<p>I'm in a California community college as a freshman right now and am planning to study abroad for a whole year during my sophomore year. I am also planning on applying to UC Berkeley (Haas) during my junior year and dont want to lose the advantage when applying from a california community college. Will studying abroad for a year make me an international student since the application in in the spring and I'm still going to be abroad?</p>
<p>I can’t really answer your question, but have you considered waiting until you are attending a UC to study abroad?</p>
<p>wouldn’t it be more difficult to fulfill your pre-reqs and such internationally? if you really want to transfer, especially into haas, i’d say you should stay local and wait until you get into cal to study abroad.</p>
<p>If you participate at a study abroad programme at your local CCC, you will get credit for it. For example at CCSF, you can earn Art 102 (Art History) credit in Italy with a CCSF professor in Florence or a Western Europe history class. A study abroad programme might be good to kick out some GEs like humanities and foreign language.</p>
<p>[Transfer</a> Eligibility, Undergraduate Program - Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/transfer_eligibility.html]Transfer”>http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/transfer_eligibility.html)</p>
<p>be familiar with everything on that site</p>
<p>note that the most important thing is that u complete all the pre-reqs. it doesn’t matter if u studied abroad, or ur a CEO of a company, or if u found a cure for cancer. if u didn’t finish the prereqs, u will not even be considered as an applicant (they will trash ur application). </p>
<p>if studying abroad is what u really want to do, then by all means, do it. but if u think it’ll give u an edge in the application, think again. cuz it ain’t gonna. </p>
<p>over the past years, roughly 2/3rds of all applications are just trashed since they aren’t eligible and didnt complete the prereqs. last yr i think 1100/1500 were ineligible or something</p>
<p>edit: last yr 73% of all the applications were tossed out</p>
<p>I don’t think you are going to get a great answer on here. I would definitely talk to a counselor at your school or an admissions rep from Haas. The latter’s opinion will probably be of most use.</p>
<p>There was actually at least one guy last year who got accepted without all the prereqs. I think he had something like 7/9. I believe he was a veteran.</p>
<p>no that was the breadth requirements, not the prereqs. i read that thread too. up to last yr they had 9 breadth requirements and only required seven. but now they just have the 7 breadth requirements.</p>
<p>here it is:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/706360-haas-admits.html?highlight=haas+transfer+thread[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/706360-haas-admits.html?highlight=haas+transfer+thread</a></p>
<p>post #3 from Loski</p>
<p>You might considering only one semester abroad. Finish all prereqs that cannot be finished in your study abroad programme, and then go for the last semester abroad with prereqs that can finish the breadth requirements.</p>
<p>but do I still get the benefit of being in a California CC?</p>
<p>Sure, I think your credits will be shown on your CCC transcript.
But make sure you participate at your CCC’s study abroad programme.</p>