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I wan to transfer to Berkeley major Psych and am currently taking my science w/ lab requirement. I'm really struggling (party because they switched out the professor at the last minute and the new prof doesn't really prepare us well). At this point I may get a C in the class. I have A's in all my other classes and feel pretty confident that I can continue to make A's. Would this really kill my chances? At this point I would drop the class and get W on my transcript, but I've already done a lot of work for the class... Looking forward to your input!
Yes it's very bad ESPECIALLY for Berkeley. I would drop immediately. Furthermore, you'll now have a somewhat rough background on the subject matter enabling you to understand the material better next time around.
And given the fact that psychology is one of the most competitive majors in the L&S I would advise you strongly to take it perhaps during the summer so you can focus solely on that one course. Just my 2.
If a UC require you to maintain a B or higher, under provisional admittance, for that class, yeah, I would say it's bad.
UC's generally look at GPA's and grade trend. A "C" in a pre-req class is pretty bad if you're competing with other students that have done better.
This is only an opinion. Don't hold me to it.
Last edited by Lackofsense : 03-27-2008 at 06:46 PM.
Reason: what does it matter?
For the UC system undergraduate admissions Ws are really not that bad. As long as you don't go have an excessive amount of Ws it will not hurt your chances.
usdenick,
Are you attempting to transfer this year? That will make things allot different because Berkeley is very strict about allowing the summer prior to transfer to fulfill any IGETC required classes if it is an IGETC class. UCD is allot less strict about that.
Just drop it and take the class over again. I don't think that they care about Ws rather than the minimum gpa prior to transfer, which i believe is an 3.0.
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