Incoming Cal Students Thread

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Yeah, you have a student ID number. It’s on the right side of the myBerkeley page, and probably other places.</p>

<p>My advisers were really good. While talking with them I figured out exactly what classes I wanted to take. You won’t necessarily know what you want to sign up for though, but they help a lot. </p>

<p>No they don’t show you housing, but the parking garage that they recommend is right next to unit 2 and the Wada apartments, and you walk by the rest of them on your way to check in. So you can probably just pop-in and look around. We went to a cafe, then looked at dinosaurs on my tour. It’s really up to the CalSO counselor.</p>

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<p>^I went to a cafe then looked at dinosaurs on my tour. was your advisor Liz or Erin(i think that was his name)?</p>

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<p>So did anyone get the Omnivore’s Dilemma? On the envelope it said it came from the L&S Department and apparently the author is a Cal professor so…</p>

<p>Good to hear the Tools Thing wasn’t that important. </p>

<p>I dread going to CalSo, from what I’ve gathered here, there’s speeches, advising, the Cal ID, etc. Are there ice breakers or games we’re suppose to do, I hate those at orientations…</p>

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<p>Dreakol - My counselor’s name was Chris. I think I was in your group during the tour because we joined a group with a counselor named Liz for the tour. </p>

<p>Niners - I did not get that book and there were no ice breaker games. They did have us turn to the people next to us and introduce ourselves really quick at the welcome speech. They also have a “stand if” segment after lunch where they say some stuff and if it applies to you then you stand-up.</p>

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<p>Is/has anyone taken these classes:
California (History class)
Plagues and Pandemics
Intro to the Near East
Mesopotamian History</p>

<p>Didn’t sign up for any orientations though, looked like a waste of time. I do want to go to Caltopia though.</p>

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<p>Caltopia is fun…lots of cool free stuff, especially when the Mac people are there, they have the best swag</p>

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<p>What is Caltopia exactly? I’ve heard a little it about it, but not much. It happens at the beginning of the fall semester, right?</p>

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<p>[YouTube</a> - UC Berkeley - Caltopia 2008](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmHnsfdtFPs]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmHnsfdtFPs)</p>

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<p>Cool, thanks!</p>

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<p>Not to overthink this but, my admissions officer was changed to someone else. I didn’t realize that it was changed on June 10th, but on June 12th my final transcript was mailed off addressed to my previous officer. Do you guys think I should resend my transcript?</p>

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<p>You should be fine. They should forward it to the right person.</p>

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<p>Did the Cal site ALWAYS tell you to address all your transcripts to your admissions officer? I could have sworn it wasn’t there before . . .</p>

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<p>I think so…it was stated on the Conditions of Admission</p>

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<p>Yeah on the conditions it says to mail to their address with “to the attention of …”</p>

<p>I hope its fine. My new admissions officer hasnt responded to my email from last friday so hopefully she responds soon.</p>

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<p>I sent mine directly to the school…I didnt “cc” anybody and they received them just fine.</p>

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<p>Well if thats the case then I feel a heck of a lot better about it. Anyone knows if they prefer us handing in transcripts in person or mailing them in. I just got my high school one and I’m debating which tact I should use, since I’m more than likely going to Berkeley on Thursday.</p>

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<p>I’m going up to Berkeley tomorrow and probably just going to hand them in. I don’t think its a major issue. Either way, it’s probably going to take them a week or two to “process.”</p>

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<p>I didn’t realize until a few days ago that I was supposed to address them to my admissions officer directly, so I just sent mine to the office of undergrad admissions but they received them just fine.</p>

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<p>You know what ****es me off? I sent my AP exam scores 5 weeks ago, my high school transcript 3 weeks ago, and yet - they claim to still not have received it. </p>

<p>Of course I forgot to put “To the attention to” on my transcript… ■■■. :(</p>

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<p>Haha, I LOVE how we’re all huddled on this thread. I think it takes them a while to update the status of your documents. So what happens if you can’t get everything in by Jul. 15?</p>