2014 Fall UCSD Transfer Decisions Thread

<p>^^ logged in and mine is there as well. NOT CLICKING OUT. haha</p>

<p>All first wave admissions should be up. I’m sitting with 4 other people who applied to UCSD as transfers and all of our results loaded. Good luck to all of you!</p>

<p>Lucky you guys!</p>

<p>The admissions page is back up with my decision again!
I’m glad it wasn’t a fluke, haha.
I posted my stats here already but I’ll use the more complete “standard” format, now that I know for sure:</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted (Sixth College)</p>

<p>UC GPA: 3.70
Major Pre-reqs Completed (Y/N): No, missing second year of calculus and the science sequence, but I got all As in the many CS courses I took.
Intended Major: Computer Science
TAG?: No
IGETC?: Yes</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (clubs, leadership, volunteer, work): Nothing really related to my major on my application. Honors student, some small writing award, etc.
Additional Details: Had 4 Ws.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Estimated Family Contribution(EFC)/Income Bracket: decline to state
Attending Transfer Admit Day? (if admitted): Not sure.</p>

<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected (strengths/weaknesses): I think it mostly boiled down to my overall GPA, to be honest. (Does UCSD even read Personal Statements for transfers?). Also, I took a lot of extra computer science classes throughout each semester and got good grades in them, which might have helped. I doubt I would have been admitted if CS was impacted this year (which it will be 2015) because of my missing pre-reqs, so I lucked out.</p>

<p>Good luck to those still waiting and congratulations to those who got in!</p>

<p>It’s great to hear that things appear to be going more smoothly now :slight_smile: congrats, you guys!</p>

<p>Did anyone else notice in their portal that they got rid of the Apply for Undergrad Housing? They probably got sick of all of us checking that tab even though it doesn’t mean anything haha</p>

<p>Edit: nevermind, I guess it’s back for me?</p>

<p>It’s showing up for me, movieguy.</p>

<p>I just edited my post. I guess it was gone for a quick second</p>

<p>I am assuming that the people that have not gotten a decision by this time are part of the next batch, right? Or are more decisions going to come out later today ? </p>

<p>Decision: Accepted (Muir College)</p>

<p>UC GPA: 3.6
Major Pre-reqs Completed (Y/N): Y
Intended Major: Computer Science
TAG?: Yes
IGETC?: Yes</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (clubs, leadership, volunteer, work): honors, compsci club, robotics club, volunteer stuff, work, programming competitions
Additional Details: 3 Ws
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
Ethnicity: Mexican
Gender: Male
Estimated Family Contribution(EFC)/Income Bracket: haha, not a lot
Attending Transfer Admit Day? (if admitted): Probably</p>

<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected (strengths/weaknesses): I took EVERY computer science and programming class available, got As in all of them. I don’t know if UCSD cares, but I’m Mexican, and my personal statement was good.</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone! May the rest of the admissions process go smoothly.</p>

<p>@domnomial, did you receive a notification by email? I’m also a CS TAG student but on MyApplication it still says under review.</p>

<p>@underbear, Nope, I just decided to check, and I saw that a decision was posted.</p>

<p>my housing message just changed to “The housing application will be available in late-March and available for those admitted to UC San Diego” from “admissions status will not let you proceed with this Housing Application”</p>

<p>is it good sign?? </p>

<p>Decision: Accepted (Muir College)</p>

<p>UC GPA: Not sure how to calculate this. Got straight A’s and 2 B’s.
Major Pre-reqs Completed (Y/N): Never knew where to find prereqs, the counselor i spoke to told me that only the impacted majors had a required set of prereqs, and that if the major is not impacted, you only had to complete the general UC transfer requirements and I suppose it helps to have as many of the major requirements as possible prior to transfer. But I was basing most of my coursework off UCI’s Public Health requirements and I suppose there was enough overlap to get me into UCSD =)
Intended Major: Public Health
TAG?: No
IGETC?: Yes</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (clubs, leadership, volunteer, work): a little volunteer work here and there, was co-captain of a basketball league i played in for a season. did some tutoring.
Additional Details: CSU to CC to UC applicant. It’s been a wild ride.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Estimated Family Contribution(EFC)/Income Bracket: too rich to get any financial aid, too poor to pay for it out of pocket.
Attending Transfer Admit Day? (if admitted): Hopefully</p>

<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected (strengths/weaknesses): Strong grades coupled with what i believe was an excellent personal statement. </p>

<p>Good luck you guys, can’t wait for more of us to get in. </p>

<p>Is this the real decision?? I’m not even sure anymore! I’ll just do a much more clean stat update though.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted, Revelle</p>

<p>UC GPA: 3.78
Major Pre-reqs Completed (Y/N): Yes
Intended Major: Physics
TAG?: Yes
IGETC?: Completed</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (clubs, leadership, volunteer, work): Member clubs, vice president of STEM club, engineering competitions.
Additional Details:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Sort of
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
Ethnicity: Native American
Estimated Family Contribution(EFC)/Income Bracket: 200
Attending Transfer Admit Day? (if admitted): Yep!</p>

<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected (strengths/weaknesses): If TAG didn’t guarantee me acceptance I think my personal statements would have been the deciding factor alongside my gender and major. I had a terrible semester last year due to severe family health issues and I battled depression because of it. It tanked my GPA, but I’m still intending to push through school, so I guess that says something.</p>

<p>Good luck everyone! </p>

<p>YAYYYYY I guess I was in the first group of people getting decisions :slight_smile:
Decision: Accepted (Muir College)
UC GPA: 3.85 when applied, 3.81 after update.
Intended major: Physiology and Neuroscience
Major prerequisites completed: YES
TAG: NO (I tagged at Davis)
Extracurriculars: LEAP Member at Stanford School of medicine (working on a project that will benefit the hispanic community in my area). Student Panelist for 5 years for first generation students, Supplemental Instructor for general chem, volunteer tutor for Organic chem, Co-author of a paper displayed in the 2014 ASEE Journal. Intern at a STEM Institute program where we introduced HS students to all the STEM disciplines… Presented research at the high school and CC level along with other Stanford Graduates through the STAr program. I also worked as a math tutor for a whole summer. PTK member, and Honors transfer program member. Recently won the all California Academic Team (first team) chosen from thousands of students at the state level etc etc…
Reasons I was accepted: First generation student, took honors courses, a ton of ECs etc… </p>

<p>Wish you all the best :slight_smile: </p>

<p>did you guys get any email?</p>

<p>nothing for me today. I guess I didn’t make it into the first round </p>

<p>Decision: Accepted, Marshall </p>

<p>UC GPA: 3.83 (I think, haven’t looked)
Major Pre-reqs Completed (Y/N): No
Intended Major: Computer Engineering
TAG?: No
IGETC?: Completed</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (clubs, leadership, volunteer, work): Golf
Additional Details: My essays were just recycled from HS and I have no CS or Physics classes done except AP Physics credit from HS.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
Ethnicity: White
Estimated Family Contribution(EFC)/Income Bracket: Not sure, but not alot
Attending Transfer Admit Day? (if admitted): I don’t know</p>

<p>I didn’t get any email… I just checked and it was there. </p>