<p>So as you may all already know, the number of transfer applicants that applied this year went down by 4-5 percent. Since it's almost here, do you guys think it'll be a bit easier for all of us to get in to the school of our choice?</p>
<p>maybe. i hope so. but if you look at the transfer acceptance rates for each campus from 2008-2011 you’ll see a decrease in acceptance rates. For instance, in 2008 Davis accepted 72.5% of transfer students, in 2009 Davis accepted 69.9%, in 2010 Davis accepted 66.5% and in 2011 Davis accepted 53.3%… Although I’m not sure if this is how it works or it is by #of app/#of admitted students for each year respectively?</p>
<p>Sources: [Transfer</a> Acceptance Rates at US News Top 50 – The Transfer Book](<a href=“http://thetransferbook.com/stats/]Transfer”>Transfer Acceptance Rates at US News Top 50 - Transferweb) & [Fall</a> 2011 UC Davis Admitted Student Profile](<a href=“http://issuu.com/ucdavisadmissions/docs/studentprofile_final2011_nomarks?mode=window&pageNumber=1]Fall”>http://issuu.com/ucdavisadmissions/docs/studentprofile_final2011_nomarks?mode=window&pageNumber=1)</p>
<p>Cosmic, the rate decrease is just because of the # of total applicant increase each year.</p>
<p>Let said like Davis would admit 1000 student each year, the # of applicant determine the </p>
<p>rate of acceptance. It is because UC will not admit more people because of the increase in </p>
<p>applicant number. So the there is less people applied this year means we will be </p>
<p>comparatively easy to get in.</p>
<p>You should also put major of choice into perspective…Like if you want to get into UCI with a 3.2 applying as an impacted major, itll be a reach. I heard that this year they are going to accept.</p>
<p>Do you guys think that if your gpa is above the average of transfer apps, you’ll get in?
Like for UCSD, the average mean of transfer applicant gpa was 3.33. Anyone above that has a good shot?</p>
<p>I think a good shot is being above the admitted GPA, which last year was 3.56.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with jdom24. The only way to actually come close to guaranteeing admission to a school (outside of TAG) is to be ABOVE their mean admitted GPA.</p>
<p>It was 3.56 for UCSD, and somewhere in the 3.5s for SB and Irvine, and a little lower for Davis last year, I think. UCLA and Cal were both 3.7s I believe.</p>
<p>I thought it depended on your major.</p>
<p>@lawlking</p>
<p>So if you know the mean admit GPA for your major (UCLA is the only school that I know of who publishes that data), then be 25% above that if you want a ~75% chance of being admitted. Same principle, though.</p>
<p>If you don’t know the mean admitted GPA for your major, but you wanna come close to guaranteeing admission (>50% chance), you’d have to shoot to be 25% above the mean admit GPA of the college.</p>
<p>Of course, you could be below the mean GPA of university admits but above the mean GPA of admits to your major, but unless you have that data available to you (i.e., you know FOR SURE), it’s not really useful. All estimating an unpublished mean GPA does is add another level of uncertainty and ‘guesswork’ to an approximation that’s already uncertain.</p>
<p>Oh, but in the case of UCSD - the mean admit GPA of specific majors is irrelevant unless your major is impacted (Biology, BioEng, Aerospace, and Mechanical Engineering). UCSD admits to the university, so for applicants to UCSD to non-impacted major, the only GPA that matters is the university’s mean admit GPA.</p>
<p>^ yeah me too 
I’m happyy there’s a bit of a drop OTL <em>chortles</em></p>
<p>i think the number of applications decreased because it’s getting harder to get into UCs. like CosmicBubble mentioned earlier, davis’s acceptance rate dropped from 72.5% to 53.3%. i’m thinking the decrease in applicants is largely due to the less-competitive applicants giving up and turning to CSUs instead. CSUSM’s transfer applicants went up 15.4%: [CSUSM</a> Receives Nearly 17,000 Applications for Fall 2012](<a href=“http://www.csusm.edu/news/articles/nr_fall2012applications.html]CSUSM”>http://www.csusm.edu/news/articles/nr_fall2012applications.html)</p>
<p>i’ll bet the super-competitive folks are still around, more or less, which means admissions should be as difficult as the last two years or so.</p>
<p>furthermore, a decrease in the number of applicants does not mean it’ll be easier to get in with lower stats. i doubt UCs will admit less-competitive students just to fill empty spots. the average admitted gpa is likely to stay the same.</p>
<p>I have to say…I saw a lot of 3.3 and NON-TAG’s getting in to UCSD last year with non-impacted majors of course. So I do think that major does matter…but it’s also safe to say that you should be above the average admitted gpa. The average admitted gpa isn’t determined until everyone is accepted…so…yeah.</p>
<p>I guess if you have a 3.2-3.3 applying for bio at ucsd, you won’t get in
but if you have a 3.2-3.3 most likely 3.35+ applying with non-impacted major, you have a good chance (not saying because I have a 3.34).</p>
<p>The decrease in applicants will not do much towards getting accepted. It really depends on how well this years transfer class is. You can definitely get accepted with a lower than average admit GPA. Although I would prefer not to risk it.</p>
<p>@acoustickitty123</p>
<p>Could you post some links to the ‘lots of ppl’ who were 3.3s (and below) without TAG? I’m only seeing TAG posts with <= 3.3 in last year’s acceptance thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1100819-ucsd-acceptance-16.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1100819-ucsd-acceptance-16.html</a></p>
<p>If you could do that, it would be great! I think it would be a nice reference to have for other people with slightly lower than average admit GPAs.</p>
<p>Acceptances started coming out 03/19/2011 last year, btw.</p>
<p>I just realized last year 2011 applicants were able to tag everywhere and this year 2012 students we are only allowed to tag to one school. Therefore, this will play a big role in admission decisions!! Hopefully for the better since most of the people rejected in that UCSD thread were non-taggers.
