<p>Another excellent article on the history of UC Berkeley. Here’s what I believe to be a very interesting quote:</p>
<p>"Throughout the 1970s, competition for admission at Berkeley gradually increased. By the early 80s, the school was denying nearly half of its applicants, and by the end of that decade, it was denying almost two thirds of those who applied. As the competition increased, so did complaints about the school’s admissions process.</p>
<p>In November of 1988, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced that it was investigating admissions procedures at Berkeley after receiving complaints that the school was capping admissions of Asian students. As far back as the 60s, the Asian presence on campus had always been strong, and Asian admits rose dramatically throughout the 70s.</p>
<p>But during the next decade, statistics showed a sharp drop in the percentage of Asian admissions, even though a higher percentage of these applicants met Berkeley’s standards than those from other racial groups. Critics blamed the drop on the school’s subjective admissions policies, which they said placed too much weight on extracurricular activities."</p>
<p>Interesting read @collegedropout1, but the writer’s recommendation that universities stop filling out the ranking forms is naive. It ain’t gonna happen. </p>
<p>There was an article last year about a few well-ranked universities that decided to do away with the SAT requirement entirely, then found out they wouldn’t get ranked without them, so changed back, allowing the test to be arbitrary. </p>
<p>Hi All,
I don’t have time to skim through all 160 something pages to find my answer so I decided I’d just drop my question here.<br>
How does UC Berkeley view upward trends in GPA?<br>
I attended a mediocre 4-year for 4 semesters and transferred to a CC in Southern CA with a 2.8. After 3 semesters later I’ve managed to pull that crap up to a 3.6 with 3 semesters worth of straight A’s (at least 12 units/semester). I intend to apply to Cal’s Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies (Social Sciences Department), and am unsure if that major is impacted or not. </p>
<p>Much obliged for reading, and providing your feedback! And I hope everyone keeps up their good work.</p>
<p>Roughly 80 CC transferrable units. It’s hard to tell since my previous 4-year is not articulated with UC’s; it’ll really depend on which courses the admins accepts. (35units from 4-year, and 47units from CC) Based on this graph, I should be safe(?) </p>
<p>Berekeley: # of units before an applicant becomes high-unit junior: 90 semester units
And the same goes for UCLA. Except UCLA does not accept any high-unit junior/senior applicant. </p>
<p>You know, this is not something I have thought about until now: your counselor is saying you have 82 UC-transferable units, but what if ALL the units from your CSU or wherever it is (including non-transferable), add up to over 90? Since they don’t start figuring out unit transferability from other 4-yr colleges until AFTER you’re accepted, will just a visual number of over 90 disqualify you before they ever get to the calculating phase?</p>
<p>So I guess my question is what are your total units from the 4-yr university, does it put it over 90, and if so, maybe someone knows how that is handled. I’d be curious to hear feedback. My gut instinct is they would count all from the 4-year out the gate because it would be mayhem otherwise. But then maybe you manually list what you think is transferable, and note those you think are not separately. Hmmm. @cayton? </p>
<p>Ok, @cayton, yeah,I think you probably put in what you think is transferable in that area and then the additional non-transferable in its separate area, and then just hope for the best. The CSUs appear pretty straight-forward in terms of UC-transferability. So this answer got a little side-tracked OP, but you seem good.</p>
<p>UC does like to see upward trends. Not sure what the avg. transfer GPA is for that major, but it is not a capped major from what I can tell. </p>
<p>Also, what is the best strategy when assist.org indicates that no classes are articulated between UC Berkeley/UCLA’s major prep with my CC’s? I do know I’ve completed IGETC, though. </p>
<p>@darren808 Try looking at other nearby CC’s, maybe one in driving distance has classes that articulate. Some classes (like CS70 at Cal) are just really hard to find, and no CC will have an equivalent. If you’ve got time, you can also take some pre-reqs at the UC during summer session, just be careful not to take on too much and trash your GPA.</p>
<p>Thx for the feedback.
None of the CC’s around my area (I go to SMC), including PasadenaCC, El CaminoCC, or Mt.SAC offer articulated major prep courses–according to assist.org. That being said, I did find De Anza College offering a course or two that articulates with Berkeley’s Asian American and Asian American Diaspora Studies. But they don’t offer distance learning, and is not even remotely close to being within driving distance.
Anyhow, do you guys think it is a disadvantage to apply to this major without completing any articulated courses? (Except for foreign languages)
Thx!</p>
<p>@darren808 how many pre-reqs are there and how many don’t articulate?</p>
<p>Driving an hour for one class seems a bit over and above, unless you have absolutely nothing. The UCs usually do not hold non-articulated classes against you. I would also check other CCCs. If basically 90% are missing the same pre-reqs I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Take courses related to show an interest (Asian history, Chinese, etc).</p>
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