<p>Quick which comes first chicken or egg question.</p>
<p>Does the school you are looking to transfer into review you and then accept you first or does the university review you and then accept you first?</p>
<p>I think if I’m correct then the school would accept you and then send the list of acceptances to the university…that only makes sense right? Less work for admissions.</p>
<p>Next question: does acceptance into a school increase chances of acceptance into university or not affect it at all?</p>
<p>what are you talking about?</p>
<p>Okay I’ll make it really simple.</p>
<p>Each university has schools or colleges within it (ex. college of engineering, School of the Arts and Architecture, etc.)</p>
<p>My question is: when a transfer application is submitted, who reviews it first? The school you have applied to or the university itself.</p>
<p>So say I applied to the School of the Arts & Architecture, will they accept me and then give the list of “accepted” students to admissions for the UNIVERSITY to review or does the UNIVERSITY review first?</p>
<p>@SMCguy, clearly you are slow.</p>
<p>I understood your question without the explanation seeing as I actually wondered the same thing about one of my applications. </p>
<p>Now, I think the way and order in which the evaluate the application depends very much on the school/college and university. I applied to the colllege of creative studies at UCSB and I KNOW they are two separate processes. I had to submit TWO separate applications as the college/school app was reviewed directly and exclusively by the major’s faculty whereas the university app is reviewed by regular college admission officers. Obviously if you don’t get into the university it doesn’t matter if you get into the college. However, (because my major was ALSO offered at the college of letters and sciences) if you get into the university but the college rejects you then you get automatically placed in the college of letters and sciences. I already got into the school, but their letter of admission said it was CONTINGENT upon my acceptance to UCSB (where I’m still pending:()</p>
<p>Anyway, my point in all this ramble is that normally if the apps are separate they get evaluated by different people and should have nothing to do with each other (although I secretly hope one admission influences the other :D). If the apps are the same then I assume the University evaluates them first to make sure you have all the minimum requirements and general ed crap complete. After that then the college/school’s own admission officers look at your app and decide from all the other additional stuff you supposedly submitted (portfolio, slides, music sheets, etc) whether they like you or not. </p>
<p>If you think about it it makes no sense for it to go the other way because it doesn’t matter if you’re freaking Picasso trying to get into the art program, unless you have the Uni’s minimum requirements and transfer gr stuff, you’re screwed. </p>
<p>Hope I helped :)</p>
<p>Thanks @nicolles, very helpful information.</p>