<p>This is my first post here. I have kind of a weird situation that I was wondering about and I thought this would be the best place to get the answers. I am currently a second semester freshman at a prestigious, 4 year university on the east coast. I plan to transfer to a CCC next year, and then UCLA the year after, if possible.</p>
<p>Due to medical reasons, I got a 3.0 last semester. I plan on doing better, but I don't know how much better I'll be able to do. Lets say I come out of my university this year with a 3.3. Then at community college I'll hopefully be able to get a 4.0 both semester or close to it. That would bring me to a 3.65 GPA overall. So, with TAP and IGETC and all that, do you think that would be enough to get me into UCLA? Would UCLA take into account the rigor of my current school and my illness when evaluating my GPA? If not, is there anything I can do to be more desirable as an applicant? Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>If you managed to fulfill IGETC and TAP, you would have a good shot, but that will almost definitely take you longer than you’re anticipating. If you apply this fall, odds are you won’t be admitted just because you’ll only have one semester of CCC under your belt, and your progression towards IGETC, let alone TAP, will probably not be that close to being finished.</p>
<p>I would say that you’ll probably need to spend 2 years in CCC, but hey, if you do it in one somehow, kudos to you!</p>
<p>After this semester, I think I’ll be looking good as far as IGETC. Does Calculus I count for the math credit? Also, does anyone know where I can find a list of specific courses that would work for Arts & Humanities and the Physical Sciences?</p>
<p>I was thinking Econ. Is it possible for econ to be my first major and have another second major and if I don’t get accepted as an econ major I can get accepted as the second major?</p>
<p>I don’t mean to sound harsh, but with your stats it would be near-impossible to get into UCLA for Econ since it is one of the TOUGHEST majors to get into (even moreso than engineering! - according to the fall 2010 numbers, the avg. gpa admitted was something like 3.95).</p>
<p>However, if I’m not mistaken (someone correct me if I’m wrong), you can list an alternate major if you do TAP. My suggestion to you would be to list “Math” as the alternate major since it is quite similar in it’s requirements to Econ, and it is far far less competitive (3.6ish avg. gpa admitted). Besides, after you join UCLA there is nothing that prevents you from taking econ courses as well since you would be in the college of letters and sciences</p>
<p>You could also consider “Math-Econ” as your alternate, but that had a higher avg. admitted gpa of around 3.75</p>
<p>Ok thanks. I mean the problem is that I’m not particularily interested in a math/econ major. Lets say I got my gpa to a 3.75 gpa, with interships and strong ecs, do you think its possible to get in to econ or business-econ?</p>
<p>Also, do they do GPA by semester or by averaging the gpa from classes? Because I’ve taken different numbers of classes during my semesters so far, and that could help my gpa.</p>
<p>Yeah sorry to say but average GPA for Economics last year was 3.95 for UCLA. Your best shot is applying for math-economics as above has said. If TAP is offered at your school apply for Economics and math-economics as your alternate.</p>