UC TAP/TAG Workshop (For Prospective Transfers)

Hi everyone, my name is Diana Medina and one of the transferred admissions counselors at UC Riverside. I'm actually a UCR alumni as well and was a transfer student just like some of you all today. We're going to be doing a presentation on the tap and the tag, which are the transfer admissions planner and the transfer admissions guarantee.

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We will have one person assisting me with moderating the chat. Her name is Genesis Flores. She's currently a fourth year transfer student at UC Riverside as well and was a transfer student as well so she'll be able to assist in answering any of the questions you may have. So feel free to type in questions throughout the presentation and if they are approved and they will show up in the chat and we can go ahead and answer them. So let's go ahead and get started.

Uh, is everyone able to both hear me and see the slide? The slide that you should be seeing is titled Planning your way to guaranteed admission.

Thank you for confirming that I will go ahead and get started. OK, so the UC transfer admissions planner is a tool that any student can use right here. It does say California Community College students, but if you do have any out-of-state coursework or any CSU coursework or private University crossword, you can go ahead and manually enter that work as well.

But the main purpose of the tool is for students to be able to plan and track their coursework and their progress. It's really helpful for us as admissions counselor to be able to advise you. So if you ever have an appointment with one of our counselors or we go out to one of your community colleges or anything like that, and you have this filled out, were able to easily check you know what major requirements have you already completed, which ones do you still need an you know where your GPA is at and where you are with units and all of that?

Makes it really easy for us to advise you so um will go into some of the benefits next.

And so again, you can upload your.

Um courses onto the UC tab and once you are ready to fill out your UC application, if you have a tap account and you end and you use the same email that you used to register your tab when you create your UC application, you will be able to link the information that you have filled out from your tablet to your application. So save you some work there. Again, it does allow you CN Community College staff to communicate important information to perspective students.

So another way that we, as admissions counselors, utilize this tool is you know you are able to select the UC campuses that you're interested in, and if we ever do maybe have an event on your campus that we would like to inform you about, then we can pull your email from there and send you an invitation and you'll also receive like information on dates and deadlines and such.

Will get into what the tag is on another slide, but just so that you know from here, uhm, you are able to use your tab account as kind of like your tag application when the time comes.

So using the UC tab, this is the first page that you will see. It's the UC information page and again it kind of explains here what that app would be utilized for and so on. And it does give you hear the 10 UC campuses that would have access to the information that you enter into the UC tab.

To start an account, the first thing that you would want to do is either you know, create, create an account here, or log in using your the email that you come up with in the beginning and then the password there.

Some of the information that it will ask you for is your first name, middle name, last name, your basic personal identifying information. Your email. Make sure it is a professional email because like I said, you might want to be able to link this to your UC application later on, but also make sure it is an email that you do check often. That way you are not missing out on any information your birthday, your address.

On your primary telephone number.

After the personal information and demographic information um we again you know user reliable email address that it's checked regularly be consistent with the use of their name on all UC applications this is to avoid any confusion later on you know with your name not matching your your transcripts or your records or anything like that.

Um in the academic history section uhm you should list all high schools and colleges that you attended uhm so this thing for colleges you really want to make sure especially that you're entering every single one even if you only attended for one term and earned AW or you know none of your courses are transferred from the community transferable from that Community College you still want to make sure that you're entering all of the information there and then we'll go ahead and make that evaluation on whether you know you.

Will be receiving credit for the course or not?

But when in doubt just make sure to fill it out as completely as possible.

And then you can I want to start building out your transfer plan so the first question here that it asks you is to indicate the term and year that you plan to transfer for typically the majority of students are applying for a fall term so just make sure that you are putting you know fall for example students that applied this last year were applying for fall 20 if you are currently wanting to start filling this out then you might be either doing winter 21 or fall 21 at UC Riverside we do currently offer winter.

And I'll go over some dates and deadlines for that later.

Uhm and then you can start also selecting the campuses for which you are interested in you'll see here you see Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced Riverside San Diego in Santa Barbara the great thing about you see Top and the UC application is that you do only have to fill it out one time and you can select all the campuses that you would like to send your information to so there's no need to fill you know like if you're interested in Riverside but also interested in Merced there's no need to fill out to.

I'm just one will be enough and then make sure that you do pick a major for each campus your major could be titled something a little bit different at each campus to make sure that you are doing some research on you know for example our website is admissions dot UCR dot Edu we do have all of our majors listed on our website an another helpful tool that students can use to kind of start.

Helping with their transfer plan isassist.org you'll want to visit usis.org if you're applying to any of our selecting majors are selecting majors would be the entire College of engineering the entire College of natural agricultural Sciences are College of humanities also has a few selecting majors is such a psychology ecan neuroscience our School of Business is selecting as well.

And that's actually it right now if you add by selecting what that means it doesn't mean the same thing as impacted all we're trying to say there is that there are going to be some major preparation courses required to be completed with certain grades prior to you transferring.

In addition there may be a little bit of higher GPA requirement so for most majors the baseline is 2.4 but for example are College of engineering does require a minimum of 2.8 so those are the kind that's the kind of information that you are able to find anassist.org and that you kind of want to research when you're building out your transfer plan an selecting a major an campus.

