UCLA admissions transfer program information

This post is a transcription of an official UCLA video regarding their transfer program.  This transcription is made strictly under the Fair Use doctrine’s exception for informational/news and education purposes.

Video source:

Transcript: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Vi6dsHHLs

TRANSCRIPTION:

Good Morning! My name is Vu Tran.  I am the director of Undergraduate Admissions and Relations School at UCLA.  I am very delighted to see many of you here today and hopefully I’ll be able to share with you some basic information about transfer admissions at UCLA.

Let me start by sharing with you, something that you probably know, that UCLA has a long-term commitment to transfer students.  We are very unique among the national selective university by the fact that approximately about 40% of our new undergraduate students each year are from transfer population and we are very proud of that fact and we will continue to make commitment to transfer students in the years to come.  Now, for 2009 is no exception.  We received almost 16,600 applications that grew approximately over 10% from the year before.  We admitted roughly about 5,300 for the admission grade about 32%, which is a drop from the 35% the year before in that aspect.  One of the challenges that we have right now is that, as you know, we are undefended over the years.  We have consistently enrolled approximately about 1,700 students, meaning that we enrolled and support these 1,700 students each year without any support from the state of California .  Therefore, we are planning tentatively at this time a modest reduction in the enrollment of undergraduate students, however, for us to remain true to the fact the we continue the commitment to the transfer population the plan reduction in the undergraduate new students will primarily come from the freshmen population.  Last year, we had an enrollment target of 3,200 for transfer.  We will probably over-enroll roughly by 3,350 students; however, the enrollment target for next year at this time will remain to be at the 3,200 level or so.

Now, you are probably familiar with the admission at UCLA for transfer students; the fact that we admitted students by majors and although we review the application holistically and comprehensively we read all the applications cover to cover.  Just like Buckley, major is a factor.  You are probably familiar with the fact that we do have a transfer profile webpage that provide you information in detail concerning about the major and average accruement achievement of those students as well.  We list here a few accruement update, but I just want to bring to your attention the second item which is that international development study major is closed until further notice.  Actually, it is close for the whole 2009 and 2010.  The decision to close the major temporarily was made even before the budget information came to our attention.  The essential thing here is that there is an opportunity for us to enhance the curriculum in these majors and they made the decision to close down the major for two years to study it further before they re-open that again.  Now, originally the plan is that we highly likely would have been open for 2011, however, because of the budget situation right now I am not sure and I will try to update you as soon as the decision is made in that aspect.

Usually, I continue to guarantee housing for one year and just like anything at UCLA we offer the students a lot of choices from a traditional residential to a suite private apartment and private bathroom as well.  The cost varies approximately between $10,600 to about $16,000 a year.

Last but not the least; I just want to mention to you that our transfer students perform excellently and very consistent with the performance of the native students at UCLA; the graduate almost at about the same rate.  Essentially, students who come to us 55% of them graduate in two years or less, 84% of them graduate in 3 years or less.  Many times it is really just two years plus another quarter or so and eventually 90% of the students graduate from UCLA.  Ninety percent of our students come from California community colleges.  In that sense, we really appreciate the preparation and the guidance that you have done at the community college when they send the students to UCLA.  On behalf of UCLA, again, I would like to thank you for your hard work in that aspect.

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