What are my Chances at Berkeley (Haas)?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>I'd like to know what my chances of transfering into Haas are for Fall 2008 are.</p>

<p>BACKGROUND INFO:</p>

<p>Male
Hispanic (Central America)
22 years old
US Permanent Resident
Out of State in California</p>

<p>TRANSCRIPT:</p>

<p>Summer 2006
Major: Business Administration
ENGL 1101 College Writing I 3.00 A 3.00 3.00 12.00
ENGL 1102 College Writing II 3.00 A 3.00 3.00 12.00
PHED 1890 Lifetime Fitness 2.00 A 2.00 2.00 8.00
POL 1100 Understanding Politics 3.00 A 3.00 3.00 12.00
UNDG Term Att: 11.00 Earn: 11.00 GPA Crs: 11.00 GPA Pts: 44.00 GPA: 4.00
**** Cum Att: 11.00 Earn: 11.00 GPA Crs: 11.00 GPA Pts: 44.00 GPA: 4.00</p>

<p>Fall 2006
POL 1400 Intr Comparative Politics 3.00 A 3.00 3.00 12.00
PHIL 1100 Intro To Philosophy 3.00 A 3.00 3.00 12.00</p>

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<p>Spring 2007
MUS 3130 History Of Rock And Roll 2.00 A 2.00 2.00 8.00
PHIL 2250 Human Nature 3.00 A 3.00 3.00 12.00
ACCT 1101 Prin Of Accounting I 3.00 A 3.00 3.00 12.00
MATH 1470 Precalculus 5.00 A 5.00 5.00 20.00
BUAD 2231 Business Statistics I 3.00 A 3.00 3.00 12.00
UNDG Term Att: 16.00 Earn: 16.00 GPA Crs: 16.00 GPA Pts: 64.00 GPA: 4.00
**** Cum Att: 45.00 Earn: 36.00 GPA Crs: 39.00 GPA Pts: 156.00 GPA: 4.00</p>

<p>Summer 2007
ECON 2000 Markets & Resource Alloc 3.00 Z 0.00 0.00 0.00
BUAD 3232 Business Statistics II 3.00 Z 0.00 0.00 0.00
BUAD 1100 Introduction to Business 3.00 Z 0.00 0.00 0.00
UNDG Term Att: 9.00 Earn: 0.00 GPA Crs: 0.00 GPA Pts: 0.00 GPA: 0.00
**** Cum Att: 54.00 Earn: 36.00 GPA Crs: 39.00 GPA Pts: 156.00 GPA: 4.00</p>

<p>Fall 2007
MATH 2471 Calculus I 5.00 Z 0.00 0.00 0.00
ACCT 1102 Prin Of Accounting II 3.00 Z 0.00 0.00 0.00
ECON 2100 Macroecon & Bus Cycle 3.00 Z 0.00 0.00 0.00
PHYS 2101 Physics I 5.00 Z 0.00 0.00 0.00
PHYS 2101 Physics I Lab 0.00 Z 0.00 0.00 0.00
UNDG Term Att: 16.00 Earn: 0.00 GPA Crs: 0.00 GPA Pts: 0.00 GPA: 0.00
**** Cum Att: 70.00 Earn: 36.00 GPA Crs: 39.00 GPA Pts: 156.00 GPA: 4.00</p>

<p>Spring 2008 I plan on taking:</p>

<p>2450 PHOTOGRAPHY (3 credits)
4430 LINGUISTICS (3 credits)
1107 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS (3 credits) (Breadth Requirement)
2400 THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE (3 credits)
2472 CALCULUS II (5 credits)</p>

<p>I also speak Spanish 100% (Native speaker) -- this would fulfill the other language requirement.</p>

<p>RESUME:</p>

<p>Extra:
Languages: Spanish (100%), English (100%)</p>

<p>Intensive Italian Course in Italy (2001)</p>

<p>Philosophy Club (Fall 2006 – To Date)</p>

<p>Trip to Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Lotus Corporation (2000)
Prize for website design, Represented El Salvador</p>

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<p>Work Experience:
Sputnik Productions (2003 – To Date)
Artist Management, Booking Agency, Event Production/Promotion, General Manager</p>

<p>BellSouth DSL Tech Support Call Center (Teleperformance) (April 2005 – May 2006)
San Salvador, El Salvador
DSL/Networking Training, Started: Level 1 Tech, Concluded: Level 2, Inbound calls from USA</p>

<p>USAirways.com Call Center (Atento, Telefonica) (November 2004 – April 2005)
San Salvador, El Salvador
Website/SABRE training, Tech support US clients, Helpdesk Team, Supervisor Assistant</p>

