Looking to transfer to UCLA and Berkeley’s political science program
Stats:
Currently Emory University of Oxford student with a 3.81 GPA (or higher at the end of this semester)
Completed prereqs except for statistic which I’m taking at a community college in California next semester
California Resident
4.0 weighted GPA in high school (8 APs) and President of three clubs
Current Involvements at Emory:
Prelaw Society President
Freshman Orientation Leader (and taught a one credit hour course with this)
SGA judicial board chair previously currently SGA Sophomore Senator
Do you guys think I have shot? Thanks for the help!
UC’s do not consider HS grades or EC’s. Your chances will depend upon meeting the minimum 60 semester units for transfer and completing all required courses needed for that transfer along with your GPA/College EC’s and Personal Insight essays. Since the majority of your college work is from an OOS university, you are given low priority for transfer.
You have a competitive GPA and good EC’s at Emory so why try to transfer since you are doing so well at your current college?
The link is based on the UC Transfer GPA admit rate by campus and major.
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major
Thanks for answering! I’m trying to transfer for financial reasons and I have a family member with an illness and I hope to be closer to them. Do you think it helps that next semester it will help that I will be a part-time California community college student?Or that doesn’t matter?
There is a place on the application to list high school extracurriculars, but I doubt it will make much of a difference in the admissions decision. Unfortunately for you, you’re at an OOS school, which will be factored against you, but you’re also a California resident, so they won’t be able to get OOS tuition out of you. You’re strong academically and your college extracurriculars are impressive, not include the fact that you will have completed all of the prereqs. That being said, I don’t know if you’re strong enough for the admissions committees to overlook the fact that you’re close to the bottom when it comes to transfer priority to UCs. I think you’ll get into one of them, but not the other. If I had to guess I’d say UCLA, but that’s just a feeling.