UCLA TAP: A Sure Thing

Itachirumon
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:05:28 +0000

I’m in a similar boat… I have about…100 units (or I will by the end of Winter) I’m applying with TAP to Psychology at UCLA. I’ll have all my units done, problem is I have some glaringly bad grades I have to fix… essentially, Fs in a history class and Spanish 1A I have to fix… and I had to take Stats 3 times to pass it (First time I got an F, took it online… computer glitched/broke/virus’ed 5 times before I finally just gave up, 2nd Time I kept getting sick cause I wasn’t used to 4-day a week college and all-nighters took a toll on my health, got a D). Anyway… Before you count my SBCC grades, my WVC grades are a 3.4, it’s those 3 Fs pulling it down. So I’m relying on the TAP to raise my chances after I run some grade-corrections. Thing is, with all 100 units (Including the 18 I’m taking now and the 1 unit I’m taking gaurenteed in the winter) my GPA on the TAG says 2.8 so I think they’re counting repeat and original and classes with grades I haven’t completed yet.

So bottom line (and sorry for hijacking the thread a bit) TAP will help, you just need to keep an upward grade trend, try to keep it at 3.5 and higher, do as many ECs as you can without overloading, write a great personal statement and hopefully you’ll get in (Acceptance is about 95%)

@sunny – You’re… applying this Fall so that you can go to UCLA by next Fall… correct? You have to have it done by Spring prior to Transfer, so you’d be completing the 15 units by Spring 2011 and going to UCLA in the Fall. Generally, you shoulda applied for TAP by now and gotten into the honors classes.