<p>I'm a 19 year old Hispanic American student from New Jersey who is attempting to transfer to Cal-Berkeley for Fall 2010. I first attended Wagner College, a private first tier school in NY and then transferred to my local community college because the cost of tuition increased and it behooved me to pay nothing for general education courses rather than return for my sophomore year and fork over 20,000+ in loans. </p>
<p>Courses taken: World Literature I, Script Analysis, Political Philosophy, Financial Accounting I, Microeconomics, Honors Macroeconomics, Intro to Psychology, Reflective Tutorial (Writing Intensive College Experience course), Computer Computency Fundamentals </p>
<p>Courses in progress: (Community College) Western Civilization I, College Math I, General Chemistry I (course intended for science majors, I took this bc I wanted to ensure it would transfer knowing that it'd be difficult), Appreciation of Music, Intro to Shakespeare</p>
<p>Courses I plan to take in Spring 2010: Western Civilization II, College Math II, History of African American Cultures, Social Anthropology, World Literature II, Human Biology (lab science)</p>
<p>Freshman Year GPA: 3.6
Current Semester: Have yet to receive lower than an A on an exam
Intended Major(s): English+History
Also I got a 720 on the Writing Section of my SAT so I don't have to take the Writing Composition courses according to the school's site
Also scored 3s on my AP English and AP Gov & Politics exam during HS if those help
ECs are pretty good and I've got a strong recommendation from my english professor at Wagner</p>
<p>What are my chances of being accepted into the College of Letters and Science at Cal Berkeley?</p>
<p>your GPA is modest, but you’re out of state which means that modest = average and your chances decrease due to the difficulty of OOS transfer, keep increasing your GPA and you might have a shot</p>
<p>Ok if I can get a 4.0 both semesters at this CC, will my chances increase drastically? I understand that 1/3 of Cal Berkeley students are CCC transfers right? Is the California CC system rigorous? Just curious</p>
<p>anyone’s chances will increase with 4.0’s in 2 semesters.</p>
<p>I’m not sure about that statistic…no the ccc system is like 9th grade for 20 year olds, that’s why there are so many 9th graders there in the summertime</p>
<p>oh man tell me about it. I am a 24 y/o returning student who went to an okay four year before coming down here to the peralta cc district. Easiest A’s and most boring classess I have ever taken. I dont know why the UC’s even accept CC units at all. My professors habitually hand out assignments with major spelling and grammatical mistakes and speek ebonix in class. My class mates don’t seem to write English any better than the professors. I feel bad for the students who are being cheated out of a good class by professors who don’t care or are lowering their standards for students.</p>
<p>although I agree with you in some cases sarah it varies from cc to cc, I’ve been to 3… 1 of them was REALLY easy, 1 was about average, and 1 I had to actually drop a class it was so hard(that may have just been the teacher) </p>
<p>The one that was really easy was in an area that was pretty poor. Might be related. Also when you goto ratemyprofessor and look for the easiest teacher, often times easier means less intelligent/lazy, which means less learning for you. but it is an easier A… sooooo. </p>
<p>Don’t be so hard on the ccc system, it prepares students for the UC’s and that has been proven through the transfer students continuing to do well once they transfer.</p>
<p>I went to 2 years of CC and it was mindblowingly easy. Every semester I’d just use Ratemyprofessors, pickaprof, and campusbuddy and wind up with ridiculously easy teachers giving 60% A’s to classes full of borderline illiterate community college students. I got a cumulative 4.0 and now go to a UC.</p>
<p>There was one 3 unit UC-transferable business course in which the teacher never once brought a lesson plan to class and had us do teambuilding exercises for the entiriety of 3 hrs/wk for a semester, with our grade entirely dependent on 2 oral reports and a 25-question 3-option multiple choice final covering 60 pages of text that nobody in the class but me read. There was also a 3-unit UC-transferable history course where my grade was entirely dependent on 2 3-page papers on which the median grade was 93%.</p>
<p>Community college is an absolute joke. If you got a 720 on your writing SAT, and you have any work ethic at all, you would approach or get a 4.0 in California CC.</p>
<p>Yeah I hate that CC’s vary so widely in California. I have heard from enough people to understand that some are very good, some are very bad, and everything else in between. But the terrible ones give the whole system a bad reputation. However, the statistics speak louder than the individual experiences of some of the earlier posters. CC students fair just as well and in fact slightly better than their freshman admitted counterparts. That leads me to believe there are more CC’s like the one I attended then say sara1984 attended.</p>
<p>is a 3.6 really all that modest for an English/history major? it doesnt seem that way when you consider the gpa’s for transfers reported on statfinder. i guess being OOS does augment the value of that gpa a bit…but your cources don’t seem too fluffy and i think that stand out and says something.</p>
<p>i like hearing that not all every campus is like laney…though I am taking 21 credits next term and basing my projected ability to handle it on my experience over the past term…hope im not in for a sick surprise!!!</p>
<p>^ If it helps I took 24 units in the last semester at my CC and it was all about just staying focused on your goal (and ahead on your reading, that’s where you can drown). It’s totaly possible though.</p>