UC Berkeley Fall 2020: Transfer Thread

@snakejyder @Ohm888 @cccstudent32 The College of Chemistry sent me a form (it appears on the application portal page) titled “Major Prerequisites”. It requires me to fill out the grades I have received for my major prerequisite courses and gives me the option to write IP or PL (in-progress/planned) for the courses within my major that I plan to take next semester. Is this the same as TAU for Berkeley? If so, for those of you who have not received the form it may be that your individual college (College of L&S, College of Natural Resources, etc) has not sent it out yet. I don’t know what the Gen Ed/Breadth page is - I don’t think that is coming up for me.

@collegeboundx i got the same thing as you, but for college of natural sciences. assist shows nothing for my school and berkeleys articulations so im not too sure how i would even articulate my courses to berkeley’s requirements.

@uclaking Assist isn’t updated for my school either. Try changing the academic year - for me, 2016-2017 is the last fully updated academic year for my major. This link indicates that 2016-2017 is the last updated year for most majors because the website has been undergoing development ever since. Try clicking on Berkeley, then selecting your community college and major and hopefully the agreement will come up.
https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/transfer-requirements/preparing-to-transfer/major-preparation-assist-updates.html

You can also try sending an email or meeting with a counselor to confirm before you submit it. I don’t think most of the requirements will have changed in the past few years but you can always check to make sure.

Edit: When you click on Berkeley (which leads to the link below)
https://apply.berkeley.edu/register/transfer_guides
it states that “…if there is no major agreement on the new site, or Guidelines available below, refer to the 2016-17 agreement.”

@collegeboundx you might be right.

@collegeboundx i asked my counselor about it and he said that berkeley looks at whatever you have and decides whether or not it articulates. its weird in my instance because all the other UCs have two particular bio courses that transfer as their bio, but berkeley requires weird bio classes from my cc according to assist. since my counselor told me cal is a case by case basis, i just applied to berkeley hoping for the best. honestly expecting a rejection

Has anyone applying for the College of Letters & Science received any forms other than the Gen Ed/Breadth?

@smallkiwi I have yet to receive any additional forms outside of the Gen Ed/Breadth.

@smallkiwi @snakejyder same here

CC: Diablo Valley College
Major: Economics
Applied to: UCB(Econ), UCSB(Econ/Accounting TAG), UCLA(Bus-Econ), UCD(Man Econ), and UT Austin(Econ)
GPA: 4.0 all the way around
Coursework: IGETC done by Spring 2020 and all major prereqs completed by Fall 2019.
Extra/Work: Working at Diablo Valley College Math Lab as an Intern-Tutor and working for DVC Dev Ed Department as Embedded Tutor in the classroom.
Essays: Talked about hardwork, dedication, and staying the course; specifically how this attitude eliminates excuses and makes your performance all about you.

So today some of the Freshman applicants were accepted to UC Berkeley with the Regent’s scholarship even though the rest of the admissions decisions don’t come out for another month and a half. I would assume that they don’t do anything like this for transfer students?

@uctransfer2020 I suppose its possible but I didn’t see any mention of this when browsing the 2018 and 2019 UCB transfer threads.

No, they don’t.

Major: Political Econ
GPA: 3.71
ECs: President Model UN, UN Association Board, 2 internships, international volunteering, honor society.
Major Prep done, IGETC done in Spring
TAP

UC / Major GPA: 3.8 & 4.0
IGETC / Major Prereqs: Done Fall 2019
CCC Transfer
Female / 26 years old
Major: Social Welfare
Essays: 7 - 9 out of 10 - talked about personal experience with the growing housing crisis in CA, briefly touched on being raised by cocaine addicts, how job experiences led me to realize education is the key to a more ideal career path, emphasized desire to assist underserved populations.
EC - local animal shelters, started working full time and moved out immediately after high school
Good luck all!

@california203 We meet again! ? Wondering how many schools are on both our applications list.

SFSU, UCD, UCB, UCSD, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Stanford
Accepted: SFSU, UCD (TAG)

Received the following email yesterday morning:

"We are in the process of reviewing your application. Before we can complete our review and reach an
admission decision, we need an explanation for the gaps in your educational history. Please provide
chronological details of your activities during the following time period:

06/01/2013 to 08/01/2014: During this time did you attend any college/university anywhere in the world? if
yes, please respond by uploading a PDF copy of your unofficial transcript for our review."

I wasn’t enrolled in college at that time because of work/moving a lot (4-5 times in one year), which I thought I mentioned in the actual application. Maybe I’m panicking over nothing, but is this bad? If I already mentioned it and the UC is asking again, do they not believe me?

@theladykatie Is it possible that you might not have covered that time period in your UC application? I had a few gaps due to having to work and necessary courses not offered at night or online. But I had to provide an explanation for each individual gap.

Can you login to your UC application and double check? Either way I don’t think its cause for worry. Just send a brief explanation and you should be ok.

They often re-ask. It means nothing.

@SatanFlower69 I’m planning on applying to a lot within the next month or two.

UCs: UCSB (TAG), UCLA, UCB
OOS: NYU, UVA, BC, BU, UNC-Chapel Hill, Northeastern, Villanova, American, UW-Madison, GW

Major: Political Economics
GPA: UC Transfer 3.63
Prerequisites: all completed with a 3.67 GPA
ExtraCirc: Intern at an investment firm for more than 1 year, 12 hours a week only. President of Economics Club
CC: highly ranked in the state, hope it helps

I’m probably right at the cut off for the GPA ?