EECS UC Berkeley Transfer

Transfer Students
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<p>Hi. I'm an Electrical Engineering major at Long Beach City College. I'm going to be applying this Fall (Fall 2014) so I can transfer to UC Berkeley EECS in Fall 2015. </p>

<p>I was wondering what the GPA range admissions would be looking at for EECS transfer students. </p>

<p>Also:
1) If I were to have a 3.85 ~ 3.87 Cumulative G.P.A. at the end of Fall 2014 and 100% of my prereqs done by Spring 2015 before I transfer to UC Berkeley in Fall 2015, would I have a good chance of being admitted (besides my personal statement, EC's)? Whats the lowest transfer GPA youve ever heard of that got admitted into EECS at UC Berkeley?</p>

<p>2) I'm a US citizen but I lived overseas and came back to the states and enrolled here at CC. Would I need to show any transcripts from the high school I went to overseas? Or it doesn't matter since i'm a transfer student and they don't really care about high school transcripts?</p>

<p>3) Does being enrolled in the TAP program at your community college help you in admissions if you're an EECS major? If it does, how so? </p>

<p>4) Since I'm an EECS major, do personal statement/EC's matter just as much as a high gpa and 100% prereqs beng completed? How so?</p>

<p>If there are any engineering majors (preferably EECS) who transferred to UC Berkeley from a California Community College, I'd like to know what: </p>

<p>5) the cumulative GPA you were applying with</p>

<p>6) kind of EC's you did </p>

<p>7) you wrote about in your personal statement</p>

<p>8) How the transfer experience was </p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>@m36057 - I’m a Cal alum (not an engineering student), but I will say try giving the EECS department a call or visit <a href=“Prospective junior transfer FAQs - Berkeley Engineering”>http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/prospective-students/faq/transfer-faq.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Your ECs and the PS are super super important, especially at Cal. Berkeley is one of the only UCs left that still values progressive admissions policies and standards, and they pay a lot of attention on the PS and ECs, so make those count! Show you have leadership experience and/or ECs that reflect your identity/passions, rather than reflecting EECS. Ad coms want to see how you’re going to use EECS to make positive and meaningful change in the world.</p>

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<p>The following courses for Berkeley EECS may be hard to find. According to <a href=“http://www.assist.org”>http://www.assist.org</a> , here are some ways to cover them before transfer:</p>

<p>CS 61A:
CS 61B: Golden West CS G145, Fullerton CSCI 133F, Orange Coast CS A200 and A250
CS 61C:
CS 70:
EE 20:
EE 40:</p>

<p>I.e. only CS 61B seems to be available at your local CCs. Otherwise, be sure to complete the full math sequence, full physics sequence, any additional science needed, English composition courses, and humanities and social studies breadth courses in subjects where you may want to take upper division courses after transfer.</p>

<p>Non-articulated discrete math and electronics courses can give you a preview of some of the material in CS 70 and EE 40.</p>