Well if we think about it…people with good GPA and who wanted to go to UC probably already applied. Everyone else is probably not as good as we are guys :))
This sounds like a good thing. They are trying to enroll more students which means more spots for us. I hope it is an improvement from past years when things seemed to be getting more and more constrained.
I’m worried this will hurt me and all other OOS students :’(
From what I understand the state is allocating additional funds to the UC system, but the agreement is that they must enroll an additional 5000 California students for the 2016-2017 school year to get the money. I’m pretty irritated that they extended the deadline as well; those that truly wanted to get in would’ve completed their apps on time. Oh well, hopefully this will work in our favor
@bolognese It depends on who “us” is. If you’re talking about campuses like Berkeley, their admits won’t be changing much. A lot of their programs are already at capacity and this will have little affect. I applied to Haas, for example, and they specifically told me this increase doesn’t affect them, and they’re even adding another building … and they’re still not adding any more students than what has been status quo. On the flip side, any serious competition would have already applied, so this shouldn’t affect me too much … but the added time would have been nice.
Students applying to other campuses can definitely benefit for more spots opening up.
To make it fair, they should at least let the people who turned their application on time to edit whatever they want to, like their personal statement or give a clear answer as to what it means to the people who turn their application on time so we’re not guessing what the outcome would be.
I also thought that if you were a transfer student you couldn’t apply as “Undeclared” for any major unless it was San Diego. I was just wondering because they said that there were some majors that were closed during the extension period but their list just says “undeclared” all the way down. So doesn’t that mean that every major is open? I don’t know if I phrased that question right but I hope someone gets it.
To be honest, everyone who was serious about applying had time to complete a stellar application. Many submit early November. An extension of a month would make no real difference, and procrastinators would just procrastinate.
So probably as @cayton noted, the extension, which only applies to transfers, happened that way because the 5000 student increase got voted on after the freshman deadline, which I believe is in October, so it was too late to extend the freshman deadline. Although I’m not sure why any extension is needed. It probably only amounts to about a 1500 student increase for transfers divided by nine campuses. Maybe it’s more a political move.
The freshman deadline was the same, November 30th.
Apparently there were several problems with fee payment and other areas of the process. Maybe that affected international applicants?
Perhaps it’s harder to increase freshmen acceptances since that means a significant adjustment to housing and services?
Maybe there will be an increase of OOS and international transfer acceptances to increase the coffers?
I thought OOS and int’l were locked in the same as last year, but I’m not sure. If both freshman and transfers have the same application window and the 5000 additional are being divided between them as was noted, then there’s another reason they extended transfers because it’s not fair to the freshmen. And even a glitch, I would expect an extension of one week, not five weeks.
I guess we’ll never know. They keep things close to the vest. I find all this stuff intriguing, though.
Just saw that TAU is going to be available on January 8th
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/extension-for-transfer-students/index.html
some more info on this page… Could have at least let us edit our apps if needed if you’re gonna throw in this 5 week extension… [-(
Like Pugzandhugz said, I wouldn’t be so mad if they had let us edit our apps. I’m PISSED that they extended the deadline.
It’s interesting to read how so many of you submitted sub-standard applications, after knowing for a year the deadline was Nov 30. If you’re lamenting how much better it could have been (implying sub-standard), then I don’t know what to say. It’s an eye-opener for sure.
A person who worked hard on their application does not need to go back in and edit.
And any stragglers who managed not to get his or her act together by Nov 30 is unlikely to pose much of a threat. It’s irrelevant to your application. So who cares?
Human nature 
I wouldn’t mind having an extra month to review my essays and all.
To me, it’s not really the fact that we can’t go back and edit the application but that some people maybe had to give up thanksgiving with their families or give up time they could’ve spent on studying for tests to complete the app on time which is fine, it’s still worth it but if we had known about the deadline extension sooner we could have maybe focused more on our classes and finished the app during winter break. It’s unfair but hey! Who said life is fair lol ;
Also, I think this gives a better chance for people with high GPAs because people who apply now will likely not have as high of a GPA hence their reason probably, for not applying sooner.
Anyway, good luck everyone!
Exactly, @uclahopeful922, and who’s to say they won’t take any admitted in that later bunch and admit them for spring, not fall. They seem to be opening spring up more.
I think its normal for people to want to seek improvement in their applications, it would be surprising to meet someone so arrogant that they could proudly state their application to be absolutely 100% perfect therefore guaranteeing their admission. The truth is no one knows if they’re going to get in, so people seek improvement as much as they can. I know I learn something new every single day and my best yesterday is not my best today.
^ I agree 100%
geez you’re really condescending
I agree with @lindyk8 -
I’m sure that nobody who wished they had extra time would want to really go over their actual application in depth. We all thought that Nov 30th was the deadline, set in stone. We all (or the vast majority of us) examined our application well enough to ensure that we hadn’t made a massively detrimental mistake (although mistakes do occur, but we are able to email admissions, so minor mistakes are no big deal) - anyway, what I’m getting at is that the PS is all that people are really not confident about when it comes to their application, and that is what they want to go over.
My thoughts on that:
1, the PS is not the most important part of the application. It is mostly about GPA, ECs, GE completion, etc. The PS is a big factor for some majors, such as Haas at Cal or apparently the College of Chemistry at Cal, but for most of us, it's a minute factor, at least in the grand picture. It is less of a factor for admissions for transfer students than it is for transfer applicants.
2, it's not a formal essay. They don't care if you make grammatical mistakes. They will not reject you for misspelling a word. It's not that sort of essay. Through these essays, they want to see your demonstrated passion for your major, how you've grown as an individual, and overall, what you're like. Yes, revising the PS can articulate certain points better, but by submitting a PS, you are articulating these things. They don't expect you to be the next Nabokov. It's not supposed to be a memoir, it doesn't have to be perfect. They just want a picture of you, and if you've written the essay at all, then you are providing such an image.
- I understand that we stress out about it. I'm a fairly good writer, yet a huge perfectionist, and my PS was far from perfect. I did the very best that I could, though, given the amount of time I had from when I started. There's no point in dwelling on minute details about the PS (assuming these are things that people would wish to go back and edit) now. We've all gone through the process, we've all done our best, and it's all over now. Our applications cannot ever be 100% perfect - but 100% perfect isn't the admissions criteria, they know we're flawed human beings who can only do so much, and they'll look at our applications accordingly. It's not going to be perfect - the way the PS is set up, it CANNOT be perfect (unless you're Nabokov).
I, for one, know that my application wasn’t perfect, but I did the best I possibly could have, and I wouldn’t edit it, given the chance. My stats are what they are, my ECs are what they are, my PS prompts are written about what they are, and there’s no point in editing anything. I’m still anxious, and I’ll be nervous as all hell when Spring rolls around, but we can only wait, and that’s all we should do.
And, also, the people applying through the extended time are likely going to be borderline applicants, primarily. It’s good that they’re trying to encourage those who would not regularly apply to apply.