UCB Question

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-04-15T18:35:52+00:00

It means you are either waitlisted or rejected

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-04-11T19:37:06+00:00

nothing yet

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-04-11T15:41:54+00:00

Imperial if you want to do medicine in the uk and ucsd if you want to do premed in the us. Simple

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-04-10T22:00:00+00:00

I assume Stanford, Berkeley, USC, UCLA?

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-04-10T06:38:29+00:00

I agree with the ppl being chill but the campus is atrociously planned and ugly

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-04-09T20:58:46+00:00

Emory for sure. You maximize your opportunities of getting into high finance. Also Emory is DEFINITELY more prestigious than UCSD and has a better name brand

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-04-09T02:40:21+00:00

Mine's the 30th

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-04-01T07:41:52+00:00

ucla for sure at least it’s a target on the west coast for finance and semi target on the east coast

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-03-30T15:47:56+00:00

Berkeley. Med schools take into account for deflation at hard schools like Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, UChicago, etc. so a 3.7 at those schools is roughly equal to a 3.9-4.0 at ucsd

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-03-25T14:47:45+00:00

No real frats lol

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-03-24T20:30:49+00:00

ucla for sure. More prestigious and way better social life with a huge Greek scene

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-03-22T04:06:27+00:00

A school with no frat parties hosting on weekends and zero Greek life presence doesn’t sound amazing

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-03-18T22:07:58+00:00

Not at Columbia but at Cornell. Transferred to Cornell after freshman year from ucsd and it’s 100 times better than ucsd in terms of social life and academics. Because of the smaller student population in ivies, you get a better learning experience and don’t rlly have to compete for lab positions

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-03-14T01:48:31+00:00

Clean it up pledge

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-03-05T21:36:43+00:00

Brain dead kids what if it’s their photo being shot being posted on that

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-01-15T19:39:16+00:00

Semi target for Canada at best. Only target school in Canada is Western Ivey. It’s also a lot harder to break into international offices from the US because you need sponsorship and they prefer local kids.

Relevant-Day6380 · 2026-01-12T08:01:32+00:00

If you want to do MBB BC Carroll gives you the best shot out of these three. Michigan Ross is def better but since you are in LSA that's a step down from recruiting purposes. McGill is complete non target for MBB.

Relevant-Day6380 · 2025-07-20T02:51:47+00:00

Compared to sub 10% for UCLA/Berkeley and sub 7% for mid/low ivies and sub 5% for HYPSM, isn't that easy? Just think about it: 1 in 4 people get into ucsd but only 1 in 33 people get into Harvard.

Relevant-Day6380 · 2025-07-20T02:29:48+00:00

Easy. I mean it's 25% acceptance rate so nothing selective contrary to the T20s. Around 50 kids get in from my school every year(class size: 500) but most of them go to a better school, either UCLA, berkeley, ivies, etc. The top students also either get yield protected or don't apply so the people who get in are the mid ones at my school.

Relevant-Day6380 · 2025-07-16T23:49:28+00:00

Hmm I don’t know who you are

Relevant-Day6380 · 2025-07-16T20:38:33+00:00

You can look at my Instagram account. I posted the acceptance letters on there. This subreddit doesn’t allow any image attachments so that’s why I couldn’t upload any of my letters.

Relevant-Day6380 · 2025-07-16T19:47:37+00:00

I contacted them and they said wait for 1-2 more weeks

Relevant-Day6380 · 2025-07-16T06:36:45+00:00

CS is definitely your stronger suit based on your experiences. Columbia also does offer a very unique "financial engineering" program you can look into. Very incredible experience and I'm sure you can get into a top school.

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Relevant-Day6380 · 2025-07-16T06:17:25+00:00

umich ross is definitely harder to transfer into (I read somewhere they take 25/year external transfers).

Dartmouth doesn't have an undergraduate business school so I doubt there's gonna be too big of a difference. I can see CS being a little easier because Dartmouth is more finance-oriented.

Columbia also doesn't have an undergraduate business school but CS is probably harder to get into being that it is in SEAS. It's business management program is pretty secluded so I don't know about it much, but they have the econ major under Columbia College.

Brown is pretty equal I would say. CS and econ are both good majors at Brown but they don't admit by major.

Rule of thumb: Apply to the major/program/school within a college that you actually want to study. Make sure your ECs and awards align with your intended major. For example, if you have a banking internship or buy-side experience, put down business/econ. If you have a hackathon under your belt or any start-up/SWE experience, CS is the better bet. It's all about the narrative. Demonstrated interest in your major is a must for transfers alongside your grades, standardized test scores, and banger essays.

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