UC Riverside: I've been admitted

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<p>[The</a> UCR staff inspiration](<a href=“trippy video. - YouTube”>trippy video. - YouTube)</p>

<p>almost wants to make ucr your first choice…</p>

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<p>@iMunster</p>

<p>TAG stands for Transfer Admission Guarantee. As long as you meet the qualifications, you are guaranteed admission to the university. However, there are more requirements than just having a 3.0. For one, you must have at least 60 units.</p>

<p>Google UCR TAG, and you should be able to find the requirements fairly quickly.</p>

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<p>I got in as well for Business Admin. I was not accepted by Cal Poly though, any reason for that? overqualified?</p>

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<p>Cal Poly is arguably better regarded than UCR. Setting that aside, CSUs in general are becoming more and more difficult to get into. They have more applications because they cost less and have lower requirements, and receive the worst of the funding cuts. As a result, CSUs are focusing on admitting the students in their service area. </p>

<p>As an example of this, last year’s cut off for out-of-area students was 3.7 at Fullerton. Yes, 3.7. Yes, decent-shot-at-UCLA-and-Berkeley 3.7. It’s simply numbers—they take local students first, and any left over space goes to out-of-area students.</p>

<p>Right now, UCs with TAG are much easier to get into than many CSUs for out-of-area students. However, your in-area CSU will be easiest.</p>

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<p>Just received this beauty via email. UCR is now officially the school whose admit packet I’m most looking forward to receiving.</p>

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<p>EDIT:
Oh my god, I was so taken by the email I didn’t bother to follow the link. It’s great!</p>

<p><a href=“http://students18.ucr.edu/em/go/email/admit/[/url]”>http://students18.ucr.edu/em/go/email/admit/](<a href=“http://img853.imageshack.us/i/emailadmit112.jpg/][IMG]http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/1131/emailadmit112.jpg[/IMG][/URL”>ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs)</a></p>

<p>EDIT x2:
Be sure to click the Explore UCR link on the page above.</p>

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<p>Haha! That was great!!</p>

<p>Look at the lame message from CSUN… [Cal</a> State Northridge](<a href=“http://www.csun.edu/icc/flash_email/congratsmov.html]Cal”>http://www.csun.edu/icc/flash_email/congratsmov.html)</p>

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<p>Holy shazbot those UCR packets are so freaking cool.</p>

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<p>The CSUN message was objectively way better than the UCR one, which was just plain weird.</p>

<p>Why don’t these universities think, “Would Harvard and Yale do that?” I really can’t see any Ivy League institution putting together anything like what UCR and CSUN do. I’m not saying that Harvard and Yale are flawless, just that they’ve been pretty good at fostering a positive image over the past few centuries.</p>

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<p>Well… probably because they aren’t Harvard or Yale? Just taking an educated guess here. </p>

<p>Besides, to attempt to be something you are not when everyone knows, is a fatal marketing strategy. UCR is attempting to make themselves more interesting by differentiating themselves. Sure there will be critics (e.g. you) but in the marketplace for universities, where almost everyone looks the same, UCR decided to differentiate themselves and I applaud them. I think what they have produced is interesting and gets people talking in the ether. For better or worse, they are being talked about. When you are often ridiculed, you’ve gotta take what you can.</p>

<p>Objectively CSUN was better? I think you meant subjectively.</p>

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<p>The UCs DO take AP tests as units…right?</p>

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<p>I’d like to see them treating themselves and their accepted applicants as meriting better than that simplistic video, even if they’re not Harvard or Yale. </p>

<p>The UCR thing might be their style…? I’ve seen similar murals around and in the campus.</p>

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<p>No, I meant objectively. I don’t want to get into a long discussion about how design is quantified, but I felt the CSUN design was objectively better.</p>

<p>On the Harvard and Yale thing… I don’t mean they should emulate Ivy League institutions, just that they should consider whether what they’re thinking of doing supports an image of a respectable educational institution, or whether it makes them look like a joke. </p>

<p>Berkeley and even Irvine have a different look and feel from the Ivies, but everything I’ve seen from those campuses strikes me as respectable. I can’t say the same of Riverside or, frankly, Santa Barbara (though SB is much better than Riverside).</p>

<p>With that in mind, UCR’s website is actually quite good. The image they’re fostering with their admission materials is quite different, and much worse. It’s good to be unique, but it’s better to imitate than to be unique in a bad way.</p>

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<p>@nick_scheu:</p>

<p>HAHAHAHA! Oh man, that’s almost better than my packet from last year.</p>

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<p>“Respectable” IS purely subjective. Subjectively, I don’t think it makes them look like a joke. I think what they are doing is marketing themselves as a contrast to all of the other schools that look the same. Their admit packet IMHO is interesting and unlike the cookie-cutter nature of most other universities that do not have the stature of Harvard or Yale and to a lesser degree Cal and Irvine. </p>

<p>Besides, Yale students did a whole video about why people should apply to Yale in the form of a musical. I ABSOLUTELY despise musicals, but at least what they did was creative and different and took some risks. </p>

<p>Marketing is all about an attempt to differentiate yourself in order to get your product noticed above the noise and clutter of similar products. The UCR admit packet shows risk and courage and for that I applaud them.</p>

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<p>No, I didn’t mean it was objectively better because it came off as more respectable. I was talking about design elements–typeface selection, color choice, layout, etc. Since relativism is popular right now, you’ll probably argue that anything that can’t be quantified is subjective, but I disagree. Paintings by Van Gogh or Picasso are objectively better than anything I could paint, even though you can’t perform a scientific test to determine why theirs is better. I suppose my point is that “objectively better” is a broader term than “quantifiably better,” while anything quantifiably better is also necessarily objectively better.</p>

<p>You give the UCR credit for taking risks and demonstrating courage. That’s fine. I also respect UCR for being able to try something new, but the end result was simply not good. I see what they’re going for, but the execution is fundamentally flawed. Whoever signed-off on their admissions branding—their design department’s director or whomever—should be fired.</p>

<p>Your example about Yale’s musical is a separate issue—you are being subjective. You don’t like musicals, so you don’t like that video. I’m not making any judgements about the validity of a campaign that attempts to demonstrate diversity, to bridge old and new, and to use flashy graphics to do it. I’m not even being critical of pop-up books. I’ve seen some really amazing, highly intricate pop-up books, and I enjoy flashy, unique design when done well. I’m being critical of the execution in this specific case.</p>

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<p>Are we really going this in depth on that hideous acceptance packet?</p>

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<p>LOL I got into UCR with a 2.83 as a Bio major. They really do accept anyone (i’m really not that stupid I just stopped working hard last year and it ****ed up my gpa)</p>

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<p>Nick,</p>

<p>I actually loved the Yale video. I thought it was highly entertaining and creative. I just don’t like the Musical genre in general. Thanks for clarifying. I won’t quibble with anything you noted. </p>

<p>Though personally, I am not a fan of relativism regardless of field of study. Relativism is intellectually lazy.</p>

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<p>Congrats everyone!!!</p>

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<p>I still have not heard back from ucr… Are they still in the process of releasing them?</p>