<p>Hi, I am currently a sophomore at a top 50 LAC with engineering program. I like the school a lot but I don't seem to fit in well. I am considering transferring to a UC in hope to seek a better life. My current major is ECE.</p>
<p>HS GPA: 3.33 UW, 4.2 W (probably higher since I did better on my last semester senior year)
SAT: 1900 (no time to retake it)
College GPA: 3.79
Tech GPA: 3.9+
EC: Not so much during HS, a bit more active during college but nothing out of the ordinary. I have done an internship over the summer in some engineering firm (thanks to family connection), don't know if that makes a difference.
AP: I think I had 6-7 counted AP scores (4 or 5)</p>
<p>Do I have a chance in transferring (preferably USB, UCLA, and UCSD)? Any other schools with good engineering program I should look at as well? I really want to get out of here without the need of going to some subpar school.</p>
<p>P.S. I am a CA resident, the school I am currently attending is out of state.</p>
<p>P.P.S. I have a lot classes under my belt. I don't know if that could my chances or not.</p>
<p>Your high school stats don’t matter at all. Your GPA is about target for the top UCs, but since you aren’t coming from a CCC or a UC, you’ll be at a severe disadvantage. The admittance rates for non-UC 4 year university transfers are usually in the single digits. Apply, and see what happens. If you really want to live in California again, apply to UCI/UCSB/UCD as well, you have a better shot at those</p>
<p>When evaluating transfer applicants UCs do not look at your high school record or SAT scores, only at grades in college courses and whether or not you have met the prerequisites for your major. You have a very good college GPA which should get you considered as a junior year transfer if you have completed your lower division requirements by the end of your sophomore year.</p>
<p>The biggest problem you face is that transfer applicants from community colleges have priority over transfers from 4 year colleges and universities in the admission process and it sounds like you will be applying for a very competitive major. I am not sure being a California resident helps you because I think cash starved places like UC Berkeley have been admitting a lot more OOS applicants recently in order to collect the much higher OOS tuition from them.</p>
<p>i wouldn’t say that the out of state transfer acceptance rate is in the ‘single digits,’ that makes it sound much more daunting than it really is</p>
<p>according to this page, Berkeley’s acceptance rate for OOS students was 16.6% (<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/transfer.asp[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/transfer.asp</a>), a number that will continue to increase considering UC’s need for extra tuition revenue.</p>
<p>it’s difficult to gauge one’s chances for an out-of-state student. you can probably tell already that this forum is dedicated primarily for California community college students, and there really is not much information regarding the difficulty of OOS admissions. you seem to have a strong GPA, and UCs don’t ask for high school GPA or SAT scores. engineering is one of the more difficult majors in terms of admission, check out the acceptance rates by each major on page 5 of this document:
<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/12626_5.Info_TransAdm.pdf[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/12626_5.Info_TransAdm.pdf</a></p>
<p>Overall I’d say you have a good shot at Davis, SB, and SD. As for UCB and UCLA, you would be a longshot at both. I say this because the transfer course articulation gets sticky when transferring from an LAC to a UC. Not every course matches up to the prereqs at LA and UCB. That being said, it’s difficult for the UC’s to evaluate your app since they’re not familiar with your school’s courses. If you’ve gone to assist.org to see what does transfer from a CCC to a UC of your choice, you can see generally what you need to have taken to be admitted. Of course, LAC courses will have different titles than CCC courses, but if they’re pretty similar i.e. Human Genetics & Genetics in Mammals (or something like that), they may or may not accept. </p>
<p>Your best bet is to call UCB and UCLA immediately. Figure out what you have taken, what is relevant that you’ve taken, what isn’t relevant, and what you still need to take to make yourself a competitive applicant.</p>
<p>From what I know so far the only requirement that I lack is two semesters of English Comp. I only have one formal “English writing” course done, but I have also taken seminar course with large amount of writing (count as writing course for my school). I have contacted both UCB and UCLA about this issue. UCB asks me to send them a course evaluation form. UCLA didn’t offer any advice. I notice that both schools do not consider students with less than 100% completion of the requirement. Is there a place in the application I can mention this in the application so don’t disregard my application due to the lack of prerequisite?</p>
<p>You will also want to check to see whether lower division engineering and CS courses that you take will be credited against subject requirements for your major at the UC. Many community college transfers are unable to take equivalent courses at their community colleges and find that their first semester after transfer is crowded with lower division engineering and CS courses (often high workload courses with labs or programming) in order to clear prerequisites so that they can take upper division courses. Some use [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) to find as many needed courses as possible at every community college in the area before transfer in order to reduce the schedule crowding.</p>
<p>Berkeley CS and EECS are particularly hard to find lower division CS and EE courses for at community colleges.</p>