@littledrumgirl Keep in mind that UC’s prioritize CCC students first, then UC students, THEN private schools. Having said that, your stats are definitely above average in the Biz Econ pool, so you do have a fair shot.
Unrelated, but how was your experience at Marshall? If money was not a factor for you, would you continue to enroll at USC? Or would you still want to transfer out?
Is there still a “trick” to find out if you were admitted early?
Only two more weeks guys!!! :-SS
I can’t focus on anything else right now lol. How are you guys doing it?
So I applied to UCLA because I know someone who got in with a 3.2(probably slightly lower) with a couple of D’s and W’s. This gave me a sort of hope to apply. I later found out that she re-submitted her sister’s personal statements (her sister also goes there), lied about starting a non-profit organization, and her sister talked to someone in admissions. Now here I am with a 3.08 hoping to get into American Indian Studies, but I know my chances are super low. However I am part of CCCP at UCLA which gives one a better chance to get in. I’m also low income. I don’t have any EC’s besides CCCP and work because I needed to help my family with finances. I guess I’m just posting this to vent? lol but here’s to anyone else that thinks they don’t have a chance either. I read everyone else’s post about their GPA and EC’s and I’m more than sure you guys will get in. Best of luck to everyone!
P.S. If anyone reading this is applying Fall 2017 I urge you to apply to CCCP www.cccp.ucla.edu
Basically they give you “points” for attending, applying to scholarships, and keeping in contact with your mentor. When you submit your application you put CCCP as an EC and they see that you have a commitment to UCLA with your “points”.
@ammanduh Best of luck to you! I hope you get in. I’m also rather shocked about your friend - does she still attend UCLA? Sounds like her transgressions could easily get herself dismissed from the school!
Percentile means where it places in relation to the whole sample. Basically if the the 75th percentile is like 3.76 then that means anyone with a 3.77 has a higher GPA than 75% of the pool.
@Edirol Thank you! I don’t talk to her anymore, but yes she does. She could easily be dismissed but there’s really no way they’d find out. Sucks, but oh well. [-(
Keep in mind that the percentiles are given for the set of admitted students. So even if one is slightly under the 25th percentile, they may still have a good chance.
quick side note, is Transfer Bruin day anything special? Or is it just the average campus tours, activity fair, presentations, etc. I live in LA and went to the fall open house so I’m fairly familiar with it all and I would love to go to bruin day (that is if I get admitted) just because I’d love any excuse to be on campus but I may have to leave town that weekend. Does anyone know if I would be missing anything?
@ElevatedThinking I am definitely still concerned about how the UCLA prioritizes CC’s and UC’s even though the admissions office said they do not preference any type of school. Additionally, I hope they take into consideration my circumstances as they are not like most applicants.
I do really enjoy Marshall at USC as there is a variety of classes (lectures, smaller discussion groups and interactive classes). There is most definitely a large network at USC, so it is reassuring when finding a job in the future. If money was not a factor, there is a good chance I would have stayed. Even now if I don’t get into UCLA, I will stay because I do believe the network and the major preparation will help me in the work force.
@littledrumgirl I thought USC was pretty generous with their aid, at least from what I’ve heard
Transfer Admission Profile 2015:
CA CC Transfers: 29% Admit Rate
UC Transfers: 21% Admit Rate
Other Schools: 8% Admit Rate
CSU Transfers: 5% Admit Rate
https://www.admission.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof15.htm
Either this means UCLA does prioritize CA CC and UC transfers, or lots and lots students from “Other Schools” don’t complete the necessary general education and or prerequisite courses (or fail to meet the 60 unit requirement). But that would cause a statistical clusterfudge, because we’d have to account for the same occurrences within the other groups. I think it’s safer to say they do have a preference.
Wow that’s actually really disappointing to look at coming from a CSU lol
@pugzandhugz I wouldn’t read too much into it. Your stats are pretty damn good. I’m almost certain that the vast majority of CSU transfer applicants are nowhere near as prepared as you. I think your chances are solid.
Good luck!
As a side note to everyone else, I just found out that UCLA lists transfer stats by each individual CA CC! Pretty neat if you ask me. Maybe I’m a fool and this is already common knowledge around here.
https://www.admission.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof15_CAcc.htm
@pugzandhugz, what are your stats? I definitely know what you mean though, I’m also coming from a CSU and that isn’t very encouraging.
if you guys don’t mind me asking, what are your reasons for transferring? Honestly I’m having a hard time thinking of good reasons to transfer besides academic prestige. But prestige isn’t honestly that important in the grand scheme of things (your degree and quality of work is what’s really important), especially if you’re planning on going to grad school for your field of study like me. I’m coming from SDSU, and I’m really happy here. I love the city, my friends, and my classes are going very well too. I also know I have access to research here, which is something that’s really important to me. Maybe UCLA has greater research opportunities? The only thing is that at SDSU I feel like I might not be getting enough of a challenge. I feel like there was a very brief learning curve, if any, and then it’s become easier and easier for me to score 100 percents or close to that on tests in classes like physics (my major), calculus 3, chemistry (with an average of 60% or so), and so on. But then again, I’m just a sophomore now and I know as I’ve heard many times that my upper division classes will be more challenging. So that has me thinking – do I have any good reasons to transfer?
@foreverwmt If you can succeed at SDSU, you can succeed anywhere, tbh. It’s not like UCLA will be that much harder. Assuming you actually want to transfer, and you can transfer, then I don’t see why not.
@foreverwmt I am currently a second year at SFSU studying economics. I have around a 3.89 GPA according to all the grades I calculated but not all are transferable so it may be lower. I’ve been accepted to UCR, UCSC, and UCSB so far so I’m happy I got into some good places knowing the disadvantages of being a CSU -> UC transfer. The reason I’m transferring isn’t because of prestige of school. It’s for resources and opportunities. SFSU doesn’t offer much for Econ students, probably because there aren’t much students that major in that here. Of course a university is what you make it but I want to be able to connect with people who share the same passion as me. I personally didn’t find any of those people here. I also think that it can be easy here too, I didn’t really struggle as much as I thought I would to get good grades and didn’t feel challenged. So I guess a good reason to transfer is to do it because you want to and you find that for some reason SDSU isn’t for you 
Thanks for the input! @pugzandhugz how do you find out which courses are transferable from a CSU to a UC?
@foreverwmt I tried to match it up through assist.org, it’s not 100% accurate but most intro courses transfer like intro to critical thinking, intro to physcology, etc. Courses that look comparable to ones at the school you’re looking at is usually transferable.