Sophomore vs Junior transfer admission

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Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:56:15 +0000

Just Wharton.

In fact, UC Berkeley doesn’t even accept transfer applications from freshmen. You must enter with junior standing.



UC Berkeley Admissions:

Transfer admission is limited to students who have or will have completed a minimum of 60 UC-transferable semester units by the end of the spring term of the current academic year. As a junior transfer applicant, you must indicate your intended major on the UC application…



http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/transfer.asp

This policy applies, in most cases, to other UC schools as well. For example, UC Davis only accepts sophomore transfers in a few specific majors such as agriculture.

As I said, this is because enrollment is limited by the capacity of lower-division courses that every one of the thousands of freshmen and sophomores must take - whereas upper-division major classes are much more fluid in terms of available seats.