The next section that you will come to will be your coursework so if you see here um you will be able to select the term that you want to enter the courses for so you know start from the very first term that you attended college if this was back in 2010 that's fine but you know you'll want to select fall in the year 2010 and then the college that you attended if you attended multiple community colleges during the same term that's OK too.

Just make sure that you know you you do enter every single class so if you attended myrna Valley college and then you attend to Riverside City College to make sure that you set distinguish between the 2 when you're entering your courses once you've added of course it will come up here on your summary.

If the course is transferable, it's really easy for you to add as you know, you kind of just enter in. You know the title or the course number of your course, and it will kind of manually auto populate for auto populate for you. However, if the course is non transferable or it is from a CSU from another state or private institution, then the course does not auto populate. However, you still want to enter the course, you'll just have to enter.

And information manually so just list when you're when you're doing that just list of course is exactly as they appear on your transcript so you'll want to make sure you have this subject abbreviation the course number the title the number of units the course is worth and the grade.

Make sure that you are also you know when entering your Community College or other four year institution, paying attention to whether that is a semester or quarter, school or intercession.

So most community colleges are on semester system but there are some that are on quarter an if you attended any other universities you'll want to pay attention to that as well. That way it calculates your unit educate correctly.

The next section that you will have access to and can fill out will be the exam section so if you took any AP or IB courses while you were in high school this will be the area for you to enter them in you you do want to report these as well 'cause you could satisfy some admissions requirements using your AP exams an AP exams they don't arlo sometimes they are archived I believe after 4 years.

They don't expire so even if you have very old AP exam credit um just make sure that you know you're you're entering accurately that you have you know the score that you received a year that you took it in and they damn you took and you should be able to enter that as well but do be prepared to provide an official copy of your exam score report if you are admitted to University.

Once you have entered all of that information and you'll be presented with the summary of everything that you entered, you know you are also able to list any.

Programs or activities that you participated in, and again, that's very helpful for you to keep track. Some of us spend, you know, quite a few years out of Community College and it could be very easy to forget all of the things that you've participated in, but you want to make sure you're giving yourself all that credit for that work that you did. So it's important to keep track of that stuff early on.

So once you, um, completed all of that, you're an. It's all up to date. That's great. Um, once you complete another term, you're going to want to go back in and update it. That will. We always have the most up-to-date information. So right now you're all in your spring term. If you go in now an update your UC tap up until this spring, you can go ahead and put IP for in progress as the grade for your spring 2020 courses, and as soon as you get your grade sometime in May or June.

Go ahead and go log back into your seat application you see tap account and you're able to update the the letter grades at that time so you'll change all of your IP too like an AB or C.

Now we'll move on to the transfer admissions guarantee.

To the the transformation guarantees a program for California Community College students to be able to guarantee their admission to at least one UC campus we do have 6 campuses that participate in the tag program or opportunity and I'll cover those in a later slide UC Riverside is one of them.

It's a separate application from the UC application so typically your tag application is due.

A little bit before your general UC application is due and will go over that timeline later on as well but your tag application is essentially your tap so once you're ready to.

Submit A tag you'll be able to log back into the UC tap an do that from there.

And it is free there is a fee for the UC application but there isn't for the tag.

OK so you'll see here for uhm.

The deadlines so for winter and spring admissions the tag submission period is between May 1st and the 31st.

And then your application period for the spring and winter term would be July 1st through the 31st, so you'll see that it's about two months before. Same for the fall. If you're planning to submit A tag free fall term, you'll want to submit the tag between September 1st in the 30th and then submit your regular UC application November 1st through the 30th.

And here are the six campuses that offer the the tag.

That's UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara Ann, UC Santa Cruz. Uhm, I do want to touch back a little bit about the program only being open to California Community College students. If you did attend like an out of State School for a term in the beginning or anything like that. But then you continued with your educational career at a California Community College. So the California Community College must be the last school that you attended an you have to have.

Completed at least half of your units at that college or more.

If you did, then you are also able to apply for A tag.

Although each of these campuses offers the tag, there may be some majors closed for tag. So for example, I do know UC Irvine while they offered tag their computer science major is close for tag. That means students can apply to computer science, but they aren't able to submit A tag for computer science. For UC Riverside, we currently don't have any closed majors for tag or the fall terms. However, for our winter admissions we will be closed for physics.

That is both for tag and for general UC admissions.

What the tag planning is key. Uhm, so again, you'll want to make sure that.

Um, you're using the resources like the campus websites an assist.org to identify the campus specific requirements that you need to meet. So, for example, our School of Business does require that there are Seven major prep courses completed prior to transfer. So a person that is planning to tag needs to make sure that they are satisfying each of those courses with the appropriate grades in order to be considered for A tag.

It is very specific to your major and very specific to the campus, so it's also I would also recommend that you if you're planning to tag, that you make an appointment to see an admissions counselor at the campus site you're interested in. For UC Riverside, we do currently have appointments available for students every Friday between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM. So if you're interested in signing up for one of those appointments, you can do that on our website at admissions.ucr.edu.

