Chances for transferring from Purdue to Berkeley

yu0413
Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:53:18 +0000

Hello,

I’m freshman engineering student at Purdue (I’m gonna study ChE in sophomore). And I really really want to transfer to UC Berkeley. I know they give high priority to California community college students though… So… Please help to rate my chances!
Thanks!!

International student.
TOFEL 95/120
No SAT

GPA of first semester is 3.78, because the course which I got a B is nontransferable, so my recalculated GPA would be 4.0. And I got A+ for MA and PHYS (do A and A+ make any difference when they look at applications??)

This semester I believe I can get 4.0 since I got pretty good grades on everything up to now.

If I continue get good grades, like, 3.9 or higher in sophomore, will I have a good chance to transfer to Berkeley? Or what can I do to get better competitive advantage?

Also anyone knows where can I find equivalence courses list of Purdue and Berkeley?

The reason I wanna go to Berkeley is it has much better academic reputation and rankings in ChE. So I’m also considering UMN, Twin Cities too, which has excellent reputation in ChE and seems a lot easier to transfer into. (seems they dont give priority to certain students)
Another reason is that I seriously don’t like small town at all. West Lafayette is too small and kind of remote and isolated from outside, which makes me missed Beijing a lot. - - And it’s impossible to find internship for ChE students here - - San Francisco and Minneapolis are both big cities and much much better place to live in.

Thanks again!