<p>Actually I know that UCB cares about your family circumstances as well. I have said it before and I will say it again IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ESSAY! I am actually working on my NYU app right now.</p>
<p>I still disagree about the weight of the UC personal statement, as someone who has both applied and been accepted and has conferred with lots of people who applied and were accepted. It can help you, but it won't hurt you. </p>
<p>But really. With a 3.94 you could write the same sentence over and over for 1000 words and still get in.</p>
<p>Nah...not to Haas. The essay matters when there are that many qualified applicants.</p>
<p>Ah perhaps. </p>
<p>I don't really care about Cal so I don't really follow their stuff.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm not really worried about UCLA. If i get a 4.0 GPA this semester, I'm 99% guaranteed in at UCLA.</p>
<p>But I'm considering LACs such as CMC/Pomona. they seem to have better studying environment that the 4 year institutes.</p>
<p>Haas is definitely going to be tough. It is kind of a crap shoot but in the end what shall be will be. :)</p>
<p>Again I repeat what I said awhile ago. A 3.3 with TAP will get in... and so will a 3.9 without TAP. That's how it works. I personally saw the stats of 3 TAP students who went to IVC and transfered to UCLA Business Econ with GPA's of 3.23, 3.29, and 3.32 for Fall 05. Also about the personal statement, it means literally nothing for transfers. Even for freshman admission, it means something but still not much. For transfers it's next to nothing. I have spoken to reps from UCLA/UCI and the honors counselor at IVC... all of them told me the same thing. "Just get a good GPA and you're in". It's as simple as that. The whole EC/Jobs/Family responsibility is only really taken account for special majors such as Haas.</p>
<p>This all sounds so very familiar. </p>
<p>But I agree with you Colin. </p>
<p>/I can't believe I just said that.</p>
<p>so basically, it's the TAP, not GPA, that plays the biggest factor.
whether you get a 3.2 or 4.0, if you are in TAP, you are 90% in (even at the most impacted major), and if you are not in TAP, you are less likely to be accepted.</p>
<p>got it.</p>
<p>Yes. Unless you have a very high gpa, in which case you're probably ok either way. (although it's going to be considerably more difficult for a 3.3 w TAP to get in than a 3.7 w TAP. It still helps, but it REALLY depends on the major).</p>
<p>Which is what this whole thread has ended up being about.</p>
<p>"I have spoken to reps from UCLA/UCI and the honors counselor at IVC... all of them told me the same thing."</p>
<p>I want to make a new rule:</p>
<p>We all need to stop acting like we are the sole individual who sought out information from the UC transfer counselors. For the most part we all have spoken with them many times. LOL
I am guilty of this as well and it just should go without saying that we have spoken with the counselor.</p>
<p>Yes. And they all manage to give conflicting information. </p>
<p>So whatever.</p>
<p>^exactly (10 blah)</p>
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We all need to stop acting like we are the sole individual who sought out information from the UC transfer counselors. For the most part we all have spoken with them many times. LOL
I am guilty of this as well and it just should go without saying that we have spoken with the counselor.
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<p>Sure thing but it astounds me to hear all of this misleading information about transfers. Ive heard from several people giving advice for incomming first year students telling them to "get involved with student government/clubs" as if its a must for transfering to a good UC. Also I read posts about several people pushing these personal statements as if their as important as GPA. I just read right now on a few posts down someone saying that you better have a good EC list ect... what don't you people understand? Just get a good GPA and you're in... that's it. This isn't highschool where colleges need as many ways as they can to weed students out, this is community college. I think someone should make a sticky post saying just that.</p>
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Just get a good GPA and you're in... that's it. This isn't highschool where colleges need as many ways as they can to weed students out, this is community college.
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<p>From what you said previously, I don't think you even need a good GPA. It sounds as if if you are in TAP, you can even transfer to very impacted major like a bizecon with a low GPA of 3.2.</p>
<p>So better Advice would be:</p>
<p>Don't worry about your GPA; just join TAP. Then you are bound to be accepted.</p>
<p>Colin,</p>
<p>We are advising as we have been told several times by UC counselors. I have been told every time that essays are the difference between acceptance and being denied. I also have several family members who have gone through this process even to the point of being in law school now who whole heartedly disagree with the information you are giving. Plus after you mentioned all the complete vomit about transfer and jobs in the other thread I believe you have lost all credibility. If you do not want to help people than leave. If you can not have a normal adult conversation (as it is clear you can not) than go the high school forum. Again it is ignorant to think you are the only one that has spoken with the UCLA counselor.</p>
<p>Sweetny, I think all Colin was trying to say is that transferring to a UC is not the same as transferring to HYPS/top privs in which you would have to stack up ECs, employment, write superb essays, etc... Its much simpler than that, with the emphasis being on GPA, major preparation, and grade trends.</p>
<p>sweetny.. relax for a bit.</p>
<p>did they say anything else about haas? jesuss ,this gpa around 3.9 thing is absolutely killing me. an average of 3.9 means that there is a heavily slanted distribution toward 4.0's and whatnot. taking into consideration that its average ACCEPTEES and not applicants, that really scares me. hahaha. did they say anything else about haas?</p>