<p>Hello everyone, Is there a community college that provides a good chance to transfer into MIT, or UC Berkeley ?</p>
<p>Berkeley has special relationships with several california CCs. MIT barely accepts transfers, period.</p>
<p>MIT, you have no chance</p>
<p>For berkeley, you have an excellent chance if you go to a community college in CA and get very good grades</p>
<p>Foothill and De Anza for UC Berkeley. For MIT… it’s not so easy.</p>
<p>Ohio Wesleyan offers a pre-engineering major. I thought that the brochure that flew through our kitchen this past year included MIT; it caught my eye because I thought it was unusual. I just checked the Web site and the six colleges below were listed as having agreements. It could be an old list, or MIT could be a new addition. It is a five-year program (3 + 2).</p>
<pre><code>* Alfred University
- California Institute of Technology
- Case Western Reserve University
- Polytechnic University
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Washington University (St. Louis)
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<p>But isn’t there atleast one community college that offers a chance to transfer into MIT … even if it was hard ???</p>
<p>No. There is no community college that offers an agreement to transfer into MIT. MIT has a sub-5% transfer rate and this rate fluctuates year-by-year depending on how many students decide to leave (thier retention rate is extremely high).</p>
<p>They do not really care which community college you arre transferring from, as they seek diversity from the transfers. However, coming from a community college, you shoulder a greater burden than those transferring from Harvard, Cornell, Caltech, Berkeley, etc. to demonstrate your ability to achieve in a rigorous curriculum. The process of getting into MIT as a transfer is similar to that of getting in as a freshman, except it is a lot more competitive because there are very few spots available (somewhere from 6 to 15 each year out of over 250 applicants, many of whom are extremely well qualified and can easily get into Berkeley as a transfer). In addition to having a very high GPA (3.85+), you will need excellent recommendations, national awards, and other distinctions. MIT is much harder to get into as a transfer than any University of California campus, including Berkeley.</p>
<p>i recorded my last cd at a studio in nj where the engineer went to County College of Morris and was accepted to MIT. but then again, he was also 25, had 3 degrees from CCM and had been built and engineered his own studio for 5 years… so i guess where he went to community college was irrelevant… hah</p>