<p>A few months ago I made a thread talking about how I hated telebears since I had more than 80 AP/IB units as a freshman but I still got a bad appointment relative to other freshmen (since they assigned me a time before they input my credits)</p>
<p>I raised a legitimate concern and got bashed and flamed like crazy because people thought I didn’t deserve a better telebears based on my number of units.</p>
<p>Well I now have an appointment time of April 13th as a freshman with senior standing (a time appropriate for a senior). All my freshmen friends have April 25th-29th (although I’m sure there are a few freshmen that have times closer to mine)</p>
<p>Now I just want to call attention to quotes from people a few months ago:</p>
<p>anon5524485:
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<p>cavilier:
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<p>I hope this gives you guys a little bit more information about the telebears process. It IS about AP/IB units. And 20% of freshmen definitely don’t have 80+ units. </p>
<p>I don’t think that proves it indefinitely. There are many people that are non-senior with senior standing and they don’t get it as early as you have. For example, I’m also senior standing with 80+ AP credit unit-wise as a freshman and I only got 4/19. </p>
<p>However, I believe you’re correct in that it depends on standing since they really haven’t updated mine yet and I’m still Junior standing, but it really leaves some odd cases out such as StarryNights’. Surely, there has to be something more going on.</p>
<p>For me, I really wish I had an early Telebears appointment Freshman year when it actually mattered. Now that I finished all my lower divs, breadths, R&C, etc., I really have no need for an early appointment since all my classes are generally 1-2 sections and never full…
Conclusion: I hate Telebears.</p>
<p>Wow StarryNights, that really sucks… I’d switch with you if it were possible, because honestly I don’t even need this early of a time. I’d get the same classes and time slots even if mine were a week later…</p>
<p>I was expecting a week earlier than what I actually got because regents scholars finally get priority registration this semester . . . well apparently not.</p>
<p>No offense, but you just sound like you’re bragging. Sorry about not getting super early Telebears last time, but suck it up you’re a freshman. Very few people actually got bumped up in Telebears last semester due to previous credits. So if you actually did get an earlier time as a first semester freshman, then you were lucky, not the other way around. Honestly, it’s ridiculous how some freshmen have so many units coming in because their high school let them double up with college courses.
-Freshman that is 3.3 units shy of Junior Standing and has Telebears on May 2</p>
<p>^ You seem to imply that coming in as a freshman with so many units is a bad thing. Although he is kind of bragging, it also seems you’re just envious. It shouldn’t matter what real standing you are. If your Telebears appointment is dependent on your academic standing and it doesn’t get updated before the appointment, it’s unfair.</p>
<p>Even if you did obtain the necessary units for Junior standing this semester, you would still have the same Telebears appointment because they would not have updated. In other words, you would also be complaining.</p>
<p>feeling bad for starry: why is of seniority importance vs your academic standing. wouldn’t you think that juniors and seniors need earlier telebears than sophs and froshs? regardless of academic standing? i mean, the timer’s ticking and frosh and sophs have a long time to get in those extra college recs while seniors especially may be frantic to jump into a GE course they never took for whatever reason. </p>
<p>*shrugs.</p>
<p>i just feel that if i were a senior i would be upset, and if i were a freshman with senior standing i would understand having a delayed telebears b/c seniors need it more. </p>
<p>@crowslayer91: Well, it really depends. Seniors can certainly always find an appropriate GE course to fill the requirement given that they sign up for it for their Phase I. At least that’s what I’ve observed so far since I’ve never seen someone unable to get into a breadth or R&C as long as they weren’t picky about it. It just won’t be the easiest GE course that would have filled the requirement. This is practically true for any requirement, excluding the PE category of course.
And seniors should have a high academic standing anyways so they should have an early appointment.</p>
<p>Basing appointments on academic standing certainly is justifiable, but neglecting to update on time certainly is not. It practically voids the purpose of Telebears then.</p>
<p>Your TeleBEARS appointment proves absolutely nothing other than there are clear flaws in the appointment algorithm. It has been long established across multiple cases that the system is not based on AP/IB units. It is also well established that a few semesters ago when they added the phase 2 unit restriction, they broke the system. After they broke the system, all of a small group frosh/soph each semester randomly got senior appointments. Look at old appointment listing threads from before and after the unit restrictions.</p>
<p>You need data to prove your claims. At this point you really can’t prove if you are a glitch or if you are right. Simply put, you have to wait a few semesters before you can make your claim.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman with 75 units and my appointment’s on the last day of April, PLUS I really need to get into three upper div poli sci courses or risk getting screwed by future TeleBears… Congratulations, OP, but then again looks like you don’t really need it. Good try though.</p>