Transferring from UCSB to UCB?

mitigated
Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:54:20 +0000

Chances seem pretty high at first glance but
“i really, really need to”
seems a bit suspicious. Perhaps you would be the best judge of your own chances. Is the reason you’re transferring because the major you are pursuing isn’t offered at SB? Is it because of prestige? Is it (insert phrase)?

My experience with people who have transferred is that all of them have a really “good” reason for coming. Here’s an example: one of them took the hardest undergraduate math courses at his previous university and aced all of them. There was nothing else for him at that university (no research, no graduate classes). As a third year at Cal, he is taking graduate courses and doing research in low-dimensional topology under one of the “best” professors in that field.

Of course, your reason doesn’t have to be like ^ but again, you probably know best how “legitimate” your reasons are. Your GPA is fine but [we] have no extra information upon which we can provide feedback with.