<p>I'm in the TAP program and I've heard a lot of different things about being TAP-certified, some saying it doesn't help some saying it does, but I'm just curious what has everyone else heard about it in terms of it giving applicants priority to UCLA? Just curious.</p>
<p>TAP helps for sure. But to what degree it helps, we’re not so sure. There are times when people have higher than the average gpa with TAP and get rejected and there are times when someone have lower than the average gpa with TAP and get accepted. But TAP for UCLA does guarantee one thing, you can choose an alternate major which means you have two shots at UCLA. According to my honors transfer program, TAP supposedly gives a “few tenths” of a gpa which put into perspective, gives you an edge over hundreds applicants.</p>
<p>if you’re a borderline (3.5) student, then you should do it.</p>
<p>It’s better to have a 4.0 without TAP than a 3.5 with TAP, but a 4.0 with TAP will never hurt you. In other words, if you can do TAP without lowering your GPA, do it. If your CCC has really hard honors classes or something, give some serious thought to it.</p>
<p>I find Honors classes more rewarding and a much better experience than regular classes. Sure there is a little more work, but the support and the quality of instructors and students is amazing.</p>
<p>^Same, out of the six classes the only one that is proving it might be even REMOTELY difficult is Cultural Anthropology. But of course Physiological Psych, Elementary Stats and Experimental Psychophysiology (and a smattering of Honors Econ classes) are also offered at my school so I know more difficult classes exist. That being said I’ve rarely had more fun than I’m having in Mythology or had in Cultural Lit (taught by the same awesome professor) and rarely was a class as helpful as Persuasive Speaking even if I didn’t jive with the professor at the very end cause he’s a bit of a hardass… his grading style was you were only allowed to miss 20 points to keep an A. Didn’t matter HOW many points the class was worth, it could be 1000 points, -20 or less is an A. Provided you show up on time EVERY day and do all the work, it’s a cakewalk because he vetos the final (turns out he vetoed it for anyone who just showed up every day which was good because I was late on just one single assignment). Still… I dare you to not start getting nervous if you were late on one of the pannel assignments by one single class and as a result lose 5 points. That was the only honors class I almost got a B in because of a burgeoning illness keeping me in bed a few extra hours that I should have used to finish… it’s hard to dance en point like that for 16 weeks when your body isn’t used to it. </p>
<p>But…I’m rambling yet again… I find the “community” of Honors students to be really nice, we all get to know each other and there’s this support system and commraderie that is really comforting</p>
<p>I agree with BerkeleyOrBust and Itachirumon. </p>
<p>I’d also like to add that honors classes prepared me well for university classes, lower and upper division. I’m saying this having only taken a handful of uni classes through cross enrollment and whatnot, but I feel ready to transfer to a UC. Beyond admissions, it’s important to make sure you don’t flounder wherever you go.</p>
<p>I’m doing honors for UCLA’s TAP. I actually met with a counselor last week and my paperworks have been sent :)</p>
<p>But it does help, from what I gather. Certainly depends on your overall GPA and major, but it helps. What is your major by the way?</p>
<p>also, the honors classes I took at CC were blended with non-honors students, so I never took a purely-honors course. So mainly, I had to do a few more pages on the term paper, write a blog, do an extra assignment or two, and so forth. Not bad at all.:)</p>
<p>^Most of the time the non-honors students are only allowed in by certain professors, otherwise everybody’s there for TAP certification. The great part is that the Honors Professors are all universally fantastic (I mean it only makes sense they would be but still)</p>