@ucbalumnus sorry! I did misquote.
@firmament2x Hello, your post is very informative. I just finished my first year at University of Illinois In Urbana-Champaign. I am a California Resident. I want to transfer to Berkeley. In this case I am looked at as a OOS applicant? Would it be better for me to start CCC in the fall and just not go back to Illinois? Right now I am at a 3.8 GPA and assume that I can keep that up at Illinois, would that even matter? Since 95% of transfers that Berkeley accepted are from CCC. Thank you for any advice!
@Notoilli . . . if you’re a CA resident, went to high school in CA, then you’ll have instate tuition, no problem. Ask @ucbalumnus, as far as transferring to UCB because he’s more up on what it takes to get in there.
He was saying earlier in the thread that UCB has put together some nice equivalent courses which is very detailed even for oos community college students who want to go to UCB, and I’m sure it includes four-years like UIUC. I tagged him btw.
@Notoilli . . . ucbalumnus must be pretty busy. As far as the second part of your post, yes it’s true, the UCs do predominantly accept transfers from California Community Colleges, but a lot of that is because those who transfer from outside of CA don’t really plan out their courses, see which ones will be accepted, and they’ll try to transfer without knowing that UC – UCB in your case – will pretty much only take those who have taken pretty close to two years of transferable courses at their originating college. There are some one-year transfers, but it’s pretty rare.
Ucbalumnus provided a link with equivalent courses at UCB from various transfer from institutions, both two-year and four-year. Depending on what your intended major is at UIUC and UCB, presumably the same, it might be actually harder to transfer from CCC to UCB rather than from UIUC. Because if you’re engineering, you’d probably need close to a 4.0 at CCC, whereas the 3.8 if you maintain it in your second year might considered better. We know that It would be considerably better because UIUC is more rigorous than any CCC, but I don’t know exactly how UCB views transfers from a top-notch four-year, whether they consider them (you) in a positive light. This is the more subtle part that I wouldn’t be able on which to speculate. Edit: About staying at UIUC, besides which, if you can’t transfer, it’d probably be better for you to stay there instead of your starting at a CCC this fall.
Any thoughts @ucbalumnus if you’re not busy? Is UCB four-year-college-transfer friendly?
People do transfer into Berkeley from OOS but it’s hard. It’s almost impossible in you’re going for haas (business) or Engineering.
Why not look at (or going to from the start) schools that do have NA focused majors and where transferring would be easier and COA cheaper? Wyoming, Colorado State, Montana, Montana State?
She never said she’s applying for “Native American Studies.”
She said she’s gonna use that to make a really good case about why she wants to transfer.
She was very clear when she said:
Reading comprehension is important when advising others.
She never said Native American Studies is her major.
She mentioned it to explain why she wants to transfer.
She was very clear what she’s applying to:
Reading comprehension is important when giving advice.
@firmament2x and @Ohm888 , thank you both. Since my post I have talked to a counselor at UCB. He pretty much told me that CCC applicants will get priority, even if I have a 3.8 at UIUC. Like @firmament2x said, they do not necessarily look at another reputable 4-year institution in a special light. My guess is that they would much rather have someone that’s coming from taking general classes that they approved of, and some of the classes I took at UIUC that are major related will not even be accepted. (Environmental Science Major btw). Thanks for the advice and suggestions, I will look up @ucbalumnus.
@Notoilli , all the best to you. Have fun studying remotely at a California CC, where you’ll be back in better weather.
Keep in mind going through a list up here until you like an answer is not the best approach. ? ?