<p>There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that floats around College Confidential, but one of the most persistent is that UC to UC transfers have no chance or very little chance of being accepted. To test this theory out, I ran StatFinder to see what the admittance rates were in 2008 of University of California transfers to other University of California schools. Here are the results:</p>
<p>School|UC to UC transfer rate|California Community College transfer rate</p>
<p>University wide: 57.5%/81.7%</p>
<p>UC Berkeley: 19.5%/29.0%
UC Davis: 71.3%/74.6%
UC Irvine: 34.8%/60.5%
UC Los Angeles: 28.0%/38.0%
UC Merced: 55.7%/84.1%
UC Riverside: 69.9%/80.7%
UC San Diego: 61.6%/68.4%
UC Santa Barbara: 70.5%/70.3%
UC Santa Cruz: 72.9%/71.5%</p>
<p>Although this doesn't tell you the strength of the applicants, it's clear that many people do have a decent shot at UC to UC transfers. As a matter of fact, the acceptance rate at UCSB and UCSC was higher for UC to UC transfers than community college transfers! For Davis it was fairly close, and many schools did not have as great a difference as you would think from the anecdotal evidence presented on College Confidential.</p>
<p>Undergraduate admissions rates and counts by applicant term -> All transfer students from any college or university -> Fall/2008 Term -> All Applicants -> University-wide and All Campuses (reported separately) -> Admission Rates & Counts -> Complex Table -> Type of college prior to UC and Type of transfer applicant.</p>
<p>yeah i’m from ucsd and i want to transfer to berk or la and i realized this disparity between what people on cc believe and what the case seems to be.</p>
<p>UCLA gives priority to inter-uc transfers; UC Berkeley doesn’t.</p>
<p>"BERKELEY Transfers from California community colleges receive priority in the transfer selection process. All other transfer applicants are treated the same, with no priority given to UC intercampus transfers.</p>
<p>LOS ANGELES UCLA gives priority to students transferring from both California community colleges and other UC campuses. However, we do regularly admit students who are attending other four-year institutions. UCLA accepts junior-level transfer students for the fall quarter only."</p>
<p>ah, yes… I am obsessed with getting into UCLA and thus have based much of my knowledge on their requirements. Maybe this is how wrong information gets spread? Assuming one UC’s requirements/policies/insanities exist for all.</p>
<p>for california residents , who are uc eligible , and attend a CCC , the rates are</p>
<p>Cal : 35.4 %
UCLA :44.4%</p>
<p>I would say this applies to about most of the people on this forum.
It would be really helpful if they released the major statistics that excluded those that are ineligible, that way we can have a more realistic “chance me”.</p>
<p>It amazes me that there are well over 1000 applicants to each of these schools who were ineligible. (aprox 1200 cal , 1800 ucla)</p>
<p>*Under these settings
Fall applicants, fall admits, fall enrollees, admit rate, yield rate for fall applicants, students transferring from California community colleges who were California residents by intended field of study, UC eligible applicant, prior college GPA: 2008, Berkeley and Los Angeles</p>
<p>Keep in mind those facts were from 2003… Policies might have changed since. </p>
<p>‘Priority’ in my opinion is a word that misguides so many, especially those on this forum. Just because someone gets priority doesn’t mean that person will have that much of a boost. If statistics show anything (ones found on the UCLA website), there is very little priority given to CC students at UCLA, if any at all. The other lower UCs basically auto admit anyone who is eligible with TAG. Even with these auto-admissions, the acceptance rates are pretty similar between UC to UC and CCC to UC.</p>
<p>I am sure UCB favors UC transfers second to CCC transfers, whether they say it or not. One of the fundamental problems with transferring between colleges is transferring credits. They know someone coming from another UC will be able to transfer their credits, whereas for someone from CSU ___, this will pose a problem. They also know the UC curriculum is very challenging in comparison to most colleges, and will favor those with high GPAs coming from another UC. They accept more % of UC transfers compared to other colleges because of the above, most likely.</p>
<p>The important thing to note, in my opinion, is that where ever you apply from, getting into UCLA and UCB is hard. No matter what, you are going to need a stellar GPA and finish your prerequisites on time. Doing something while you are at college helps too. If they see you are at the top of your UC class or the top of your CCC class, you have as good of a shot as any.</p>
<p>The data that would really answer this question would be this:</p>
<p>HIGH SCHOOL SAT, GPA of those COMMUNITY COLLEGE students admitted to UCLA or Berkeley.</p>
<p>My hypothesis is that getting into UCLA or Berkeley is <em>much</em> easier via CC than via High School. I will say I think the HIGH SCHOOL gpa ave. of those admitted to UCLA or Berkeley from CC is about 3.7, vs. 4.15 out of High school. I will also assume the CC gpa of those admitted is probably 3.5+.</p>
<p>Is there any way to test my hypothesis? Is the data published anywhere?</p>
<p>From UC StatFinder… keep in mind that your PDF considers all 4 year transfer students, while the data on StatFinder is specific enough to have a separate listing for UC-UC transfers.</p>
<p>Good work, I thought UC to UC transfers were going to be rare because of my experience on CC, then come transfer day I was running into all kinds of people that were coming from other UC’s to LA. So yeah it’s really not that rare.</p>