<p>let's say you took community college transferable courses that fulfill the english prereq for haas and you earned As, do those go into your accumulative GPA when you apply for haas? or is that no difference than completing the prereq with a 5 on AP english exam?</p>
<p>If they are UC transferable courses, I do not see why it would not be counted in your cummulative Haas gpa.</p>
<p>but not sure so bump for you.</p>
<p>Respectfully, Cardinal, I believe disagree with you (though you did say you were not sure) based on the word of a Haas admissions councilor.</p>
<p>Haas bases its admissions on several factors, and the one you're interested in is grades.</p>
<p>For prerequisites which cannot be taken at a community college, save for computer science, they are assigned simple point values for completion.</p>
<p>Thus, a 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam is no different from Math 1A, 1B, 16A, or 16B. The same applies for economics--or computer science taken at a community college.</p>
<p>For the "essentials" that are evaluated for performance (grades), namely UGBA10 and Statistics 21, these cannot be taken outside of UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>The GPA used for Haas is from an unofficial UC Berkeley transcript included in the application. Thus, the GPA is UC Berkeley GPA, where community college classes do not contribute to GPA--only credits for requirements (and in the case of Haas, breadth requirements).</p>
<p>Shortly stated, community college classes will not affect your GPA in applying to Haas.</p>
<p>Allorion, get your facts straight. Who do you think is right? Your first-hand experience with a Haas admissions counciler or my blind speculations? Sheesh.</p>
<p>I thought so. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>but for english prereqs, is it true that if you took equivalent uc transferable classes for R1A and R1B before you entered berkeley as a freshman, you no longer have to take them AT BERKELEY?</p>
<p>Of course.</p>
<p>Haas's R&C requirement is no different than that of Letters and Sciences.
You can even fulfill it with AP exam credits from AP English Literature (5 for both semesters, AP English Language for first semester only).</p>