<p>Hello i am currently living outside of CA and i am wondering how hard it would be to go to CA after high school, and attend a CC for a year & then transfer to Berkeley. I have good grades ..will have taken about 6 APs throughout high school and scored 4s and 5s on them all. My sat was a 2280 and i have strong ECs. I just love the idea of living in CA and going to Berkeley. Let me know how hard it is to transfer from a CC and also if ill have a chance and doing it.</p>
<p>APs won’t matter in CCC admissions. You’ll get credit for them when you transfer, but they won’t help you get in. Neither will your SAT score. All that matters in CCC transfer admissions is your the number of major prerequisites you have completed, your GE completion, your overall GPA, and your major GPA. ECs and your personal statement can make a small difference in borderline cases.</p>
<p>You’ll need to attend a CCC for two years (well, 60 units). It’s tough to be admitted to any UC as a sophomore transfer. If you do 60 units at a CCC with a 3.8+, you’ll have a great shot at admission, depending on your major (and assuming all pre-reqs and GEs are completed).</p>
<p>Choose a good CCC that offers the classes you need. Ideally move to an area where you can attend more than one CCC simultaneously, which makes it easier to get the classes you need. Use Assist.org to find out what college offers the most major pre-reqs. Also, use this site to choose the best CCCs:
<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof11_CAcc.htm[/url]”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof11_CAcc.htm</a></p>
<p>That’s for UCLA, but in general it should give you an idea of which CCCs are most successful at getting their students admitted to the better UCs.</p>
<p>Finally, spend some time at the UC Transfers forum here.</p>
<p>With a score like that, why are you going to a CC? I’m pretty sure you can get into most UCs if not Berkeley.</p>
<p>I was also going to say that with those grades (and what are your ECs?) you have a shot at Berkeley. It may not be necessary to go to a CC first…</p>
<p>The OP probably wants in-state tuition or something like that.</p>
<p>You can get in-state tuition by going to a CC first?
Dang…Lol, I should’ve done that</p>
<p>I’m not sure if that is actually true. But it would make sense if moving to California and living here for two years before applying to Berkeley would be enough to get in-state tuition.</p>
<p>I couldn’t find Cal’s quickly, but here is UCSB’s criteria for establishing California residency. I’d imagine they’re similar.</p>
<p>[Establishing</a> California Residence for Tuition Purposes, Office of the Registrar](<a href=“404 - Page Not Found”>404 - Page Not Found)</p>
<p>As the explanation notes, the toughest will be “Financial Independence.” Check out the loophole, though–if you’re married and weren’t claimed as a dependent by your parents, you’re all set. So just find another out-of-state student and get married.</p>
<p>Technically if you’re working and paying your own way through a California CC (housing, tuition, bills, etc) and then after one or two years (I think it’s two years) transfer to Berkeley, you’d be a California resident right?</p>
<p>It would be extremely unfair to not give them residency since anyone who comes and works and lives in California (Say you got a job at Apple, then bought a house/apartment and a car and started living/working here for a year and got a Cal driver’s license, etc) for at least one year is considered by the State as a California resident (at least that’s what my uncle told me)</p>
<p>All of that matters, but if you’re under 24 you also need financial independence. That means your parents can’t be supporting you–you can’t even be living rent-free at a relative’s home. See my link above. Note that residency for tuition purposes has a specific definition that is not the same as residency for voting and the like.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice/info!
These are my ECs: 3 year member of FBLA
competed at the state conference for DECA
member of TEAR (teenages engaged in acts of recyling)
had over 200 hours working in our school store
volunteer at a local hospital for approx 500 hours
worked 4 years at my dads medical practice
volunteer at local homeless shelter
founder/head of a snow removal business
Move donated fornature to homes of inter-city families stricken by poverty
2 year member of national honor society
3 year member of tennis team: 2 varsity letters
2 year member of basketball team:2 varsity letters
volunteer for program called hoops and homework at out local ymca
chemistry tutor
2nd and 3rd grade basketball coach
took a summer mission trip to boston for a week: worked with homeless/poor people
went to the bahamas over the summer on a missions trip: worked with haitain refugees, building a church/home as well as running a VBS for the local kids
went to volunteer at the bowery in NYC woking with the homeless
parking attendent at my church
Ranked in top 100 in the world, top 45 in NA for reciting most digits of Pi
*i live in the northeast and ive heard that admission to UC Berkeley is much harder out of state…but should i apply anyways? What do you think my chances would be??</p>
<p>u have a good chance.</p>
<p>Even as an out of state student?? It has typically been harder for an OSS to be admitted, but i heard that recently they are trying to accept more for diversity reasons i guess…</p>
<p>^
They’re admitting more OSS students to cover the budget cuts lol.</p>
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<p>“We must admit more Mountain state and Midwestern state Rednecks and snobby New England D bags”</p>
<p>Lol I’m completely kidding. (I’m from Idaho btw, which is full of people you Californians might consider Rednecks lol)</p>
<p>Yeah maybe that too Lol. Do i look like i have a good chance? Ill be paying full out of state tuiton. Ive taken all honors and ap classes and my test scores are high and i believe ill have a strong personal statement as well. The only thing im a little worried about is that i might not be top 10% of my graduating class…does that hurt alot? THe main reason is just because my class is VERY strong overall. The teachers say it’s the strongest they have ever seen. My unweighted average is like a 89 but weighted it’s about a 104…</p>