High School Senior thinking of community college

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>NOTE: This is from my chance thread, I'm just copy-pasting to make it quicker. I have a question at the bottom about going to a community college. I want to major in economics, and while I <em>might</em> get into a good school, its econ program will likely be not as strong as UC Berkeley HAAS (my ultimate goal)</p>

<p>Asian Male
Senior
CA Public HS</p>

<p>Academics</p>

<p>GPA: 4.35 w / 3.70 uw
UC GPA: 4.05
Rank: Top 5% (40/745)
ACT: 30
SAT II: 770 USH/ 700 Lit / 570 Chem
APs: USH (5) Lang (5) Human Geo (5) US Gov (4) Environmental (4) Psych (5) Euro (5) Chem (1)</p>

<p>Extra-Curricular</p>

<p>FBLA (President)
- I manage training for competitions, community service projects, and raising money for the school and club.</p>

<p>BLANK Organic Farm (Co-Founder) note: need to keep name private
- Located in southeast Asia in my homecountry, I work from the U.S. and coordinate with my partner on the field. I send him organic seeds and discuss methods on increasing efficiency and keeping it all-natural. I visited this summer and assisted in harvesting, irrigation, and creating our organic fertlilizers. We use vermi casting. We sell our produce to large supermarket chains and to local sellers.</p>

<p>BLANK.com (Founder)
- I help about 500,000 workers (and growing) in my home country find jobs. It has been featured in local, national, and international media. The organization has intentions of expanding its services to other countries.</p>

<p>Awards</p>

<ul>
<li>AP Scholar w/ distinction ( I self-studied AP Environmental to basically improve my knowledge for farming. I self-studied AP Gov because I just became an American and should know how this country works.) </li>
<li>(FBLA)Numerous awards on regional and state level</li>
<li>1st place in business competition where I designed an iPhone app for an amusement park, it was featured on techcrunch (popular silicon valley start-up blog).</li>
<li>Runner-up in business competition where I worked for a local steel-manufacturing company and designed an e-commerce capability so that they can increase revenues.</li>
</ul>

<p>Work Experience</p>

<ul>
<li>Intern at an Investment office in my home country. I designed the local government's website. I also handled paperwork for foreign investors and did consulting for local businesses. I got a great rec from the department head.</li>
</ul>

<p>About Me</p>

<p>I am a dual citizen, I speak five languages (including English) most of it acquired from my home country. My mom makes 70k a year, my dad is unemployed.</p>

<p>Other stuff</p>

<p>Teacher rec: average and average
Counselor rec: we have 745 kids, should be generic
Additional rec: read this one, this one is crazy. I don't know how much weight is given to this though.
Essays: I think I'm a competent writer, I'm going to elaborate on my unique background and the experiences that set me apart.</p>

<p>Improvement?</p>

<p>Grade 10</p>

<p>AP Euro - A/A
H Alg. 2 - C/B
H Chem - B/B
H English - A/A
Spanish II - B/A</p>

<p>Grade 11</p>

<p>AP Lang - A/A
AP US - A/A
H Physio - A/A
Pre-Calc - A/A
Spanish III - A/A
AP Psych - B (one semester)</p>

<p>Grade 12 schedule</p>

<p>AP Lit
Hon Econ/AP Gov
AP Physics
AP Calc A/B
AP Spanish
AP Art History</p>

<p>Things I can improve/control</p>

<ul>
<li>1st Semester Senior Year; if I can continue my improvement, let's say securing straight A's it can increase my GPA and Rank. I don't know how much good it will do though, but I'll just try my best </li>
<li>Standardized Test Scores</li>
<li>Essays</li>
</ul>

<p>Colleges I am applying to</p>

<p>UCLA
UC Berkeley
UCSD
UC Davis
Stanford
Brown
Williams
Middlebury
Boston University
University of Washington</p>

<p>Note: this list is tentative and I will be updating it throughout the year</p>

<p>California Community Colleges! Save money, be happy anddd transfer </p>

<p>Question, by the time I graduate senior year, I'll have alot of AP's under my belt. If I do decide on going to a community college with the intention of transferring to LA or Berkeley, will they take my AP credits? Will this make it quicker for me to transfer? If I don't get accepted to LA or Berkeley, which I think is highly likely in my case, I'm definitely going to a community college.</p>

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<p>Haas is a business program. If you want an econ program, that is not Haas but Berkeley also has a very good econ program.</p>

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<p>^ yea, I mean Berkeley econ with the hopes of going Haas junior year. If I don’t get into Berkeley or LA, ill think of cc.</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>Berkeley economics is in the College of Letters and Science (L&S); all freshmen entering L&S enter undeclared. Freshmen do not enter the Haas School of Business Administration; students apply in their sophomore year to transfer to it as juniors.</p>

<p>Note that economics is a capped major, and requires applying to declare, unlike most majors in L&S which can be declared after completing the prerequisites.</p>

<p>Economics is not the same as business, although business uses economics. Economics at Berkeley also has a “more math” track for those intending to go to graduate school in economics, and a “less math” track for other students.</p>

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<p>^ Thanks! So my goal is to get into Haas as a transfer</p>

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<p>UCBalumnus, I got into Berkeley for economics and was obviously instead accepted to L+S. I have a 3.9ish gpa with a 4.0 major gpa so far and will hopefully maintain that with the required (2) prereqs left at Berkeley. Is it a safe bet that I will get accepted into the econ major? Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>I got into haas as a transfer but in high school my gpa was like 2.0. (SAT score was 2250 though). Seriously, don’t go to community college if you are doing well in high school.</p>

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<p>You’ve got some pretty good academics and extra-curriculars, and I think that you will likely be able to get into Davis, BU, and UW, and maybe SD. The others I’m not sure. But commnity college is definitely a good option especially if you are interested in saving money. However, I do have to that I agree with Investment on how hard you’ve worked in high school because its hard to get that back.
Oh and btw you mentioned toward the end about AP credit, most community colleges I think will take it if you got at least a 3 so you get units for it, I know mine does it that way. You have so many APs that could knock out some G.E.s of college work that could bring you closer to 60 units faster. Although I am not sure how it will show up on your transcript if you transferred like if a letter grade will appear for it or not.
Either way you go should be good, but my recommendation is community college if you really are set on Berkeley and don’t get in as a freshman first time around.</p>