UC Berkeley Fall 2020: Transfer Thread

Hi, I would love to ask you a few questions! Could you send me a message? For some reason I cannot pm you. Thank you.

Could any TAP or alumni help me with revising my essays a little bit.

GPA: 3.97 / 4.00

Extracurriculars: Honors program (will have completed 18 units by the time I graduate & will have Honors Scholar distinction), Toastmasters (VP of public relations)

Job/Work Experience: Tutoring in math, biology, chemistry, and English at my CC campus tutoring center

Personal Statements are about challenges growing up Pakistani in America, my experience with journalism in high school, my experiences in community college after having faced a financial barrier that prevented me from attending a 4-year university straight out of college. Required question is about how growing up with an autistic sibling has piqued my interest in Psychology.

Applied for Financial Aid?: no
Intended Major: Psychology
State (if domestic applicant): California
School Type: community college
Gender: F

Applying to UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC, and TAGged to UCD
Also will be applying to a few CSUs and maaaaybe some privates. Not sure

Wrong thread for this question.
Also, for the record, the answer is yes. Even for transfers.

They actually just changed the requirements.

See: https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/07/07/stanford-to-stop-requiring-act-sat-essay-scores/

Hey Everyone!

Second post here!

GPA: 3.7
Major GPA: 3.9
Major: Social Welfare
IGETC: Completed at the end of this quarter

Work Experience: Held several management/operational jobs for small to midsize businesses
Extracurriculars: Does having 5 kids under the age of 9 count as ā€œextracurricularā€?
Volunteer/Community Service: No time for it independently, but Iā€™ve organized multiple volunteering ā€œteam-buildingā€ experiences for my current role in which we volunteered as a collective unit to various family shelters in SF

Income Bracket: Mid
Gender: F

Personal Statements: Done
UCB TAP: Yes, a member. I didnā€™t even know it existed until I met with the UCB rep through my CC and he invited me to join the program

Hooks:

  • Returning student
  • URM x 2
  • Managed 3 consecutive semesters of a 4.0 GPA while balancing 5 kids, a full time job and a full time courseload
  • Overcame an eating disorder and an unhealthy relationship with alcohol to improve my self-esteem and give me the encouragement I needed to attempt a formal education

Strengths:

  • Driven, will be enrolled in 3 different CCā€™s to meet the requirements of my Social Justice AA (2 required courses are not offered via my primary CC during the Winter 2020 quarter, could be offered Spring 2020, but Iā€™d rather not take my chances)
  • Strong essays, writing has always been a mentionable skill of mine

Weaknesses:

  • Math (taking Stats this quarter, might have to trade a kid for a B-)
  • Many Wā€™s and 2 Fā€™s (1 is non-transferrable) from when I was a first time CC student over 10 years ago
  • Scattered course of completed study as I changed my AA many times

Applying To:

  • UCB
  • UCD
  • Santa Clara University
  • USF

hey everyone,

Iā€™m currently a junior transfer at cal majoring in econ and wanted to let you know if you had any questions feel free to ask. I know this process is kinda overwhelming and stressful but I remember this site really helped me. Good luck everyone.

major: environmental science
GPA: 4.0
Part of honors program, will have all major prerequisites done by the Spring.
extracurriculars: started a tutoring company for economically disadvantaged kids taking the SAT, religious school teacher, volunteer at hospital, work as a scribe, in the process of collecting data for 2 research papers. others but will take too long to list lol.
Essays: ehhh maybe like 8/10, solid but not anything crazy
Cons: Only applying with 1 year at CCC (16 units in summer+ high school, 19 in Fall, 24 scheduled for spring)

Good luck to everyone! Hope you all make it where you want to go!

Anyone planning to apply as a chemistry/chemical biology major?

Major: English
GPA: 4.0
[ *] Extracurriculars: Gay-Straight Alliance for several years (one year as secretary), one of the founding members of the English club (secretary), member of the Scoeity of Childrenā€™s Book Writers and Illustrators, and I write novels.
[ *] Job/Work Experience: English tutor (16 hrs/wk), ESL coach (3hrs/wk), both through my school, plus a ton of odd freelance jobs in graphic design and writing. I also worked Uber for years and had random seasonal and summer jobs when I wasnā€™t in school.
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: None, really. I did organize a shirt sale to benefit a charity to the tune of $1500 or so back in 2017.
[ *] Personal Statement: They were checked over by half my collegeā€™s English department, so hopefully pretty good.

