@CalBear1998 you should have a decent chance of getting in. TAP applicants get priority and according to a few different community college surveys, including my own, you have about an 80-90% chance of getting in. As long as you have good ECs and well thought out and relevant personal insight essay answers, I would think you have a decent shot. I’m in a similar boat. I applied under neuroscience. I have a 3.35 GPA, but I am TAP certified and have both career and volunteer experience that relates to my major. Good luck. I hope you get in!
@cactus3131 I hope you get in too! UCLA TAP will certainly help a lot. From previous threads, the majority of TAP majors have gotten in. My co worker also got in UCLA with a 3.2 GPA with TAP, good ec’s, decent essays from he told me lol, work experience. Forgot what his major was, but it was pretty impacted. He was rejected from UCB though.
@jedenic For impacted majors, students can still get rejected with a 3.9+/4.0 GPA. The chances of acceptance may be higher, but the admissions process is still very unpredictable. So yeah, students will still feel worried. I’m the first in my family to go to college, so it really helps to be able to connect with other transfers on this forum who are going through the same process. We have all worked really hard to get to this point and I really hope you get in! Best of luck! 
This doesn’t apply to UCLA, but TAG applicants at other UCs can knock a high GPA out. There’s only so much room.
Already posted but no one chanced me so trying again lol:
Southern california cc transfer student. Applying as pre-Econ. 3.9 (only B ever was in calc 1). Pre reqs all done. No TAP. Decent ECs/essays.
Can give more info if needed but let’s be honest does anyone actually read thru every single club you’ve been in since middle school LOL…
Does anyone know when admissions decisions are released? April 18 or 19? I also heard it is after 5pm
Some people are saying 18th. And some 24th. So one of those 2 dates.
Where did the April 24th date come from? Besides the one person who said the UCLA admissions person told his counselor. It seems to have gone from speculative to highly plausible in just a few days so I’m wondering if I missed something, lol.
All I’m certain is that it will come out after 5PM PST of a certain day according to one high ranking admissions guy who spoke at the UCLA campus tour. I know this isn’t that helpful for us here but atleast for future reference to applicants in the coming years.
@Princetonian9 I am not too sure about it, but perhaps overall for general qualification and major GPA for detailed ? haha sorry feelI am not really being helpful
The transfer bloggers page that I linked earlier in this thread has also listed the UCLA decision day as “April 24th (tentative)”
So 2018, decisions for transfers came out April 25th, Wednesday. 2017, decisions for transfers came out April 26th, Wednesday. I guess it would be easy to say that from this pattern, decisions will be out Wednesday, April 24th.
Moreover, on the UCLA admissions website they claim, “Decisions for most transfer applicants will be available by late April.” So… would April 18th be considered late April? Idk lol.
The problem with the historical date is that UC Berkeley always came after UCLA and now UC Berkeley is coming out April 19th.
While UCLA may be ranked higher in certain circles so they may go after Berkeley this year, historically they haven’t which may have been due to UCB higher rank or it could be out of deference to the fact that UCB is the original UC. In the end, historical dates can’t really prove much because historical trends are pointing towards two different possible dates.
Yeah, if UCLA does come out after Berkeley, it seems like a calculated power play after getting #1 public university in the world (twice now, I believe). It’s a tsunami of boldness. ?
it definitely seems like a power play. And USnews is only 1 ranking source. In my opinion, QS world university rankings has the best ranking system base off the metrics they use:
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2019
And it has Michigan as the best public university in the nation, following Berkeley, then UCLA.
@bruins8clap
April 19 on Berkeley site (about halfway down):
https://admissions.berkeley.edu/
Or maybe you know that. I wasn’t clear by your post a few up.
It is highly unusual that Berkeley is coming out a week earlier. So there’s a question right there.
@Ohm888 Do you know if UCB has historically announced their decision date so early? It was on the portal from the very beginning which seems interesting considering everywhere else gives a timeframe.
@HeyItsNick I know, it’s very odd. Over the course of several years of lurking and following I’ve not seen it this early. At first I thought maybe it had to do with just a logjam releasing late and then tying up lose ends. But then when word seemed to indicate UCLA was coming out later, that was weird. And another weird thing - UCLA usually always announces a date. Why suddenly radio silence?
@HeyItsNick I really appreciate Berkeley’s transparency with the timeline for transfer students.
@bruins8clap UCLA was always transparent in the past. ?