Can you get into UCLA with a 3.6 and TAP?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Not saying that's what you averaged every semester, but that was what your final result was. Say you started off great and then plummeted until the beginning of your sophomore year of college and then things started really picking up also when you decided to take a third year at comm. college to get all of the IGETC out of the way. Grades such as:</p>

<p>AAA
BCBC
C
AABC
AAAAA
AAA
AAAAA
AAAAA</p>

<p>IGETC completed, 2 AS degrees (if wanted), all major req's completed. Non-competitive major.</p>

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<p>Yes, as long as you complete all the pre-reqs.</p>

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<p>You sure can; though it depends on the major. But since you’re non-impacted, you should be good. TAP is a major boost; the new generation of this forum seems to not understand this.</p>

<p>To give you a few instances:
A friend of mine got into UCLA with a 3.1 for Philosophy with TAP.
Another with a 3.3 Philosophy w/TAP
Another with a 3.1 for Geology w/TAP
Another 3.3 Biology w/TAP (although I’m surprised he got into Biology lol)</p>

<p>Notice how most of those are non-impacted majors: That’s because TAP is almost a guarantee for a non-impacted major. </p>

<p>As long as you have prerequisites done for both primary AND alternate major. As long as your alternate major is NOT an impacted major. As long as your GPA is around a 3.2 you should get in. That’s the beauty of TAP. I’ve never heard of anyone getting rejected with TAP without having made a stupid mistake.</p>

<p>For example: “WTH MAN I DID TAP I HAVE A 3.7 AND DIDN’T GET INTO EITHER ECON OR BISECON WTH TAP IS USELESS.”</p>

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<p>@levonid- i have a 3.4 w/TAP and my alternate major only requires 1 pre req. However, i have gone to 4 ccs and none of them offer and equivalent course and i mentioned it on my uc app. Will i be fine?</p>

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<p>bumppppppp…</p>

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<p>Ah sorry! I completely forgot to respond. A 3.4 with TAP sounds good so long as you’ve got prereqs (or, in your case, depending on your major), simply taking classes that are relevant to your major will be enough. What’s your alt/primary major? What prereq do you need?</p>

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<p>my alternate is women’s studies and the pre req is women’s studies 10. It is not offered at many ccs, including the four ccs i’ve attended.</p>

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<p>oh and my primary is history</p>

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<p>just make sure you have an alt major and you will most likely be admitted. i had a 3.5ish with grades going downhill. 2 Cs at JC as well.</p>

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<p>Yes I have the same question…I applied for American Lit and Culture, have a 3.64 right now but I’m missing 2 literature pre-reqs (weren’t offered at my CC but I’m taking other literature courses and am getting my AA in English, if that matters.)</p>

<p>If I do TAP what are my chances considering the missing pre-reqs? I check the stats and UCLA accepted 31/51 American Lit majors…</p>

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<p>Looks pretty good for you Pivol. I’d pretty much guarantee you in (what’s the average gpa for admitted for that major?)</p>

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<p>@ pyoro1 I’m in the same predicament except missing the language requirement :[ </p>

<p>@ OP, what is your major?</p>

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<p>My major is math. My alt would be physics.</p>

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<p>Well, math had a 53% admit rate in last year’s admission pool, with average gpa of 3.61. you’re pretty much right around what UCLA admitted last year. [Profile</a> of Admitted Transfer Students by Major, Fall 2010 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm)
I think you should be fine, but we’ll all find out in March/April. Hang tight! :)</p>

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<p>“WTH MAN I DID TAP I HAVE A 3.7 AND DIDN’T GET INTO EITHER ECON OR BISECON WTH TAP IS USELESS.”
Ugh that sounds like what will happen to me… I’m planning to apply to UCLA as econ or int’l business/bus.econ major (not sure about alt yet) with TAP. But are you saying TAP for economics majors doesn’t help much? What else can I do to increase my chances of getting in? I’m taking as many transferable business-related courses as I can. I have a part-time job and do a couple weekly volunteer work… but they’re not related to my major. Maybe I will start my own business lol. I reallyyyy want to get into UCLA econ. or I will die from sadness. >.<</p>

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<p>Nah, I’m sure it helps (surely it can’t harm you); it’s just that econ and business econ are VERY impacted majors. </p>

<p>It’s just that you can’t apply with econ or business econ as your alternate: UCLA forbids this. </p>

<p>Here’s a site which gives details on TAP, including which majors are impacted and cannot be alternate majors:</p>

<p>[Alternate</a> Majors - Transfer Alliance Program - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/adm_cco/tap_alt_mjr.htm]Alternate”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/adm_cco/tap_alt_mjr.htm)</p>

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<p>^
exactly, your alt major needs to be unimpacted. TAP helps for all majors, it’s supposed to count towards one to two tenths of your overall gpa iirc.</p>

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<p>Econ is super damn competitive. I checked out the stats on the UCLA transfer admission site and it said 111 applications admitted which avg 3.95 gpa. I have a lot of respect for those econ majors.</p>

<p>[Profile</a> of Admitted Transfer Students by Major, Fall 2010 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm)</p>

<p>Site for anyone interested.</p>

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<p>american lit and culture used to be unknown, damn D: </p>

<p>fall 2010 transfer students… avg applied: 3.37, accepted: 3.44, enrolled: 3.33</p>

<p>but i’m kind of worried this year since there’s more of us. hopefully it’s okay.</p>