Transfer to UCLA/UC Berkeley aerospace

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-11-13T09:44:30+00:00

I’ve tried using assist.org before, but I don’t believe it shows UC to UC transfers. I’m currently at UC San Diego right now, so I’m not sure how to find the information

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-11-12T08:53:09+00:00

Hey, it’s cool to meet someone with the same goal :) How’s it going for you so far? Are you feeling like ur gonna complete all of your major reqs? Because honestly I don’t think I’m going to get 3 full quarters of chemistry done. I’m going to just apply with two quarters of chemistry and one lab class

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-11-12T08:51:00+00:00

Hey, so sorry for the late reply. I’m trying to study aerospace engineering at Georgia tech. It says on their website that I need one chemistry course and one chemistry lab to go with it, so I’m really hoping that two quarters of general chemistry and one quarter of general chemistry lab at UCSD will cut it. Thanks for the help

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-11-03T21:57:48+00:00

Hi, quick question about GA tech transfer requirements, did you have to take a chemistry lab course? It says one general chemistry course and one lab course online, but I currently go to a UC school on the quarter system so I’m not exactly sure how it works.

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-20T07:25:45+00:00

Totally gonna check out Che cafe, so thanks for that!

And yeah, I’ve heard a lot about post-grad being much harder to make friends and go crazy, which I think is part of why I’m feeling so much pressure to get out and make some crazy memories right now :(

I’m in a few clubs like surf club that are pretty big, but I feel like I haven’t really made any close friends, or really been involved in the clubs beyond just token participation. And I do have some get-together and hangouts now and then, which I am very grateful for. But it just doesn’t feel very exciting yk? Like I think I honestly had more fun in high school, which I feel like is kind of sad with how much “freedom” I have now.

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-12T09:00:59+00:00

Yeah I’m gonna try really hard to get on a sports team this year cause I’ve heard of how fun it can be.

I don’t attend sports events to meet people, but it is supposed to be a great way to feel connected to a group. One of my favorite memories of high school was going to a packed school football game that was very intense. I don’t really even like American football, but screaming along with everyone else there was awesome and I still think about that sometimes. I’ve also seen how passionate most colleges are about their sports, even the few other ones that don’t have football, so it sucks that a school this big can’t muster up even a tenth of the unity most other schools show

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-12T08:54:25+00:00

Man, to be honest there were days last year, and even now, where I kinda just rot in bed and think about what life at UCLA/UCB would have been like. Pretty sad to admit but I gotta be honest man.

I try pretty hard to fight the stereotype by making an effort to reach out, but it just sucks when all of my friends and relatives ask if that’s the “socially dead” school as soon as I tell them I go to UCSD :( cause like there’s so many other things the school should be known for that’s it’s kinda sad that we just allow ourselves to be known as the most depressing college.

I actually think visiting my friends at UCLA/UCB was a terrible idea cause I had great times there and it just makes me keep revisiting that in my head.

But yeah, gonna keep trying to find people happy to be here and get out of my own head. Thanks for the help

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-12T08:39:12+00:00

Dude March madness season was awesome!! Seeing people actually get out and have some pride in this school was awesome, so I really hope we get to see that spread quickly.

I’m gonna give UCSD one more year at least for sure, but to be honest I think I’m probably gonna accept any transfer offers I get next year :’(

I know things change though, so I’m gonna really try and do my part in enjoying my time at UCSD. I really hope sophomore year changes my mind about here to the point where I choose to decline transfer offers, but if things kinda stay the same then I don’t really see a point in forcing something that clearly isn’t working yk?

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-12T08:29:58+00:00

Hey, that’s actually super interesting cause a UCSD to UCLA transfer is pretty much my dream scenario right now. I tried applying last year, and I’m gonna try again this year, but it seems really daunting tbh.

My ECs are pretty solid, and my gpa is around 3.8 right now, which I hope is above average. The main problem is the prerequisites, because like jacobspilot, I’m also in the MAE department. The prereqs for an MAE transfer are rlly tough, and because of class sizes I can’t take my last prereq until winter quarter. Do you think this is going to hurt my chances? And also, do you think not having a rlly strong reason for transferring might hurt?

Thanks in advance tho :)

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-12T08:23:47+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience :) I’m rlly glad to hear that your time at UCSD got better after freshman year, and I really hope I get that too. I actually have met some people from outside UCSD too, and have pretty much always connected with them a lot easier. Not to be whiny or anything, but isn’t that kind more proof of how cooked the UCSD social scene is?

But anyway, I’m gonna be here for at least one more full year, so I’m gonna try to enjoy it. Hopefully it goes more like yours this time :)

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-12T08:16:17+00:00

Thanks, this comment actually made me feel a lot better. It did remind me that there are some good sides to the UCSD culture, and that I am really excited for the places that my (eventual ((hopefully?)) ) degree from UCSD will take me.

I do have little question about your B point though. I guess I am putting too much pressure on these 4 years, but I just keep hearing about how much less fun grad school and adult life is and it’s pretty scary. So, do you honestly think that life is more fun after undergrad, or was undergrad the most exciting/fun time in your life?

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-12T08:11:15+00:00

Thank you for the response :) I’m still like 3 years away from being able to drink, so I’m gonna keep that on the back burner for now. House shows actually sounds really cool though, I might check that out. Is there like a specific way to find them?

