UC Berkeley 2016 Transfer Thread

Transfer Students UC Transfers
1721

DId you guys receive an email from UC about the academic update(TAU)?

Contents of the email below.

Thank you for applying to the University of California for the fall 2016 term. We are reviewing your application and need the following additional information:
• An updated list of your fall 2015 courses with all associated grades
• A list of any additional coursework in progress or planned through summer 2016

The email says that they need an update even though I already submitted my TAU last week.
I wonder if you all received the same email.

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@cberg97 Oh, alright, good. You’re up to it, then.

Here is the assis.org articulation agreement between OCC and UCB’s EECS:

http://www.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=19&dir=1&sia=OCC&ria=UCB&ia=OCC&oia=UCB&aay=15-16&ay=15-16&dora=EECS

Things that answer your question:

"The College of Engineering requires six humanities/social science courses, two of which must be reading and composition. The only non-technical admission requirement for the College of Engineering is the coursework equivalent to UC Berkeley’s English R1A and R1B (reading and composition), which must be taken for a letter grade…

The remaining four humanities/social science requirement courses are not considered for admission purposes but are required for graduation.

Courses which are three semester units or more that appear in the following categories on the “General Education/Breadth” section of assist.org may be used to satisfy two of the remaining four humanities/social science course requirements for the College of Engineering. ARTS AND LITERATURE; HISTORICAL STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL STUDIES; PHILOSOPHY AND VALUES; SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES."

General Education/Breadth:

http://www.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=21&dir=1&sia=OCC&ria=UCB&ia=OCC&oia=UCB&aay=15-16&ay=15-16&dora=GE

So it seems that, for Breadth, you need equivalents to English R1A and R1B, and you should probably take two on the general ed/breadth link that fall under the aforementioned sections before transferring. It seems that you will have to take two more after you transfer, before you graduate.

Consider taking your AC requirement in CC as well. You can find that information on assist. There may be an overlap - you may be able to take one course that satisfies both the AC requirement and the Humanities/Social Science requirement.

That’s pretty much it. Some CS people on here can help you with what extra CS classes you will need to take to be prepared for UCB’s CS classes.

Good luck!

1723

@csplzplz I received it. I submitted my TAU. It’s just a reminder email, I’m sure everybody gets it.

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@lovelyyliz like it asks for 2 poly sci courses, but I thought you had to have 4 done? or like 3? because at the bottom it asks for other courses you need to fulfill requirements? is that asking for what you NEED to transfer or is that just for the major in general? jesus im sorry I’m so bad at explaining this :stuck_out_tongue:

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@Molisha, I also asked that question but no one responded :stuck_out_tongue:

Well, I’ll give it another go. For Berkeleys Poli sci requirements it only asks of us to take 2 poli sci classes and 1 history class. However, at the end of the major prerequisites Map@Berkeley, it says: “If you need to report additional courses, in order to fulfill requirements, how many additional courses would you like to report?” Technically, I dont NEED to report any additional courses for my major requirements since I have fulfilled them. But there are some other classes that I potentially COULD put down that also fall under Poli Sci prerequisites. My question is: should I list them in the additional info section or leave em out cuz thats not what it’s asking?

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@tooweirdyo As I understand it, 2 Poli Sci and 1 history courses are the minimum prerequisites, so I listed those and then at the bottom where it asks for additional courses I listed other courses that meet the requirements (another Poli Sci class and history class) and one Poli Sci course I plan to take next semester, totaling the 4 Poli Sci prerequisites.

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@tooweirdyo I believe the additional course work you’d list would be courses that are considered “recommended or required” for your intended major (that aren’t included in the 2 polisci/1 history class they already have you reporting). Otherwise, I don’t think you would need to list them.

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@Molisha it would be the courses that show up as required- like on assist. So if they’re primarily asking for 2 prerequisites but assist shows 4, I’d mention the other two courses assist has listed in corrilation to ucb in the additional courses section.

1730

They’ve added more transfer pathways (most of these aren’t technically pathways, I think - not as expansive as the actual pathways, but they provide a guide).

They’re new, anyway: http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/preparation-paths/index.html

1731

@sugarbabies3 @tooweirdyo

Thanks for the responses guys :slight_smile:

1732

@tooweirdyo

Honestly I guess it wouldn’t hurt to add any poly sci coures? I think. buahahah

1733

Hey, so if my IGETC has Econ 101 on it and Econ 101 is also a prereq, it’s okay?

1734

@forshevchenko Yes.

1735

thank you!

1736

Did anyone get emails from Berkeley regarding scholarship opportunities? Such as The Achievement Award Program and/or The Leadership Award?

1737

yep, I guess competition will be fierce for those

1738

@Molisha @tooweirdyo are you guys going to take part in the seminar tomorrow? I’m going to ask for clarification on this :slight_smile: because I know that we need to complete all poli sci pre-reqs, but they’re only askinh for two and a history class.

1739

@andie127 yes, I received three scholarship opportunities :slight_smile:

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@lovelyyliz THERE IS A SEMINAR TOMORROW? wot. Is it for only CCC students? I’m OOS and I haven’t heard anything about it :’( Can you please let me know what they say??