<p>Confused-What is the difference between TAG and IGETC?</p>
<p>It’s in the name. IGETC stands for “Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum” and is a certification indicating that you completed your general education courses at a community college and do not have to pursue them at a 4 year university. TAG stands for Transfer Admission Guarantee, and is a program in which you receive early review of your academic records, early admission notification and specific guidance about major preparation and general education coursework. You can only tag to one UC of your choice.</p>
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<p>Bolded part isn’t true if you TAG to UCSD, they don’t review your TAG application until they review the normal UC application and you are notified the same time as normal applicants. They’ll just send you an email saying thanks for filling out a TAG application, we encourage you to apply as a TAG applicant, talk to you in a few months. Although, they’re ending TAG in Fall 2014.</p>
<p>@ jdom24: I got that info off the UC site, so I was only reiterating what it said:
[University</a> of California - Transfer Admission Guarantee](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/transfer/guarantee/index.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/transfer/guarantee/index.html)</p>
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<p>What you said was correct for I think every other school besides SD. I just know from first hand experience SD doesn’t participate in the TAG program as actively as the other schools. I just wanted to point that out, not try and prove you wrong or anything.</p>
<p>Here’s the email SD TAG applicants get:</p>
<p>Hello ______,</p>
<p>Thank you for choosing UC San Diego when you submitted the UC Online TAG form in September. We encourage you to take the next step and apply to UC San Diego as a TAG applicant.</p>
<p>Submit the University of California application for admission by November 30, 2011. On the application, don’t forget to check the 2 boxes to be a TAG applicant at UC San Diego:</p>
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<li> UC San Diego TAG</li>
<li> IGETC</li>
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<p>It’s important to check both boxes!</p>
<p>The UC Online TAG form was a way of self-reporting your classes in a preliminary look at eligibility for the program. Some UC campuses pre-qualify TAG applicants by way of this form. Please note that as an applicant to UC San Diego, your TAG status will be reviewed at the time the application for admission is read, and not in advance.</p>
<p>If you do not satisfy all the requirements needed to be TAG-eligible, you still will be considered for admission as a general transfer student. Check our TAG webpage for up-to-date information about the program requirements. Official admission decisions will be posted online by the end of April 2012.</p>
<p>So be sure to submit your application and check the 2 boxes for TAG at UC San Diego if you wish to be considered as a TAG applicant. Remember the deadline is November 30, 2011. </p>
<p>Admissions and Relations with Schools
UC San Diego</p>
<p>As everyone has said, IGETC is a curriculum, or list of classes you complete while at cc in order to transfer to a UC or CSU. The requirements for USs and CSUs differ slightly. If you follow this curriculum then you know you have finished your general education requirements when you transfer and the University will not have you take any additional general education classes, the classes students take as freshman and sophomores at a four year university. </p>
<p>The TAG is an application/agreement with one UC campus that if you follow/adhere to you will be guaranteed admission to that UC. They do vary slightly as others have said.</p>
<p>I am a transfer student going to UC Davis this fall. I followed the IGETC plan of classes so that I knew I was taking the right classes to transfer. I also completed a TAG application for Davis last Sept. With Davis they actually let you know in Nov. if your TAG has been approved. If it has then you just finish all the classes that you had put on your application and your admission is guaranteed. So I knew I was in at Davis before getting my acceptance email in April. Hopefully you will have decent counselors at your cc (I had great ones) that can guide you through the process.</p>
<p>Thanks…now we got it!</p>
<p>Ok, time to revive this thread because I am really confused…</p>
<p>My D went from SFSU (1 semester) to a CC…but while in HS she took 2 college classes from another CSU.</p>
<p>She now wants to transfer to UCSB…and has a few questions…</p>
<p>Who certifies IGETC? Is it the CC or the UC? The reason I ask is that she has the requirement that she take "Critical Thinking, she took this exact course at a CSU while in HS but the CC requirements say it it cannot generally be for-filled outside the CC. She was told this by a counselor when she first enrolled at the CC. She asked if she could appeal but the counselor discouraged her. Does this make sense in that she took the course at a 4 year school, theoretically a higher institution than a CC?..would a UC declare this acceptable to meet the requirements? </p>
