<p>For everyone who got in to UC's Engineering colleges can share your experience, important information like your GPA, what make you get in to the school, suggestions for prospective students etc.. this would help for upcoming engineering transfers.
Thank you!!</p>
<p>I love UCSD. A lot of people don’t like it because some of the professors that teach aren’t nearly as good at teaching as community college professors during lectures.</p>
<p>However all eng classes have TA’s that are really helpful if you go to their office hours. The TA’s are mostly phd students (many high school teachers only have bachelors degrees, so don’t think of them as inferior teachers)</p>
<p>From the mistakes I made in community college (not doing IGETC) I would recommend this:</p>
<p>1) Take as much of the math series as you can (at least through calc 3 or linear algebra)</p>
<p>2) Take the 3 physics classes. Depending on the UC school you won’t get into the eng program unless you have taken the 3 classes. I got rejected from UCSB because I only took 2 physics classes. </p>
<p>3) I would say probably 3.2 would be the cutoff gpa for engineering at ucsd, but it may be higher now since it’s getting more competitive.</p>
<p>4) Do IGETC so you only have to take a couple of GE classes instead of 6 like me for not doing it lol </p>
<p>I hope this helped. This has just been my experience but a lot of people may have different opinions. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thank you for posting. I was on the fence if whether I wanted to finish the physics series or not by taking the 3rd (and last) class this spring, after reading your response I have decided it would be best just to knock it out.</p>
<p>How many years did it take you guys to transfer?</p>
<p>Anyone??? please!!</p>
<p>I’m a CS student, UC tends to lump that in with engineering.</p>
<p>General tips for getting accepted:
- Keep your GPA up.
- Do as many pre-reqs as you can.
- Be in engineering because you love engineering, not because you love money. (And have ECs and personal statements that show that.)
- Take a lot of math. Math is great.
- Depending on where you go, be prepared to meet the Terms and Conditions. For example, Berkeley engineering requires an average GPA of 3.0 for Winter/Spring/Summer semester/quarter before you transfer, so don’t put all your super hard classes in the last quarter, etc. Different schools have different requirements, so go fishing on here if you’re not sure about your spring plans.</p>
<p>Of course, it’s a bit late for that to be helpful this round, and it’s pretty generic advice. 
But that really is the best strategy.</p>
<p>I’m now an EECS student at Berkeley. I also applied to (and was accepted at) Santa Cruz, San Diego, and Irvine. My GPA was somewhere around 3.8 when I applied, I think. (I did one year on semesters in Maryland, then moved here and was on quarters for a year, and GPA is just a pain to add up.) I didn’t do IGETC (I don’t think it gets you out of GE requirements here anyways) but I did have a lot of math, CS, and physics.</p>
<p>Tips for after transferring:
- If you’re missing a bunch of pre-reqs (like CS61A-C at Cal) summer session is a good way to catch up.
- Office hours are super helpful, as are TA’s. So visit them if you’re struggling.
- Living on campus is a lot easier than commuting, if you’re more than 30 minutes away.</p>
<p>@failure622: Dude did u know that you are really awesome, you always give complete helpful and useful replies. I just wanted to thank you.</p>
<p>@failure622 did you complete all pre-req’s?</p>
<p>@failure622 Was there any classes listed in assist.org for EECS that you didn’t take in community college and you now have to take them with freshman or sophmores?
How much did community college prepare you for Cal’s EECS major? Do you often find youself have to learn new stuff that other cal students learned in lower division because the course were taught differently?</p>
<p>Ashkan: Thanks! ^^;</p>
<p>yupper: I had completed…</p>
<p>Semesters: English 1A, Physics 1 Calc, Calc 2, CS1 (C++), Chem 1A, Linear Algebra, Multivariate, Psych 1, and Discrete Structures
Quarters: Physics 2-4 Calc (E&M, thermo/waves, relativity/quantum), differential equations, English 1B/C, Intro to Stats, CS2+3 (Java), C#, Intro to Circuits (non-transferable)</p>
<p>I have no idea how that list translates to different schools, but yes I had as many pre-reqs completed as I could. All the semester classes are from out of state, so they don’t translate directly, but you can more or less guess how things line up.</p>
<p>andrenvq: I was missing CS61A,B,C, CS70, EE20N, and EE40. I took 61A and 61BL over the summer (oh so fun) and have 61C, CS70, and 20N now. There are actually a lot of EECS transfers, and most of them seem to have a similar schedule right now. So, my classes right now are mostly sophomores and junior transfers.</p>
<p>Do I feel prepared? Well, CS I love, and I’ve been learning it (mostly on my own) since 10th grade. After a long string of teachers who could not code (seriously, HelloWorld is not difficult) I sorta got used to figuring stuff out and solving problems my own way. 61A/B I felt well prepared for, because one was Java (A+) and the other was an intro class. CS70, uh, learn that at CC first. It moves really fast and you’re expected to be a genius. Overall it’s a lot more challenging than CC (obviously) but I still feel more or less prepared, I guess.</p>
<p>For EE20N: You’re expected to know math. Integration, summation, infinite sums/integrals, proofs, algebra tricks, polar/rectangular/imaginary numbers and related identities, trig, orthogonality, basic linear algebra, more math tricks… just… math. Lots of math. It had been about a year since I had needed most of that. :P</p>
<p>That’s all very Berkeley EECS specific though, so I dunno how much help it’ll be for general engineering transfer advice.</p>
<p>thanks, that was very informative. you said there are a lot of EECS transfers, how many are there exactly?</p>
<p>During engineering orientation, they split us up by major for a while. Roughly estimating, I think there were 400 or so new EECS students, and maybe a fifth of them were transfers. It was a while ago so these are just ballpark estimates (and probably off by a lot), I don’t know if there are actual numbers or better statistics than “raise your hand if you’re a transfer”, but there were a lot more than I was expecting. :P</p>