<p>Hello all, I was wondering if those of you in the know could help me out with a question I have. I am looking at transferring from my school (ranked in the Top 20) to Berkeley. I am from California and thought I wanted to experience something different, but realized Cali is where I want to be. Now, I will have about a 3.6 at my school. I ideally want to transfer to Haas, so I guess my first question is even though my GPA is below their average, will they consider the fact that I am going to a prestigious school that is significantly more difficult than some big state school or community college? My second question is can you put more than one choice for your major, and say I don't get into Haas but I do get into like poli psci or something like that, can they offer you your second choice? Thanks for all the help</p>
<p>They might consider the fact that you attend a Top 20 university, but I don’t think that’s a big factor in determining admission. CC students get preference. But I think you would still need to raise your GPA to be a competitive candidate, esp. for Haas.</p>
<p>On the application, you’re only allowed to list one major for Cal.</p>
<p>Ok just to clarify exactly my GPA was like a 3.43 first semester, and a 3.68 second semester last year, so there was improvement, plus I think I can do even better first semester this year so will they take into consideration the upward trend also?</p>
<p>You have an extremely low chance with that kind of GPA and the fact that you’re going to a 4 year makes it even lower. CCC students have priority over you, and UC students are slightly ahead too… Take note that a lot of CCC students get rejected from Haas with a 3.9-4.0</p>
<p>oh I dont know if this helps or hurts but I got into UC Berkeley undergrad out of high school also</p>
<p>^ it doesnt matter</p>
<p>92 of the 94 haas transfers in 2008 were from california community colleges. That means only 2 of the 412 applicants who weren’t from california community colleges actually got accepted. The acceptance rate is less than half a percent for a non CCC student and with a way below average gpa it is extremely unlikely that you’d get in. In UC transfer admissions it really doesn’t matter how prestiguous your school is, what matters is the priority that you get from your institution. For example in fall 2009, if you look at the ucla transfer profiles you can see that there were 2 applicants from columbia, 1 from harvard, 1 from MIT,1 from duke, 1 from stanford, 1 from Upenn, and 2 from Brown. All of these applicants were denied.</p>
<p>edit link:<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof09_US1.htm[/url]”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof09_US1.htm</a></p>
<p>ya I hear you, from my school though for UCLA 1 of 2 of the applicants were admitted, so thats good I guess.</p>
<p>Also do you think my chances would improve if I didnt apply for Haas?</p>
<p>Better chance as a Poli sci major</p>
<p>that gpa won’t get you into econ either probably. You can try applying to philosophy and just switching into one of the econ majors since its in L&S.</p>
<p>Honestly, and I’m sure this isn’t what you want to hear, I would just finish your degree and apply to Cal as a grad student. You pretty much have everything working against you right now. I wouldn’t recommend changing your major either, unless you are completely unsure about what you want to do after you graduate.</p>
<p>I have no great desire to go to CAL, honestly my school is probably much better at this point to get a degree from, considering the budget cuts and its already more prestigous, the main reason for the transfer would be to get back to cali and to save some money on tuition, so applying for grad school is not the solution for me, I guess I will just apply as like a L&S major, what are the easiest L&S majors to get into, and is it easy to switch within L&S once I get there?</p>