What would be the best choice to get accepted to UCLA: withdraw from UCSB and go to CC for another year, stay at UCSB for the year, or take a gap year? The last option isn't ideal because I already took 2 years off school but I'm willing to do whatever will boost my chances the most. If you've been in a similar situation, what did you do?

Hi everyone.

I am a junior in HS, and I got a C in AP Calc AB 1st semester. I want to be a computer engineer and I wanna go to a UC, how badly does this affect my chances? Should I give up?

I’m a California high school senior applying to UCs for fall 2027, and I’m worried that not taking calculus will hurt my chances at schools like UCLA, Berkeley, and UCSD (my top school is UCSD). I’m planning to major in biology, and AP Precalculus is the highest math class I’ll be able to take before graduating.

For context, my school requires students to take Precalculus before Calculus, so I can’t skip a math level. There was an option to take Math 1 in middle school, which would’ve allowed me to take Math 2 freshman year and put me further ahead, but I didn’t take that option. I started with Math 1 in freshman year instead, and an additional math requirement now applies to me.

Some students at my school are taking Calc BC senior year because they started math earlier in middle school, so they’re about two years ahead of me. The additional requirement didn’t affect their sequence the same way it affected mine.

I did try looking into taking a math class over the summer to get ahead. I talked to both my high school and community college counselors, but there weren’t any eligible classes available, and my community college had discontinued the course equivalent to Precalculus.

My question is whether I should try taking a college-level math class during spring semester to show that I’m willing to challenge myself academically and there’s also no available college math class for fall semester currently. Would the UCs even see that I’m planning to take it when they review my application, and would it make a meaningful difference in admissions? Or would it be too late to help?

I know I should’ve taken Math 1 in middle school if I wanted to get ahead, but I can’t change that now, and I’m trying to figure out what I can realistically do at this point.

I’d appreciate any advice, especially from people familiar with UC admissions. I don’t want to overload myself with another class if it won’t make much difference, but I’m worried about being at a disadvantage for not taking calculus.

is it dumb if i’m from ohio and i want to go to a uc school, specifically to study environmental policy and minor in something business related?

So I made a chance me around a month or two ago, here’s the original post.

In that post I put that I’ll be applying to these colleges all with data science. But I realized that for specifically UC Berkeley and no other UC, I can apply for computer science (since their course requirements in assist.org is so small compared to the rest of the UC’s)

So I was wondering with almost the same stats I have from the original post, what’s my chances of getting into specifically UC Berkeley for computer science as I know it’s a very impacted major and is very competitive. I’m sure my chances are much less than data science.

Some things to note:
- I mentioned being a CS tutor at my community college, I recently quit that position 😭 (I’m still a part-time cs instructor for an outside organization tho)
- Originally before I was a data science major I was a computer science major, I only switched due to the competitiveness. So I do genuinely like cs and would rather major in that than ds.
- If I do set cs as my primary major, I will still put ds as an alternate major in the case I don’t get in with cs.

Please be like really blunt with me, I want to know my chances for real lol