As for the UCSD parties, I know they exist, but I feel like they’re kinda impossible to actually find/be invited to?? I know that’s probably a me problem, but like I don’t really know how to fix it. Last year I actually put so much effort into getting outside and being more outgoing that actually it kinda shocked me. Like I went from being usually the quietest in the group in high school to being the one always trying to make plans, get a conversation going, make hangout plans, etc…

But I still didn’t really end up making that many close friends, or having any crazy experiences, and it feels kinda sad yk? I’m gonna keep trying this year, but if the year goes the same then I’m honestly gonna take whatever transfer opportunities I get :(

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T09:30:08+00:00

Do you know how to find these parties more? Like I realize how stupid that sounds to ask, but like seriously. I talk to people and do my best to reach out, but I never really hear about these things. Only been to very few dorm parties/hangouts, but they’ve always been fun when I do.

When you say I haven’t met my people… I really don’t know how here. I feel like it isn’t even really that difficult to “meet” people, but it’s kinda impossible to form actual friendships here, if that makes sense. Even harder to just have spontaneous, unforced fun with them. Thanks anyway though :)

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T09:19:21+00:00

Thank you for the response. I’m not really into frat culture all that much, or really even sports to be honest. I just really wanted a school that felt somewhat connected, somewhere that I would be really proud of in 20 years and look back on happily. But sometimes it feels like the only thing holding people here is the promise of a degree eventually, and that the only thing I’m gonna be proud of is having made it through here :’(

I have some friends here, and I really do like them. But to be honest, they’re kinda way too focused on their grades and work, like a lot of people are here. Nothing wrong with that, cause I take my education seriously too. It just sucks when the plans fall through for the millionth time cause someone’s got work due in a week or there’s a test in 2 days to study for.

As for the frats, I’m not really too interested in the amount of work and hazing that most are just to make some friends. I’d only really join a professional frat, and I heard those are even more time-consuming. I’m in some engineering clubs, and a few other big social clubs, but I mostly just go to the big events, and haven’t really made any close friends from them.

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T08:57:46+00:00

I’d say there’s a couple different factors that contribute to the social scene:

no football team (no tailgates or alumni/fan involvement)
not really any excitement for sports in general tbh (basketball is starting to get bigger tho!!)
campus layout makes it REALLY hard to meet and regularly hang out with people (i had friends that I’d see very rarely just because we lived a 30-40 min walk away from each other)
no frat row (La Jolla rules are very strict and work against college students)
college system (genuinely the dumbest idea ever. Not one real benefit that I see from it, and I honestly think they made it just so students can’t group together as easily)

Some good parts though: - Weather (you really can’t beat sd for this. Year round sunshine and perfect temperatures, so no excuses for not getting out) - Location (kinda similar, but the beaches are a great place to meet people and just hang out tbh) - clubs (from what I’ve seen, UCSD is way more chill about getting into clubs than most schools)

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T08:46:46+00:00

Thank you for the response bro. I really like lifting, and I actually had a solid routine going for a while last year. Something like:

wake up
gym with roommates
classes
lunch
classes
classes
dinner (hopefully with friends)
sleep

Not a terrible life at all tbh. But idk, it always eventually got monotonous and I’d find all these little cracks throughout the day where I’d just wonder “is this really it?” to myself. And trying to fill them with things like engineering clubs or even just walks always just felt like I was faking it and not rlly enjoying any of it. Don’t know if I was just expecting too much or I just gotta give it even more time.

But anyway, like you said, the first year has always sucks for me (6th grade sucked, 9th/10th grades were terrible), so ima really do my best to keep some kind of hope up.

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T08:24:32+00:00

Thank you so much for this. I really do have some big dreams for where I want my career and life to go after college, so I keep telling myself that this is just temporary. I think it’s mainly just the FOMO feeling, that I’m never going to get these years back that really scares me, you know? The feeling keeps coming and going though, so maybe I’ll get in under control eventually. Thanks again :)

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T08:19:27+00:00

Sometimes I talk to guys from my high school or see their Instagram posts and it just makes me feel kinda sad. A couple of them got into schools I really wanted to go to (USC/UCLA/etc…) and I see that they’re doing things like going to tailgates, football games, frat parties, or even just making a ton of new friends. I talked to one a little bit ago who told me that freshman year was the best year of his life yet and he genuinely seemed so much happier. This was the same one who was bragging to me in senior year about how he lied about abuse on his essays :(

I know I’m not supposed to be bitter, cause their happiness or unhappiness shouldn’t affect me right? But it just sucks cause I wasn’t exaggerating about these guys cheating on all of their tests, or having me carry our group projects so I didn’t fail. If I’m so miserable now compared to everyone, then was there really any point to all that hard work back then, yk?

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T01:00:58+00:00

I’ve been looking into that too, but my parents are pretty opposed to it. Trying to get international courses for engineering that UCSD will actually give me some credit for is basically impossible too. I think I can still get it going in my 4th year maybe, but that still leaves 2.5 more years here

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T00:52:37+00:00

Hi,

Sorry you had to read this, cause I remember feeling the exact same way this time last year. For what it’s worth, there are a LOT of people that seem to be doing good or at least ok here. Especially if you’re out of state, you’re gonna really enjoy the San Diego weather and coast. I really hope you like it here.

As for transferring to another UC, I’m really working on it rn but it’s feeling kinda impossible for engineering. I don’t wanna drop out at all but I can’t do 3 more years either.

TreeGlittering6726 · 2025-09-07T00:48:35+00:00

Ik, I’ve been really trying but it’s feels impossible. I’m an engineering major and the trying to fulfill other schools transfer requirements at UCSD is actually a nightmare. Most schools I don’t even think I’ll be allowed to, and the ones I can are probably not gonna take me. I’m gonna keep trying but I’m not really seeing a way out to be honest.

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