Lol @ Berkeley

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>sent an email to FAO b/c none of my grants are being paid to CARS like they said they would be. </p>

<h2>the response:</h2>

<p>Subject: Financial Aid Email Inquiry</p>

<p>We have received your email inquiry. Unfortunately, due to high volume, our
response time will be between 1-2 weeks. We will respond to your email inquiry as
soon as possible.</p>

<p>In the meantime, we encourage you to visit the Financial Aid Office web site at
<a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/fao%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://students.berkeley.edu/fao&lt;/a> for information about our programs.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<h2>FAO Staff</h2>

<p>1-2 weeks after the deadline will be marvelous!</p>

<p>just like i'm STILL waiting (almost 2 months now?) for them to update myberkeleyapp that they received my AP scores! (CB has confirmed that my scores were sent)</p>

<p>THIS SCHOOL IS GREAT. THE FAO MUST BE RUN BY ONE KID WITH A FOUR HOUR PER WEEK WORK SCHEDULE.</p>

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<p>my california residency status is still pending. i had to take out loans (about 9k) that i didn't need to if they took care of it early enough. now i have to pay interest on it. great.</p>

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<p>i know how you guys feel....sigh</p>

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<p>welcome to cal, a large public institution of thirty-three thousand students...thousands of which receive financial aid and grants and scholarships. they do admit that in dealing with those large numbers, problems can arise...they're not perfect. if you have a suggestion on how they can be perfect, i'm sure they'd be glad to hear it. until then, you're gonna have be like the rest of us and deal with stuff like this for every department in the bureaucracy of this school. if you see a problem, take care of it as soon as you can...otherwise you're gonna have to wait along with everyone else.</p>

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<p>WELCOME TO THE BERKELEY BUREAUCRACY!
Would you like a sickle and hammer with that?</p>

<p>In all honesty, the Berkeley Bureaucracy is remarkably horrendous sometimes. Just wait it out for now.</p>

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<p>wow, the OP has 666 posts.</p>

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<p>DEVIL DEVIL DEVIL!</p>

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<p>Strykur, you're going to be a freshman....but you're almost a senior member on CC!!!!</p>

<p>That's all that truly matters in my mind :cool:</p>

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<p>If less than a thousand posts is "almost a senior member," than Sakky and DRab must be Gods.</p>

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<p>Uhh, CardinalFocused, there is a poster on CC who is about 16 (could be 17 by now) and used to have around 13,000 posts. I think some of her posts got moved into the cafe forum where it doesn't count so now it's down to around 9,000.</p>

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<p>The thing about Berkeley is that you just shouldn't worry about it. If you sent something, it'll get logged and done sometime. Stressing over it won't do you any good. They've never lost a check or form I've sent them, it just took them awhile to tell me via CARS or Bearfacts that they received it. Big deal. Just stop worrying and you life will be much easier.</p>

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<p>Actually, good point. They sometimes don't get stuff done on time but they actually feels reliable. If there are any problems of missing documents/whatever they just inform me by email. I never really feel like I have to worry too much about what I'm missing.</p>