[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[ *] School Type: CCC
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): low-income

[ *] Strengths: gpa, proven interest in major
[ *] Weaknesses: several Ws on transcript from when my cousin died (she fell off a cliff and drowned, and I dropped out for a while to do therapyā€¦ went into it in my ā€œgreatest challengeā€ PIQ)

Major: ECON / Bus Admin
GPA: 4.0
[ *] Extracurriculars ā€“ Stocks Club (President), Business Society (Council Rep), Inter-Club Council (VP), HTCC research conf presenter, BHC research symposium presenter, student leadership institute member, CCCSAA conf student attendee, random scholarships recipient
[ *] Job/Work Experience ā€“ Accounting job (24/wk)
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: ā€“ N/A, unless unpaid work counts, then previously had internships for a financial services company and another accounting internship
[ *] Personal Statement ā€“ Only reviewed by 2-3 counselors and a college representative

[ *] Demographics: F/17/
[ *] School Type: CCC
[ *] Income Bracket: Too high to qualify tbh
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid? ā€“ No

[ *] Strengths: gpa, extracurricular, PIQ (I talked about leadership experience, leaving high school early, research conference)
[ *] Weaknesses: Required PIQ question, burning interest in my major but not an extraordinary ā€œpassionā€ (Iā€™m afraid this may show in the essay), declared major may not line up with applied major
Applying to ā€“ UCB, UCLA, UCI, UCSB (I tagged Accounting/Econ), UCSD

QUESTION: Can I apply for transfer to Bus Admin if Iā€™m an Econ major? I donā€™t think thereā€™s any issue but Iā€™m second guessing myself right now.

Good luck everyone!

So I got a 4 on the calc bc exam. I got to skip math 1a and 1b at my local CCC which directly articulate to calc 1 and calc 2. However at Berkeley and la you need to get a 5 to skip their calc1 and calc 2 classes. If Im applying this year as a math transfer into letters and sciences, will they say Iā€™m missing the 1b calc pre req and reject me?

Intended Major: Political Science

GPA: 4.0

IGETC: Will finish this Fall

Major Prep: Will finish last class in the Spring

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): AGS

Job/Work Experience: Veteran, and had started classes while still on active duty. Currently working a part-time job as of now.

Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at Vet Center

Personal Statement: 7/10? Hard to gauge but I always have something better to say after the fact so not sure

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes

State: Considered resident in CC but was informed I may not be considered instate for UCā€™s

School Type: CCC

Gender: M

Income Bracket: Low

Hooks: Non-traditional, military service? Not sure how much that weighs on a college app tbh.

Strengths: GPA and TAP certified for UCLA

Weaknesses: Lack of extracurriculars

Applying to what schools? CSULA, UCR, UCI, UCSD, UCLA, UCB, USC

Good luck, everyone! All of your accomplishments are seriously impressive, I hope I can join you all at a 4 year next Fall.

hello! i just sent in my application for fall 2020 as an econ major. how has your experience been so far? what was your GPA (if you donā€™t mind!) thanks so much and huge congrats!

Hello, I recently submitted my apps but although Iā€™m not the strongest applicant out there, maybe admissions might get my application last and decide to randomly let me in lol. Anyways, here are my stats below:

Transfer from CC with two associates;(Psychology, Behavioral Science)
Major: Psychology/ Neuroscience
GPA: 3.54 Major GPA: 4.0, on my application I explain the reasons for my lesser performance grades.
TAP: No
IGETC-Almost complete
EC- Car/Motorcycle flipper, assistant mechanic at a local shop, work for Macyā€™s Loss prevention team, volunteered at senior care facilities, also part of the volunteering community at an Indian temple and lastly, part of Psychology club on campus.

Essays: I think they were somewhat strong, wrote about a terrible illness I had to overcome and correlated that to how I eventually want to become more evolved with the neuroscience aspect.

Applied to: UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UCR, UCSC and a couple Cal States.
I bid good luck to other applicants in hopes of getting in!

:slight_smile:

Hello.

My intended major is physics but I only completed the first course (mechanics) at an OOS CC last year and the remaining three physics courses are planned at a CCC this year. Will it hurt my chance?

Iā€™ll get my all math courses and IGETC completed by end of Spring quarter.

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Please leave ethnicity out of your stats. The UCs DO NOT consider it and there have been derogatory comments in the past - either you got in due to ethnicity or you didnā€™t get in due to ethnicity. I will delete all references to it. Thanks all and GOOD LUCK!

MAP is up, it says decisions should be out ā€œon or before April 17th 2020ā€?

hello everyone,
I just checked my MAP and see that my application was received and is under review. but there is also a message that says my SAT/ACT (i took the ACT) was received. i applied to UCB in high school years ago (2017), so it says they received my score from the same test date.

do they factor in ACT/SAT for transfers?? iā€™m just confused as to why this is even showing up on the app even though I did not take further action on the transfer app to even mention the ACT/SAT.

maybe there is just something i am missing or freaking out about lol. thank you !!