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Transfer Admits: Are you coming?

So I've been on a bit of a hiatus/sabbatical from the blogosphere and I apologize. I hope everyone has handled the distance and separation as well as possible and I will try not to stay away for such a long amount of time again.

I just wanted to remind our admitted transfer students that the deadline to submit their Statement of Intent to Register is this Monday, June 2. Usually the deadline for transfer SIRs is June 1, but this year it falls on a Sunday so you lucky bunch get an extra day of indecisiveness! Although, were I you, I would submit my SIR well before the deadline just in case. But maybe some of you like to walk on the wild side. If that's the case, I respect that.

On a completely unrelated note, congratulations to our Women's Tennis Team for winning UCLA's 102nd NCAA National Championship. Well done ladies! Which fine UCLA team will be our next national champion??

(Most) Transfer Decisions Available!

As many of you know by now, transfer admission decisions are available online! On behalf of UARS, congratulations and welcome to all our admitted transfer students! I know the wait was frustrating for a lot of you, but I hope it was worth it.

Some readers have expressed concern that not receiving their admission decision yet is an indication that they will not be admitted, and I want to assure you that this is not the case. A late notification has no bearing on/relationship to your admission decision, so please do not make an assumptions about your admission status at UCLA based on not receiving a decision yet. Don't listen to what your friends are saying; listen to me.

We try to release as many decisions as we can as early as we can, but our office has limited resources and only so many hours in a day, and unfortunately we cannot complete every application review in the timely matter we (and you) would like. For those of you who haven't received your decision yet, please keep checking back at the site; you should find out soon!

Admitted students: You have until June 2 to submit your Statement of Intent to Register (SIR), and if you have made changes to your academic program, or your academic performance has declined, you should go the New Bruins Website (https://www.admissions.ucla.edu/NewBruins/NSG_Transfer.htm) to fill out a Transfer Provisional Problem Form (here in the UCLA, Land O' Abbreviations, we say PPF) to notify our office as soon as possible.

Transfers: Are You Coming?

Transfer students: You have just about a week (until June 1) to submit your Statement of Intent to Register [SIR]. Visit your New Bruins page, and follow the steps to accept our offer of admission. Transfer students like you make up an important part of the undergraduate student body at UCLA, and we're very proud that UCLA admits the most transfer students of any school in the UC system. If you have any questions, be sure to get in touch with us, either by emailing newbruins@saonet.ucla.edu, or, if there are changes to your record, course schedule, or academic performance, you should head to the New Bruins page and submit a Provisional Problem Form [PPF]. Daniel went over this in his post, but it bears repeating, you know?

Right outside of Murphy Hall in Schoenberg Quad, the UCLA Clothesline Project is up through tomorrow. Women (and their relatives) who have been victims of sexual violence created color-coded t-shirts about their experiences. It's an amazing, and incredibly moving, project. Stop by and check it out if you're on campus.

FINALLY, we are ALMOST THERE!!!

Decisions will be released today for most of our 13,400 transfer applicants to Fall 2007! While this may represent only 21% of our applicant pool, the review of transfer applicants to UCLA takes a lot longer than the freshman review. Though many factors we look at are the same—such as employment, extracurricular activities, community service, awards, personal achievements, and hardships—unlike freshmen, transfer students’ college work becomes part of their permanent course record. Furthermore, since we expect transfers to enter UCLA as college juniors ready to take on upper division course work in their majors, we review every last course listed on each application to make sure students have made progress toward major preparation requirements. And where our freshman reviews are conducted by a combination of admissions employees and outside readers (over 100 people), transfer reviews are done by only 12 people called evaluators. Every college employs people with this title. Their job is to determine how courses taken at other schools translate to their school. Sounds simple but, believe me, it isn't—especially for a place with such a wide draw as UCLA. Collectively, our evaluators hold detailed knowledge of educational systems not just in the US, but throughout the world. (Some of our evaluators recently penned education profiles on China, Mexico, and Oman that will be used by colleges and universities nationwide.) As of today, my evaluator colleagues can take a short but well-earned breather before the transcripts start rolling in, and they are once again scanning lists of courses.

(Above, from top: Evaluators Laura Macchia Amescua, Christy Blaine, Bob Hantsch, and Stephanie Ingvaldson.)