<p>fei, sorry if I seemed harsh I didn't realize that you two had a history =) Good luck with your transfer</p>
<p>yea I guess I have to move on...I am freshman so I still have this semester, summer and the next fall to bring up my GPA...</p>
<p>fei, you and fyad don't know jack about me. Yes, I did get Stanford and Cal for Chemical Engineering. It doesn't mean that I accepted their offer. I merely told them my stats and if I got in or not. I DID NOT MENTION IF I ACCEPTED THEIR OFFER. I had to continue one more year at a community college because both schools did not offer me a complete scholarship. SO I TRIED AGAIN THIS YEAR......DON'T ACCUSE ME OF LYING WHEN I DID NOT LIE. I wouldn't lie in a forum just to get recognition. I am trying again this year so that I can hopefully get a scholarship to one of those schools. Over and out.</p>
<p>um...mosharma...let's see</p>
<p>this is your post from </p>
<p>"Hi everyone. I am a prospective transfer applicant (Fall 05) to UCB, UCLA and UCD. I have spent 3 years at DVC community college. I would like to know what my chances are for a Chemical Engineering major.....</p>
<p>(Stats)</p>
<ul>
<li>CC GPA: 3.71</li>
<li>Have completed all the required lower division courses (Math, Physics, Chem, Programming, Engineering and English)</li>
<li>Member of the DVC United Engineers Society</li>
<li>Member of DVC Honor Society Alpha Gamma Sigma</li>
<li>DVC student council representative for the Muslim Student Association (MSA)</li>
<li>Certified Tax Preparer for the East Bay County</li>
<li>Volunteer at the Walnut Creek Alzheimer and Homeless Centers</li>
<li>Young Adults Teacher at the Sai Organization (Walnut Creek)</li>
<li>Chevron/Taxaco Intern for the upcoming summer (05). </li>
</ul>
<p>I explained in detail about my EC's on my UC application and also in my personal statement. Also, as a prospective chemical engineering major, I described in great detail how my ambition for the major was created and how I plan to use my knowledge to better serve the society of California. </p>
<p>Please, any comments would be of great help. Thanks!"</p>
<p>then at this thread <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=465466#post465466%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=465466#post465466</a></p>
<p>"Unless you have some ground breaking discovery in the engineering sciences, I will recommend you to look at other schools than MIT. I applied to MIT, UC Berkeley, Caltech and Stanford for engineering. Had a 4.0 transfer GPA but got rejected from MIT and Caltech. Got into UC Berkeley and Stanford though as a transfer student for Chemical Engineering. IN OTHER WORDS, BE REALISTIC ABOUT YOUR CHANCES"</p>
<p>so basically you got into Cal and stanford for chem engr. (with a supposedly 4.0 GPA)...but didn't go....and now you are applying to Cal again with a 3.71 GPA for chem engr....I am going to let the other members deduce the conclusions</p>
<p>well, if you think that whatever i said is a lie, then there is nothing that i can do to help you</p>
<p>CC physics is way harder than regular university physics. In my junior year of high school, i took physics in CC. It was a small class, only 40 students at first and dropped to 14 by the end of the semester. I eneded up getting a C. the tests were insanely hard and you had nothing to base it on. In college, I took the same physics class again but this time it was a larger class with 200+ students. He gave out sample tests before midterms which made it a lot easier because you had a better idea of what is gong to be on the test. Plus w/ largeer classes, the curve helps a lot too. on my last midterm, i got an A for getting 73/100. class average was like 48 or something and 85+ was over a 100%. </p>
<p>It could be that as a highschool student, i just found that class to be difficult, but personally i think college physics was much easier than the CC one.</p>
<p>but it depends on the teacher...we used to have this professor in IVC whose physics class was extremely easy...but his class got filled up before even the registered date...but he left now so now we only have this teacher who I took it with..and this guy is seriously a well...you know...he is like 80 years old and I think he lost all interest in teaching...he should just retire.</p>
<p>yah thats true... some profs can be pretty hard.</p>
<p>physics is one of the most unfair class ever.</p>
<p>you can study all day and F it because you studied wrong thing.</p>
<p>here is a tip: do everyproblem in the book. most professors pull stuff from there.</p>
<p>haha blackdream...I thought so too...I did every problem in the back of my book too but the professor makes up his own problem and none of them came even close to the problem's difficulty level in the back of the book. his problems are like 100x harder....but yea it is an unfair class...I remember one time my friend came in the class with bloodshot eyes...he said that he had been studying till 2AM all weekend for the test we were having...he ended up with a C- and he was a smart kid was in calc III</p>
<p>about that study to 2am thing</p>
<p>my very first math exam, offered by a super hard math teacher, i studied till I bloodshot, and got 64.</p>
<p>the last exam i took from him, i got 100 because i slept 10 hours that day.</p>
<p>your body study during sleep.</p>