<p>If a TAG guarantees admission, what is the “disadvantage” of TAG, and if it guarantees admission, what wouldn’t everyone do a TAG? Am I missing something?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>@Sockhermom Although it does not make sense, that’s how it unfortunately works. In order for things to fulfill IGETC requirements, you either have to take the course at a CC or get a 3 on an AP exam that satisfies one of the requirements. Also, I believe the CC verifies the IGETC and they send that verification over to the UC. </p>
<p>There is no disadvantage of TAG. Everyone can’t do TAG because you have to have a certain GPA to qualify for the program and you must maintain that GPA before transferring.</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification Xcballin–so it is up the the CC to certify the IGETC…not the UC so basically what the CC determines is what the UC will accept. How does this work with the other classes she took at SFSU…with the certify it within the IGETC if they find them acceptable. For instance, she took 1st Year Composition, am I correct to presume that this will automatically count Area 1-English Composition?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Early admission notification… Lol @ Irvine, Santa Barbara and San Diego</p>
<p>SockherMom the IGETC was developed in response to a state law requiring among other things a “common core curriculum” for transfer and fulfillment of lower division breadth requirements at UC and CSU campuses. The policies of IGETC therefore are established at state-level, not by the individual CA community college (CCC). </p>
<p>One of the main purposes for creating the IGETC was to make it easier for students to transfer and to eliminate duplicate coursework in order that the different segments of the state’s higher education system would operate more efficiently (meaning CCC, CSU, UC campuses). So no, it does not make sense that the CCC is requiring your daughter to retake a course (courses?) that she already completed. </p>
<p>You said in an earlier post the CCC requires IGETC courses completed only at CCC - is that correct? That is not true - did they put this in writing? </p>
<p>You also said the counselor discouraged your daughter from petitioning for credit of previously completed coursework. Again curious if they put this in writing - what exactly did the counselor say? </p>
<p>The CCC does have to certify the IGETC, but there is no reason she can’t apply some coursework from SFSU or CSU provided it is essentially the same course content as the CCC class. </p>
<p>Please let me know if you need further resources - good luck to your daughter!</p>
<p>My daughter is just finishing up IGETC, as well as Tagged to UC Davis for this fall. In order to tag, I believe all of your courses had to have been completed at a CC. It is a program specifically for CC students to transfer over. </p>
<p>According to our IGETC paperwork, students are expected to complete the IGETC requirements BEFORE transferring to a CSU or UC. So, if she completed the classes at a UC or CSU, the IGETC certification is not required for that class as the class was already honored/credits were given at a CSU/UC. </p>
<p>Our paperwork says this:</p>
<p>Restrictions: Students who have been registered at a UC campus MAY NOT (this is underlined not caps on our paperwork) be eligible for IGETC. Students should consult with a counselor regarding this issue. This restriction, though, does not apply to students who have taken only UC summer session or Extension classes.</p>
<p>I note that it only says UC, not CSU. To meet CSU requirements for graduation you must also include a History class and Poli Psy class that are NOT required for IGETC. My daughter decided to take them even though she is tagged at her first choice UC because she is now getting her AA degree at the advice of her counselor–and they were required for a 2 year degree.</p>
<p>If your daughter looks carefully at the lower division requirements for her desired major, I don’t think it will hurt her to transfer in without IGETC. She won’t be able to TAG because of being outside of the CC system first, but some of the schools (Berkeley/UCLA) don’t participate in Tag anyway.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>It’s as different as soccer and football for Americans.</p>
<p>She met with another SBCC counselor last week. This counselor told her to submit paperwork to get a review of all of the classes she took at a CSU prior to entering SBCC. She asked that she submit a course description from the catalog where she took the classes and a copy of her transcript. She was also told that she should speak with with a UCBS admission counselor, and she called her yesterday. She was told that the UCSB counselors actually meet with students at SBCC (within the Transfer Academy Program) and my daughter could bring all of her coursework and they will review it with her to determine how her courses may transfer.</p>
<p>From what I understand IGETC courses do not all need to be complete at the CC…I think there are limits but she is within the credit limits in that she can still get certified under the program. She was also told that the TAG program requirements do change, which kind of stressed her out, in that the GPA requirements can shift up.</p>
<p>Her biggest problem is the one course in Critical Reasoning but if she needs to take it again the UCSB counselor told her the other course she took at CSUDH will count as an elective class for which she will get UCSB credit.</p>
<p>Thanks again for help and when she gets a determination, which they said could take 3 months, I will post back.</p>