Stay in UC Davis or transfer to UC Berkeley

blakevanderbilt
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:21:29 +0000

I’m a UC Davis freshmen currently in my second quarter. Since enrolling in UC Davis, I’ve made up my mind about transferring to UC Berkeley after two years, but now that I’ve given it more thought, I may not so sure anymore. I have good grades, having two As and two A+ for the four classes I took in fall quarter 2014. I’m an Econ major.

I have my eyes set on getting into graduate school, and I’m targetting 4 universities, Stanford, Berkeley, Oxford and Cambridge. Recently, I found out that UC Berkeley has some serious grade deflation issues. It is already quite apparent here in Davis. Will I be able to get into these four graduate schools by the mere fact that I’m from UC Berkeley with an average GPA? or will I get a better shot if I had a 3.9 from Davis?