CA Resident Transfer from OOS

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Hello everybody,

I am currently a sophomore at Arizona State University and due to some recent decisions regarding population of our school as well as financial issues, I am trying to transfer to a UC (UCSD in particular) for my junior year. While i’m under the impression that CCC students get priority with admission, I would like to know if anybody has any potential insight on whether or not it will help my chances that I am a California resident and graduated from a California HS. I am applying for Chemical Engineering with Chemistry as my alternate major. My GPA is 3.36 currently, but I should be able to increase it to 3.6 by the end of the fall semester and I should have all prerequisites completed before next fall. I know my chances aren’t great as is, especially for Chemical Engineering, but aside from raising my GPA is there anything I can do to increase my chances? Will selecting two uncapped majors give me a more realistic chance?

Thanks for any input.

  • Sam
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https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major indicates that UCSD chemical engineering had a 37% transfer admission rate with 25th-75th percentile GPA of 3.79-3.96. The various chemistry majors were less difficult to get admitted to.

Among CSUs, SJSU and SDSU publish past GPA thresholds (SJSU has chemical engineering, but SDSU does not):
http://www.sjsu.edu/admissions/impaction/impactionresultstransfer/index.html#Chemical
http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/transfers/gpa.html

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If your parents still live in California, then there shouldn’t be an issue.

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Yeah, those figures are what i’m basing off of when I assume my chances aren’t that great, at least for ChemEng. Im sure it isn’t published, but do you know how much of a disadvantage I’ll be at coming from an OOS 4 year?

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I’d say you’ll need 0.2 higher GPA than an applicant from a California CC.

The UCs are kind enough to post the avg GPA for admired student by major here:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major