<p>For those who have gone through this transition - How difficult was it to adjust to your new academic environment? </p>
<p>Assuming you did well during your CC years, did your GPA drop after you transferred?</p>
<p>My GPA has so far remained about the same. It's a lot more work and the professors expect a lot more out of you, but if you're smart enough to get into a good 4 year, then you're smart enough to handle the work load.</p>
<p>my first semester at berkeley, i finished with a 4.0. i had to stay up a lot and stress a lot because i was taking more than i should have been. i am lessening my load this upcoming semester and seeing if i can balance other stuff with it, like being involved with peer counseling. anyhow, my GPA didn't drop--it stayed the same thank god. </p>
<p>it's also way less personal because there are 100-300 students per classroom. then you have seperate things called "sections" after the lecture where a class of 30 or so discusses stuff relating to the lecture and the class readings with a graduate student. i felt very lost most of the semester, but i know i will get the hang of it. </p>
<p>for me, visiting professor's office hours was so intimidating to me that i dind't even try, but i feel it would have eased my transition a whole lot. </p>
<p>on the upside, there are so many more opportunities and more intellectual awareness on campus. </p>
<p>allena, did you have trouble making friends at UCLA? did you have friends back at your jc?</p>
<p>I had no friends back at my JC, I can only think of a single time in my two years there that I actually went out with people for something social. I've had a much easier time making friends here then I did at my JC! </p>
<p>Also it took me a while to get used to having the huge lectures and then afterwards having a section. This quarter I don't have any sections, but I actually found them to be somewhat helpful.</p>
<p>For the UC students whats the minimum GPA required to be considered by a UC? also which accept the most transfer students? UCI, Riverside, UCSB?</p>
<p>i think minimum accepted transfer GPA is a 2.8 ... i've also heard that some UC's (such as UCI and UCSB) guarantee admission if you have around a 3.0 .. And UCM (merced) and R should be the easiest to get into for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>i have a hs gpa of 3.0 and SAT scores of 1520 = / pretty bad</p>
<p>BUT i also wanna go to community college and transfer to a UC. if i get a 4.0 in community college, then can i transfer to UCSD or CAL??? will it be hard? or is a 4.0 good enough</p>
<p>a 4.0 is good, just make your personal statement good and do a lot of extracurriclars</p>
<p>ugh damn it. the UC application for transfers has essays too? lol that sucks. uugh i hope CC isn't like hs all over again = (</p>
<p>ilovecalifornia - </p>
<p>You don't neccesarily need a 4.0 to get into Cal or UCSD. You can get into UCSD with a 3.5 and Cal witha 3.6 as long as you have good extra curriculars and essays.</p>
<p>at Cornell, my advisors said that the average gpa drop for first-year transfers is one full point. I can see how it's entirely possible as i had to work ten times harder to get the same gpa in less classes (i came with credits from both a top-50 private school and a CC)</p>
<p>how would a 4.0 not be good enough? its the maximum you can achieve. if you get rejected with a 4.0 it's because you didn't fufill a requirement or you wrote about sexual relations with children in your essay. at the UCs at least</p>
<p>lol... 4.0 is not enough? ahhahahaha <<< Is that logical? ahahhhaah
Don't take it offensive... I just found it kind of funny because it is like saying "Best is not good enough?" What? What is the best then? Best is not enough? 4.0 is not good enough? hahahah j/k </p>
<p>Wait, you didn't say 4.0 GPA is not good enough, you question whether it is good enough. But still, "Is best not good enough?" <<< is that logical? ahahahah</p>
<p>I think ilovecalifornia thinks that community colleges has honors classes that boost one's GPA past the 4.0 barrier like highschool.</p>
<p>no actually, i wasn't thinking about honor courses. i'm talking about getting a 4.0, simply by getting an A in all of my classes..</p>
<p>while we're on the subject tho, DON'T some CCs have honor courses???</p>
<p>yeap they do, but I have friends who've gotten into Cal and UCLA with 3.6 and w/o honors classes. I don't think they matter as much as completing your IGETC and pre reqs with a good essasy.</p>
<p>yeah, they do. an' guess what guys, sometimes a 4.0 ISNT good enough. i'm applying to haas, and 4.0s regularly are rejected. its nowhere near easier then freshman admissions. it's just the same. they have an official 'listed' transfer rate of 8%, and that's conditionally true, because there's a good amount of people who dont fit the enormous amounts of pre-reqs (more then half) so the rate doubles, but even then its ~18%. even WITH honors courses its still a bloody god damn crapshoot. dammit.</p>
<p>my friends got into haas with a 3.6 and 3.9</p>
<p>transferring to a UC is easier than getting in as a freshman. its not the same zemookmook. don't make things up to scare people</p>
<p>you best check yoself befo you wreck yoself cali ''lover''</p>
<p>i made a statement about haas-and i have factual evidence to prove it. do you -know- anything about haas? go read answers for transfers.</p>
<p>willdo-damn foo. sounds good to me. better chances.</p>