<p>California Community College Applicant
Major: Biology (more specifically human biology or cell/mol dev biology)
GPA: 3.75 (3.817 by the end of Fall 10)
Hoping for: <em>UCLA</em> UCSD, UCI, UCSC, UCD, and UCB
Prereq’s (besides 2 prereqs biochem + mol bio) will be finished by the end of Spring 11.
IGETC: finished by the end of Spring 11.</p>
<p>Tag/Tap? um… no D: I didn’t do any of those! I’m goin to go for TAG this semester, but Tap is hopeless for me because I have to have finished 18 honors units to be part of it… and with my prereqs there weren’t many honors courses offered T_T</p>
<p>EC’s: (this is what I’m worried most about, aside from my GPA) (highschool EC’s: national honor society president, 3 years of volleyball with 1 year of varisty, 2 years of club volleyball, over 150 hours of community service projects, summer library volunteer)but do High school EC’s even count??</p>
<p>college Ec’s… private free-lance tutor for High School Biology and Chemistry. Lab assistant for 1 semester, and that’s it! no clubs! D: I’m going to join Doctors of Tomorrow but… I’m really afraid I don’t have what it takes for UCLA.</p>
<p>i had that exact GPA as a psych applicant last year, except i was at another UC.
i didn’t complete 2 pre-reqs for berkeley’s strange requirements of transferring psych majors, so i’m pretty sure thats why i got rejected from there.
but i got into UCLA, UCSD, UCI, and UCSC!
and your hardship isn’t really a hardship. tragedies such as deaths are hardships that will sway their decisions, not decrease in social life.</p>
<p>Major: Polysci
GPA: 3.8
TAP Certified
ECs: Volunteered For 1 year at a non-profit organization, I run my own blog website, I work for the Young Dems, I have participated in the Honors Symposium Research Project at Berkeley and will do the same this Spring in Stanford. Also I am 17, I left hs after my sophomore year to pursue my studies in community college because i know what i want to do with my life so i chased my dream. =)
Personal Statement: Very Good</p>
<p>Major: Biz
GPA: 3.97
TAP Certified (Berk)
ECs: 300+ volunteer hours, a few scholarships and awards, president of a club, vice president of another club, treasurer of another club, intercollegiate athlete for a sport, intern at prestigious firm, worked 2 jobs for nearly a year in ccc, running multiple small internet businesses, PTK officer, very heavy course load for past few academic periods.
Applying to: Haas, UCLA and some privates
Prereqs: An English class left for winter/spring
IGETC: Complete
Essay: No idea what to write yet but have many friends who will help when the time comes.</p>
<p>Misc: Below 3.0 GPA in high school. Did not want to post my stats at first because I am so competitive that I did not want other apps to get any ideas lol.</p>
<p>CCC applicant
Major: 1st choice: Business 2nd choice: Econ
Current GPA: 3.85
ECs: Tons of work experience, PTK officer
Considering: UCB (Haas), USC (Marshall), UCLA (BizEcon), Cal Poly (SLO)
Major course work completed this Fall semester.
IGETC finished in the spring.
Grade trend: I got two B’s my first semester in college and straight A’s since.
First generation college student</p>
<p>International Student
Current School: Santa Monica College
Major: Computer Science (planning double majoring CS/Math)
GPA: 4.0
College ECs: AGS, PTK (both transcript notations), MathLab Club, CS Club, 1 year math SI Leader, Math Tutor, freelance coder, working on opensource projects, also experienced in 3d modelling and animation, guitar player, vocalist
Prereq: Few things left (really easy stuff because I’ve already taken most of the hardcore courses). Will be done by Spring 2010.
IGETC: Don’t need it for the major but have few things like psych 1
Essay: I’ll write a great essay about my epic fail in my hometown university and how it taught me blah-blah
Hope for: UCB, UCLA, UCD, and also Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon, University of Washington :)</p>
<p>Ok I know you guys think you’re very smart. That’s why most of you are gonna end up crying in forums 3 years later with a pathetic worthless degree from a university without knowing any **** about your specialization blaming crisis and unemployment as culprits of your own inferiority.
Now as far as guitar, it does fall under the definition of EC, so why not put it?
And again, I asked about my chances as polite as I could.</p>
<p>I don’t think he was being sarcastic when he said “you’re in.” You have a 4.0 and plenty of meaningful ECs so you’re almost guaranteed into UCB/UCLA. It’s pretty hard to judge your chances at Cornell and other private schools.</p>
<p>edenlyly, I apologize for what I said. I guess I misunderstood your post. All this transfering stuff puts too much pressure on me.
I know that privates also request several letters of recommendation, sat, and sat ii scores.
I have three recs so far: one from my physics professor (I’m sure he’d write an oustanding rec for me because I know what he is capable of), the other one from math teacher and AGS advisor (again an outstanding rec), and the last one from my english teacher (she’d be great also), and probably some other recs. I’m planning to take AMATYC this semester and I think scoring high would dramatically increase my chances wouldn’t it?
SAT scores: I’m working my butt off to get good at english sat section (particulary reading) so I’m aiming at somewhat 2300-2350 SAT and 1580-1590 SAT II (Math and Physics are really easy for me)
I also have to take TOEFL for some universities but that wouldn’t be an issue.
Would this information be sufficient to determine my chances at privates?</p>
<p>Btw sorry that I’m writing this much stuff. The thing is that I’m really concerned about it now and it’s been invading my mind since I came to US. Also, wouldn’t outstanding performance in midtier school (ucsc, for instance) outweigh mediocre performance in the top schools (like berkeley…stanford…).?
Thank you for letting me bother you with my problems ^^</p>
<p>And I do realize that this thread is about UC transfer, but still…:)</p>
