UC to UC Transfer?

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I go to UC Santa Barbara but I’m thinking of transferring to UC Berkeley and I was wondering how difficult it would be to get in, mostly GPA wise. Also, I read online that coming from a UC I could only transfer to Berkeley for my junior year, but due to personal reasons I would only be able to move out there for my senior year. What are my options? Is it possible to transfer there only for senior year? I heard that they do let people in for years other than junior year but that it is very rare. Is it possible to apply when I’m a junior at UCSB but be applying to come into Berkeley as a junior for a repeating year or something? Any info on the matter would be greatly appreciated!

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There’s no rule saying you can’t graduate a year after you transfer but, most colleges cap the number of units you can transfer, require graduates to take several specific courses on-campus and earn a minimum number of units there.

Can you do all that in a year? It is probably tough at a school on a semester calendar like Cal.

Do some research on Cal’s rules and see what can be done.

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Just saw your history:
You wanted LMU, Miami and CAL Poly Pomona.

So you transferred to SB and now you want another transfer?
I think you’re going to have a rough time of it. Check Berkeley’s rules but they are so impacted it will be tough.

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Cal admits high unit juniors and senior transfers:

See: http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/uc-transfer-maximum-limitation-policy-chart.pdf

Cal also has a fairly lenient “In Residence” requirement (At least 24 units over the span of 2 semesters which can include summer) which makes it fairly easy to complete and graduate within a year as a high unit junior/senior transfer.

See: https://ls.berkeley.edu/advising/degree-requirements

The roadblocks are:

  1. Depending on major, is that they won't necessarily grant your upper division courses at UCSB as equivalent graduation requirements here at Cal. This can leave you with an excessive number of classes needed to graduate which will make graduating within a year extremely difficult.
  2. As @"aunt bea" points out, the campus is pretty impacted and only a few extremely well qualified applicants make it past the initial evaluations. I don't have any statistical data, but talking to people on campus leads me to believe that it's easier to get into Cal's grad programs than it is to get in as a high unit junior/senior.