Chances for transferring from Purdue to Berkeley

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I'm freshman engineering student at Purdue (I'm gonna study ChE in sophomore). And I really really want to transfer to UC Berkeley. I know they give high priority to California community college students though... So.. Please help to rate my chances!
Thanks!!</p>

<p>International student.
TOFEL 95/120
No SAT</p>

<p>GPA of first semester is 3.78, because the course which I got a B is nontransferable, so my recalculated GPA would be 4.0. And I got A+ for MA and PHYS (do A and A+ make any difference when they look at applications??)</p>

<p>This semester I believe I can get 4.0 since I got pretty good grades on everything up to now.</p>

<p>If I continue get good grades, like, 3.9 or higher in sophomore, will I have a good chance to transfer to Berkeley? Or what can I do to get better competitive advantage? </p>

<p>Also anyone knows where can I find equivalence courses list of Purdue and Berkeley? </p>

<p>The reason I wanna go to Berkeley is it has much better academic reputation and rankings in ChE. So I'm also considering UMN, Twin Cities too, which has excellent reputation in ChE and seems a lot easier to transfer into. (seems they dont give priority to certain students)
Another reason is that I seriously don't like small town at all. West Lafayette is too small and kind of remote and isolated from outside, which makes me missed Beijing a lot. - - And it's impossible to find internship for ChE students here - - San Francisco and Minneapolis are both big cities and much much better place to live in.</p>

<p>Thanks again!</p>

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<p>They give highER priority to community college students; doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get in. Your chances are pretty slim as it is I think, just because it’s UCB. Also, there is probably no course equivalency list, if you transfer an evaluator has to see which of your courses will transfer for credit, and which you’ll have to retake. Also, UC Berkeley is in Berkeley, as the name applies, which while it is not too far away from SF, is not actually in SF, and is much smaller than SF is.</p>

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<p>Well… I mean they give priority to California community college students so I know the chance for interstate transfer is slim ><. Actually only 10% of the transfer students are from other state, but there is still chances… I know it’s not actually in SF but close enough… </p>

<p>Yeah UMN has a transferable courses list for Purdue, so I think the chance for UMN is better?</p>

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<p>You should compare your course descriptions to Berkeley’s and try to take courses that are as close as possible to what Berkeley has. Use assist.org to figure out what the lower division requirements are for the major you are interested in. Outside of academics you should try to participate in some quality extra curricular activities and write a kick ass essay. With all that said, your chances are slim but not impossible.</p>