<p>I got into UCD this year. i was wondering how i'd fare as a transfer to CAL in maybe soph/junior year? i've heard some ppl say that it's easier to go from JC to UC then form UC to UC. that seems odd.</p>
<p>It may seem odd, but it's true. That's how the system is set up. If you really want to go to Berkeley, it makes more sense to attend a <em>California</em> community college and then transfer. Going to Davis and hoping to transfer to Berkeley is a poor plan, it is very hard to transfer that way.</p>
<p>I would add, CCC students receive priority in the admission process over all other applicants.</p>
<p>but say we get like 4.0 and do lots of extra curricular. would that help?</p>
<p>ECs do not matter to the same extent as they do for a freshman applicant; they are still important, but it is possible, in certain circumstances, to be accepted at UCB with negligible ECs as a transfer.</p>
<p>Secondly, for transfer applicants, GPA is the overriding factor, provided you complete all your major prereqs. Though, that then leads to another problem with UC to UC transfers; at CCCs the major prereqs are all articulated soundly, in the sense that all the UC campuses have agreed upon what CCC courses transfer for a given UC course, ridding the process of all obfuscation in terms of course selection and fulfilling prerequisites. At a UC campus, there are courses which fulfill major prereqs, but they do not articulate to other UC campuses in a concrete manner, as is the case with CCC -- this can lead an applicant to be unable to complete certain prereqs (thus causing ineligibility) either through their confusion with the system, or out of a lack of agreement between UCB and the other UC campus regarding a given course's transferability.</p>
<p>Transferring from one UC campus to UCB is not impossible, it is just significantly more difficult than from a CCC. I would, personally, recommend completing your under-division work at a CCC and from there transferring to UCB for (1) the substantially lower costs and (2) the maximum priority acheived as a CCC student; but, in the end it's your decision.</p>
<p>Seriously, if you really want to go to Berkeley, go to a CCC. Going Davis and working hard, hoping to transfer, is not a good plan. Going to Davis, working hard, enjoying yourself, and taking a shot at transferring is a perfectly nice plan. But if you have your heart set on Berkeley, you shouldn't enroll in Davis, you should go to CCC.</p>
<p>kenf1234, i'm probably gonna do the latter, work hard and maybe hope to gget in. i'm out of state and i rly dont want to go to a CCC.</p>