Davis' Transfer Acceptance Rate = ~21%?!?!

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Okay, so I’m applying to Davis as a transfer applicant this year and I was browsing through their website, when I saw this line on the following page:</p>

<p>[UC Davis</a> : Non-admitted Transfer Applicants](<a href=“http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admission/transfers/tr_nonadmitted.cfm]UC Davis”>http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admission/transfers/tr_nonadmitted.cfm)</p>

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<p>That means that if all 2,800 spaces were taken up, the acceptance rate to Davis was around 21%!! This just can’t be right because I know that Davis’ transfer acceptance rate is more around 50-60%. Am I missing something here?</p>

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<p>13,751 applied in Fall 2011. Out of those that applied, 7,672 were admitted. That being said, 2,790 were enrolled. I think that means only 2,790 decided to attend that school or some were rejected later on, etc.</p>

<p>Source: <a href=“http://facts.ucdavis.edu/documents/uc_davis_profile.pdf[/url]”>http://facts.ucdavis.edu/documents/uc_davis_profile.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>2,800 is the number of spaces they have. This is how many transfer students they expect to actually enroll. Not everyone offered acceptance will choose to enroll at UCD.</p>

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<p>Wow, so that’s what I was missing. Now it all makes sense. Thanks for your inputs guys! Btw, do you think that Davis would deliberatly reject someone because they think that their GPA/stats are above Davis’ average acceptance stats? I’m asking because I have a 3.7 right now, which is above Davis’ average and I don’t want them to reject me because my GPA is “too high” or something. I’m applying only to Davis, so going to other campuses isn’t even something that I’m considering. Thanks for your info! :D</p>

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<p>^You should TAG there.</p>

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<p>Nope, I can’t TAG because I’m a UC-UC transfer applicant. I read that it’s better for me as an intercampus applicant, if I have a higher GPA than the community college applicants. My GPA should technically not hurt me, because it’s in the higher range for Davis and I’m not a CC applicant, right?</p>

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<p>Your GPA won’t hurt you unless it is too low.</p>

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<p>Cool, that’s a relief. I’ve was worried because I kept hearing stuff about people getting rejected from mid-tier UCs with high GPAs because the adcoms “assumed that the applicants would get into a top UC and decide to go there instead”.</p>

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<p>The [University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu%5DUniversity”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu) data (up to 2008-2009) indicates that the UCs do not reject “overqualified” applicants in order to play yield games (if they did, then the highest applicant GPA ranges at the less selective UCs would have lower acceptance rates than the slightly lower applicant GPA ranges).</p>

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Full-year applicants, full-year admits, full-year enrollees, admit rate, yield rate for full-year applicants, students transferring from California community colleges by prior college GPA: 2008-2009, Davis</p>

<p>Davis
2008-2009
    Full-year applicants    Full-year admits    Full-year enrollees Admit rate  Yield rate
Total       7,343   5,529   1,882   75.3    34.0
Below 2.40  204 15  9   7.4 60.0
2.40 - 2.59 199 20  13  10.1    65.0
2.60 - 2.79 387 74  44  19.1    59.5
2.80 - 2.99 713 460 254 64.5    55.2
3.00 - 3.19 1,050   774 352 73.7    45.5
3.20 - 3.39 1,092   918 359 84.1    39.1
3.40 - 3.59 1,191   1,021   346 85.7    33.9
3.60 - 3.79 1,087   966 241 88.9    24.9
3.80 - 4.00 1,405   1,281   264 91.2    20.6
Unknown     15  0   0   0   0

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<p>However, it is likely that they use past yield rates to manage the size of the class – they can figure that they will get one student out of five 3.80 - 4.00 GPA admits, one student out of four 3.60 - 3.79 GPA admits, etc…</p>

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<p>@cinnabon1234, the only time I’ve heard high achieving applicants getting rejected is for freshman admission. I have not heard anything like that from transfer applicants.</p>