<p>I'm currently a sophomore in Civil Engineering at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign, and am applying to transfer to Berkeley's Industrial Engineering program in Fall 2011. Any advice on the application?
My college GPA is 3.8
Extracurricular activities: Founder of a club, and an active member of two others
Might get a research position this semester, but it's not confirmed, so count it as 'no' right now.
ACT 28: Math:34 Eng:29 Reading:23 Sci:24
I'm not a US native, so my reading skills aren't that good, and as the science part required a lot of reading, i bombed it too :( So ACT isn't very impressive, except the math part :)</p>
<p>High School GPA Unweighted: 4.3/4.0 Weighted: 3.78/4.0 Should I include both on the application?
Class Rank: 13/428 97th Percentile</p>
<p>What do you people think, am I a good fit? Please please please, any comments or advice will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>You have an impressive academic record but the problem is that all of the University of California campuses give highest priority to transfers from California Community Colleges and some priority to transfer applicants from other UC campuses. They rarely accept transfers from non-UC four year colleges who have the lowest priority.</p>
<p>It does not hurt to apply. The acceptance rate for OOS 4 year college transfer applicants has traditionally been only about 10% but you do have a couple of things in your favor. Your college GPA is high enough that it might put you in that 10% of applicants that are admitted. Also, the UCs are under tremendous financial pressure because of the California budget crisis and this has made them much more receptive to out of state applicants who will have to pay non-resident tuition which is about $26,000 per year compared to about $11,000 for California residents.</p>
<p>Thanks guys. I hope I get some grants/scholarships though. It’s good to hear that they don’t give much importance to test scores! I’ll just need to write a nice essay now.</p>
<p>If you were to be accepted at a UC such as Berkeley do not expect any grants or scholarships from the state of California or the UC. The only reason schools like UC Berkeley are becoming more receptive to non-residents of California is to collect the much higher tuition such students have to pay. They want students who will pay non-resident tuition out of their own pockets so that UC Berkeley takes in more cash. Charging students non-resident tuition and then extending financial aid to the non-resident student to cover the increased tuition would not put any more money into Berkeley’s pockets. Increasing the amount of cash they take in is the sole objective when accepting more out of state students now that the state has reduced spending on California’s public universities.</p>
<p>Yeah as it’s been previously said, you’ll have a tough time because CC/UC transfers get priority, then out of state CCers, then out of state 4 year transfers go dead last. </p>
<p>You have a chance, but you’re in the back of the line.</p>
<p>Luckily, this state is beyond broke and we’ve been increasing out of state transfer acceptance due to the higher fees they pay.</p>
<p>Actually the out of state 4 year college transfer acceptance rate is about 10% so they are not last in line. Last in line are CSU transfer applicants to UCs since The acceptance rate for transfer applicants from CSUs to UCs is only 6%.</p>