I am in 9th grade and I should be done with community college with 60 or more credits 10th. My preferred school would be Haas Business. I know I need good grades, extra curricular activities, have well thought out essays, and that I have to meet all the prerequisites to get in. Does anyone have advise on getting in? Most people that apply are undergrads. Would I be at a disadvantage because I have less time to do extra curricular activities, or would the fact I took many rigorous courses and got good grades in them all while not even being in eleventh grade look good, or both? I only have so much time to do extra curricular activities, so what should I focus on? I know I will get into National Honor Society next year, but what else should I do? Should I get a part time job, help my local community college, or something else? Should it be business related?
Having fewer EC’s while completing all pre-reqs is by no means a disadvantage. It’s pretty impressive.
If you want to find things to do, find things that interest you. You’ll stand out just for what I mentioned above so long as your grades and essays are strong enough.
Nobody gets admitted to Haas as freshman. Instead, you get admitted to L&S and apply to Haas at the end of your second year
It sounds like he wants to go the transfer route into Berkeley and Haas, as opposed to matriculating into L&S as a freshman. It’s unchartered territory for someone so young to attempt this. I’m not sure if anyone would have any advice about this.
What’s the rush?
The university will also wonder why you’re so young and have pushed or forced through your courses and didn’t appear to take advantage of your high school years by participating in activities of interest.
Certainly there are young kids who have attended/are attending Berkeley now. In fact one of the regular posters on this forum has her 15 year old attending. However Haas is a different animal in that I’m pretty sure the characteristics of a successful Haas transfer student would be a bit different that say a math or computer science major.
Thanks for the responses. I attend an online school currently. (It's school that isn't brick and mortar but is still public.) My school doesn't provide any EC's other than honor society, some clubs, and student government. I need to be in 10th to be in honor society, so I have to wait for that. I need to be elected to get into student government (Just participating won't really help me in terms of admissions.) All their clubs are virtual, but I might join the digital arts one in part for the experience and so I can show my art and in part for the possibility that it could help raise my chances. The current courses I am taking are very easy and seem to be designed so everyone can pass if they have brain cells and try half of the time. I usually will spend half of my morning on assignments and still get A's. My favorite subject is math. I am enrolled in algebra I honors, but going through it is more tedious than intellectually challenging. I am going through Khan Academy, and I am doing well on their calculus at least so far. I have gotten 4% through AB and 5% through BC. This is interesting, because I can practice my basic algebra skills, trigonometry, all while studying calculus. My idea is to challenge myself academically, instead of putting in a minimum amount of effort to barely get A's, like I have done in 8th grade. (I am partly guilty of that this year too.)
Maybe I should take it a little slower than my original plan. Maybe I should take intermediate algebra at my local community college as a backup and self study for the BC test (AB if I don't have enough time,) and if I fail, then I go take precalc during the summer. If I get a 3 or higher on the BC in full, or even a 3 on the AB subscore, then I can skip calculus I. Then maybe I can get an associate's in business administration and an associate's in mathematics and transfer to the math department in 11th. (By the time I start, I will be almost 17, but remember, I will probably be placed in school as a junior.) Of course assuming I do get in, I will get a full bachelors in math. Can I start getting through some of Haas's courses so that I can get a head start on my degree? Haas also seems to have a bias of prioritizing UC Berkeley transfers over regular transfers, but this probably isn't true because UC Berkeley students know more about admissions criteria and tend to be higher achievers, at least academically, than the average transfer student from a community college. This is of course assuming I can get into the math branch. If not, then I might just get another business related associate's degree, and then apply to a bunch of UC and CSU schools. I could resort to TAG (transfer admission guarentee) for UC Riverside, but that would be a last resort.
Anyways, do you have any advise on what I should do? Does applying for the math branch instead sound like a better idea? Sorry that is so long. Thank you for reading.
collegefind1234 I don’t think you need the L&S requirements to get into Haas Berkeley.
“Complete all prerequisite courses with a letter grade of C- or higher, no more than five years before starting the business major.
All Haas Business School applicants are required to submit an additional writing sample and resume with the Application Update Form in January.”-https://admissions.berkeley.edu/transfer-admissions-information-by-college
According to http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/transfer_prereq.html, you need 1. an intro business course 2. calculus up to 1b or 16b 3. micro and macro econ 4. intro to stats 5. English up to the level or Berkeley’s R1A and R1B 6. 60 semester or 90 quarter units. It’s easier said than done, but I don’t think it says you need the L&S, though the general breath requirements are recommended.
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/transfer_admissions.html describes the admission process for transfer students to UCB business.
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/class_profile.html shows the class profile of juniors entering UCB business.
Lots of good info from others and i might suggest you get in touch with Haas specifically for pre-advising@510-642-1421.
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/pread.html