Chance Me - UCB, UCSD, UCSB for CS

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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Major: CS for all three
Overall GPA: 4.0
IGETC: Complete
Prereqs:
UCB - All but one (CS 61B) which only partially transfers (the rest of the CS classes didn’t articulate)
UCSB - All but one (I also completed 5/5 of the recommended courses)
UCSD - All but one
The “but one” is Data Structures which was impossible for me to take because I’m completing the prerequisite for that course this semester. Didn’t want to spend a 3rd year in CC for one course.

Essays: Mediocre
ECs: Just lots of involvement in one club.

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Your GPA is obviously good, but having average ECs and mediocre essays may be enough to give you a rejection. I would say a nearly definite yes to UCSB and UCSD and a reach for UCB. Good luck.

Just wondering, but why do you consider your essays mediocre?

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@spenceyboi‌
It’s nothing special. I don’t even want to read it again. The second essay was decent, but the first was just meh.

If I get rejected from UCB, I’ll probably just go to UCD. I’d need more time to consider UCSB and UCSD if I got rejected from Berkeley.