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My 20-year-old daughter has been attending community college in California for 2 years. She really wanted to go to Berkeley, but didn’t accepted there or to any of UC’s for that matter, despite having perfect grades. Last week, we went up to college to speak with an advisor to find out why she didn’t get in. Here’s why:
- She was required to have 90 quarter units, but had less than that. She took a class that was allowed to be repeated for credit at her college all 4 semesters, but the credits only once when transferred to the UC system.
- There were 2 classes that the UC schools required her to take that she's taking this semester. However, because she hadn't completed those 2 classes at the time she applied, other students who had completed those classes were given priority over her.
- She thought that one of the classes she had taken double counted for 2 areas, but actually didn't.
The advisor said that as soon if she completed all the units she needed to and took that last required class, she would have a very good chance of getting into Berkeley for the Fall of 2018. This is what she wants to do.
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Looks like she’s missing 4 classes.
Agree, it looks like 4. But, “She should have made sure that all her units would her transfer and that she was taking the right classes in the right order.” The out of order may complicate. Not all of what she needs may be available in one semester or not conflict.
I don’t know.
Much we don’t know.
True!
But possibly, the two summer sessions and the winter quarter will provide the sequence, if needed.
Of course, the way the OP mixes quarters and semesters in the initial post is not all that consistent. UCB is on semesters (but other UCs other than UCM are on quarters, though most CSUs are on semesters), but the OP refers to “this semester” as if the current community college is on semesters, but then mentions 90 quarter units.
@ucbalumnus The semester units become quarter units.
@al2simon: I myself prefer a well-rounded liberal arts education. On the other hand, Oxbridge seems to have done fine producing mostly very pointy grads (and their alums have done fine too). Likewise, how much did your PhD program care about whether a candidate had picked up a well-rounded liberal arts education or not? Certainly, most of your admits from overseas would not have picked up a well-rounded liberal arts education in undergrad.
And I’m not worried about a kid who listens to philosophy lectures for fun being too concentrated in an area. If colleges can’t see that, that’s their loss. I also agree with whichever poster who said that this kid will be stellar wherever he goes
OP is either trolling or a raging narcissist. In both cases the best course of action is to disengage. And in the latter case, the daughter’s best course is to disengage as well.
Edit: I find it absurd that the term for making “a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them” would be edited on a forum. Kid gloves. No wonder this place is full of helicopter parents.
Huh. #125 was meant to go on another thread. Don’t know how it ended up here.