THE HONORS PROGRAM Transfer Partners

1. UCLA Transfer Alliance Program (TAP)

Mt. SAC Honors students who complete six Honors classes with at least a C, as well as all of UCLA’s requirements for their major by the end of the fall that they apply to UCLA, can be TAP-certified. TAP certified students receive priority consideration for transfer from UCLA’s College of Letters and Sciences (not engineering, communications, film or theatre majors), and may opt to complete the requirements for a second major.  Rates of acceptance are much higher for TAP-certified students; for example, In Fall 2004, while only 42% of Mt. SAC applicants to UCLA were accepted, over 90% of Mt. SAC’s TAP students were accepted!

 

TAP Requirements:

  • Attain a minimum of 3.2 cumulative bachelor-level GPA by end of the Fall that you apply
  • Finish most of your major pre-requisites by the end of Fall that you apply
  • Complete at least two Honors classes by the end of Fall before you transfer
  • Complete 6 HONORS classes with at least a C by Spring/Summer after you apply
  • Are NOT majoring in Film, Theatre, Engineering or Communications
  • Check the TAP box on your UCLA online application
  • Sign your UCLA TAP Form in Honors by mid February Without your signature you will not be TAP-certified.

Sign up for the TAP Program in the Honors Center

Visit UCLA with Honors each November

Each November, UCLA’s invites community college students for "TAP Day", a day of transfer workshops and programs.  Honors will take the first 40 Mt. SAC students who sign up in the Honors Office and deposit $10. We will go by bus and will leave Mt. SAC at 6:45 a.m.!  We'll leave UCLA at 3 p.m.  Sign up in the Honors Center in October.

Click here to find out how competitive your major is at UCLA!


2. Other Transfer Opportunities

Through our membership in the Honors Transfer Council of California, Honors students may also get transfer opportunities to the following schools:

  • Universities of California
    • UC Irvine
    • UC Riverside
    • UC San Diego
  • California State Universities
    • Cal Poly Pomona
    • Cal State Fullerton
    • Cal State Long Beach
    • San Diego State University
    • San Jose State University
  • Private Colleges & Universities
    • Azusa Pacific
    • Chapman University
    • La Sierra University
    • Loyola Marymount
    • Mills
    • Occidental
    • Pitzer
    • Pomona
    • Whitman

For more information about the options and benefits these institutions provide honors students, visit the Transfer Council's web site at http://www.honorstcc.org/transferagreements.html.