Haas Questions

<p>Here's my classes, grades, and EC's. Is it possible for me to get into Haas?</p>

<p>Summer before freshman year:
-Chinese 1 at community college: A
-Stats 10 at community college: A
-Went to Korea to help start non-profit that promotes cultural and racial awareness
-Interned at start-up online Korean news site (translated articles to and wrote them in English from Korea)</p>

<p>Freshman year (1st semester):
-Asian Studies 10: A-
-Math 16A: A
-Spanish 4: A
-English 24 (seminar): P</p>

<p>-Consulting Club (was consultant for start-up company)
-Regents & Chancellors</p>

<p>Freshman year (2nd semester):
-Korean 7B: P
-Korean 186: P
-Korean 10BX: A
-UGBA 10: A-</p>

<p>-Consulting Club (was social director and consultant)
-Regents & Chancellors
-Urban Culture Organization (president...started club to help promote culture awareness)</p>

<p>Freshman year summer:
-Intern at Venture Capitalist firm (marketing)
-Intern at non-profit crowdfunding organization
-2 community college classes
-Went to Korea to continue with non-profit (helped ran throughout freshman year via online)</p>

<p>Sophomore year (intended)
-Soc 3AC
-Econ 1
-UGBA 102A
-Chinese 1A</p>

<p>-Consulting (Project Manager)
-Regents & Chancellors
-Urban Culture</p>

<p>-Still did Korean non-profit and Translating all throughout freshman year.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>where are the STAT20/21 AND Math 16b classes? Woo, your class load at freshman is so light.(but trade in with high grade score) …i can not figure it out why you need so many language classes
so it depended on how the haas committees look at your course load (light) vs. grade (excellent)</p>

<p>Your grades look good. I think the range of your language classes and the diversity of your internships/jobs give you a few good opportunities to create compelling essays that bring everything together. As pointed out above, I think one thing that may help round out your academics next semester is to take more classes for a letter grade (the number I’d suggest is 3, if not 4). This will help legitimize your GPA.</p>

<p>I took Stats at a community college before coming to Berkeley and am taking Math 16B my second semester of Sophomore year.</p>

<p>Stats at a community college before coming to Berkeley</p>

<p>it won’t count toward STAT credit from Haas as you need to take STAT 20/21 at Berkeley which is much harder than course from Community college</p>

<p>and I assume you have AP literature of 5 to waive the English 1A/1B courses at Berkeley- or you plan to take again at community college?</p>

<p>Assist.org tells me that stats 10 at the community college is equivalent to stats 20 at Cal.</p>

<p>Yes, I got a 5 on my AP Lit exam.</p>

<p>It is possible to receive credit for the stats requirement at Haas with an equivalent class (as determined by Assist.org) at a community college, provided you took the class before you matriculated to Berkeley. If you took the class the summer before your freshman year, you may want to confirm that you technically haven’t matriculated to Berkeley yet and that the class is thus valid. (the Economics major, on the other hand, requires calculus-based statistics, which is a lot harder to find at community colleges.) </p>

<p>Given that you are waiving out of 2 R&C classes, took Stats at a community college, and are waiting to take Math 16B in the spring of your sophomore year, I think it becomes that much more important to take at least 3 (but at least 4 would be ideal) classes for a letter grade in the spring to legitimize your GPA. It’s also good that your signing up for UGBA 102A, towards this end.</p>

<p>Have you taken the Chinese language placement test given by the department? It is possible that the Chinese 1 course at your CC would put you at a more advanced course than Chinese 1A at Berkeley.</p>

<p>In any case, where is Math 16B?</p>

<p>I’m taking Math 16B my second semester of sophomore year. </p>

<p>I took the placement test and it said I should take Chinese 1A because I actually forgot a lot of characters since I took it a while ago.</p>

<p>Everyone has a chance to get into haas. At your level, the majority of people are equally qualified, so it’s often said to come down to a crapshoot. Refer to my thread for a bunch more information or pm me!</p>

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<p>Yes you have a good shot.</p>

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<p>I would recommend you take Math 16B before your sophomore spring semester. Haas is really into their admits having a strong calculus background, so it’s recently become one of the more heavily weighted prereqs.</p>

<p>So you’re saying I should take Math 16B first semester and Econ 1 second semester?</p>

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<p>If you can, I would recommend doing Econ 1 and 16B in the same semester by switching it out with one of your other classes. If you can’t/would prefer not to, Econ 1 in the fall would be the better option.</p>

<p>Well, 16b and econ 1 are offered at the same time and same day this semester. So which class should I take?</p>