Sophomore transfer from Private School to Berkeley EECS?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>So basically because of both financial and personal reasons, I'm trying to transfer from my school on the East Coast to Berkeley EECS. I'm a freshman atm and understand that Berkeley traditionally does not accept sophomore transfers, but has this ever been done before? </p>

<p>If it helps, I have enough AP credits to qualify as a junior year transfer. I also went to high school in California, and was accepted as a freshman to Berkeley L&S. </p>

<p>Just trying to see whether I should wait for decisions to come out or forget about it/go on with my life in my present school.</p>

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<p>You must be a junior to transfer and you must complete most of the prereqs for your major along with the RC, QR, FL, and breadth requirements.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response. I have my RC QR FL satisfied with AP credits. Breadth requirements… well I suppose I didn’t take any classes that count as upper div. ? I also have 60+ units :O</p>

<p>To be honest, if I apply as a Junior I think I will have more units than allowed for Junior transfers :&lt;/p>

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<p>AP credits do not count towards your unit limit.</p>

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<p>Ohhh okay that makes so much more sense.</p>

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<p>Why did you go to Dartmouth for engineering or CS?</p>

<p>If your interest is mainly CS rather than EE, you can also consider L&S CS. The following describes the requirements for EECS (B.S. degree) and L&S CS (BA degree):</p>

<p>[Degree</a> Programs | EECS at UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/education/degrees.shtml]Degree”>Academics | EECS at UC Berkeley)</p>

<p>Note that if you transfer as a junior, you are expected to graduate in 4 semesters. Both the College of Engineering and College of Letters and Science have limitations on going beyond that.</p>

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<p>I procrastinated pretty hard on my UC apps and ended up not having time to write a Why Engineering essay, so I applied L&S thinking that I’d probably get rejected if I went for EECS. When decisions came out, I thought I’d have more options going to D because I heard transferring to EECS from L&S would be near impossible anyway. </p>

<p>I’ll see when decisions come out. In the meantime, if anybody else did something similar, please share your experience!</p>

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<p>Yes, switching from L&S to EECS would likely be very competitive. But if your interest is CS, you could have just gone into L&S to declare L&S CS after completing the prerequisites.</p>

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<p>What you probably want to do is figure out which Dartmouth courses map to the lower division courses for the EECS and L&S CS majors at Berkeley and make sure that you take them. This should be relatively straightforward for math and physics, but CS and EE courses are often organized differently at different schools, so figuring out the mapping may be difficult.</p>