<p>Hi.</p>
<p>I really messed up my senior grade, so it looks like the only decent place I’ll get into is uc berkeley.</p>
<p>What kind of grades do I need and just tell me just tips and things I should/should not do to transfer to Cornell or some other private school.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Well, the first thing you should do is to do the best you can the rest of your senior year, or you will find it much more difficult to transfer. </p>
<p>Once you are in college, take a look at the requirements of the school you are transferring to compared to the one that you are at. If the school that you wish to transfer to grants less AP credit than the school that you are transferring to, or has more required gen ed courses, I would get those out of the way at whatever school that you go to. Also, keep up with your extracurriculars this year and your freshman year in college.</p>
<p>Once you are in college, you want to maintain at least a 3.7+. Also, what major are you applying to, or most likely to go into, as that would help posters guide you in the right direction? </p>
<p>Also, I must say UC Berkeley is a very prestigious school, that is ranked very highly as a national university, and is just as prestigious as any private school you could think of. I don’t go to Berkeley so I can’t confirm this, but as a Public Ivy, you would encounter a similar student atmosphere that you would see at an ivy.</p>
<p>Hi.
I might major in pure math, applied math, or econ.</p>
<p>For me UC Berkeley’s good enough but theres just so much pressure from family</p>
<p>Also, when do I fill out my transfer app (after freshman/soph year?)
Does National AP Scholar help much?</p>
<p>@ squelchy - Econ at Berkeley is very competitive. I know this because 3 of my friends were accepted there just last fall. Econ at Berkeley requires a lot of math up to Calculus 2. Also you must take Micro/Macro Econ on top of that. The pre-reqs are not too bad, however you want to keep your GPA up and do some extra curricular^^. I know exactly how you feel about family giving you pressure! </p>
<p>My friends had
4.0/4.0 GPA
Clubs!
One of them had internship.</p>
<p>Just keep your grades up! You must be as competitive as you can be.</p>
<p>Also, my friends transferred after their sophomore year(completed 60 units).I think its a better chance unless you have strong high school records.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>In your case, during your freshman year would be a good time, since you need amazing stats for Berkeley anyway. National AP scholar is definitely a good thing to have.
Also, are you planning grad school? If you want to go to graduate school in economics, you want at least a minor in math.</p>
<p>Im not sure what I want to do yet…its either pure math or econ…if i go to econ i will be minoring in math…</p>
<p>@jparkec: did ur friends transfer or admitted straight from HS?</p>
<p>Also, when can you transfer? Can you transfer after you complete freshman yr?</p>
<p>You might want to look at UChicago and MIT if you plan on studying math or econ. Yes, you can apply for admission into sophomore year, however hs stats,sat scores hs ecs will be of great importance since schools only have 1 semester of college grades and ecs to judge by. If you apply for junior standing, college grades, ecs, etc are at the forefront, and your hs career takes a backseat.</p>
<p>I transferred from a large state school (UF) to Columbia after having screwed up my applications out of senior year of high school (submitted them all 5 minutes before the due date… aka 5 minutes before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve). I’m currently a second-year student about to begin my second semester. Anyways, coming from a large state school (a plus for you is that UC Berkeley is certainly better than UF), I’d suggest working your ass off and demonstrate that you are capable of doing the same work as their current students, and if not, much more. </p>
<p>By entering an Ivy community as a Sophomore, they want to know that you can adapt, take advantage of resources, and succeed. They don’t want to take someone who will be a detriment to them. So the longer you wait to transfer, the less adaptable you will be because you will have been that much longer set in your old UC Berkeley ways (no one really has this attitude, but it’s kinda true). Also, many Ivies don’t like to give you transfer credit for everything, because to get a degree from their university means you follow their way of thinking and have demonstrated a capacity to meet their level of expectations. It’s hard to mold/change your way of thinking in 2 years instead of 3. In short, apply as a Sophomore.</p>
<p>To prepare yourself, take 5-6 classes each semester and get all A’s in them. Find a professor or two you like, and get buddy-buddy with them so they can write you a good rec. Continually impress them. Let them think you’re the ****, because Ivies want the best students. Let Ivies know you take advantage of all opportunities around you (by doing this, you’ll learn about opportunities at UC Berkeley, and may realize that you don’t want to transfer. I can still see myself being very happy at UF.) What does that mean? Intern somewhere, apply yourself somewhere (in the form of research position/intern/working/extra-curriculars) to demonstrate that you’re exploring your intellectual curiosities. </p>
<p>Another route is if you’re an athlete. Ivies are always recruiting smart athletes. But yea, gl. UC Berkeley is a good school, you don’t necessarily need to transfer. Ivies may open doors, but success in the end is up to the person.</p>
<p>Depending on what you want to do, you may want to stay at Cal. Cal’s Econ and Math programs are arguably better Cornell’s. Also, Cal inflates grades less than Cornell does, so high GPA from Cal counts for more with graduate schools. But definitely apply for a transfer to MIT (and possibly Caltech). If your math/econ major, you cannot do better than MIT. Also, if you want to go to graduate school for econ, you should do major in MATH with a minor in econ in college (or dual major, but do not major in econ only).</p>