Official Fall 2015 UCSB Transfer Thread.

@Mbraca92‌ you’re fine, as long as your stats class is transferable.

@luckie1367‌ Awesome, thanks for your help!

Wow I’m feeling pretty anxious right now, since they start releasing decisons tomorrow! Crossing my fingers that my TAG is accepted to UCSB.

Currently at a CC, sophomore.
GPA: 3.4 with Honors
TAG: yes -UCSB
IGETC: yes
Pre-requisites: yes
Major: Pre-Econ
Applied: UCSB, UCLA, UCSD
Acceptance:Pending

Anybody want to give me a stats about my chances?

:-SS

GPA: 3.47
TAG: No
IGETC: 90%
Prereqs: Yes
Major Bio
Applied: UCSB, UCLA, UCSD, UCD, UCI, UCB

Chance me?

guys, would tomorrow’s batch be all acceptances?

Hopefully super anxious right now!!!

Pretty sure I’m going to be rejected since my math is IP. Wompppppp. 3.34 poli sci major here

Gpa: 3.3
Tag: Yes
IGETC: done this spring (2 science courses IP)
Pre-reqs: all that are offered by my school
Major: pre Econ & Acct
AS-T degree this May
Applied: Cal poly SLO (rejected), SDSU (rejected), UCSB of course, UCSC, and CSUB
What I am most concerned about is the fact that the TAG states pre reqs for my major must be completed for the TAG to be accepted. I looked at ASSIST and all of the pre reqs that are REQUIRED for transfer are complete but there are a few, I guess, recommended courses listed that have no equivalents at my cc. I wonder if the pre reqs required to satisfy TAG are only the required courses or both the required and suggested courses.

At any rate March 16th is tomorrow so the decisions will come out soon enough

@BCtoSB dude, whether pre-reqs are fully completed dosen’t affect your TAG status…usually.

I’ll post this direct quote from the UCSB 2015 TAG agreement:

“PRE-MAJORS”
Some UCSB majors require students to complete remaining major preparation courses with a minimum GPA “after transfer” in order to advance to full major status. For majors with these pre-major requirements, TAG applies to admission to the pre-major. “Meeting TAG requirements does not guarantee that a student will fulfill the pre-major requirements after transfer”. Major preparation articulation agreements (found online at www.assist.org) include detailed information about the pre-major. Students may contact UCSB academic department advisors to discuss their plans to transfer and get more information about the pre-major.

Now this is usually the case for most majors…however…as also stated from the ucsb tag agreement paper…

“MAJOR PREPARATION COURSEWORK”
“Some majors” require completion of specific major preparation coursework as part of TAG. For information about
required major preparation coursework, refer to #8 of the Conditions of the Guarantee section below and to the articulation agreements by major between UCSB and your community college online at www.assist.org

Now going to #8 of the ucsb conditions of guarantee, it’s totally clear to see that if you major in either biological sciences or economics…it seems that pre-reqs for your major must be completed in order to be eligible for TAG in those specific majors as quoted below.

8 For majors in Biological Sciences and Economics, "complete required major preparation courses with a minimum GPA in those courses", as stated on the major articulation agreement.

In this case your major seems to be within the economics field…but it seems you have completed every pre-req that was needed of you. If your school doesn’t have the equivalent courses to some of the other UCSB pre-reqs you should be fine, they should understand. Unless they find them at another CC that was near you and ask why you didn’t go there to complete them. But really, if you’ve completed all the pre-reqs your school offered in regards to UCSB…you should be ok.

Like you said, some of us will know the answers tomorrow. Good luck dude

Thanks man!
That’s a huge weight off my shoulders. I seemed to have missed that pre major part.

"Admission Selection Criteria for 2015:

Transfer students who wish to declare the Economics and Accounting pre-major
must complete the following courses with a 2.75 or better grade point average,
with no individual grade lower than C: (1) microeconomics, (2) macroeconomics,
and (3) calculus courses articulating with UCSB’s MATH 3A-3B or MATH 34A-34B. (A
single course articulating with both MATH 34A and 34B is acceptable.)
Advanced Placement exams in microeconomics and macroeconomics will not satisfy

these requirements."

If those are the only classes required for initial admission, then I believe that covers every condition required for the TAG to go through.
I suppose the other courses listed are ones I might take on campus if admitted.

Anyway thanks for the detailed response dude and best of luck to you!

@BCtoSB No problem haha. Just be sure to post your acceptance here tomorrow!

hopefully we’ll both be included in the 1st batch of transfer decisions.

I definitely will if I get it by then ha

Anyone know if the acceptances and rejections come on the first day? or are rejections not till later? Thanks

@CancelOut‌
Admission decisions begin tomorrow (both acceptance and rejections) and run until April. When we get our decisions are random I guess so it could be any time from tomorrow to April when you find out.

Good luck!

I’m starting to get a little nervous.

I’m a Mechanical Engineering major, and I’ve completed all required and recommended classes save for dynamics. I have strength of materials, the entire physics series, the entire calculus series, linear and diff eq, engineering drawing, chem, matlab, circuits, etc My GPA is a 3.82, I only have two B’s.

I haven’t taken dynamics because they do not offer it at my CC.

Do you think that I will be rejected because I haven’t completed dynamics?

@BCtoSB Thanks for the info. I don’t think my low GPA ( 3.05 UC GPA) has any chance anyways.

@fredferd1995 I don’t know, I applied as ME as well. I did talk to Tacy who’s in the college of engineering and asked her about the dynamics class. She said that If I took it and was accepted but then dropped it, then the offer of admission would be rescinded. She was very clear that they are requirements for admission, but since there isn’t a CC near you to take it, i’m not sure how that would affect your application. It wasn’t offered near me either so I have to drive 58 miles and take the train to SBCC for this one class, its the only place its offered.

@CancelOut‌ Keep your head up!
You don’t know for sure so don’t write yourself off just yet

@fredferd1995 Let me know what happens! I don’t think its fair that since its not offered and its the only class that they would reject someone because of it. She also expressed the importance of the MATLAB class. Its not offered anywhere near me either and I couldn’t get into an online class so she did some research and found a place for me to take it online. Your GPA is great though, so I hope they take into consideration that its just one class and its out of your control.

Are my chances okay? I am 23 and have lived on my own since I have been 18 and worked. My extracurriculars have been mainly acting and singing up until I was 21, and I grew up with my mom having a home day care-- do they take that into consideration?
I am so nervous.

GPA: 3.2 (fall grades included)
TAG: yes -UCSC
IGETC: Yes
Pre-requisites: Completed. I got a B in statistics, and completed college algebra as well. However, there is a calculous requirement for the Psychology major, which I am taking right now. Even though I have completed two transferrable math classes, will they look down upon me taking calculous this semester?
Major: Psychology
Applied: UCSB, UCLA, UCB, UCSC,UCCD, UCI
Acceptance:Pending