I am an OOS transfer student from Washington CC. I am applying for chemical engineering for these four UC campuses.
My current gpa: 3.61
pre-req gpa: 3.3
My predicted gpa after this fall 2015 quarter: close to 3.7 ish
My predicted pre-req gpa after this fall 2015 quarter: 3.4+
Will be completing the full series of organic chem before transfer, Will be missing one pre-req for UCLA(matlab) and two for UCB (bio and matlab) before transferring.
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Asian and multilingual, speak 4 different languages almost on daily basis, idk if this helps but probably not for engineering…
personal statement, let’s just say it is awesome.
I know my gpa is probably too low for UCB and UCLA for sure. But chance me anyway! Thank you guys, I appreciate it.
Maybe for UCI, in my opinion. I think it’s rather difficult to get accepted as an OOS applicant into Engineering majors in general - you have interesting EC’s, and your PS being awesome may help you out. I don’t know, honestly.
Out of curiosity, are you applying to any other colleges?
@tanasta I know this is a bit off-base but is there another major you could apply into? With your language, you’d stand a great shot with Linguistics. Also at UCB, you’re admitted into L&S (if it houses your major) - not your major per se - so you can switch to any other L&S major as long as it’s not impacted and you complete the major req by your first semester at UCB. Thus, you have the option of CS through L&S, and two math programs. Some (I don’t think all) are impacted, but I will add that even though they say you can’t switch into an impacted major, students do. Obviously, I cannot tell you what will happen, but I think it’s a gamble you could possibly take with success. I suggest you reach out both here on CC and via the departments and find out how doable it might be.
Also, I believe @goldencub is correct. I don’t think many OOS get into engineering.
@goldencub Yes I am going to apply for U of Minnesota, Texas A&M, and probably U of Arizona, and U of Washington Seattle (the only in state u I’m applying for) as well. How’s Irvine engineering program? is it any good?
@lindyk8 Well I made up my mind that I am going for chemical engineering so yeah… That’s what I heard and UCs’ acceptance rates generally lower than other uni with similar quality… This probably has smth to do with how packed cali is