Let me make one correction, per my parenthetical quote:
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The “~ 50 points” s/b “~40 points.”
@UCBUSCalum . . .
Per your quotes:
Yeah, the UCLA Admissions - Transfers link in this instance doesn’t provide enrolled gpa but only provides accepted-students’ average. Neither does it provide actual numbers of those who enroll, but only provides acceptance rates and yield.
There’s a link from the UC website if one is able to wade through all four pages of data sets that shows the specificity of admissions with respect to major and campus and gives the actual numbers of who were accepted and who enrolled =>
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major
UCB had a 23% acceptance rate (“AR”) for the 2019-20 year with a 25th-75th of 3.60-3.95 gpa, and UCLA had a 22% AR and a 3.70-3.95, with a midpoint of 3.825 (not necessarily the median).
In 2018, UCLA had a 3.63-3.93 gpa range, which would be a mid-point of 3.78, and the transfer profile had the average as being 3.76 (which will always be lower than the “median” – just as for the freshmen who enrolled at the University, the average uwgpa was 3.90 but the median was 3.98-3.99, based on some of the other info I provided.)
If 2018’s transfer cohort had a 3.76 average, then 2019’s should be 3.80 or pretty close to it. So, yes, one needs a 3.70 or higher for consideration for the vast majority of majors at UCLA.
UCB has extremely tough admissions for its E/CS majors as does UCLA, but the latter’s is just a hair below, with higher ARs and lower yield. But the bio majors at UCLA have just about as high a gpa as its E/CS programs, as does Business Economics, Economics, its math majors, and for some reason, Comm. UCB’s average for Haas is extremely high as one would imagine, but the other majors I mentioned for UCLA don’t have quite the averages at UCB.
A lot of the westside students who transfer into UCLA often just choose Sociology as a major: one, because it’s supposed to be easier with which to gain entry to UCLA, but also two, it is definitely an easier major. A lot of these students then use Soc as a pre-law or a pre-dentistry major. Among the ethnic students at the University from the westside, dentistry is really big, as of course is premed and prelaw. Because of these factors, Soc to UCLA as a xfer has a 3.72-3.94.
USC’s admissions is too muddled for me to comment any further, because the lines have been blurred between what are xfers and what are spring admits. So I’ll let things lie instead of saying anything else.
Absolutely, USC’s BUAD program is more in depth and it goes into more things that, e.g., are less quantitatively-based, but at UCLA everything (except for accounting) is quantitatively based which factors in its Math and Stats programs very heavily, so a lot of the UBS students are heading to the math department. But that’s also why the UBS at UCLA is so important along with internships.
If you have any further comments, I’ll be back in a few days to answer. I see the end of this thread in sight.