Hello. I am physics major. GPA 3.5 and I do research in Berkeley Lawrence Lab for 7 month with a professor from UCB. I applied to UCSB, UCB, UCSC, UCLA from a community college. I also had TAG with UCSB. As result, I got rejected from UCSB because they TAGed me by mistake and I still need 3 quoter units. I got waitlist from UCLA. I have no hope for being admitted to UCB or UCSC. Do I have a chance to get an offer from UC Merced?
You are missing 3 units? As in, you will have fewer than 60 semester / 90 quarter units by the end of the Spring?
I signed up for one more class which will be finished by June 24. UCSB contacted me with a suggestion to appeal the decision. However even this doesnt give me a guarantee to be accepted since I lost my TAG
other schools told me that I met credits requirements
I know it sounds weird but I have fever 90 units inly for UCSB because they calculated credits from a foreign transcript + my cc transcript. I don’t know how(and noone knows) they ended up with 62+11 = 57.
Ah. Are you asking if you will be offered admission for Fall 2016 at Merced? Or are you thinking about taking another year at CC (if you don’t get admitted to Berkeley or UCSC), and are you wondering about being admitted to Merced if you reapplied?
Also, have you completed all prerequisites for the major, along with either IGETC or breadth requirements?
no I won’t take an year at cc because I finished everything for my major and partly IGETC as well. I found on the UC website :If a student did not receive an offer of admission from any campus to which they applied, but was waitlisted by a campus, will they receive an offer from UC Merced?
Yes, this is true for freshman and transfer students, provided that the student meets all of the criteria. Freshman criteria includes meeting the statewide or local guarantee.
will it be applicable to me too?
@kotokote did you apply UC Merced for fall 16?
no I didn’t…
You are talking about ELC eligibility and I believe it only applies to Freshman applcants not transfers. Can you reference this information for transfers since all I found on the website pertained to Freshman? The only guarantee for Transfers is TAG.
why it says “and transfer students” on the website? http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/q-and-a/waitlist/
i don’t understand this world anymore ;0
You should call UCM admission and ask about it. However, you did not even apply UC Merced I don’t think they have your UC application.
yes it sounds logical. Then this info on the uc website doesn’t make any sense. I will call them on Monday
Thanks for the reference. I would contact UCM admissions to verify this information since it is not stated anywhere else in the transfer information section of the UC website. Also confirm what criteria you need to meet to be eligible.
thank you guys for help!
@kotokote no problem sir. Hope you get into UCM. Even if you didn’t get it, you can apply for Spring 2017. I believe they offer TAG for spring 2017.