<p>Good morning all..</p>
<p>My daughter is freaking out that for some reason that she is missing something with regard to her UCSB TAG requirements..she took classes at two different CSU's besides her CC...so it isn't a clear cut application. </p>
<p>If for some reason she does not qualify for TAG, will her application be considered for general transfer admission to or will she just be denied admission all together? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>If an applicant does not qualify for TAG, then they can still be admitted on the basis of a regular application. </p>
<p>However, TAG disqualification may indicate some deficiency which might lower your daughter’s probability of acceptance. It all depend on what exactly the situation is.</p>
<p>Thanks sega18, that will make her feel better…</p>
<p>She cannot get a solid answer from anyone as to whether some basic GE classes she took at a CSU will qualify for her IGETC, she took Oral Communications and Economics at SFSU…they all tell her they “think” so but no one will tell her yes for sure, and the classes are not listed on Assist because no articulation agreement between CUS’s and UC’s, so she has no way of knowing. </p>
<p>She has a 3.5 so GPA wise she should be OK but it is the IGETC certifiation that is causing her angst!!</p>
<p>My guess is that they will transfer. At my school, if you took IGETC courses at another institution, then you have to give the Community College transcripts that demonstrate the completion of those courses. If your daughter has completed all the IGETC requirements, then I’d suggest getting all the relevant transcripts (which must be official), and applying for certification.</p>
<p>Yes, it will be considered for regular admission.</p>
<p>@sega18, wait, what do you mean “However, TAG disqualification may indicate some deficiency which might lower your daughter’s probability of acceptance.” ?</p>
<p>Are you saying that the people who read our apps will be biased for a regular admissions decision if we didn’t satisfy our TAG? because then, I need to worry since my UCSD TAG is going to get rejected due to not meeting the 3.5 GPA by end of Fall (mine is 3.47, was soo close).</p>
<p>Getting a TAG rejection will not lower the probability of acceptance per se. </p>
<p>For example (easy example), if you don’t qualify for TAG because your GPA was a 1.8, don’t expect to be accepted for regular admission. Obviously this isn’t the case with the OP, but similar considerations could apply to completing GE or major prerequisites; that is, maybe tag rejection implies lack of completion of these admission criteria. One would need full information to analyze a given situation.</p>
<p>If you got a 3.47 GPA, and UCSD TAG requires a 3.5, then you will be rejected from TAG, but not necessarily from general admission, and your TAG rejection won’t influence the admission decision besides “applicant got a 3.47 GPA”.</p>
<p>Ok, it just sounded like the other way around when you said:</p>
<p>“However, TAG disqualification may indicate some deficiency which might lower your daughter’s probability of acceptance.”</p>
<p>This sounded like (in the perspective of application reader):</p>
<p>“You failed to satisfy TAG, which means you failed to follow instruction, so I’m going to reject you”</p>
<p>That’s how I thought you meant it, but it wasn’t. Ya feel me? lol</p>
<p>Yaa, I tried to reduce the causality inference with the word indicate. Correlation, not causation!</p>
<p>sega18–Her CC already has all her transcripts submitted and she will apply for certification.</p>
<p>This all stems from the fact that she took a class called Philolosphy 101-Critical Thinking at CSUDH while in high school. Since the class is called “Critical Thinking”, one would assume that it would qualify for the IGETC Critical Thinking requirement, but she was told that because she took if before her first college level english class…which was the prereq for Critical Thinking at the CC, then it would not qualify…and she had to take the Critical thinking class at the CC. So, she is scared that they may disqualify some of her other classes also. She was lucky that she was able to find this determination out while she still had time to take the other class and she just doesn’t want to get screwed on anything else…</p>
<p>So at least if there is a problem…then she can be considered for regular admission.</p>