Interesting!</p>
<p>I think the reason why less people are applying to UC’s and more for CSU’s is because of economy and cost. Simply, UC’s cost more and its a school that are meant for full-time students. However, CSU’s were made for working students and it’s also a lot cheaper alternative.</p>
<p>@cosmicbubble</p>
<p>Yeah, I hope that’s true. I am pretty freaked out, even though I have TAG with UCSD - because apparently they had too many TAGgers this year as well (even with a 3.5 min!). Last year, when they had too many TAG students, they ended up waitlisting TAG applicants!</p>
<p>Also, people with 3.7s without TAG in non-impacted majors were getting rejected/waitlisted:</p>
<p>3.93 Communications: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12547700-post2472.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12547700-post2472.html</a>
3.7 Sociology: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12542131-post2446.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12542131-post2446.html</a>
3.5 Linguistics: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12542808-post2449.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12542808-post2449.html</a>
3.7 Communications: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12531527-post2321.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12531527-post2321.html</a>
3.7 Philosophy: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12533134-post2351.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12533134-post2351.html</a>
3.7 Anthropology: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12531488-post2320.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12531488-post2320.html</a></p>
<p>Here’s the article where their adcom says that they got too many TAG applicants for 2012 as well:</p>
<p>“Powers estimates that UCSD’s transfer admissions target for the 2011-12 academic year was 2,410 students. However, 3,602 TAG applications were submitted under the new 3.5 GPA requirement. Under the 2010-11 academic year’s 3.0 GPA requirement, 4,900 TAG applications were received.”</p>
<p>[UCSD</a> to End TAG Program in Fall 2012](<a href=“http://www.ucsdguardian.org/component/k2/item/25399-ucsd-to-end-tag-program-in-fall-2012]UCSD”>http://www.ucsdguardian.org/component/k2/item/25399-ucsd-to-end-tag-program-in-fall-2012)</p>
<p>So fewer applications this year, but the proportion of TAG applicants remains relatively the same - and ONCE AGAIN they received MORE TAG applications than available spots (2410 spots available for transfers, 3602 TAG applications - That means that 1200 TAG applicants will be rejected).</p>
<p>I guess they are hoping that some of the TAG admits will enroll elsewhere, allowing up space for non-taggers from the waitlist. However, since people were only allowed to TAG to one UC this year, it seems unlikely - people probably signed a TAG with the school they actually wanted to go to.</p>
<p>Asphyxiac: Id love to! It’s scattered. I’ve seen maybe two in that thread…and some others in other threads. I’ll try looking for them…sooon…</p>
<p>I found one:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1102205-2011-uc-transfer-admission-decisions-15.html#post12540898[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1102205-2011-uc-transfer-admission-decisions-15.html#post12540898</a></p>
<p>He/she doesn’t stat their gpa but if you loook at their statistics, it says he/she has a 3.3 gpa and no tag. I’ll try looking for more.</p>
<p>and wow 3,000+ TAG apps this year? crazy</p>
<p>Dude, yeah. I’m terrified they’ll find some reason to deny me, lol.</p>
<p>Gonna try to stay positive.</p>
<p>:( sad day. I saw some history majors get in last year thouugh. and they had low gpa’s. I can’t remember if they had tag or not, I dont want to look through that 100 + page thread again lol. hopefully the number of history applicants is low. ucsd is so beautiful and awesome I want to go there so bad. I’m afarid to actually go check out the campus bc if I fall in love with it and get rejected I will be oh so sad </3</p>