Do any other UC’s have any hoops you have to jump through that I may have missed?
I guess I never paid much attention to the spammy e-mails sent through the UC’s but I just read a few of them and realized UC Berkeley requires some manual updating on their MAP@Berkeley website. All you have to do is check mark the TAU and manually enter your IGETC right?
I hope I am not missing anything more from Berkeley or any other UC.
I can’t believe I just realized it on the last day, thank God.
The form on the Berkeley website doesn’t allow you to leave in progress courses grades blank…so what do you do?
You have to manually put in “IP” for the grades. Nothing should be blank.
Even if you think an email coming from a UC is going to be “spammy”, you should always skim it to make sure it isn’t something really important, like this. I have a friend who was rejected from Berkeley last year, and she’s reapplying this year. I told her about the separate UCB TAU on the Map website and she said she had no clue. Apparently she never realized you have to update with your fall grades to Berkeley in addition, and it’s probably why she didn’t get in. Read everything schools send to you.
This is the first year Berkeley had this system.
I did the IP, but it’s weird because nowhere on the website does it give that instruction. Anyway, no other UC requires kind of thing right? You just do the TAU on the ucappliction website and that’s it?
Correct, only Berkeley does this thing.
From the front page of the UC application page. ( https://admissions.universityofcalifornia.edu/applicant/login.htm )
“Transfer Applicants: The priority deadline for the Transfer Academic Update is January 31, 2016. Note: UC Berkeley requires its applicants to complete additional forms, available on the MyBerkeleyApplication website.”
My bf was required to do this last year, and forgot until sometime in February. They still let him update it late, and he was even accepted, so it didn’t affect the process at all.