Transfer student from UC Riverside aiming for UCSD, UCSB, UCI, or UCLA [3.6 college GPA; business, economics, communications]

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Demographics
US domestic: US citizen
State/Location of residency: California
Type of high school (or current college for transfers): UC Riverside

Cost Constraints / Budget
None

Intended Major(s)
Buisness Economics or Communications

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores (Guessing HS GPA - Cant really remember)

Unweighted HS GPA: 3.6
Weighted HS GPA: 3.81
College GPA: 3.6
Class Rank: Unsure (On Deans Honor List)
ACT/SAT Scores: None

HS coursework (just the advanced classes/highest level)(I left out the common classes)

  • English: Honors, AP Lit, AP Lang
  • Math: Pre-Calc
  • Science: Honors Bio, Honors Chem, AP Comp Sci
  • History and social studies: AP US History
  • Language other than English: French 1,2, & 3
  • Visual or performing arts: Advanced Broadcast Productions

College Coursework (Transfer Applicants)

  • General education course work: GEO009, HIST010, PHIL001, PSYC002, CS008, POSC010, ENGL001B, GEO008, RLST006, ANTH001, CS005, DNCE007, ENSC001, ETST001, POSC015, PYSC001
  • Major preparation course work: MCS001, MCS049, ECON002

Awards
Deans Honors List, HS Varsity Soccer MVP

Extracurriculars
Work Experience: Assistant, HQ(SD Surf Soccer Club), Referee(SoCal Sports)
Volunteer: Website Admin(Local Church)
Other: Club Soccer, Graphic Designer(HS Soccer Instagram), Sports Social Media Platform(foundwed and run by me), ‘My ethnicities’ Students Association(UC Riverside), Sports Broadcaster (HS Varsity Football Streams)

Essays/LORs/Other
I think all 4 of my essays are pretty strong, balaced between cockiness and humility. They each help paint a picture of who I am, in and out of my academic life.

Schools (My estimates may be far off, so insight would be greatly appreciated)

  • Likely: UCSD, UCSB
  • Toss-up: UCI
  • Low Probability: UCLA
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Why do you want to transfer?

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As a Junior level transfer for these UC’s, your HS record will not be considered other than your AP classes.

Are you familiar with this link although this data is specific for Community college transfers? Transfers by major | University of California

Will you have your GE reciprocity letter for Transfer?

Since UC to UC transfers have lower priority and you cannot TAG to UCI or UCSB, I would put UCI, UCSB and UCSD into the Toss up category.

Best of luck.

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From the above, the admit college GPA ranges (25th-75th percentile) and admit rates:

Campus Major Admit GPA range Admit rate
UCI Business administration 3.80-4.00 25%
UCI Business economics 3.75-3.97 48%
UCI Economics 3.74-3.96 44%
UCLA Pre-business economics 3.85-4.00 13%
UCLA Communication 3.95-4.00 12%
UCLA Pre-economics 3.85-4.00 18%
UCSD Business economics 3.58-3.94 54%
UCSD Communication arts 3.38-3.90 73%
UCSD Economics 3.54-3.92 65%
UCSB Communication studies 3.41-3.90 71%
UCSB Economics 3.53-3.92 62%
UCSB Economics and accounting 3.53-3.94 64%
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Im just not enjoying my time at UC Riverside what so ever.

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Can you say more about why you are not enjoying your time at UC Riverside? Do you want to be in different setting? Do you miss home? Have you joined clubs or undertaken other activities outside of classes?

You university GPA suggests that the classes are approximately an appropriate level of rigor.

UCLA looks like a high reach to me, but @Gumbymom would know better than I would.

What do you think that you will like better at UCSD, UCSB, or UCI?

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UC Riverside doesnt have much of a social life, so its much harder to make freinds on campus. Also, being from the san diego area, it would just be nicer to be at a school in a similar terrain to that of my hometown. UCSD, UCI, and UCSB also have better reputations than UCR. Those are just a few reasons. Im hoping to get into at least one of them.

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Friend’s daughter transferred from UCR and just started at UCLA. Also got into USC, UCSD, and I believe UCSB. She did not get into Cal. She is a sociology major, but interested in accounting. Her grades at UCR was very high. I believe around 3.9. It can happen, but grades do need to be pretty high to give you a chance. Maybe consider Davis or Santa Cruz? UCSD, UCI, and UCSB are all very difficult schools to get into and I would say are toss ups or possibly reaches since it appears the UCs tend to favor CC student transfers rather than fellow UC transfers.

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