@RichardBIV the CSULB website recommends you review your ‘Degree Planner’ in preperation for your advising session where you will receive assistance with selecting and registering classes for your first semester. This all happens at SOAR.
is anyone able to see the degree planner section or the transfer work credit cuz it doesn’t show up on mine???
@anyoneelse I think the transfer credit is something that we are still waiting for when I talked to an advisor few weeks ago. According to them, they will send it out by email.
How’s the GWAR test by the way everybody who took it?
I think it was simple and I can’t wait to see my score, I’d hate to take the extra two courses though, but there’s just no way I could score below 7.
Hey guys! I’ve replied to a bunch of you guys here already but I saw you guys were asking about SOAR. It’s an all day event (sorta, they say 8-5 but it’s more like 8-2:30). The first part of the day you sit in the business lecture hall and hear the president of the school talk, then you split up in groups by major and walk around campus for about 45 minutes. After that, you go to lunch (they cater lunch that day). Afterwards you play some school related games or learn about certain things going on on campus (you get to choose, there’s like 20 options) and that lasts about 30 minutes. Then you go to another room with everyone in your major and you get paperwork from a counselor saying what classes that you should take for the Spring semester and then you pick out classes. I recommend looking over your degree planner and having some idea of what classes you want, because they go quick during SOAR orientation because everyone’s competing for limited spots.
@RichardBIV They grade the GWAR pretty easily. They’ll give you over an 11 as long as you answered the prompt and wrote an intro, a couple to a few body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Every single person in one of my classes got a 12.
@rb8991 thank you so much for your answers and input about all the questions we have.
The degree planner is still not showing up on my portal, hope it will soon 
How did you know the classes that transferred over? Did you receive an email?
@RichardBIV I honestly can’t remember if I got an email or not, I think it just eventually showed up. The easiest way to check before SOAR is to go on assist.org and plug everything in. It takes about 10-15 minutes to figure out which classes transfer. At the SOAR orientation, you’ll get a paper showing which classes transferred and which didn’t, along with a packet of classes you need to take for your major and they’ll put a star by the ones you should take your first semester at CSULB.
Just signed up for SOAR on Jan 7th! I still have send official transcripts on my to do list and haven’t been sent my official admission. Should I be worried?
@octransfergirl I have a question, I haven’t been able to sign up for SOAR and haven’t been given my official admission either but I don’t have any to-dos or holds, how did you sign up?
@FinApplicant I just clicked on soar sign up on the admissions section of student center and it let me sign up. It did say my application is still conditional waiting for my documents. I turned my transcripts in person two weeks ago so I’m surprised its taking so long to take them off my to do list.
Thanks for that, yeah its been a little annoying dealing with this process, I understand they’re busy but they’ve always been busy, so it seems odd they don’t have systems in place to handle the influx of paperwork. Just my opinion lol. Anyway, I’m still waiting on my admission to clear fully and maybe that’ll open up soar registration? I’ll wait and see.
Just signed up for SOAR on the 7th as well, hopefully that can help to get into classes I would like to.
@FinApplicant how’s it going? You need to call them and bug them or show up, this is what helped me to clear some things up.
I see you settled with Long Beach? Or still deciding?
Yeah you’re right about that, I need to just bug them. I’m still deciding but here’s the deal, I’m having some issues with my ADT…
I’ll explain as short as I can: I thought the acceptance of the ADT meant all lower div GEs and lower major divs would be assumed to have been completed (accounting 1,2, econ 1,2, blaw, stat, calc, etc.), which would put me at junior level and ready to take upper division courses? Well now I’m having to submit substitution requests and course evaluations for those courses! Makes no sense, maybe someone can help or has gone through this as well?
I had the same issue with my to-do list until I called CSULB earlier this morning. Enrollment services transferred my call to one of their ‘transfer application evaluator’ who was able to check and confirm that I submitted the necessary official transcripts before clearing my to-do list. Mignon, the evaluator I spoke with, then moved my application to the next step in admissions where they would match my supplemental application to my official transcript so they could either fully admit me or rescind my application (which I really hope they don’t).
Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get the full admittance email?
@rb8991 So after you complete SOAR then you sign up for classes?
@Hehwasez The last hour of SOAR you’ll pick out classes.
Is there a day for parents? Does anybody know?
@jellocsu No. If your parents come with you to SOAR, they’ll make your parents leave. There’s no reason for them to be there.
Ok thank you. I was just wondering if they had a “Welcome Day” like CSUF where families are invited
@jellocsu No, they only have that kind of thing if you’re in the dorms. That’d be cool if they had something like that though.