@imgonnagetin Where are you getting 10% from? You’re saying only 1600 students applied to LA with a 4.0 and completed pre reqs? If we assume every person with their pre reqs done and a 4.0 applies (a safe assumption, why else would they do their pre reqs??) then you’re saying there are only 1600 applicants in California with a 4.0 and there pre reqs done. Thats 1 in every 1350 students. There is no way. That would mean a school with 30,000 students would only have 22 students with a 4.0 and their pre reqs done.
@screenname34 dude I’m sorry, but what ure saying doesnt make sense to me. I think the only relevant number here is the number of students that actually applied to UCLA from community colleges. (16000). It doesnt matter how many students there are in California and how many of them have a 4.0 if they didnt apply to UCLA. You are considering that 100% of the students from California are applying to UCLA. If there are only 1600 students with 4.0 and all pre reqs done, that actually means 1 in every 10 students (since only 16000 students apply). The average GPA of students that applied is 3.43 and the average admitted is 3.7. So I think that having 10% of the students applying with 4.0 is a good guess (I would say it might be lower, making the admit rate for these students even higher than 80%)
think about it if it’s not making sense. Of community college students who have a 4.0 and have completed all their UCLA pre requisites how many do you think applied to UCLA?
I would say close to 100% of students who have met the pre requisites for ucla and have a 4.0 would have applied to ucla. So when you say there are only 1600 people that applied who have a 4.0 and have completed all their ucla pre requisites you are implying that there are only 1600 such students in the whole California community college district. Which to me seems unlikely.
Also you can’t learn anything about the distribution from its average. How do you know that the 3.43 isn’t made up of 4.0s and 1.0s?
@screenname34 Oh I get what you’re saying now! But I don’t agree haha. The average GPA for students that applied is 3.4. + there was only 16000 applications… It can be that theres a really small percentage of people with 4.0s like u said before or not many people that have a 4.0 are applying to UCLA for some reason. I believe it might be a mix of both.
Or it could be that there were a lot of 4.0s and a lot of low gpas w/ special circumstances that balance it out (my guess) and the real acceptance rate for 4.0s is around 30-40%
@screenname34 If there is 2 million CC students in CA and 16000 applications to UCLA, that means that only 0.08% of the students have applied to UCLA. If you consider that 100% of them have a 4.0, the number is still a lot lower than the 0.29% you said it was too low for students in CA who have a 4.0. Since the avg gpa for students who applied is 3.4, it is impossible that all of the applicants who have 4.0 actually apply to UCLA. (For this avg to be true, no more than 50% of the students can have a 4.0, since 3.0 is a requirement (rounding the avg of admitted students to 3.5) ) This proves that it is actually impossible that more than 14% of the students in CA who have a 4.0 and all pre-reqs actually apply to UCLA. (Considering that only 0.29% of the CC students in California have a 4.0 and all pre-reqs, a number that you considered extremely low already).
@screenname34 If the transfer acceptance rate of UCLA is 28%, and the mean average GPA applied with is a 3.43, and you’re saying that the real acceptance rate for 4.0s is around 30-40%, then you’re saying that GPA doesn’t really matter. If a 4.0 really only raises your chances by 10%, then GPA would be almost pointless. And that’s highly unlikely.
And who are we kidding. Of those eligible to transfer out of CC to anywhere, the 4.0 rate is probably 5%. So 5% of the 20% who transfer. That’s 1% of CC students, and that sounds much more likely. We’re not talking about the kids in your Organic Chemistry course, by the way; we’re talking about a SRS (so the kids in Algebra II and Introduction to English, AND those in your Calculus II course or Comparative Politics course. Also the ones who are moms and dads taking just one course for their own edification. The 1% seems very likely now).
