<p>probably because they first process freshman then transfers</p>
<p>though I never understood why they have to keep the release date a secret</p>
<p>Dear UCLA,</p>
<p>Hire a freshman admission staff, and hire a separate transfer admission staff with about a 1/3 as many reviewers, and release admission at the same time. Thanks</p>
<p>Eshug1</p>
<p>You would think that would be logical, but they can’t really afford to pay for more admission reps every single year. All freshman admit reps, are also transfer admit reps. If you get separate transfer admit reps, you are paying all those extra people at least 8 dollars an hour for 8 hours of work, and probably much more than that. If there is one rep for every 250 applications, you are looking at 108 reps for 60 thousand applicants. Now pay 108 reps over 8 dollars an hour for an 8 hour work day and you’re looking at almost 7 thousand dollars a day. Now times that by a month that it takes for a rep to look at 250 applications and your looking at 207,000 dollars already. This is at the bare minimum 8 dollars an hour. Now if it costs that much every year, they are not going to hire more people to release decisions faster. This is also why they can’t run background checks on every applicants EC’s…etc. because not only are you paying for 60 thousand background checks, you are paying the admission reps for extra days assessing the background reports. I would estimate that the application process costs about half a million dollars for UCLA, assuming admission reps get paid more than 8 an hour.</p>
<p>If somebody decided my educational fate on a minimum wage salary I would go nuts.</p>
<p>You guys DO know that some ‘reps’ hired to look over our applications are students, right? Sometimes they’re interns, sometimes they’re on work-study, sometimes they’re grad students who’ve hit home and scored the job.</p>
<p>They start reviewing freshmen apps earlier than ours. We have a January update thing, and they begin the process in February after all Transfers had updated their Fall grades.</p>
<p>Maybe, but I doubt you’re gonna find at least a hundred people willing to do this for free. Plus, they don’t make the final decision, a real panel of educators makes the final decision, and each member of that panel has to look at each of those applicants forwarded by the alleged volunteer admission reps.</p>
<p>Those students don’t make any decisions though. I work at my cc and I have been involved in teacher hiring for tenure. I look at the applications and everything but I never actually have anything to do with who gets hired or not.</p>
<p>^ Hm, yeah I’m sure that’s what these kids do. My friend works for admissions at a UC and she said that though they don’t have the final say, they do get heard. I don’t know what that means, though. I guess it’s not so much into the admissions itself but they do use students quite often.</p>
<p>wonder how much of the $60 app fee goes to the reviewers of the app and where the rest of the money goes to…since 60k apps at $60 each comes to $3.6 million, maybe ~$3 million after fee waivers (really have no idea how many people get fee waivers)…and vintij has put the costs of the labor at about a half million…</p>
<p>I would think they go to faculty salary, and admission type events, paying speakers, campus maintenance and things like that. I doubt they use that money to pay admit reps, they probably have a fund already budgeted in the previous fiscal year to account for next years admission costs.</p>
<p>So are we for sure going to hear from ucla by friday, or will we have to wait until the 30th?</p>
<p>I’m in the middle of my spring break right now and the wait is killing me. I can’t seem to enjoy my week off, knowing that decisions may be out by the end of the week. Ugh. Does anyone know the exact date transfer decisions were released last year?</p>
<p>I am a Political Science major, 3.6, and am not taking any intro classes, except for Chem.</p>
<p>Im at a CC, and hoping UCLA accepts me.</p>
<p>UCI/UCSB/UCSD all got me no problem, as expected. only Cal and UCLA haunt my dreams…</p>
<p>if there is any humanity we’ll be accepted tomorrow.</p>
<p>i gave up on my cal dreams a long time ago, for undergrad a tleast lol…I just want to hear back from ANYPLACE *****</p>
<p>I actually have always thought the decision’ll come out next monday</p>
<p>^ 
Knock on wood!!!</p>
<p>i give up on speculating</p>
<p>Eshug1 pwn’d UCLA admissions!</p>
<p>yeah.</p>
<p>Speculating is futile…I’ll just hope it’s tomorrow.</p>
<p>Actually, the reason transfers take longer is because your evaluation involves conversion of all your units, pre-reqs, and classes so they can: 1. Make sure you didn’t take SO many units you would hit your unit max without completing your degree, 2. Took the required number of units and classes to transfer, and 3. To compare the CC classes you took to see if there is an equivalent at the UC so that it may count for something other than units to graduate. With freshmen, they don’t do all that conversion of college courses during evaluation.</p>