<p>lol, the name passionate is kinda girly to be honest... oh why must thyest be willingest to put thy name as passionate?</p>
<p>I totally know how you feel, i also got into Cal and I've always wanted to go there but now I feel intimidated and have also considered going to Davis.<br>
But I submitted my SIR to Cal so i guess i'm going..........</p>
<p>3.2 is really good at Berkeley! I am sure grad school will consider how hard Berkeley grades.</p>
<p>any Fall 07 Cal transfer students have facebooks??</p>
<p>I do! But it is under SF State right now. Haven't changed it over to Cal yet. But this is it. <a href="http://sfsu.facebook.com/profile.php?success=1&id=11703125%5B/url%5D">http://sfsu.facebook.com/profile.php?success=1&id=11703125</a> Hopefully, you can see it. Add me if want! =D</p>
<p>lita, u went to sfsu? i went there for a week as a freshman and i dropped out that school SUX. Then i went to my local community college...and the rest u prolly know...</p>
<p>Berkeley's difficulty is overhyped! Even for EECS students. The admissions process screens your readiness, and those accepted into EECS have accomplished a difficult feat already. The rest of the way shouldn't be that much more difficult.</p>
<p>They've got the average bell curve grade distribution just like every other school. Our sample size here isn't that great either. My friends at Berkeley ALL have above a 3.8. The point is, although you speak of knowing people with 3.2's, etc., there are also high scoring students on the other end.</p>
<p>I think 3.2 is really really good at Cal. I think 3.0 is a reach for me if I go to Cal. Some people say, "You work hard to get a C at Berkeley." Of course I am not including the geniuses.
My nickname sounds girly lostincode? I should change it to passionateCal then.</p>
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<p>Yep, I sure know that now. I went there as a Japanese major initially, but when I decided to do Electrical Engineering, I decided I would try to transfer. Luckily, Cal took me in. =X</p>
<p>That is a good point walnut! I also know people who do great at Berkeley as well, especially in EECS. I know it is not impossible, but it is hard not to get into the hype.</p>
<p>does anyone know where they want to live? i was thinking wada or channing bowditch, are there anymore transfer/upper division housing options?</p>
<p>I was just thinking of living off campus, because it is cheaper that way. But apparently transfer students do get housing options in the dorm. And I hear the dorms are really nice.</p>
<p>Some people say, "You work hard to get a C at Berkeley.""</p>
<p>I think this is a complete myth. I'm not qualified to say much though since i'm not a Berkeley student, can anyone else comment here?</p>
<p>all my roommates pretty much get a- averages. that's like a 3.7. they are 2 science majors and a peis major.</p>
<p>someone once told me that it's generally not difficult to get a b, but you have to work for an a-, and you definitely feel the burn if you want an a or a+. you really gotta be on top of the work for that. a transfer friend said the transfer students he's met at cal are generally the ones who get the best grades in a class because by the time they're there, they're still used to working hard to get good grades (they just had to compete to get into cal only a year before) whereas a lot of the berkeley students in their upperdiv classes either have forgotten that drive after hs or just don't care about grades (as in they care more about the learning process). a transfer advisor there told me that transfer students, on average, get better grades than regular students.</p>
<p>edit: i was really curious about the transition this year... so i asked around a lot...</p>
<p>Huh, thats a really interesting post peep2. I never did think of it like that. I guess as a transfer student you are still on your toes about doing well in classes, as opposed to freshman who might have gotten too comfortable. </p>
<p>Does Berkeley award plus and minus grades?</p>
<p>Yeup .</p>
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<p>The history class I TAed for here was just as hard as any UCLA history class I took as an undergrad. I realize that it's a poor sample, but I don't think that the difference is really that noticeable.</p>
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My main problem is Grad School. I don't want my lower Cal GPA to be the reason why I don't get into grad school.
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<p>Define "grad school." Getting a PhD means different things than getting an MD.</p>
<p>I don't want to get a PhD. I do want to get a Master's Degree, however, I'm not sure in what dicipline. From what I heard though, grad schools are competitive.</p>
<p>It really depends on what you want to do. </p>
<p>Some MAs are competitive, some aren't. Getting your MA (MPP, really) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government is much much harder than getting your MA in education from the Harvard School of Education.</p>
<p>Graduate school's a weird thing, socalgal20. Worry less about that and worry more about going someplace for undergrad that will offer you the best resources to develop your skills as a future candidate for...whatever.</p>
<p>I want to go to grad school after Cal. is it better to major in something well known like poli sci or is it ok to major in something not as common, such as peis?</p>
<p>Ha, I wanted to do the MPP at Harvard...</p>