<p>I’m an international student and I didn’t go to a high school in America.
I wanna know if it’s possible to transfer to the above schools from a community
college in Cali(Foothill,De Anza,etc.) with literally straight A’s(GPA 4.0)?
Is there anything else one could do to get in those schools besides maintaining
amazing academic results?</p>
<p>I’ve heard that it’s really hard to get in a private school from a community college,
because usually people there don’t have good grades in their high school and SAT
(or even haven’t taken SAT in my case)</p>
<p>A little FYI:I wanna major in some biochem related subjects.</p>
<p>Phi Theta Kappa is the national honor society for students at two year colleges. It is sort of like Phi Beta Kappa which is for students at four year colleges and you might have heard of before.</p>
<p>Many colleges and universities have automatic scholarships for PTK members, and some deliberately seek to enroll them. You can learn more at [Phi</a> Theta Kappa - Honor Society](<a href=“http://www.ptk.org/]Phi”>http://www.ptk.org/)</p>
<p>One of my close friends decided to get serious after blowing high school. He had to do this in 2 steps, first a sterling year at a community college, then another flawless year after transferring to a minor state university, then transferring to a “public ivy” state university from where he graduated. This was in the 90s, perhaps a very different atmosphere than today.</p>
<p>And I don’t know if there’d be a greater possibility to xfer to the various Ivies, but Cal Tech, MIT, Stanford don’t take many xfers from cc at all. I think you could count them with one or two hands in the amount per year they each or collectively take.</p>
<p>But you could eventually xfer from Foothill or DeAnza to, say, Cal or Davis and be highly successful as an engineer anyway, make as much money, have an excellent shot at grad school, etc.</p>
<p>While it looks like it is possible (thanks for info happy mom) It is still rare to hear of such a case. You might talk to the community colleges you are considering and find out how often this has actually happened in the past 10 years.</p>
<p>In CA, for financial reasons, many good students start at CC for 2 years then transfer to the UC system.</p>
<p>In addition to grades and SAT, extradordinary accomplishments or EC’s may make your application of interest.</p>
<p>Our local community college publishes the most recent transfer information right on the website. Look for the link “Transfer Destinations List - See Where MC Students Go” on the page at the link I posted above. Your CC should be able to give you the same kind of data.</p>
<p>… if you do as well at Cal and Davis (don’t discount Davis, excellent school…), watch those same ones that wouldn’t even regard your app as an xfer from cc, come running after you for grad school, with paid TA positions, etc. This is a strange dynamic, but it happens all the time. I’m sure happymom1 will be glad to help you wade through the process as an int’l student.</p>
<p>thanks,everyone.
yeah i know it’s hard…
but i just wanna do all i can do to get in…</p>
<p>I know I will have bigger chance to get in Berkeley,which is more or less as good,
but since Berkeley doesn’t offer biomedical engineering program(i’m really interested),
i’m looking for a good school which does.Schools like Hopkins,of course,would be wonderful.</p>
<p>But since my case is kinda complicated–International transfer student.
I don’t have SAT scores or high school grades to prove how competent I am.
So i guess keeping my GPA 4.0 in cc is all i can do?
Should I get some work experiences,volunteer work,etc?</p>
<p>And most importantly…
Is it possible to transfer from Berkeley to those schools(esp. Hopkins,Caltech,MIT)
after I transfer from a CC to Berkeley?
Is it worth it?</p>
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<p>There wouldn’t be much point in transferring a second time if you go to Berkeley after finishing two years at the CCC. If you get into Berkeley, finish your undergraduate degree there and then apply everywhere else for grad school.</p>
<p>It is possible although very difficult to transfer to a place like Hopkins from a 2 year CC. Hopkins accepts @18% of freshmen applications but only @5% of transfer applicants–and most of those are from 4 year institutions. Also, I don’t think it is possible for anyone to transfer into BME at Hopkins–but similar majors might be possible.</p>
<p>Many international students apply to 4 year colleges in the U.S. They all have grades and transcripts, why don’t you? And if they are interested in U.S. colleges, they take the SAT exam.</p>