<p>Exactly what classes are used to find your GPA when applying to Berkeley? I'll be applying for Haas so obviously on the Haas Self-Rerported Academic Record I have filled out would be counted, but what else can be used that I've taken at a California community college?</p>
<p>Would something like pre-calculus count? I have a bunch of classes that aren't breadth classes but are transferable classes, like PHOTO 120, Speech Communication 124, Financial Accounting, etc. Are these things that I'll be able to factor into my GPA?</p>
<p>If I go to assist.org, select Berkeley and my CC, and click "UC Transferable Courses," are these all of the courses that I can use for my GPA up until a certain credit limit?</p>
<p>Probably a noob question, but I appreciate the help.</p>
<p>And a quick follow on question. Let’s say that on paper I have all my requirements and breadths filled out and that leaves me at around 65 transferable credits, but if I’m reading it correctly, I’m allowed to have a maximum of 90 transferable semester credits.</p>
<p>If that’s true, can I take additional transferable classes (non-biz classes obviously) to boost my GPA?</p>
<p>I have some B’s from earlier in my community college career when I wasn’t taking this seriously as I am now and I’m looking for ways to get my GPA as high as possible, aside from obviously acing the classes I’m still required to take.</p>
<p>I’ve been doing more research, and found that it looks like I’m allowed to transfer 70 (or something right around there) credits.</p>
<p>What happens though to credits that are transferable, but are over the cap limit? Am I able to factor them into my GPA? What exactly is it that I get to factor into my GPA? Right now that’s what I’m lost on.</p>
<p>Any help is appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>Only grades for UC transferable classes will count towards your GPA. You can transfer a maximum of 70 credits to Berkeley, but credits beyond that can still count toward prerequisites, breadths, and the GPA for your application. </p>
<p>Hi underbear, thanks for your response. So then if I’m maxed out at 70 and my pre-reqs and breadths are completed I can still take a few extra UC transferable courses, which will still count towards my GPA? If everything goes as I believe it should, I should have a pretty good GPA … but what you said, and what I’ve read, makes it sound like I can take a couple extra (totally unnecessary) UC transferable courses that could work to give my GPA a bit of a boost.</p>
<p>If that is at all possible, I do have some light class loads next year as I’m just finishing up a handful of pre-reqs and breadths, so adding a few extra classes that I’d ace wouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>If I’m reading into this incorrectly, please correct me.</p>
<p>Thank you again for the response!</p>
<p>Yes, you could take some unnecessary classes to boost your GPA. But the adcoms will probably know why you took them as well. What’s your GPA now? And are the classes you’re planning to take related to your major? </p>
<p>My GPA <em>right now</em> is a a 3.61 … But I still have these Haas requirements left (which will be equivalent classes taken at CCC):</p>
<p>Principles of Business
Math 16A/B
Micro econ
Stats
English 1B</p>
<p>And then 4 Breadth classes and language. I’ll get A’s on all the breadth classes and language, and an A in Principles of Business, Mircro econ, and English, and maybe stats, and a B in Math 16A/B. The breadths will be easy As.</p>
<p>Any extra “unnecessary” clases I would take would be related to my major.</p>
<p>It’s also a bit confusing as I have some grades from 10 years ago from an out of state community college when I was 18 and not interested in school. I got a C- in Human Nutrition (which I don’t know if it would be accepted anyway) and a C- in Intro to Psychology. I got a B in another class …. and then, while I was in Iraq (I’m a veteran) I took some classes and got between Bs and A-'s. If those are transferable or if those even factor, I don’t now. I certainly hope they don’t but I’d have no problem retaking the general psych class to get an A in it if it’s going to hurt me.</p>
<p>In short, I have a decent GPA but still have a long ways to go. Ignoring those grades from 10 years ago and when I was juggling classes while fighting a war, when I calculated my GPA with all the classes on my Haas Undergraduate Self-reported Academic Record, along with the classes I’ve found that I’ve taken that are UC transferable, I ended up with a GPA in the neighborhood of 3.8.</p>
<p>google uc tap. you can pregame the uc application by inputting your grades, it will only let you put in uc transferable course and by doing this you can determine your gpa, you can also predict what your gpa will be if you put in grades you think you might get.</p>
<p>For your other classes, you technically have to report everything so this means you would have to get the official transcripts from those schools you attended and contact berkeley to see if they transfer. However if you never told anybody about them then they have no way of knowing you took those classes, so those grades wont count againts you, but obviously you wont get the credits, and if you report them later and they find out you didnt report them when you applied then that could grounds for rejection. Its a tough call</p>
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<p>There is a national clearinghouse of college enrollment so that colleges can see what other colleges you have attended: <a href=“http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/”>http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the info @MikeSauce. As ucbalumnus said, they <em>can</em> check your transcripts. I doubt they would but getting caught in a lie would probably throw away any chance of UCB.</p>
<p>I also have an intro to psych class I took 10 years ago that I got a C- in … from a community college in Washington before I joined the military. This is the stuff I’m scared will come back and haunt me. I could easily just retake this class and get an A, but I don’t think I can do Academic Renewal for something like this, so some stupid, old grades could hold me back.</p>
<p>I’ll check out the UC Tap website. Thanks!</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus wow thanks for the info I had no idea people got paid to monitor a national database full of people and their colleges.
Do most schools even monitor this though?</p>
<p>Presumably, there are enough colleges that care about students who try to cheat the admission process by hiding poor grades at previous colleges (or pretending that they are frosh applicants even though they have attended college after high school graduation) that there is demand for such a service.</p>