So how to pursue tag? Uhm, the first step is going to be to make sure you have your you see tap to complete your tag application and review it with your Community College counselor an or UC campus tag advisor. So if you've been updating your UC tap after every term, you're pretty much ready to submit A tag as long as you've been updating it and then you meet with the counselor to make sure that you satisfied all the requirements. Then you'll be in good shape. Submit your tag application during the filing period. It's really important that you are meeting deadlines, so example for.

Hum.

That may in September deadlines for winter and fall. There is hardly ever any exceptions to elite tag application, so make sure that you are paying attention to the deadline.

Um, fill out the UC application so um, sometimes students that may attack and then forget that they are still required to submit the UC application, so make sure you do that as well.

And then complete any remaining requirements for tag on your major. Typically for UM, once students tag is reviewed and they are offered admission, we do outline the provisions of admission an what is part of your what would be required for you to complete your tag contract. So if you ever have any questions about that, make sure you reach out to your campus specifically.

Here's a little bit more clarification on the UM.

Qualifications you have to meet to submit A tag, so going back to the Community College coursework and having at least half of your units there, it does get a little bit more specific here. At least 30 semester or 40 five quarter. You see transferable units must be completed at Community College.

And these typically, if you're applying for a fall term, they have to be completed by the end of the fault prior, because those are the last grades that will be able to see when making admissions decision for you.

You have to complete math and one you see English composition by fall 2020 or spring 2020 for winter. So to clarify for that, um, if you're applying to a selective major such as the College of engineering, most of those majors require at least calculus two, so if you're applying to any of those majors, your calculus two must be completed by the fall prior. If you're applying for a fall tag and by the spring prior, if you're applying for a winter tag.

All other tag qualifications should be complete by spring 2020.

Fun or fall 2020 for winter.

OK that doesn't make sense so again if you're applying for a fall tag they must be completed the fall prior and if you're applying for a winter tag name is be completed the spring prior.

Here are some.

Doctors that would make you ineligible for submitting A tag so students who have already earned a bachelors degree are not eligible to apply through tag. Students who have previously enrolled outta you see. So if you're currently attending a UC and are interested in transferring to another, you see it is possible, but not through tag.

Students with 20 or more units of Upper Division coursework. So if you again that kind of.

Gives you an idea about if you've attended another four year institution, where you may have completed upper division coursework. It really would encourage you to make an appointment with a counselor so we could help identify where you're at an if you would be eligible for tag.

So these GPS here are specific to UC Riverside and our campus. So our anyone interested in applying for the winter or fall 2021 tag will want to make sure that they are meeting at least this GPS. So for the College of Humanities the minimum GPA is 2.8. The College of engineering. The minimum GPA is 3.0. The College of natural logic Cultural Sciences is 2.8 and 3.0 for the School of Business.

2.7 for the School of Business or school of education at school. Public policy.

Yeah, I'm so any this is the minimum you want to um be higher as well, but if you do me at least these minimums an have the major preparation courses. You're 7 course pattern and all of that, then you should be able to have your tag approved. If you don't meet these GPS, I do still encourage you to apply just unfortunately you wouldn't be able to be approved through tag, but the minimum GPA to be considered UC system wide is 2.4. So if you fall a little bit below that, I would still highly encourage you to apply.

Another important note is that when you are applying for it the tag, it will ask what major.

You would like to tag for and then once you fill out your UC application it will also ask you what major you are applying for. It's really important that those two majors match that way we it's clear you know what major you're applying for, and we know what major to review your tag for. If your majors do not match, your tag would not view approved, you will still be reviewed for regular admission, but it and it'll be for the most recent major you submit it before, so the one you listed on your UC application.

You can see campus specific information if you go on the University of California website, so will include links here. Like if you see on the right hand column it does say Riverside and then it has a link to our automation's website and it does outline the specific campus tag requirements for you.

If you have any questions we do have, uh.

An email that you can reach out to itstransfer@ucr.edu and we'd be happy to provide any further clarification on any tag requirements. The website is here, it forward to create a tab and also to view this information so you see tap.universityofcalifornia.edu.

Reminders you can access both the tag and you see application through the UC tab tool. The tag is a separate application from the UC application. You must submit a UC application regardless of tag status. If your tag application was not approved, you may still be considered for admission.

You can reapply for A tag for a different term if your tag was not approved. So if you tag isn't accepted the first time, don't get discouraged. You know, feel free to follow up with the campus that you tag two and find out why your tag wasn't approved and we may be able to provide some insight on how you can maybe address that deficiency. An apply to tag for a future term.

That is the end of our presentation. Thank you for joining us today. Um, I can. I will stay on for another 5 minutes or so with the broadcast on. In case you have any questions that you would like for me to address, we do still have the chat function open as well. If anyone has any questions Anne will keep that on until.

For like another 30 minutes or so, in case you have any questions.

So again, I can still um answer any questions. If you submit any. For now I'll go ahead and turn the broadcast staff, but Genesis and I are here for the next 30 minutes or so to answer any pending questions you may have. Thank you.