<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the application due date for freshmen and transfers was around the same time. So why must we wait and antcipate for a longer period of time? Lol</p>
<p>Don’t know. It’s stupid.</p>
<p>Someone told me it’s because freshman are going to be paying 4 years worth of tuition compared to a transfer student who is only going to pay 2 years worth. Hopefully there is some kind of factor where they can give more transfers acceptances to the school.</p>
<p>Moving is more difficult for freshman, so I assume that’s why they get priority – advanced notice. I also imagine evaluating freshman apps is different than evaluating transfer apps, so it’s not like evaluating both groups is equal to evaluating them separately; doing one at a time is likely easier and less confusing.</p>
<p>i think it’s because they do freshman and transfers separately, and since they can’t start evaluating transfers until the januaury update, they probably get the freshman started while they are waiting for the updates, the freshman probably carry out til around february, and then as soon as they are done with the freshman, the start the transfers. They don’t start transfers immediately after the january update, cuz they haven’t finished with the freshman and it would be stupid to just stop doing freshman like 80% of the way thru and then start transfers.</p>
<p>Ahhh the January update! That makes the most since. I forgot about that. Man they should just move the app due date for transfers till January in the first place.</p>
<p>the january update is understandable. im just upset that I havent heard from any of the 4 UCs I applied to yet…</p>
<p>at least you get your acceptance soon. USC has to wait till late may :(</p>
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<p>Heck no. I have a job and family. Most transfer students work. If a HS student & a CC student are going from, say, San Diego area to Berkeley, I think it may be more difficult for a transfer student. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>I called a couple UCs a few months back and asked the same question. They all said it’s easier to verify things with High schools than CCs. That makes no sense to me since there are WAY more high schools than CCs, most CCs pretty much have the same classes and CCs have plans/agreements/articulations with UCs.</p>
<p>I think it is because the large quantity of freshman applicants and the january update for transfers.</p>
<p>Freshman have 50,000+ applicants at UCLA and only like 17,000 transfers</p>
<p>^^^
I’m with eshug on this. It’s gotta be the number of applicants.</p>
<p>@AwesomeStudent, you’ve successfully defeated my reasoning, as have others in this thread. There are many better reasons to allow freshmen to be admitted first.</p>
<p>Number of applicants…yea very true. But they could also do this in reverse and start with the smaller number (transfers) and move up to the larger (freshmen)</p>
<p>^ except for the fact they have to wait until the january update to start on transfer applications</p>
<p>and evaluating freshmen is much more tedious because you have to take in other factors like SATs…there’s a lot more applicants and competition is fierce, so they wanna get the hard part over with by getting it out of the way, so it’ll be easier and more relaxed once the transfer applicants get evaluated.</p>
<p>Of course they start freshmen first, there are more of them to get through. If you start transfers second, guess what, you can start doing apartments and complex housing situations last. Freshman dorm situations are not that hard to figure out since they control the facilities. However, they don’t control apartment buildings so they would naturally wait to deal with complex housing situations till the end when leases are up.</p>