FALL 2017 UCLA OFFICIAL TRANSFER THREAD

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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-Major: neuroscience/molecular cell
-Ethnicity/gender: Armenian/female
-Age: 18
-School: UCLA
-Gpa: 3.83
-Finished all my prereqs (the only thing I haven’t done is my physics courses but I did take the biotechnology+genetics courses that my cc offered for a UCLA program), have IGETC done, did TAP, and I’m also in PTK
-Have gotten Deans and Presidents honors every semester
-I have done biology tutoring at my cc, have 350+ volunteer hours at a hospital, and I work as a biomedical researcher for the NIH at my community college. I’ve worked there since summer 2017-present.
-In my personal statements I talked about my research which fuels my creative side, my struggles bc I graduated high school when I was 14 and how it affected me at a community college environment, and I talked about my family abuse story and how it has encouraged me to be stronger and made me determined to become somebody that will be independent, strive to do my best in education, and help others.

(I really wanna go to UCLA, what would you think are my chances :/) + I also applied to other UCs and recently got accepted into Irvine in their honors program.

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@iwanttogetintoucla Is the physics a recommended course and not a prereq? If that’s the case you have a good chance at UCLA, you’re well within last year’s GPA average for neuroscience and you have all the requirements done. Congrats on UCI btw, it’s a great school. It’s also pretty impressive that you’re only 18, you must be a one year transfer?

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@iwanttogetintoucla btw this is last year’s thread. here’s a link to the updated one:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21340254#Comment_21340254

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@ericbadmon yeah physics is only recommended and I’m not a one year transfer, I just graduated high school when I was young :). Thank you so much for the feedback!

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Hello, I transferred to UCSD for Fall 2017 as a Chemical Engineering major and can answer any questions you all may have. Also, for those worrying about GPA’s for their respective major, this link can help you know where you stand with past acceptances.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major
(GPA ranges are the 25th to 75th percentile)

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Hey so you said you got accepted with a second semester of ochem missing. Does that mean you took ochem in the spring before you transferred? Does UCLA want to see grades for ochem before applying? Or will it slide taking ochem in the spring before transfer?