<p>I have a 4.0 at my community college, have finished all my major prerequisites but one (will take in the fall), and want to try applying to Haas.
I was reading the class profile for Haas, and saw that only 485/1508 were even eligible to apply for Haas.
Berkeley's website says:
* 1023 applicants did not show planned completion of the admission requirements and were considered ineligible. Of the 485 eligible applicants, 91 (19%) were offered admission. </p>
<p>How do I make sure that I am an eligible applicant? I don't want to make any mistakes while applying this year...
I am also a 1 year transfer, so I'm pretty confused about this process lol</p>
<p>You may want to double-check what I’m about to say with a Berkeley representative(They should be visiting your school frequently—especially in the fall), but I believe that admission requirements they’re talking about are the completion of the 60+ units necessary for transfer by the end of spring, <em>possibly</em> the completion of IGETC or Berkeley GE requirements by the end of spring, if either of those apply, and the completion of your major pre-reqs by the end of Fall.</p>
<p>If you think you’ll complete all of those requirements on time, I believe you’d be considered to have completed the requirements to which they were referring, but again, double-check this with a Berkeley representative or something.</p>
<p>Hopefully, a successful Haas transfer can answer your question better than I did.</p>
<p>^ @Cayton I’ve never had a Berkeley representative visit my CC. I had to talk to them on the phone, sigh lol. </p>
<p>Anyways, you have to complete all of the prerequisites. Finish that last prerequisite by fall. That’s really important. As for the seven-course breadth requirement, you show aim towards finishing that also. I’m sure there’s a recent Haas admit on here that can give you advice. </p>
<p>I thought the seven course breadth didn’t have to be finished by the time of transferring? I also thought haas didn’t follow igetc? (I can finish igetc by spring anyways) am I wrong?</p>
<p>You’re right, motivate14, Haas doesn’t accept IGETC. Page 2 of this document says so. The document also states what requirements Haas imposes on its applicants. Just press ctrl + f on your keyboard while viewing the document and type in “Haas” to see all the relevant information you need.</p>
<p>If Haas doesn’t take IGETC, doesn’t that mean I only really have to get my major prerequisites and the seven course breadth requirements? Assist.org even says that the seven course breadth doesn’t have to be completed by Spring prior to transferring. I don’t understand why way over half the applicants were not even considered eligible…</p>
<p>They were considered ineligible because they didn’t complete all of the core prerequisites (Econ, Math 1A, Math 1B, Stats) or they didn’t submit their essays/resume, etc. </p>
<p>@ocnative but how can over 75% of the applicants be ineligible? That’s too much lol… and Haas is pretty much like the only school that lists “ineligible applicants” on their class profile too…</p>
<p>“Students admitted as junior transfers to UC Berkeley’s College of Letters & Science or other majors are NOT eligible to apply to the Haas Undergraduate Program. In addition, we cannot review applications from students who have already earned a bachelor’s degree.” </p>
<p>A bunch of students are probably applying after they get accepted into another major.</p>
<p>BTW, that page on Haas transfers says all requirements need to be completed by spring prior to enrollment, not fall. They slso said breadth does not have to be completed prior to admissions, but i assume it helps. </p>
<p>Haas also has a policy where they don’t accept Calc AB credit. Some people may end up taking Calc 2 and think they are done but they actually needed Calc 1 & 2. Also, at my school, Haas required you took the honors version of English 101. </p>
<p>@CSB111 wow, thx for that info. That fills in a lot.</p>
<p>Plus, no UC gives credit to an out of sequence course. So if you took Calc 2, then realized you needed Calc 1 and took it after Calc 2, you would not get credit for Calc 1, thus being unable to fulfill the requirement. </p>
<p>I attended the Latino Medical Student Association at UCLA for premed students this last weekend (I’m not Hispanic or premed so I totally felt out of place), and they were saying that those who wish to apply for med school should <em>not</em> use AP classes. Most schools do not allow you to take a class that’s easier after you’ve passed/gotten a grade on a more advanced class so you would have to take a class more difficult than you would have needed for requirements. (One year of chemistry, one year of biology, etc.) Additionally, and this was very disheartening for some in attendance, schools do not honor retaken classes and they will average your two grades. </p>
<p>On a sidenote, UCLA’s campus doesn’t do much for me anymore xD.</p>