<p>So im trying to go to UCB for the philopsphy i dropped out of high school and took the COP and started community college at 17, im planning on taking a semseter off to go travel a little then come back and try to transfer. I was wondering if me not having a diploma or having a less than 2.00 GPA in highschool will matter. Thanks, Also I plan to have like a 3.0 GPA when i try to transfer. Im shooting low just in case i bomb CC. welp let me know what you guys think!</p>
<p>Since you’re using a few acronyms, I’m going to make some assumptions about what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>By UCB, I assume you’re talking about UC Berkeley, as opposed to, for example, UC Boulder. By COP I assume you’re talking about the Certificate of Proficiency. If that’s the case, you didn’t take the ‘Certificate of Proficiency’ but rather the California High School Proficiency Exam. With regard to the CHSPE, here’s some information from their website.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.chspe.net/about/”>http://www.chspe.net/about/</a></p>
<p>So although you may not have a California high school diploma, you have its legal equivalent. And by law, all of the universities in the state of California must accept the COP as being equivalent to a high school diploma. As a result, a COP in no way hinders your ability to transfer to UCB (FWIW I have a COP and transferred to UCLA.) I do, however, doubt that you’ll be able to get into UCB with just a 3.0 My gpa was quite a bit higher than that when I applied in the fall of 2010 and I was rejected. (Although, as I’ve noted in the past, it didn’t really matter because by the time I had found out, I had already sent me SIR to UCLA.)</p>
<p>Work hard at CC and you should have no trouble getting into Berkeley. Perhaps that might be easier if you weren’t ‘420tilldeath’ ;)</p>
<p>At UCs and CSUs, transfer applicants at the junior level (completion of 60 semester or 90 quarter units by the time you transfer) are evaluated on college work, not high school work. High school work is only relevant for satisfying some requirements that are allowed to be satisfied by either high school or college work (e.g. American History and Institutions may be satisfied by either high school or college work); it does not matter if you graduated high school or some alternative or not at all.</p>
<p>But a 3.0 GPA is very unlikely to gain transfer admission to Berkeley.</p>
<p>I was told by someone that all these colleges care about is that If you will get rich and come back and build them a builiding or something. Also do you think that the homies reading the entrance exams would care if i use slang or not. </p>
<p>i meant entrance letter not exam sorry. One more thing… Is it advisable to ask questions in the essay, or tell the, they will regret not letting me in or things along those lines. like if there is no danger or risk whats the point. Thanks for answering my questions, as i am very eager to get into UCB,</p>
<p>Also Thanks For the Help beyphy and ucbalumnus!!!</p>
<p>You’ll be given a prompt for the essay when you apply to transfer. But given that that won’t be for at least two years, I wouldn’t worry about it for now.</p>
<p>fosho, Thanks again! any tips on getting in?</p>
<p>Tip is to quit trolling the forum with “can I get into Berkeley with a 3.0” and your witticisms about your great essay ideas. Unfortunately there are just so many deluded people on here that it really isn’t funny anymore.</p>
<p>im not trying to ■■■■■. Im being sincere man. I am asking questions i am not sure about. half of the people are ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■ like you ^^ who think you need a 4.0 to get into any college and the other half are people who have decent grades but have ambition and get into school that way. So How about you stop being an ■■■■■■■ and use your time to possible tell me tips that will help me not just Trol on my thread about how you think I’m trolling. </p>
<p>Here’s a tip: ix-nay on the our-twenty-fay.</p>
<p>is that what obama did?</p>
<p>or bush, or clinton, or steve jobs I can go on and on.</p>
<p>marvin100, Thanks for the tip though, it probably is in my best interest to stop ;)</p>