<p>I remember reading on the University of California website that the state will try their best to get you into at least one of the UC's assuming you're a qualified in-state resident who has completed IGETC from a CCC and meet minimum eligibility requirements.</p>
<p>Let's think of a scenario where a CCC student is applying to a non-impacted major and has a fictitious GPA of a 4.0 with IGETC done.</p>
<p>Now the question is, if he/she apples to all 9 undergraduate UC campuses and gets into the lower ranked ones such as Merced or Riverside, will the other campuses see that you were accepted by them and purposely be harder on you (under the assumption that you have at least one UC to go to in the Fall) compared with someone with the same profile who ONLY applies to Cal and UCLA?</p>
<p>In other words, are good student's with high GPA's putting themselves at a disadvantage by applying to all the UC's as opposed to just the top ones?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>this is the same BIG concern I have been having for a long time. I am told that the application process will go fair on us which is good so most likely rather than not, if you applied to all the 9 UC’S as far as they like your application, GPA, and that good stuff you’ll be evaluated accordingly. Otherwise it would be totally biased and unfair if upper level UC’S, rejct yuo because you applied for the lower one’s.</p>
<p>This is actually a common myth that was busted at the UCLA TAP Conference last fall. All The UC Campuses make their decisions independent of each other. It is only detrimental to yourself to apply only to UCLA and Cal. The Admissions speaker said that your chances to UCLA was the same regardless if you applied to only UCLA or to all 9 UCs.</p>
<p>no worries
all these universities are independent of one another as far as the admissions process goes</p>
<p>“I remember reading on the University of California website that the state will try their best to get you into at least one of the UC’s assuming you’re a qualified in-state resident who has completed IGETC from a CCC and meet minimum eligibility requirements.”</p>
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<li>No, they usually guarantee you admissions to UCM and UCR. That is why people are laughing at Chesser because everyone gets accepted into one of those two.</li>
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<p>“Now the question is, if he/she apples to all 9 undergraduate UC campuses and gets into the lower ranked ones such as Merced or Riverside, will the other campuses see that you were accepted by them and purposely be harder on you (under the assumption that you have at least one UC to go to in the Fall) compared with someone with the same profile who ONLY applies to Cal and UCLA?”
<p>If you have a 4.0, with IGETC and prereqs and everything done, and you applied to a non-impacted major, you could get into ANYWHERE.</p>
<p>decisions are independent from each other</p>
<p>I read that same line that stated they’ll put you into a UC, and I’m sure that’s only IF you apply to all 9. I applied to all BUT UCR UCM and UCSC bc I already got into those schools for spring09 but I don’t want to go there. So I applied to the others hoping at least one of them will take me… hope they don’t all reject me or I’ll DIE and end up going to CSUF</p>
<p>Yeah I think that line is more of a mission statement than policy. More like, “there’s a UC for every type of student” rather than “we will place you in the right UC for you”.</p>
<p>I’ll say it again - the decisions are independent from one another. The bottom tier (UCR and UCM) are feeder UC’s. In other words, when they say “UC guarantees a place on one of its campuses to all eligible California residents who apply on time” - it means you’ll get into UCR and UCM regardless of whether or not you apply there. It happened last year when I applied as a freshman, I got accepted into those two when I didnt even apply there.</p>
<p>Are you crazy. Don’t worry about it. The coordination between campuses to accept individuals under that sort of system would be too much.</p>