UC Transfer Chances

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm just curious to hear your opinions on my chances on transferring to UCB for Mass Communications.</p>

<p>I'm a CCC student with a 3.84, and I've completed all 7 of their pre-major classes, as well as IGETC and all that stuff. I've only had a few jobs, and not for a long while, certainly not enough to help me on an application. Not a lot of extraordinary extracurriculars either. Let me know what you guys think.</p>

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<p>I think you have a decent chance of gettting in, b/c i dun think the major you are transfering as is very selective at UCB. Still though i heard it's very hard to get into UCB nowadays.</p>

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<p>Mass communications is in the Undergraduate & Interdisciplinary Studies category; that category has a transfer admissions rate of 35%. The average gpa for transfers overall is 3.50-3.89. So, I would say you have quite a good chance, assuming you meet all the requirements (such as 60 units).</p>

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<p>yea, 65 units done by the end of this semester, and IGETC done ages ago. any idea on how much weight berkeley, or any UC for that matter puts on EC activities though?</p>

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<p>YES. That is answered QUITE simply actually. Go to Berkeley's website and look at their selection criteria. People on this board are always asking questions like this as if they don't follow their own criteria, but they do! Or at least I don't have any evidence on the contrary.</p>

<p>Like all the UCs, the top 4 considerations are academic. The 5th most important consideration includes ECs, special talents, etc. </p>

<p>One of the things Berkeley does list that I haven't seen with the other UCs is "grade trends."</p>

<p>Also, to address what I think is your main question...I think ECs are mainly a way for similar candidates (with similar GPAs, etc.) to "rise above the pack." A lack of ECs wont hinder a high academic achiever because academics are unquestionably more important than ECs. So yeah, it's more of a thing to help those of us who don't have SUPER-STELLAR academic records.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_criteria/tr_criteria_b.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/transfer/tr_criteria/tr_criteria_b.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks for all the help gabe, I guess all I can do now is wait and enjoy my last semesters at a CC.</p>