<p>Hello all ,
has anybody transfer to UCB in computer science without taking CS61 series ? </p>
<p>I did two years ago. I’m EECS, I was missing 61ABC, 70, EE20N, and EE40 when I transferred.</p>
<p>I ended up taking 61A and 61BL together over the summer (transfer edge program)… worst decision ever. You won’t have any free time and it’ll mess with your GPA. I’m good at CS, I love java and data structures, I had been programming for 5 years, and that combination was miserable. But it definitely cleared up scheduling in the coming semesters. :P</p>
<p>Then I did CS70, CS61C, EE20N, and a humanities in the fall, which was a bit more do-able but still lots of work. EE20 with Babak is pretty stressful, 70 will be tricky if you haven’t done discrete math before, and 61C gives a lot of work but isn’t too bad conceptually.</p>
<p>After that I was free to take upper divs and the last couple humanities classes. I ended up taking EE40 over the summer, though sometimes I wish I had done an internship that summer instead.</p>
<p>So, definitely possible. Summer is good for catching up, try not to take two 61 classes at the same time… at least not with 61BL (3 hour labs 4 days a week) in there. 
If you’re a prospective student who hasn’t applied yet, you should still be aiming to complete as many pre-reqs and CS classes (whether they articulate or not) as you can… it’s helpful after transferring and it’ll strengthen your app.</p>
<p>CS 61B is available at some community colleges. Use <a href=“http://www.assist.org”>http://www.assist.org</a> to look for them.</p>
<p>CS 61A appears to be available only at Laney. CS 61C is available at Diablo Valley. Both of these offer CS 61B as well. So if you are in the area, you can complete all three of these courses before transfer.</p>
<p>CS 70 and EE 20 appear to be non-existent in community colleges. EE 40 appears to be available at a few of them, such as Chabot, San Mateo, Mission, and Ohlone. For CS 70, you are get a preview of some of the material by taking a discrete math course and a statistics course, if courses are offered.</p>
<p>Can i take cs61A and cs61B
together ? </p>
<p>@azizas That’s generally not recommended. You’ll need a pretty strong CS background if you’re going to do it. Even then, it’ll be a lot of work and it won’t be very fun. I’m one of the people who doubled up on A and B, it made scheduling much easier, but it was hard to keep up with. It’s definitely possible to take them together if you try, but you’ll need to know how to code, and knowing java (or C++)/data structures will help you out a lot. If you can, don’t take them together, but if you have to to graduate on time, be ready to work hard!</p>
<p>@failure622
When you say that it messed up your GPA, how bad was it? You just had to keep a 3.0 GPA, right?
Do you have any specific or general info about transfer edge?</p>
<p>@Loyshi It wasn’t so much destroyed my GPA, but more that I would’ve done better with a different schedule. I got an A+ in 61BL (yay, java) and a B in 61A. If there hadn’t been so much going on between the two classes, I probably would’ve had an A in 61A, and it was the sort of situation where I was always running out of time and constantly behind on assignments… and I work fast. Anyways, it’s not necessarily a bad GPA, just that I know I could’ve done better otherwise.</p>
<p>Also, I did almost get rescinded over the summer, but for different reasons. I spent a lot of time worrying about grades from Spring quarter since it ended so late, grades ended up fine. But if your school sends transcripts really late you get super fun “your admission will be cancelled in 5 days” emails! So uh, advice on being rescinded is to try not to get rescinded or give them reasons to send you scary emails.</p>
<p>As for transfer edge… not really. I did it mostly because it was a little cheaper. I know they save space in res halls and you get to live with other edge freshmen/transfers, and that they host a lot of events and field trips. But I didn’t go to many of the programs for it, I was usually off campus or in class.</p>
<p>@failure622
I would actually first thank you for responding to my thread that was very helpful
second: Did you transfer to UCB from other CC or university if yes please tell me where did u transfer from , or you just got accepted to UCB as a freshman ? </p>
<p>@azizas I transferred. Freshman year I was at a CC in Maryland, then I moved here and started at Foothill College during summer before sophomore year. After that I transferred to Cal.</p>
<p>It doesn’t really matter which CC you’re coming from, assuming it’s in California. Try and get all the pre-reqs done (some students attend multiple CCs for EECS pre-reqs), and keep a great GPA. That’ll give you a fair shot from any school.</p>