<p>I was wondering if I could start a separate thread for those who transferred from 4 year-universities to Cal or UCLA.</p>
<p>Did you find that your GPA had to be very high to compete against those from CCs, where in some cases, high GPAs might be more common?</p>
<p>Where did you come from, where did you attend, what was your major and GPA?</p>
<p>Thanks,
Dmission</p>
<p>School: San Jose State University
Major: Political Science
GPA: 3.8something
Admitted to: UCLA and Cal
Attending: Cal
Extra curriculars... non-existant, haha</p>
<p>Congratulations!!! What did you choose for your personal statement(s)?</p>
<p>School: Colorado College
Major: Neurobiology
GPA: 3.8ish
Applied: Cal
Attending: Cal
Good ECs and essays (i think this was the selling point)</p>
<p>I also think UCs take into account the difficulty of the 4-year you're coming from.</p>
<p>University of California, Santa Cruz
Major: Biochemistry
GPA: 3.9ish
Applied: UCSD, UCLA, Cal
Admitted: UCSD, Cal
Attending: Cal</p>
<p>I think it was b/c I took part in an honors program here in UCSC.</p>
<p>and b/c I wrote somewhat compelling essays.</p>
<p>Gj guys! What sorts of ECs were they? research?</p>
<p>Thanks dmission. My ECs consisted of conducting research at several big universities, including UC San Francisco and the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the U of Utah, volunteering at the American Cancer Society, chair of Amnesty Int'l chapter (raised $1000 for Genocide intervention network), guitar ensemble, and several other school clubs. I think it helped that a lot of my ECs were related to my major.</p>
<p>Transferred from: UCSB
GPA: 3.79
Applied: UCLA, UCB
Admitted: UCLA, UCB
Attending: UCB</p>
<p>Major: I applied as a Global Studies major at UCLA and a Peace and Conflict Studies major at UCB. I'm switching to Political Science at UCB though -- the major isn't impacted.</p>
<p>Could any oos transfer students accepted into Cal, UCLA and UCSD share some information on the finaid package that you have got from those schools? I wonder if there are any merit-based scholarships given to non-California residents who transfer from oos, as I am thinking of applying for transfer to UC for fall 2009. Thanks a lot for any information on UC finaid for oos transfers!</p>
<p>Remmert: Congratulations! Any ECs or anything else notable?</p>
<p>BlueLake, my EFC was 0 and Cal gave me about 12,600 in grants for the year. About 6,000 of that were Pell grants and other need-based grants, and another 6,600 was a UG Grant (undergraduate grant). On the explanations page, it said the UG Grant is awarded based on either academic merit or financial need - so it was ambiguous in that I don't know why it was awarded. But I like to pretend it's because of my academic merit... Anyway, I really wasn't even expecting to get in, yet alone get any financial aid, so I'm happy with it. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Joehanus, Thank you so much for the finaid information! Congratulations on your acceptance to Cal and great merit awards! Your academics, research and ECs are truly impressive and outstanding!</p>
<p>bumpity bump bump</p>
<p>from: UCLA
to: UCB
admitted UCB... and attending...of course!</p>
<p>gpa 3.97
major: accepted PACs switching to Poli Sci & Development Studies
ECs: lived in argentina 6 months, spanish tutor, ski team, some other random ones
Essays: great</p>
<p>HLS...how many of the Poli Sci pre-reqs do you have done? Obviously you don't have Poli Sci 3, so when are you taking that? Summer or Fall?</p>
<p>And also...how are you getting your Comparative Politics, American Politics etc. classes transferred over? They need to see the course descriptions I'm assuming...(at least for me they do)</p>
<p>Congrats, HLS!!!</p>
<p>How hard do you all find it to be to get 3.8+ at UC or 4yrs? Any experience with the difficulty of computer science?</p>
<p>thanks,
DMission</p>
<p>Remmert-</p>
<p>YES... unfortunately i will be taking PS 3 in the fall.. i already took a statistics class at UCLA but I guess that doesn't matter!! </p>
<p>Anyway, i'm finishing ALL my pre-reqs besides that over the summer at a community college (MUCH less expensive-- and the units taken there wont push me over the units max to graduate!).</p>
<p>BUT i'm planning to double major in poli-sci and development studies</p>
<p>so this summer i'll be doing my final ps prereq (not counting ps 3) which is a US history class. I'm also taking cultural anthropology and economics 1 for development studies, then those prereqs will be ALL done, leaving me with two lower division courses (DS 10 and PS 3) before its ALL upper divs. I'm really really excited.</p>
<p>I took a class called "american politics" at UCLA and my advisor told me that transfers. And I got a 4 on the ap govt test in high school so that counts for American Politics. which orientation session are you going to? I plan on figuring A LOT out at orientation...</p>
<p>dmission- you have to work pretty hard to get good grades at a 4 yr. and computer science i think would be especially hard... i hope your passionate about it! That's the only thing that drove me to get good grades.</p>
<p>Heh, ok thanks.</p>