<p>Right now I am planning on transfering to UC Berkeley, and I want to do it in 1 year. I have 6 transferable units thus far( I know I am in deep shizz), I'm taking 24 units this semester( its not too bad), what I want to know is if there is anyway I can get units by taking tests( CLEP doesn't count at berkeley) or anything like that, I'm really desperate, and I honestly don't really care about my social life. I know I can handle up to 22 maybe 23 units next semester, but there is no way that I can do 30, is there anything that I can do to transfer next semester? I am desperate!</p>
<p>Why the rush?</p>
<p>dude theres like no way.</p>
<p>ye, no kidding. Talk about delusional thinking haha. Your only human and its only college so don’t burn yourself out mate. I’ve seen way too many fresh high school students thinking they can crash course community college only to fall flat on their face. It’s not worth the extra stress or jeopardizing your transcript and there are tons of UCB potentials WAY ahead of you in academic studies. You may have been a good high school student but even the best ones in the bay area who got into UCB Engineering for example attended a CCC for at least 3, 4, even 5 years before were ready to transfer. The UC’s are sending more California students to CCC first since are tired of high school students here thinking they are so smart and ready for such a large University because were a 4.4 at their local mediocre California HS who herded them through the system. It’s not a pretty sight to witness these 4.4 students get totally eaten up and spit out at UCB ending up with a 1.7 GPA their first year.</p>
<p>The 24 units really aren’t difficult, high school was way tougher. Aren’t there any external ways of getting credit for college? Can’t I take an AP test or something?</p>
<p>In high school I did take AP US History and got a 4 on the test, but I can’t find out how many units I will be awarded for this, if any( I am hoping to transfer to UC Berkeley as a Biology major)</p>
<p>As far as I know all AP tests are in the Spring of 2011. By the time you take them and receive the scores it’ll be mid summer or so. Essentially too late to count.</p>
<p>Like I said before, why the big rush? Just stick it out and do the 2 years. Don’t half ass it. Get it done and do it right.</p>
<p>Well since you didn’t get in as an incoming freshman and already took 6 units you will have to apply as a transfer student. 24 units is a double load so you must not be taking very challenging classes which is fine since are a freshman. It does sound like you are getting ahead of yourself though. I’ve heard many musings and arguments about how easy community college is yet see tons of C’s and D’s on many freshman’s midterms, papers and finals. I’m not trying to judge you but even in the semester system aren’t midterms like next week? On the basis of your displayed maturity level and lack of knowledge about the education system in general you just aren’t ready for UC Berkeley yet. It would be to your greatest advantage to just do the best you can without overloading yourself and keep chipping away at classes. The likelihood of getting into UCB next year even if you do well this year (which just started!) is still slim to none. Just be very particular on the classes you take this year, get involved if you can, and apply next November. Best of luck to you and hope you get in but realize its not a race. UCB would rather you took all you can to prepare yourself because once you are in they want you out in 2 years. There just is little chance a year of a CCC is going to put you in the position of completing requirements and graduating within that 2 year time span.</p>
<p>The rush is that I got in when I applied, but my family couldn’t afford it(financial aid helps, but I still had 7000 left over to pay and loans weren’t an option) so now that I have money from the Cal Grant A that I got this year(can’t use it yet though) i can afford it (and I am working on a lot of scholarships for future years as well). I just want to go to a 4 year University( in this case Berkeley) as soon as I can, and once I get there I will probably slow down and take 3 years to finish up.</p>
<p>You can’t transfer as a sophomore, a transfer is considered junior status. Once you take any college units you have to go all the way and enter through the proper process. It doesn’t matter where you do lower division as its mainly US standardized GE requirements.</p>
<p>What I mean is that I’ll transfer as a junior and do my junior and senior years in three instead of two.</p>
<p>No, you don’t seem to get it, you will more than likely need 3 years at a CCC to get into UCB for just TWO years. It’s a hard 2 year block and they want to make sure you can do it or everyone is going to hate you. Since you or others think I make this stuff up I will assist you in clarifying this issue by posting straight from UCB’s Bio department current website.</p>
<p>Must have earned at least 70 grade points in the lower division requirements for IB, posted to the transcript, at the time of declaration.</p>
<p>Note to Transfer Students:
It is strongly recommended that lower division courses be completed before arriving at Berkeley. This is recommended for three main reasons:</p>
<pre><code>* The College of Letters & Science sets a limit to the number of semesters or units you may accrue after transferring.
- You MUST declare a major by the time you have completed 90 units (including those in progress). This means that transfers, by definition, must declare during their second semester. If the lower division is not completed, it is unlikely you’ll be eligible to declare and meet this deadline.
- Perhaps most importantly, coming to Cal ill-prepared for the major will severely detract from your experience here! Having to complete numerous lower division courses, which are diffcult to enroll in, detracts from the reason you’re here: the amazing upper division classes, as well as opportunities for research and other extracurricular activities. You will only get two years at Cal—make them count!
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<p>That’s going to be nearly impossible. UCB is really tough on pre-reqs, and it’s highly unlikely that your CC is going to offer all of them in one year.</p>
<p>Technically you can transfer in one year. You are not the first to have tried this. Check the thread below.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/820968-official-thread-one-year-transfers.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/820968-official-thread-one-year-transfers.html</a></p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if you only do one year at CCC. Which ever UC you will attend, you will have entered as Junior standing. This means you’ll have to do 2 years.</p>
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<p>I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with your comment. I would say this all depends on the number of prerequisites your major has. I know Business/Economics at UCB and UCLA only requires 6-7 prerequisites. I think this can be very easily accomplished in two years. </p>
<p>I do know there are other majors such as engineering where there are a lot more prerequisites so it’s only natural to take > 2 years to transfer.</p>
<p>Well duh that is because you are talking about Bus/Econ which is not that difficult and is irrelevant to the issue at hand. UCB’s Bio major has more pre-req’s on top of GE. It is true that California HS students have the advantage of applying their HS and AP classes but rarely have I seen any student transfer to UCB in 2 years never mind 1 year. Alot of what I’m starting to see here though is wishful thinking… i.e. I’m going to crash course a CCC and transfer to UCB in a year or how about this one… my GPA is 3.0 currently(fall) but I know I’m going all A’s and raise that to 3.8 by next summer.
I was trained a skeptic so until I see such evidence I’m going to think such a person is just spouting wishful thinking illusions for what? boost of self esteem or raise confidence level? get one’s ego stroked here? denial?</p>
<p>its not impossible. i know someone that transferred to EECS in one year at the age of 17. 24 units is not an impossible courseload at the CCC level. This is especially true if you use online courses since you don’t have to be in class to do the work. In fact, it was easier when i took 23 units at CCC than when i took 13 units at berkeley.</p>
<p>eh anecdotal at best. Just because something is not impossible does not entail it’s not improbable as there are always going to be exceptions to any rule/guideline. Plus I’ve never seen someone who took a double load whose work wasn’t mediocre with lost of BS filler.</p>
<p>It’s not impossible because of the difficulty of having that many units. It’s going to be very difficult to get the classes he needs, especially the ones that require pre-reqs.</p>
<p>That is another reason why I put the idea of certainty into question. Not only is spring schedule even available yet but until the final grades are tallied up and posted then they don’t exist yet and the whole notion is merely absurd. It ends up being close to an Appeal to Ignorance since there is a lack of substantial evidence at this point in time to warrant lifting the burden of proof sufficiently yet.</p>