UC Berkeley math major transfer

<p>If you keep getting A’s in everything else you’ll probably get in since math has a pretty high acceptance rate for people with 3.7+. I highly recommend you take discrete math even though it isn’t required by berkeley to be admitted. You’ll have to take it at Berkeley anyways since its a graduation requirement for transfers coming in Fall 2010 so you can save yourself some money and time. Also, your exposure to proof based mathematics is rather limited with what you’ve taken at community college and discrete mathematics will teach you the basics to proof writing. All the upper division math courses are proof based, there isn’t much computation like there is in lower division calculus. Instead, you will focus on proving theorems nonstop. For example, in linear algebra at CCC you are asked to calculate eigenvalues but in Math 110 at berkeley you will be asked to prove something like: Every operator on a finite dimensional, nonzero, complex vector space has an eigenvalue.</p>