GPA UC Berkeley transfer conditions of admission

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<p>I have been accepted to transfer to UC Berkeley from a community college this fall. My conditions of admission include:</p>

<p>"You must complete all UC-transferable courses in the Winter and/or Spring 2010 terms with a 3.0 or higher GPA and no grade lower than a C. Immediately contact your Admissions Officer if you will not be able to meet this condition."</p>

<p>I believed I had fulfilled this requirement, as my final GPA is 3.309. I received an email from my admissions officer yesterday that says:</p>

<p>"After careful review of your Santa Rosa Junior College transcript I’ve noticed that you weren’t able to maintain a 3.0 GPA for the spring term. As a reminder, one of your conditions of admissions states that you must maintain a GPA of a 3.0 or better. At this point, your admissions is in jeopardy and is subject to cancellation. Your file will be passed on to the review committee to make a final decision on your admissions standing.</p>

<p>Please respond to me with the following information, and I will forward this to the committee for review.</p>

<p>a) What condition(s) will not be meet</p>

<p>b) Why the student was unable to meet the condition(s)</p>

<p>c) What did the student do to try to meet the condition(s)</p>

<p>d) Provide a timeline [Example: date the course was drop, date of the grade change option, date of onset of illness, date of accident, date entered hospital, etc.]</p>

<p>e) Provide winter quarter grades if applicable; or report of current grade progress from instructor</p>

<p>f) What has the student done to make up the condition (ex. Signed up for missing course in summer session)</p>

<p>I expect to hear from you as soon as possible."</p>

<p>So apparently, what they meant is that not only must I maintain my GPA at 3.0, but I must also have a GPA of 3.0 for the individual spring semester. My GPA for that individual semester was 2.739. I was taking 23 semester units that semester, so I got several Cs, in addition to two As and a B. I did not receive anything lower than a C.</p>

<p>I will soon be sending the requested email to the officer. Do you think my admission will be rescinded? Classes start in four weeks. My GPA for each individual semester (four total) except for this one has been well above 3.0. One semester, my individual GPA was 3.824, and I received Dean's Highest Honors. I graduated with honors with an AA in two different subjects and a GPA of 3.309. I also participated in student government my final semester, in addition to taking 23 units. I have 81 UC-transferable credits, which is well above the minimum 60 required.</p>

<p>Has anyone else been in this situation? Do you think my admission will be rescinded? What else do you think I should include in my email? Class start in four weeks, and at this point, I have no backup universities as notification deadlines have passed. Please comment. Thanks.</p>

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<p>yeah they r sticklers when it comes to keeping up ur GPA. You r lucky though, at least they r reviewing ur file usually they just tell you straight up ok yeah no ur not in now. Take this opportunity and run with it. You might want to offer to go into ur fall semester on academic probation so that you can show them that u are gonna be serious once u start in the fall.</p>

<p>Hopefully everything works out, i dont know what i’d do if i were in that situation…</p>

<p>GOOD LUCK!</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley and UCLA are unlike other UC that lenient toward the admission contract. you should had reported ur acadmic change once u got ur final grade and you should notice earlier you violated ur admission contract. you are in a very dangerous situation, you have a very high chance to be rescinded.</p>

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<p>Why did you take 23 units the final semester if you are way over the unit cap?</p>

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<p>Like another poster said you are lucky they are giving you a chance to demonstrate why you got the gpa under 3.0, ordinarily they would have just canceled on the spot. you mention other stellar achievements so i would emphasize those. also, i would go to berkeley in person since you are in the bay area and i would make a personal plea. it always makes a difference when you meet the admissions officer in person. good luck…</p>

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<p>You transferred with 3.0 to UC Berkeley ? It is a MIRACLE !</p>

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<p>he had a 3.3 GPA.</p>

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<p>@jleemd21 </p>

<p>3.3 is still MIRACLE !!!</p>

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<p>Technically, the 3.3 GPA was after his last spring semester, which the UCs don’t look at. So his real UC GPA that counted for admissions was probably even higher.</p>

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<p>Old thread is old.</p>

<p>Also, assuming he had ~45 other credits completed, the GPA at application time would have needed to be around 3.6, which is more or less normal.</p>

<p>But yes, Berkeley requires a 3.0 for each quarter/semester completed after fall, including winter, spring, and summer classes (even if you take them at Cal).</p>

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Whatever happened, @TheNiceGuy ? I’m in the exact same situation with UC Berkeley and am wondering what to do. Thanks!

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@gftgft this thread is 5 years old. It is unlikely you will hear from the OP.

Please make a new thread, and do not bump old threads