Hello, I just finished my first year at CC and ended with a 3.33 GPA. A in Chem 101, B in Calc 2 and Physics 101. I still have to take Chem 102, Organic Chem series, Physics series, Calc 3, Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, and a few English/Elective courses. I currently have an internship with a company named Hawker Pacific Aerospace as a lab intern, which I’m hoping will strengthen my application. I plan on taking Calc 3 and Linear Algebra together this coming fall. I won’t be taking any more classes this fall because my internship extends til the end of this year. I plan on applying the Fall of 2016. I should be able to finish all requirements by the spring before transferring. Does anyone have any advice for me? Any tips or tricks? Anything that will help me? I am planning on applying to UCLA, UCSB, UCI, and UCSD as a chemical engineering major. I had a rough start, but I should be able to get my GPA up to a 3.6-3.8 by the time I apply. I also have a lot of APs from high school which I scored a 3 or above on. Any thoughts?
Are there other schools in California with a chemical engineering program that anyone recommends me looking into?
Among the UCs, the ones you are missing are UCB, UCD, and UCR. UCB is obviously a reach, UCR might be a good match for you. This will give you some idea of selectivity: http://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/data-reports/key-reports/student-workforce-pages/2015-cc-transfer.html
Thank you, any advice?
If I may ask, how hard was chem 101? I’m taking it next semester, were there multiple choices
Your internship is with an Aerospace company, it’s not chemical engineering, does it matter to you?
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfer-admissions-summary can give you a general idea of each campus’ transfer admission selectivity (select transfer admit rate, campus name, and transfer GPA). However, it does not allow stratifying by major, which means that your intended major may be more or less selective than the campus overall.
All UCs except UCSC, UCM, and UCSF have chemical engineering. For non-UC chemical engineering schools in California, CSU options are CPP, CSULB, and SJSU, and private options are Caltech, Stanford, and USC.
To me Chem 101 was a more in-depth version of high school chemistry. As long as you do your work and study you should be fine. And yes there were multiple choice questions, but the more important questions were always written.
@DrGoogle, its with an aerospace company, but in their chemistry/plating department so I am working in their laboratory.
@ucbalumnus, thank you I’ll look into the CSU’s, but at this point I don’t think I’d be able to get into those privates. Or should I at least give it a shot?
With a 3.33 GPA, Caltech and Stanford are probably quite unrealistic. Probably USC as well, though information about transfer admission is harder to come by than for frosh admission.
@ucbalumnus How about with a 3.8?