We’re definitley missing something here. I, for one, believe that it’s the claim that there are “2.1 million community college students in California”. Given that there are 38 million people in California, that’s over 5% of the population ostensibly CC students. I doubt that 1 in 20 people in California are CC students. And even if they are, I doubt they’re by any means full time. Also, we’re assuming that all those with 4.0s who are eligible to transfer are applying to UCLA. That can’t be true. Just I know four CC students who could apply to the UCs with their 4.0s applying to my local Cal State to save money for law school.
Honestly, the 4.0 admit rate for most majors is probably around 80% if not more. If you didn’t get in with a 4.0, you messed up on your application. If less than half of all 4.0s who applied got in, we’d pretty much all be screwed. If most straight A students didn’t get in, with all their Gen Eds and IGETCs completed, then that’d be absolutely outrageous. People wouldn’t even view the CC route as a viable path to a UC.
I got the 2.1 million from the chancellors office. And yes, I am suggesting that gpa may be far less important than people typically consider. @imgonnagetin no it would be 0.8% of students not 0.08%.
Also you can still apply with a 3.0 it’s just an auto rejection. And a lot of people still do that.
I scheduled a morning tour the other week, but Google Maps underestimated the commute from my hotel by nearly an hour so I ended up missing my scheduled tour and taking the afternoon one. The student worker checking people off for the afternoon tour said it would be fine if I joined the group, but didn’t seem interested in taking down my name.
I’m guessing this means admissions has my name on a list of tour no-shows, so I want to email them and thank them for the tour (it legitimately was the best tour of the four I’ve been on, with by far the most engaging and enthusiastic tour guide) and include a small explanation of the situation. However, I can’t find an appropriate contact to direct this to on the UCLA site. Any help/general advice would be greatly appreciated!
@billydee People have many reasons for missing a tour. There’s no way you missing a tour would have any bearing on your admission status. Going on a tour isn’t going to render a favorable decision, and not going/missing one isn’t going to lead to a bad decision.
Anyone can go on a tour. It adds nothing to the equation. Are we to believe those who aren’t able to go on one for reasons such as distance are punished? No.
There is absolutely nothing on any official UC website that comes remotely close to indicating a tour is beneficial. It’s easy to infer that missing one isn’t punishable.
In short, you’re overthinking it. And that’s putting it lightly. We have less than a few weeks left before decisions. Try to keep calm and avoid neuroticism in the interim. Trust me, I know how difficult it is!
Good luck!
April already!! I can’t take this… @_@
In the meantime, I’d appreciate it if someone could chance me.
GPA: 3.3 TAP Certified
Major: Music History/ Music Studies
Applied: UCLA, UCB, UCD, UCSB
Accepted: UCSB Music Studies
IGETC: Completed.
Pre-Req.: Missing 2 performance classes
Will admissions officers overlook my GPA and missing prereqs due to TAP? Good luck everyone!
Thank you.
@dswiss123 No. They will still look at your GPA and Pre-reqs. Being TAP certified will certainly help you; but remember it’s no guarantee into UCLA (as in they will still look at your missing pre-reqs and lower GPA, and take that into consideration WITH your TAP certification).
So I was reviewing the application that I submitted to UCLA and noticed that I indeed checked the “Certified for completion of the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC): YES” option. Seeing that I am finishing the last two required classes on Assist, I can assume that I was in fact not certified when I submitted the application but will be by May. Any idea if this will negatively impact my application with UCLA?
@Pentax645 IGETC is completely different from assist classes. It is the general requirements classes
So just curious, I have a 4.0, no TAP, and missing 1 pre req which is Calc 1… However I got an A in Calc 2 and 3 … And the reason I skipped Calc 1 is because my 3 in Ap Calc BC excused me from Calc 1 at other UCs and to finish on time I had to skip it… How much will that affect my admissions? economics is my major btw thanks
@kevinl1997 Calculus BC can be used to replace Calculus 1 so you’re fine.
@Burdened But according to Assist, only a score of 4 will cover it.
Honestly, I think you’re fine. But who knows. I’d call them up for that.