| To OoPurestOo: I highly doubt that. And even if it were true, 2 years at Merced + 2 years at Berkeley still looks more impressive than 4 years at Merced, not to mention the academic initiative you show in the act of transferring itself. Only determined students would consider transferring.
I don't know about your transcript but I know the final diploma makes no reference to transferring. It doesn't say "UC Berkeley via UC Merced". It simply says "UC Berkeley".
Also, I'd say we have the advantage in going to Merced and transferring, assuming that our cumulative GPAs would be higher than a person who went to Berkeley all 4 years. We enter junior year with a higher GPA than the native students (theoretically of course since we went to an easier institution) and thus improving our chances of getting into a decent graduate program. A higher GPA looks more impressive than a lower one, I'm assuming we all can agree to that, and we have an easier way of attaining it.
What are you going on about anyway? What does it matter to you?
Did you know going to Harvard looks more impressive than going to a UC? -_- |