getting my appeal to berkeley ready

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>So i go to UCSD and applied to UCLA as math/econ and UCB as math.</p>

<p>GPA trend
FA 07: 3.075
WI 08: 3.600
SP 08: 3.825
FA 08: 3.133</p>

<p>Overall: 3.43</p>

<p>So i had an amazing upward trend and then i sucked hard. but i explained working 40 hours a week and that i would cut my hours.</p>

<p>Well i did cut my hours (to 25/week) and i just got my WI 09 grades: 4.000 (bringing my cum gpa to 3.50)</p>

<p>SO i'm thinking if Berkeley rejects me, i'll have at least a quasi-legitimate appeal. I could say something to the effect that "my claim that my gpa would go up with less hours was unsubstantiated when i made it, but as evidenced by my winter quarter grades..."</p>

<p>thoughts? </p>

<p>(it's sad that i'm already prepared to appeal).</p>

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<p>Solid plan. I would say come up with more though, you need to be very compelling from what I hear.</p>

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<p>hmm. do you think it would sound desperate if i mentioned specific faculty i want to be there for (math professors)? i know they like to hear that, but i don't want them to see it as a ploy.</p>

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<p>you have a nice shot at the schools. i dont think youre going to need to appeal :). have you done most of the first 2 year work?</p>

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<p>they should let u in. Working full time while getting a high GPA...</p>

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<p>wow, you guys are so encouraging. it's just hard sometimes to see that i'm significantly below the 25% gpa of admits for berkeley. the only thing i have to rely on is that math is no where near impacted.</p>

<p>yes i have done all prereqs for both majors. (except the discrete structure class at ucla, i've taken an upper division class that isn't entirely discrete structures but does truth tables and stuff, so i don't know if that counts).</p>

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<p>I remember reading somewhere that math has a nearly 50% acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>unfortunately, the avg admit gpa is around 3.7 for math/statistics at berkeley according to statfinder. Most math majors have pretty high gpas when they apply.</p>

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<p>Yeah I saw that the other day. The only hope I have is that no ccc student has upper div math done (and with good grades). I probably won't get in. Hence the op about appeal haha.</p>

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<p>you have a solid gpa considering you are going the UC to UC route, I think you’re chances are good and preparing an appeal now is just security</p>

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<p>Has anything new happened to you after applying?
New leadership positions, jobs, activities? </p>

<p>Or are there other circumstances you didn’t state in your application that you could bring up?</p>

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<p>Wow, you’re starting early. Decisions for transfers don’t even come out for another month.</p>

<p>I don’t know if transfer appeals require letters of recommendation ( I know that freshmen appeals do though), but maybe you should get to know some of your math teachers better so you can ask them to write a letter for you.</p>

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<p>erikuh: No unfortunately not. :(</p>

<p>krishteene: oh, really i didn’t know you could have recommendatrions with your appeal. yeah i grade lower div math classes for some profs, so maybe one of them could write a recommendation for me.</p>

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<p>The problem with appeals are that you need to commit to another school and submit an appeal or you risk not be able to go to school anywhere because appeal decisions come out after the SLR deadline.</p>

<p>Also,
They only consider appeals with “new or compelling” information and there is a slim to none chance. Last year I heard (from a reliable source) that it was not even worth appealing to UCLA.</p>

<p>On a more optimistic note: I know someone who got into one, but not the other school. Their defense was the program they got into was more difficult to get into than the school they wanted, but got rejected and their appeal was granted.</p>

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<p>Please post in the official Berkeley appeals thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/716430-official-2009-berkeley-appeals-thread.html?highlight=berkeley+appeal[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/716430-official-2009-berkeley-appeals-thread.html?highlight=berkeley+appeal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;