<p>do you guys know if its possible to appeal a deferred admission for cal? i got admitted for Spring 2014 but i would really like to start in Fall 2013?? </p>
<p>thanks :)</p>
<p>Probably not gonna happen.</p>
<p>:( not even if i plan to do double major or major n a minor and still graduate in 2015?</p>
<p>You can probably petition for an extra semester and graduate in 2016 since you’re double majoring. Extra time at UCB is worth it, no?</p>
<p>If they won’t let you appeal it, try and get classes at Berkeley through the extension program. I don’t know a lot of details, but I know it provides non-students a way to take courses at Cal, though they get absolutely no priority in registration.</p>
<p>Petitioning for extra semesters could be a good way to go, too. Pretty sure all transfers get four semesters at Cal, and can petition for a fifth.</p>
<p>On what grounds would you contend that they should admit you for fall instead of spring? Unfortunately, “I want to start in the fall” is not going to be persuasive. Neither is, “I want to finish by 2015.”</p>
<p>Any ideas which i can? I guess the Cal extension is most plausible</p>
<p>The reason spring admits exist is actually a backdoor that UC Berkeley uses to admit more students, so everyone should feel grateful. Let me explain: The CITY of Berkeley (not the university) only allows certain number of students per academic year. UC Berkeley knows that if they admit everyone in its list, the number will go over the limit. However, they also know that some students leave the university at the end of Fall, opening more “seats” per class for new students to take them without violating the city’s policy. These newly opened seats are the ones taken by Spring admits. If this didn’t exist, all Spring admits would have received a letter of rejection. Trust me, UC Berkeley does this to admit as many qualified students as it can. It has nothing to do with your qualifications or merits. It’s simply a number’s game. By the way, my source is the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Harry Le Grande. He said all this in a welcome reception for transfer students yesterday.</p>
<p>Bottom line: UC Berkeley won’t listen to your deferred admission appeal (I’m not even sure that exist!). If I were you, I’d use this time to get a job, save some many so maybe you can live in a non-rundown crappy apartment. Practice your writing, reading, and researching skills because you’ll do papers/readings until you reach insanity. Also, if you’re a science major (or anything related to numbers) get some serious practice in calculus. Oh! And enjoy your free time, you’ll miss it :)</p>
<p>Such a dumb policy but it is what it is. I rather not wait, and i dont wanna risk being behind. Guess going to ucla is the better choice</p>
<p>It is not the policy, it is the person.</p>
<p>lol clever, i talked to a director of poli sci at cal, if i choose cal ill have to do summer 2014 if i wanna graduate by may 2015 butoh well,</p>
<p>thanks guys for your help, i dont mean to sound rude, i was just really looking and hoping for fall 2013 but ill wait a semester, thanks i really do appreciate, sorry again for coming off rude</p>
<p>In L&S, having more than one major raises the unit ceiling from 130 to 136 units.
[Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: Unit Ceiling](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html)
Note that the unit ceiling only applies after you complete four semesters after transfer.</p>
<p>Spring admission is, as noted above, a load balancing tool. Without spring admission, fall semesters would ordinarily be more heavily enrolled. Consider that some students graduate one semester early or one semester late, usually resulting in them taking an extra fall semester. Others may leave for other reasons (transfer out, drop out, etc.); some of them leave after a fall semester (having taken one more fall than spring semester). Rather than have unused wasted capacity in the spring, they give spring admission to balance out the load.</p>
<p>My admissions officer finally got back to me and said it is possible to appeal. I sent my appeal yesterday. Hoping for best but already preparing ucb extension</p>
<p>Make sure to ask your admissions officer about the Extension Concurrent Enrollment courses if you would be over the transfer unit limit including those courses (since they may count as “units from a four year school” that would put you over the transfer unit limit).
<a href=“https://students.berkeley.edu/myberkeley/myberkeleyapp.asp?todo=cms&id=89#6[/url]”>https://students.berkeley.edu/myberkeley/myberkeleyapp.asp?todo=cms&id=89#6</a></p>
<p>Here is the information on Extension Concurrent Enrollment, which would let you take regular Berkeley courses on a space-available basis:
[Concurrent</a> Enrollment Overview — UC Berkeley Extension](<a href=“http://extension.berkeley.edu/info/ConcurrentOverview.html]Concurrent”>http://extension.berkeley.edu/info/ConcurrentOverview.html)</p>
<p>thanks a lot man i appreciate my admissions said nothing of less semesters at cal due to enrollment but he wants me to tell him the classes, gota see if i can afford it too, really grateful for all your input ppl :)))</p>