<p>Thanks sparky.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was wondering how one could possibly bring work in to the admissions office and show the people.</p>
<p>You’re welcome. Best of luck to you. With your stats, I honestly believe you deserve a spot at Berkeley this fall.</p>
<p>Well, I will call on monday and ask if I should have seen a check mark next to the r&c questionnaire and if so if that contributed to my rejection and if I can appeal about that. I also didn’t add that I got the internship with fermilab until sometime after the transfer update application was due because I didn’t know until that time and I don’t know if the admissions committee actually saw that info so that would mean they didn’t know that about me which would have made my application less strong, but I’m not going to appeal about something like that because I don’t think it would change their mind. I think the main thing that got me rejected was my lack of another foreign language course, and although if I was applying from california would have qualified for IGETC, I am applying form out of state so I had to finish L&S requirements instead of IGETC and was missing 2 out of 7 courses to satisfy those requirements, along with missing 1 out of 10 major pre-reqs (which wasn’t offered at my school) all contributed to my denial.</p>
<p>It may also be worth noting I had all the physics professors at my CC write me a letter of recommendation and send it to UCB. Their dean personally responded to me saying he looked forward to reading my application. It’s rather difficult to determine what is / was the reason that someone got accepted. Also, like you, I had an English professor who graduated from Stanford proofread my essay. (With all the markings he made, I’m glad I didn’t choose to major in English).
@ILRApplicant, UCB is like a private / Ivy League school in the regard that you need to dazzle them in ~1,000 words rather than show you’re book smart. A good example worth noting would be that Taylor Wilson was rejected from MIT (He built a working nuclear reactor when he was 14 years old). GPA isn’t the only indicator, there are other things that make up a well-rounded person.</p>
<p>@ sparkboy: Thanks! I really appreciate all your help!</p>
<p>@ Der3k7: If your school doesn’t offer a pre-req, doesn’t UCB not count that against you? </p>
<p>@ jbarker91: Wow, that’s truly impressive. All the physics professors at a CC vouching for you? Just awesome.</p>
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<p>De Anza lists in its catalog Math 23 that ASSIST lists as articulating to Berkeley Statistics 25 (engineering statistics, also accepted by Berkeley economics). However, Berkeley no longer offers Statistics 25, presumably because the engineering major that required it no longer does. De Anza does not list Math 23 in its current or next quarter schedules. In general, it is not practical to find the needed statistics course for Berkeley economics at a community college.</p>
<p>What is odd is that the ASSIST sheets for Berkeley economics do not indicate that students who want to go to graduate school in economics should take the equivalent of Berkeley Math 53 and 54.</p>
<p>If the appeal doesn’t work you could always just take calculus I/II next year and apply again. You would get in for sure then.</p>
<p>I was accepted to UCB and NOT UCLA…
hard to explain why, just a number game I guess</p>
<p>Hey, I posted this in another thread. Hope it helps.</p>
<p>I transfered into Berkeley last year, and I also work for the University. My friend got rejected from UCLA but got accepted at Berkeley. I got into Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD and UCSB.</p>
<p>The number 1 reason people get rejected from Berkeley or UCLA is missin pre-reqs. If you are missing pre-reqs and your major is impacted you have a very slim chance of getting in. Economics is a top 5 major at Cal and is extremely impacted.</p>
<p>Berkeley has a holistic admissions process. They consider the entire package they get and try to get an idea of what kind of student you are. That is why the personal statement is so crucial at Berkeley. The personal statement should not be a list of things you did. They want to know who you are.
There are no “points” given on applications. No other campus in the UC system has an admissions process like Berkeley. UCLA has been taking steps to move in the direction of holistic acceptance. </p>
<p>Berkeley admissions is given a minimum criteria from each department for transfer students. They also give them a number of spots they have open for transfers. This number changes every year. They may have 120 students apply to Economics with all 4.0 GPAs but if there are only 22 spots that is all they can admit. They turn to the personal statements and the data on the application to try to understand who you are and if you will fit in and do well at Berkeley.</p>
<p>You can try to appeal, but that hardly ever works. There has to be significant and compelling new information to make admissions reconsider your application.</p>
<p>I am sure there were lots of bright, talented students like yourself with great stats all applying to the Econ major, and they probably had very limited spots.</p>
<p>I got rejected too and I have similar stats and wrote about real estate and homelessness too. :/</p>
<p>How would one go about documenting instances of hardship? For example, some things off the top of my head:</p>
<ul>
<li>car accident: police report?</li>
<li>serious illness: doctor’s report/insurance claim</li>
<li>becoming a foster child: Social Services documentation</li>
</ul>
<p>Some other ones I have trouble thinking about, including some that pertain to my individual case, are:</p>
<ul>
<li>death of a loved one: how do you prove an intimate connection to someone? </li>
<li>untreated depression: how would you prove this?</li>
<li>signs of physical pain that are not life-threatening but are serious: doctor’s note?</li>
</ul>
<p>@vincentvega: I’ve come too far to spend another year just to take Calculus again.</p>
<p>@ troop96: Dang numbers! :(</p>
<p>@ BerkeleyorBust: I saw that post. I believe that my personal statement was really good. It may not have had stories of hardship (especially ones that occurred to my family recently), but it definitely showcased the individual I am. I’m hoping that my appeals letter will add to my personality. It is definitely my dream to be a Berkeley student, and I feel that that wasn’t emphasized too strongly on the application (since it was a UC application).</p>
<p>@PinkPoetry: Will you appeal?</p>
<p>Also, has anyone used a letter of recommendation from their employer?</p>
<p>bumpity bump.</p>
<p>I wish I could help, but I’m in the same boat as you. Good luck, though!</p>
<p>I plan to appeal… I was in TAP too which made me even more sure id get in. 
i’m told TAP can help me appeal, but I dunno how they can help… 
I’m feeling very defeated.</p>
<p>Looks like we are all in the same boat on this.</p>
<p>Wow, I guess they’re only admitting Nobel prize winners to that major this year. </p>
<p>Sorry guys That’s totally unacceptable on their part.</p>
<p>Let’s see if they can tell me what went wrong now…must be a bunch of CCers calling in and hogging up the phone lines xP.</p>
<p>Has anyone got a nice person to help them out yet?</p>
<p>Gah. Talked to 3 different people, all gave me the same response:</p>
<p>“Too high volume of applications to tell you what happened. We have lots of strong applicants.”</p>
<p>-___- I really wanted to punch someone in the face.</p>
<p>Has anyone appealed?</p>