<p>Transferring from UCSC, accepted to UCSD, UCI, UCD
CS major</p>
<p>@ Midnight</p>
<p>Yeah I am going to appeal…I’ll let you guys know how that goes…and I totally agree…I am thinking about starting up a website/business on the side for UC-UC/4-year college transfers that is similar to assist.org for CCC transfers. ;)</p>
<p>looks like most of the UC-UC transfers were successful at atleast one upper tier UC…good stuff</p>
<p>@ slee0103</p>
<p>GPA: ~3.5
Essays: 8/10
Extra Curricular: Wind Ensemble, volunteer work, econ-focused clubs
Work: Worked for the Disability Resource Center
Prereqs: Most, or all completed.</p>
<p>Rejected.</p>
<p>UCSB –> Berkeley</p>
<p>GPA: 3.94
Major: Chemical Engineering
Prereqs: all completed
EC: Plenty</p>
<p>It’s a bit disheartening to effectively be told that despite all efforts, you’re just not good enough. Aside from an extra 0.06… what more could I really have done? Congratulations to those who were successful.</p>
<p>I’m curious if anyone got into Haas as from another UC?</p>
<p>Rejected
Major: Haas
Current School: UCLA
College GPA: 3.8 Pre-reqs: 3.9
EC: Pretty Decent
Essay: same as above
Pre-Reqs: think i completed, or maybe i am missing one. </p>
<p>Congrats to people who made it. i just wish they would allow qualified uc students to switch schools. i’m sure people are willing to switch between LA and Cal for personal reasons…like what i did…</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>yeah dude…you might have been missing a prereq…nice GPA at UCLA!</p>
<p>@3pac: I’m actually a Chemical Engineer at UCSB (trying to change my major when I transfer though), and I’m really surprised you didn’t get in. There are some courses that UCB requires for Chemical Engineers that UCB did not, like a half year of Biology and a class in Electrical Circuits, and another in Materials. Did you complete those as well?</p>
<p>No, I didn’t complete those three… however I don’t recall seeing any of them listed as required during the application process. I researched it pretty extensively, and I think they were listed as “recommended.” Given that I didn’t even consider transferring until Fall 09, I don’t see how I could possibly have completed those in conjunction with my required curriculum at UCSB… I would’ve had 30+ engineering units in one quarter… which the department doesn’t even allow.</p>
<p>I’m really not sure what went wrong. I didn’t even necessarily plan to attend UCB, I just wanted a benchmark as to how I had improved since my high school rejection. I’m not really sure what more I can do; I guess I’ll never be ‘good enough’ for them. What’s funny is their alumni association, both in HS and now, called my parent (who is a UCB alumnus) asking for donations on the same day as the rejections. You would think they would have more sense than that.</p>
<p>@3pac: I know what you mean. I’m trying to transfer next year, and I looked it up on assist.org, it says that Biology and the others are “required” for regular Chemical Engineering. But really, I won’t be able to do it next year, because like you said, we have a ton of units that we’re required to take. It really sucks, but I think that’s probably why you were denied admission. If I were you, I’d call up the Berkeley admissions officer and ask what went wrong, just in case.</p>
<p>anyone know the protocol of withdrawing from our current school without any negative consequences/fees/etc?</p>
<p>it’d be particularly helpful (to me) if you’re transferring out of UCSB to another school. thanks!</p>
<p>i got a question for us UC to UC transfer students,
how do we go about sending a letter of reciprocity? if we talk to our counselors or whomever, will they know what we’re talking about? does anyone know how to do this and when the deadline to mail them in is?</p>
<p>Go to your school website and try doing a search for the letter of reciprocity form. Sometimes its online and you just have to print it out, complete it, and then send it to your registrar. If it’s not online, go talk with one of your counselors/advisors and they should be able to give it to you.
A few months ago, I went to one of my academic advisors at UCSC and asked her about the letter of reciprocity. She just printed out the request form for me and said it’s also available online.</p>
<p>thanks midnightgolfer, i just asked my counselor about it and she said she’d take care of it.
now that i’ve heard back from everywhere,
Accepted: UCSC, UCI, UCSD, UCLA
Rejected: Berkeley
SIR: UCLA
Currently at: UC Merced</p>
<p>Hello! I’m a long time lurker, first time poster looking for advice.</p>
<p>I was wondering if it is a bad idea (or impossible) to use AP credit to complete pre-reqs?</p>
<p>I don’t know what you are implying by a “bad idea”, but UCs accept AP credit for pre-reqs. I used my Calculus BC AP and Microecon AP for pre-reqs when transferring UC-UC.</p>
<p>Current Freshman at UC Irvine. By the end of the year I’ll have roughly 69 quarter units. I’m in the campuswide honors program and my gpa is right around a 3.55. UCI doesn’t have a Communications major, and thus I would like to transfer to UCSB, UCSD, or UCLA. Would it be a bad idea to ‘withdraw’ from UCI temporarily for a couple of quarters, and take classes at a local CC instead? It is a lot cheaper, especially when you consider housing (living at home vs UCI housing). I was thinking I could withdraw, take classes at my local cc, then reapply (my reasons would be financial so I doubt they would not allow it), and at the same time be applying to an aforementioned UC.</p>
<p>Depending on the terms of UCI’s withdrawal process, that would actually be a good idea. The only issue I would see you running into is completing your GE’s. Of course you don’t have to complete your GE’s, but it’s always a good idea to have them completed before you transfer. I bring this up because if you didn’t finish UCI’s reciprocity, I don’t know if there’s a way to fully complete those courses at a CC (there could be a way but I don’t know). </p>
<p>There are plenty of people on these forums who left their UC after a year and went to a CC to get CC-priority, so maybe try to contact them to see what their insight is. Also counselors at your local CC have probably seen this before, so asking them is also a good idea.</p>
<p>Thanks MidnightGolfer! I was worried that not having an actual grade calculated into my GPA to demonstrate that I know the material would look bad. But all the UCs are pretty nice about AP credit.</p>
<p>Technically it’s an actual grade, but it doesn’t actually calculate in your GPA. If you have to declare your major and you are using an AP score as one of those pre-reqs, then they usually follow AP score of 5 = A(4.0), Score of 4 = B(3.0). Usually you only see this when a school says “To declare, you need a gpa of combined gpa 2.8 in Course#1 and Course#2.” Otherwise, UCs just accept AP credit without actually giving letter grades for them.</p>