<p>Internship: St. Jude Medical - IT Department – St. Paul, MN (Summer of 2002)
Web-Page development, Help Desk assistance, installation of infrastructure, among others</p>

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<p>Volunteer/Leadership Activities:</p>

<p>Evergreen Recovery House - Bemidji, Minnesota (Volunteer in Rehab for Addictions) Summer 2007 - On</p>

<p>Health & Wellness Meeting - Bemidji, Minnesota (Chair of Meeting) Fall 2006 - Spring 2007</p>

<p>Teletόn – El Salvador (National Fundraiser – Children with Disabilities) Jan 2003 & Jan 2004</p>

<p>Deaf-Mute School – El Salvador (Teacher’s Aid) Fall 2002 – Spring 2003</p>

<p>Earthquake Relief – El Salvador January – March 2001</p>

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<p>OTHER:</p>

<p>I plan on writing good essays and getting good recommendations (One of my strong points is good relationships with professors.)</p>

<p>As you can see I have a 4.0 GPA.. I'm trying to keep it, but probably one B could pop-up in my transcript in Physics (For Physics Majors/Engineers)</p>

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<p>Seems like you have a good shot. The hispanic hook will help you, as well. Are you applying for next fall?</p>

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<p>U should have a disadvantage since your status is out of state....</p>

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<p>yeah, fall 2008</p>

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<p>@Torrancecali</p>

<p>I know they have preference over in-state, but do you think I'm competitive enough with the out-of-states?</p>

<p>they can't accept 100% from instate either</p>

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<p>Haas accepts 8 percent of transfer applicants. 7% will most likely be instate.</p>

<p><a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/Transfer_07.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/Transfer_07.pdf&lt;/a> go there for more transfer information, specifically page 5.</p>

<p>Also, it appears that you might not know about this, so i will go ahead and say it-- the UCs dont consider race. In the late 90's california passed a proposition (209, i think) that eliminates race from ever being considered in the admissions procedures. With that in mind, the admission counselors never see what race you are, they dont see your first and last name, all they see is your ID number, so decisions will never be based on your race. It is strictly gpa for transfer (and maybe, just maybe, a little consideration on the essay part, but dont count on it since the UCs get 10,000 applications)</p>

<p>For out of state residents, 340 applied for all the schools in berkeley (i.e. haas, the college of letters and science, etc) and only 32 got in (a 9% average). For more info, go here <a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/transfer.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/transfer.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>So your chances are the same as anyone attempting to transfer to harvard...</p>

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<p>@mojojojo69</p>

<p>I didn't know about the race issue.</p>

<p>Regarding % of acceptance they have something different in their website.</p>

<p>2006-2007 Transfer Stats:</p>

<p>1136 -- Applications Received
340 -- Eligible Applicants (796 applicants did not show planned completion of the admission requirements and were considered ineligible. Of the 340 eligible applicants, 90 were offered admission.) -- so if I have ALL their pre-requisites completed when I apply I will fall down in the 340 eligible not the 1136 who applied.
90 -- Offers of Admission</p>

<p>90/340 = 26.47%</p>

<p>Source: <a href="http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/statstransfer.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/statstransfer.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>It doesn't specify the % which are in-state/out-state but it's way more than 8%.</p>

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<p>I don't know how much of this is true, but I saw that someone said that Berkeley looks for people or considers people "who have overcome hardships".. I have a couple of things that I could write about in this category...</p>

<p>1) Horrible divorce from parents when I was 12
2) Father was unjustly put in jail for 1 year while he was being prosecuted for things he never did, he was found not-guilty but he had to be in jail for a year while the trial took place (Jails in El Salvador are wayyy different than here in the US, you can only imagine)
3) Overcame alcohol/chemical abuse, was in rehab for 8 months, and I've been clean for 2 years now.</p>

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<p>three of my friends are international students and they got accepted to haas as junior transfer for fall2007.</p>

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<p>pchristiani, you see, those numbers are just everyone who applied to Haas; with that in mind, if 340 out of state residents applied, haas would not be their first choice since its the hardest to get into, and not to mention that not everyone is a business major. So i would guess that out of those 340, maybe around 20 or so are out of state, and perhaps around 3-5 of those got in.</p>

<p>If you are going to write a hardship essay, i would not recommend writing an essay like "oh look at me, i suffered alot". America loves coming-of-age stories, so thats what i would recommend; or somehow tie it in with the hardship.</p>

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<p>Ok, thanks.</p>