<p>So I have been hearing murmurs that admissions to UC's might be more competitive this upcoming Fall admissions due to a lot of of students who applied to state schools not being admitted. Is this true, or should I assume that the UC admitted student are playing a practical joke on all the students still left at community college (if so not funny...). Has anyone else heard this??</p>
<p>Also if anyone could tell me about a underdog story of someone transferring to UCLA or UCB with a 3.2 to Econ, BusinessEcon, or Stats that would be great.</p>
<p>Let me clarify this almost unrealistic hope, my grades were pretty low coming out of 4-year OOS university (2.53 to be exact), and I have really boosted my GPA at my local CC. My major GPA would be 3.78 (by the end of this summer hopefully) but with a low cumulative GPA of 3.2. Is UCLA even realistically possible, probably not but has anyone else been accepted in a situation similar to my predicament.</p>
<p>applied to bioengineering with a similar situation as yours… I had a 2.5ish at cc right out of HS. I took a few years off and since returning I have over a 3.8… but combined it is a 3.47. I got rejected from berkley and ucla and waitlisted at UCSD. Not the exact same situation but I hope that helps a little at least.</p>
<p>it has gotten insanely competitive to transfer. but one thing ive heard is to apply to an unpopular major within the same college as the major you want… like a girl got into ucla with a 3.2 as women studies but switching to comm a more impacted one… true story not rumor but that was 3 years ago.</p>
<p>^ I would definitely check school policy before doing that. At UCSD you cannot switch to bioengineering as a transfer student. You have to be admitted as that major because it is impacted.</p>
<p>Business/econ is very very hard to get into for ucb and ucla. I had amazing extracurriculars and life storybuy i was denied because my gpa was too low at 3.67. You need to at least raise your gpa to 3.85 AND have very good ECs.</p>
<p>As for transferring to an impacted major, im in Mech Eng @ UCSD; their presentation illustrated that 90% of applicants (within the university) transferring from an outside major are denied from enrolling into the MAE program</p>
<p>I know someone that DID get into UCLA with a 3.2; but she was admitted into a non-competitive major (MatSci); she wanted MatSci Eng. however, and I believe that the same rules apply when transferring to an impacted/competitive major @ UCLA</p>
<p>@jjkbb2006: I have a theory about the UC’s being even more competative next year. And so my logic follows that this year the CSU (cal state) system put a freeze on Spring admissions and waitlisted students for Fall qtr. Many of the UC’s also waitlisted students. The thing about waitlists is that it does not guarantee that one would get admitted to the school, as they may be denied at a later date. So now you have a pool of students that were straight out denied by a CSU or Uc PLUS those that were denied that were previously waitlisted. in previous years most schools were more accomodating in terms of being able to take in WL students, but not this year. For most, a stay at JuCo should only last 2years, but with classes being cut and other set backs many students did not quite meet the 60unit transfer mark in just 2 years meaning that they will have to stick around and apply next year. There is a saying that goes, you cant win if you dont play. Well, if one has to spend another year at a JuCo and they have above a 3.0 they might as well apply to a UC, b/c as far as I know the UC’s are not freezing admissions. The admit rate will be the same, but the number of applicants will increase, that said, the number of quality applicants should remain the same. That is why I think that next year, is not the year to be a transfer student…</p>
<p>It does seem like the UCs have become more competitive in recent years. According to the UCLA transfer profile page, the average gpa for an admitted student into the college of letters and science has increased from around 3.5 in the early 2000’s to about 3.6-3.7 now. ([Profile</a> of Admitted Transfer Students - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof.htm)) Also consider the recent GPA increases for UC TAG.</p>
<p>For an impacted major like business econ it is unlikely that someone with a below 3.5 gpa will be accepted (maybe even <3.9). For unimpacted majors the situation is quite different. I know that someone on here was accepted to UCLA for math/econ with a 3.3 gpa. Of course, that person’s extracurricular/essay stuff probably helped.</p>
<p>Your best bet would be applying to an unimpacted major. Stat is unimpacted and you would have a better chance of being accepted there than in biz-econ/econ. Math/econ is another good choice but you have to be certain that you like math since it entails a lot difficult upper division proof courses. Although if you’re considering stat then you probably do like math.</p>
<p>If you aren’t accepted to UCLA or UCB, you can still acquire a good UC education at one of the other UCs. Do you qualify for TAG at some place like UCSB or UCSD? Maybe there you would be able to study the exact major you want (business, econ, stat).</p>