<p>here are some of the conclusions that i arrived at through research, reading this forum, talking to counsellors. correct any information that u find error in:</p>
<p>major requirements are more important than igetc regardless of their impactness.
tap students are allowed two shots in application in which if their first major is rejected, they consider ur second major.
ucla accepts as many people without tap as those with a tap.
ucla prefers excellent grades to honors classes with not-too-good grades.
ucla will know ur academic competiveness through the honors courses.
ucla asks for in-progress grades for spring courses. ucr does not.
all uc's require official transcript at the end of spring semestre in which they make a final decision.
ap units are counted in ur ccc's system in calculating the minimum 60 units completion requirements, but the uc's have their own unit conversion scales.</p>
<p>Hmm, it is unclear what he is referring to. If he means, at the time of application, then yes pre-reqs may be more important than IGETC. If he means completion by the end of spring semester however, IGETC is more important than major pre-reqs because IGETC completion is a requirement to transfer into a UC (generally, with few exceptions) and major pre-reqs are just advanced study in your major...</p>
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IGETC is more important than major pre-reqs because IGETC completion is a requirement to transfer into a UC
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<p>Not true. You don't HAVE TO complete IGETC. You just need 60 credits, and not all of those have to be IGETC courses. IGETC is just a helpful guideline to complete GE courses so you don't have to take any GEs after you transfer, but it's not mandatory. On the other hand, major pre-reqs are MANDATORY, meaning if you are missing even one pre-req course (unless it's specified to be taken at UCLA) by the end of Spring, then you are automatically rejected to any UC you applied to.</p>
<p>This is why someone can be accepted to Berkeley Economics, yet get rejected to UCI economics, which is lot easier to be accepted but lot more requirement, even with a 4.0 GPA just because the person failed to complete the pre-reqs.</p>
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On the other hand, major pre-reqs are MANDATORY, meaning if you are missing even one pre-req course (unless it's specified to be taken at UCLA) by the end of Spring, then you are automatically rejected to any UC you applied to.
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<p>Uh, I didn't complete all of the major pre-reqs for any of the UCs I applied to yet I was accepted to all. You should email UCB admissions and have them revoke my acceptance :rolleyes:</p>
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ucla accepts as many people without tap as those with a tap.
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<p>This statement is unclear. Do you mean that UCLA accepts as large of a percent of applicants who complete a TAP as those who don't, or that the numbers of TAP entrants and non-TAP entrants is the same?</p>
<p>according to my couselor, completing the tap is not essential because ucla will knw that i am at least partially a tap student judging from all my honors courses. at my ccc, there are as much people without tap getting into ucla as those with tap.
also, in my situation, tap completion especially isn't important because i am transferring in one year. and next semestre i'm taking like 5 or 6 classes to meet the minimum unit requirement. with 5 or 6 classes i have enough to worry about, like keeping up my grades.
maybe, if ur transferring in two year, u don't have to send transcript at during and after the last spring semestre. but for one year transfers, i think they need my spring semestre to see more clearly my gpa.</p>
<p>i really don't think uc's will automatically reject u if u do not meet the maj req because some ccc are tiny that they don't offer some of the maj req courses. anyway, some schools have unrealistic expectations. uci requires two years of foreign language, philosophy, history, art history and literature classes for the art history major.
also, another confusion i came across was when i called ucla department of art history to ask on two maj req courses not offered at my school. he says that u can take all physics classes and enter art history major. i don't know if he was right.</p>
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i really don't think uc's will automatically reject u if u do not meet the maj req because some ccc are tiny that they don't offer some of the maj req courses.
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<p>It's not that you have to take all the major requirements at the UC. You have to take all the major requirement courses offered at your CC.</p>
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It's not that you have to take all the major requirements at the UC. You have to take all the major requirement courses offered at your CC.
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<p>Hate to disagree with one of the few people on CC that have my respect, but I didn't take all of the major requirements offered at my CC (maybe, I got in as an exception though? I don't know...)</p>