UC Irvine Fall 2015 Transfer Thread

I’m confused why you’re not just selecting another major? It’s a silver platter, they’re all but telling you that you’re in. All you have to do is select another lower gpa major. No brainer.

You can always try to transfer majors once you’re admitted to the school.

Agreed, that’s why I’d pick a major with similar major reqs. That will be your argument to slide into the major you want after acceptance. I’m doing something similar with American Literature —> English at ucla.

you guys have to remember that there’s no guarantee that you can switch majors, especially to engineering… but i mean, in this situation, @jasonb511 you really have no choice other than picking another major since you’re not eligible for your original major

I just picked another major to get in. I am not backing down from bioengineering. But at least I can get into the school and gamble on a change of major… if it comes to that. If I didn’t have such a crap 6 years of school 10 years ago I would not be in this mess.

@jasonb511 what major did you pick?

chemistry. The only one I had the total classes required to transfer

Switching is indeed difficult, but it’s advertised as more difficult than it is because UC’s don’t want a flood of students trying to manipulate the system and then crashing the offices with major change requests. But, I have it on good authority, switching majors isn’t that difficult if you have the majority of major prereqs completed.

It’s worth a shot. Good luck.

^^That’s what I am gambling on. Thank you for your comments today. Even if it take me 3 years at the university I’m willing to take the extra time, and money, if necessary. There’s no reason to ever settle.

Has anyone with the major of Biological Science been accepted with Regents. I have not seen any yet and I am hoping that maybe they are awarding them by major?

@Believer2 I hope you’re one of the last regents!
Because regular/TAG decisions will start next week according to my admission counselor

Thanks! I hope so

I’m more and more impressed with the generosity of the UCs.

However just to clarify a point. GPA is only calculated through fall term in terms of admissions. Winter GPA is not factored in, although depending on the inclination of the UC, they may assess the how well you did winter term (passing an important course, etc) in their decision-making.

This is clearly written on the uc admissions page in case I get blowback.

I think timing matters. I was able to get my Winter grades into my update the day they were released, and when I was talking to a counselor at UCLA about something unrelated, she named off my courses and what counted in my GPA, and Winter classes were on that list.

Again, I think Winter is all about timing, if you want them to count. I had a weird winter schedule with two classes that ended earlier than most.

He told you wrong. They are not calculated into the GPA. I heard this directly at a UC counselors seminar. Plus it’s on a UC site somewhere. The UCs are firm about that as it gives some students a disadvantage if they are on the semester system (and inversely gives quarter system students an advantage). They will look at them. but the overall GPA will not add in the winter courses.

Look at last comment of Ms Sun:
http://■■■■■■■■■■■■/home/uc-transfer-admission-update-2014/

I was wondering what are the chances of changing majors once you are already in? Specifically from chemistry to chemical engineering?

I found a reference to the winter GPA situation in the September 2014 counselors guide:

Winter grades/pending repeats
●GPA for admission purposes is calculated through current fall term
➢Winter grades are not included in the GPA calculation

●For selection, campuses may consider Winter grades only

I think you misheard. She also may have been looking at cumulative GPA which is not final corrected GPA. Anyway, I’m just going with what it says everywhere. So not sure why they’d make an exception and add in your winter. But who knows?

Double post

@zeropho I know transferring within the same college (engineering) is relatively easy - usually. Not sure how chem to eng works, esp since engineering is selective. But I might say it’s 50-50 anyway.

Ah I didn’t take any Ochem or physics courses as I wanted to take it at the UC. Would that affect my chances to transfer greatly from chemistry to chemE?