I didn't update my UC Berkeley Transfer Application!?

Transfer Students
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Hello everyone,

I am currently very worried as I feel my chances of getting into UCB are nonexistent because it seems that I did not update my UCB Transfer application. I did not know there was an additional, separate portal that UCB used to connect to transfer students so that they could update their applications. I thought that there was only the generalized UC portal that needed updating.

After logging into the MyBerkeleyApp portal I saw the following statements:

“Changes to your academic record should be submitted through April 1st; however, we cannot guarantee that updates made after January 31st will be considered in the review process.”
and
“This form must be completed and submitted online by January 31, 2015; failure to do so will jeopardize your chances for admission.”

I was not aware that this form existed until now and was not able to update it before that deadline. Does anyone know what I should do?

I applied to UCB as a Political Science major transfer from Orange Coast College, and was hoping to find out if I could attend for the Fall '15 semester if I get in. I would love to see if I could get in, as it has always been a dream school of mine…now I am just so scared that I have literally zero chances of that actually happening.

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Hello,
I too applied for transfer to Berkeley and missed the Jan 31 deadline but only by a couple hours. Anyways, I was worried so I contacted the Admissions Officer on the bottom of the form and he replied saying to submit it asap because they were starting the review process that week. Its been 2 weeks since then maybe they haven’t got to your file yet. I also watched a youtube video regarding the UC process when reviewing applications and the Berkeley officer did mention that a high number of transfer students fail to complete these 2nd set of forms. If I was in your situation I would just submit it asap and maybe email the admissions officer for that program.

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Are you talking about the myberkeley forms? Email them and let them know you didn’t realize. You did update your TAU, right? My daughter thinks she never did it last year and yet she got accepted to UCB. She may have, but she doesn’t remember doing it at all. Anyhow, just contact them ASAP. I can’t imagine that would disbar you.

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Thank you so, so much!! I will do just that. And thank you for clarifying that this is a common mistake!