<p>Aj, I gave many reasons why applicants should be notified as soon as possible. Another big one: a surprising rejection (from one of the UCs) can alert a student who wants to go to UCLA or Berkeley to possible errors in their applications, errors that can be fixed before it is too late.</p>
<p>Besides, the burden is really on you to show that making many students wait much longer than they have to is necessary. No school has said they have been forced to release a decision without having the “necessary time” to review it. The time frame allows them the time to get to all applications, while providing many with results as soon as possible.</p>
<p>i just took my intermediate macroeconomics final today and i’m pretty sure i failed… if i retake this class next quarter, do you think they would still revoke my admission (if i even get in that is… still waiting on decisions from uci, ucsb, ucsd, and ucla)?</p>
<p>currently at ucsc
gpa: 3.56
business major
igect will be completed by end of next quarter</p>
<p>Gabe, in my original post, an aspect of what I said seems to be bothering you. This line from py previous post: “If a school states that its admissions decisions will be available a certain day, they should be available that day.” is the point of my argument. I don’t care if the date is sooner or later… obviously the sooner the better, but to make a time span varying between 1.5 - 2 months doesn’t seem right. Sure, let all uc’s but berkely and la post early if it helps kids get their application together (although if they messed up that important step in the process, perhaps they should consider their capability to follow through a detriment to their ability to succeed as a transfer student) but either way, I would prefer a release of decisions in a uniform matter. Heck, other members of this forum are getting letters in the mail before they are notified online. This begs teh question “what is the point of online notification if letters in the mail are sent before electronically posted?” Gabe, perhaps we should simply agree to disagree.</p>
<p>Shockbear… i’m kind of confused… you are in UCSC and you are IGETC certified ? Are you sure? I thought IGETC can only be certified in community colleges</p>
<p>aji1234 and gabe… I like your arguments… keep it up j/k nah, let it drop but nontheless, good review for a critical thinking course… thanks by the way.</p>
<p>Aj, the date CANT be sooner because they can’t get to thousands of applications that early! If they had a uniform date it would be LATER, meaning many applicants would receive a decision LATER. You’re saying you want a uniform manner without explaining why: the why, I suppose, is because of neurotic applicants who worry when no worrying is warranted. Otherwise, I can’t see why a “uniform” decision date would be advantageous for anyone!</p>
<p>And what you said about students messing up is ridiculous. Everyone makes mistakes. Do you want a 4.0 student to be rejected because he checked a box wrong? Many students can be alerted to such errors because of receiving the early notification from some of the UCs.</p>
<p>Please focus on the key point. What you are proposing will inevitably mean that many students will receive a decision later than they would under the current system. AGAIN, the BURDEN is on YOU to say why a “uniform” system would be better, since the later decisions is an obvious downfall from the current system.</p>
<p>they should push the application deadline forward. I don’t see any reason why the UC’s require the apps be sent in on November 30th when they don’t even begin reviewing transfer apps until February 15th…</p>
<p>Yeah…I prefer the Cal-state system admission process more than the UCs’ one. </p>
<p>Look, I applied to 4 Calstates and many of them offered me provisional admission within less than a month (around December as i remember, like months ago already) … how nice but UCs, man… what a long long long long long waiting!!!</p>
<p>For UC to UC transfers, igetc is honored if i complete all my GE’s at my previous school. So, if i i finish all my GE classes at ucsc and i transfer to another UC, then that UC will honor the fact that i already completed all my GE’s. the exception is only with a couple of colleges at ucsd, which require transfers to still complete whatever set of GE’s that they have.</p>
<p>I wonder if UCLA is really that good. I took o-chem in smc before, and a lot of students from UCLA retook in there too, even my lab partner was from UCLA. But my lab partner always complained about how bad UCLA was.</p>
<p>“shockbear, what if i’m missing one of my non major ge’s such as ethnic studies?”</p>
<p>you would have to take ethnic studies to complete it. prerequisites for majors often fulfill certain GE’s but you need all those other classes too (ex: history, art, math, ethnic studies, etc.) in order to get the igetc.</p>
<p>what sort of consequences would that one class have on an admissions decision…? little i would hope
i don’t think ucla has mandatory prereqs like some some majors at berkeley, but it also varies by major. I know business is pretty intent on having the prereqs done prior to admission.</p>
nah, let it drop but nontheless, good review for a critical thinking course… thanks by the way.</p>