Transfer to Caltech as a University Freshman?

QEDEE5
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:30:26 +0000

Thanks so much for a reply. I think it wouldn’t be hard to pull up that college GPA though, since I only took few classes in CC; if I work hard and indeed get 4.0 in first semester in UIUC and mid-year, it can be pulled up a lot.

Also, may I ask, would it be a pros if I aimed at advanced level of Differential Equations and Electromagnetism? For example, ODE and freshman EM are the ones that pull me down. If I take PDE and upper level electrodynamics and get As on them, will it be helpful for making admission reviewers think, “this kid is not bad at DE and Physics at all”?