Major: Computer Science(L&S for UCB)
Cumulative GPA: 3.89 ( ‘C’ in a non transferable college algebra math course)
Transfer/Major GPA: 4.0
IGETC: Done in Fall
Major Prep: Done in Spring
TAP: No
W’s: 3 (First Two semesters in CC)
Others that might affect admission:
-In the first two semesters in CC, I’ve gotten few NP(No pass) in non-transferable English courses
-Received TWO ‘F’ in a non-transferable math course (Replaced)
EC’s:
-President of Association for Computing Machinery School Chapter
-Computer Science Tutor for 3 Semesters
-Computer Science Award
-Mesa
-Deans List for few semesters
Your grades in nontransferable courses aren’t looked at or considered at all. If you’re calculating your GPA with those classes in consideration, they’ll be lower than the GPA that the UCs will calculate for you when they look at your records. This is called your “UC GPA”. This is good news! Your UC GPA is higher than your overall GPA! In any case, your GPA, cumulative or UC, looks great and is competitive for admission to either school.
Your ECs look really, really good and are relevant. I think you stand a great chance of getting into UCB/UCLA, but I should note that UCLA is insanely competitive for that major; only 4% get in and according to the UCLA transfer profile for 2015, the median GPA for admission was about the same as your GPA.
I assume Berkeley has a similar acceptance rate. Still, I think you’re a competitive applicant. Good luck!
@Cayton Thank you for giving a good feedback!
Somethings to add in my “EC’s” tab, I don’t know if it’s considered as a “EC”, just want a general feedback if it is even a Plus.
I took two semesters of overloaded units.
In my CC, 18 is the maximum unit a student can take over one semester (9 in summer).
I took 25 units in Spring 2016 and 14 Units in Summer 16.
Would that actually be a plus? if it is, how much plus would it be on a ratio to other “EC”.
Thank you!
Yeah, not an EC … but you can always explain it in an additional comments section. I did some heavy semesters as well an made a note of it in an additional comment section with a few different points of why I did it. It can’t hurt but could maybe help.
I’m planning to apply as Math(Applied) this semester from a CC. I will most likely have gpa of 3.82, only thing I concern of is that the B I got in Calc 2. Do you think I’ll still have chance? Not related but I got all As in my compsci classes(since I wanted to do computer science first), and I will finish IGETC by spring. - International Student
@Cayton Thank you for your feedback again.
As I mentioned, I have three W’s and few NP & F(replaced) from my first year(around 2013) of community college.
Does that have a major impact on my admissions?
I had a curiosity for two years if the cumulative GPA counts or not, but you resolved it.
Thank you again!
@Sean1995 I think you have a decent chance. I have friend who transferred to UCB as a Math major and his GPA was 3.79. He got Two B’s, one in Chemistry Course (5 Units) and one is a general education course(3 units). Even though you hurt your GPA from a major course. The admit GPA for UCB Applied mathematics were between 3.74 - 4.00.
@Cayton All courses that I’ve gotten NP’s and F’s were all nontransferable courses.
The NP’s were english courses that I had to take inorder for me to take the transferable english composition course.