<p>Does Berkeley ever release a "Profile of Admitted Transfer Students by Major" like UCLA? Or anything simliar? I just want to see what the average GPA of accepted/applied students and admissions stats etc...</p>
<p>This is UCLA...
Profile</a> of Admitted Transfer Students by Major, Fall 2009 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions</p>
<p>Bump. This is a great question.</p>
<p>man…it is sooooo much easier to get into top schools as a transfer. some of those stats are crazy.</p>
<p>SHH don’t tell the others! Word’ll catch on lmao (it’s like the secret you hope high school seniors won’t find out about.)</p>
<p>It’s easier as a transfer but not by that much. Seriously, in high school just take 5 or so AP classes and get above a 3.8 unweighted, get a 2100+ SAT, take 2 SATII tests and score 750+, and do 2-3 strong clubs/sports and you are in. My younger cousin is applying for schools and did that, and currently has interviews lined up for harvard, princeton and upenn. He has a full ride at Cal because of a grant (he is low income). For myself, in ccc I need to get a 4.0, get 2-3 strong ECs, and an internship for an impacted major such as business in order to look competitive. </p>
<p>Edit: After typing all that I change my mind, it is way harder to get into a top school as a high school student. All those standardized tests really suck.</p>
<p>yeah…if just for getting to forgo the tests…it is WAAAAAY easier!</p>
<p>I don’t think test scores are a huge factor in gaining admission to UCs as a freshman. There was a number of students in my graduating class who were accepted to both UCB and UCLA with 2s, 3s and 4s on their AP tests and 1700-1900 on the SAT. They had great GPAs, of course, but I was pretty surprised.</p>
<p>All you can do is divide people into two groups, the not good enough’s, and the good enough’s. The application process is not put in place to find the highest scoring students, it’s put in place to predict which students will succeed at that school and beyond. Achievement and standardized scoring have zero correlation. So up to a certain point, grades start mattering less and other aspects more. High scores will not get you into the best school because colleges know that high scores do not correlate with future achievement. This is why the personal statement even exists. I think if you just show that you are obsessively interested in something, anything, it says a lot about you. If the college has the resources to feed your obsession, then they are producing someone who can achieve something. At least they hope.</p>
<p>^ ? </p>
<p>Put down the pipe…vintij</p>
<p>or pass it. <em>ahem</em></p>
<p>i hella want to see one for berkeley too, but i dont think that they publish that information. the best i can find is statfinder and that isnt that helpful (to me atleast).</p>
<p>I’m serious. Everyone you have ever known to get into a top school was passionate about one thing. Schools are useless unless they can give you the resources to build on that passion, and eventually create a sort of experiment. Every admission is an experiment/testament to the quality of education at that institution, which is why they always follow up on alumni and what they are doing in the job market. Colleges want people with the perfect mixture of practical and analytical knowledge. In other words, all the intelligence in the world means nothing if that intelligence is not used as a tool, or applied to the real world. The main point is that all colleges want someone who will succeed beyond undergraduate studies because it is a testament to the quality of education as I said before. They WANT you to do post grad. They WANT to accept people who WANT and are WILLING to do something with the skills they have learned. Get it? You may disagree with me, but it is a good way to predict who gets in vs who doesn’t.</p>
<p>I dont get it…</p>
<p>I completely agree with vintij. The top universities are looking for those students that will be successful later on in life. Those students with specific passions and plans for their future have a better chance at being admitted than those that don’t. I read on the Stanford board about a girl with a 3.4 W GPA getting into Stanford and how she wrote her essay on her obsessive passion for running. She was admitted, to her incredible surprise, and attends now. Of course, this is only one example, but it goes to show that having a passion can help. </p>
<p>GPA’s and SAT’s are always important…minus the SAT’s for transfers lol but a person with a burning passion for something can definitely pad one’s application.</p>
<p>That’s exactly right. Just having a passion, literally any passion, shows the adcoms that your not just wondering around school aimlessly. It shows that you have a foundation. Eventually they want you to find your passion and pursue it with their resources. So many studies have shown that higher GPA and higher test scores do NOT correlate with future success in life. Adcoms know this, and that’s what they have in mind when making admission decisions. As Gladwell said, “finding the top boy is tough when you have a room full of clever boys” or something along those lines. He meant that accepting the top 20% of the top 20% of a pool is useless when everyone in a particular pool is equally capable of the same success. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and now runs Microsoft, Einstein failed exams and hardly went to class, the man with the highest IQ in the nation (forgot his name) is a bouncer in a trailer park town. Two of the three had the passion, the last had the brain nimbleness, but no passion.</p>
<p>I think that the above stated points are very good one, and i hope that they were made explicite in your essays…you have passions, AND the verifiable history of academic success…therefore you deserve a spot! i feel that this is part of the problem for many students…they are simply “going to college” with no concern for what that means or with out any personal and passionate connection to what they are doing there. What a waste of time!
well…i hope we all do well and that our passions drive us to the top</p>
<p>on a related note…in the “picture yourself at Berkeley” vid, UCB is termed “an engine of social mobility”…with that in mind, I would like to ask the more passionate of you hope your affiliation with ucb will mobilize in YOU. what is your specific plan? what do you want o do?</p>
<p>for my own self; i am very passionate about cultural relativity and issues faced by our increasingly global culture. How can we use technology and viral information sharing to adress issues of cultural violance, dehumanization, and to break down the omnipresence of the “self” and “other” dichotomy. So, i am studying comparative lit Arabic/French/Hebrew and hope to gain an understanding of the historical relationship between these phonic-cultures through their written works as a source of collective memory. I would like to minor in Peace and Conflict resolution studies, then go on to earn a Doctorate in this field. this would put me in a place where my ideas would hold some currency as a consultant on related issues. I have been looking into companies and organizations whom I can identify as potential employers… companies like DPK consulting, and related orgs. </p>
<p>i wouldnt mind teaching either…and hope to always write and publish on these topics…maybe start my own program…</p>
<p>Passion! lets hear it people!</p>
<p>but…before any of this…i need to find the spell check button on this forum…</p>
<p>@ sarah: I think your passion for global studies and identifying/solving the polarization of the self in relation to others is amazing. I also want to minor in Peace & Conflict Studies. It seems like a totally interesting minor. I saw a few videos with students that went all over the world and I hear the teachers are amazing. </p>
<p>As for my career, I want to be a child psychiatrist. As a former high school dropout and someone who had extreme anxiety, I feel like I can really empathize and be compassionate toward those kids that are going through the strenuous pressures and tribulations of growing up. I want to be able to counsel others, create plans for them, use medication (if absolutely needed), publish works in the field, and also want to teach! I would like to teach both at the CC I’m at now and inspire those that haven’t always enjoyed school and make it better, and also at the university I go to (hopefully Cal). </p>
<p>It’d be awesome if we could actualize these plans in the future. But for now, one step at a time… Come on Cal, let’s mobilize.</p>
<p>Holy crap! I just found this thread! Thanks so much emil for that profile! For my major, I am WAY competitive for UCLA! woohoooo!!!</p>
<p>Or at least pretty competitive - 3.5 is the average admitted GPA for my major, and I’m at 3.8</p>