Interesting letter from UC Berkeley Academic Senate regarding a systemwide TAG proposal

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Let me start by saying that this letter is three years old, so it is not new and this may have been discussed already in the College Confidential Forums previous to now, but I hadn’t seen it before, so I thought that I would share it. I’m sorry if this is a redundant post, and if it is, the moderators can remove it. But, as they say, “It was news to me.”

It outlines the Berkeley Academic Senate’s Admissions, Enrollment, and Preparatory Education Committee’s “issues with the idea of implementing a systemwide TAG as an admissions procedure”.

TLDR: Berkeley isn’t obliged to participate in this, but they have opinions about implementing TAG across the UC system.

I came across it when I was Googling about the UC goal of a 2:1 ratio of freshman admits to transfer admits.

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An automatic admission GPA needs to be set high enough that it will not result in admitting more students than the campus or major department can handle.

Transfers by major | University of California suggests that if UCB or UCLA in general offered TAG, it would need a very high automatic admission GPA (perhaps as high as 4.0 for some majors).

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To be honest even a 4.0 likely won’t cut it for many majors. Going off this year’s transfer stats, there seem to be quite a few majors where the # of applicants accepted was quite a bit less than the # of applicants for that major with a 4.0 gpa. Naturally this calculation doesn’t take into account whether major prep was completed for each applicant but I think my point still stands.