**official 2009 berkeley admissions/rejections thread**

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Rejected LOL!</p>

<p>Major: Haas School of Business
GPA: 4.0
Pre-reqs: all done
EC: Part time (35hr/week) as a merchandiser (Marketing dpt), President of student council in high school (Taiwan), IT counselor of a small office. Repair and tune up people’s computers occasionally. </p>

<p>Go Bruins!!</p>

142

<p>UCB: Accepted
chance for appeal UCLA: (please help me out with some new ideas, b/c I really want to be with my BF, he is accepted by UCLA. I dont know why i got rejected by UCLA. F>>K)
GPA 3.96 before apply, after apply 3.92
GE: DONE, finish calculus courses and currently take DE class in MATH, taking EWRT1C
EC: many
essay: good
CA resident from De Anza
major: BIZ ECON</p>

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<p>The official Berkeley appeals thread is here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/716430-official-2009-berkeley-appeals-thread.html?highlight=berkeley+appeal[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/716430-official-2009-berkeley-appeals-thread.html?highlight=berkeley+appeal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

144

<p>I HATE CAL. THEY’RE SO F-CKING RANDOM!!!
There are so many people with lower GPAs than mine but got in. I just don’t get it!!! I think one of the main reasons is probably because I wrote my personal statements on a different major and not the one I put for Cal… Oh well… Bruins are better anyway ;)</p>

145

<p>^ Agree.
Go Bruins!</p>

146

<p>Haha hijacking the Cal thread with our Bruin Love.</p>

<p>GO BRUINS!!!</p>

<p>EDIT: xiebx66, Did you get into UCB for Econ or Haas?</p>

147

<p>BIZZUMP!!! gooo cal</p>

148

<p>Looks like last year’s results came out at 3pm. Hopefully this year is similar. </p>

<p>I don’t get off work until 4:45 that day though D:</p>

149

<p>^i think they came out around 5 actually.</p>

150

<p>Then how did people post that they were accepted at 3pm? :p</p>

151

<p>^oh loll, i didnt read that carefully thru it haha, i just remember that my friend called me around 5ish to tell me last year, and this thread started at like 5pm so…yeah hahaha</p>

152

<p>I didn’t see people mentioning the FA from Berkeley - Anyone know if Berkeley is usually more generous than UCLA? UCLA was stingy with me…lol</p>

153

<p>UCB offered me about $5k more than UCLA. That was after submitting a financial aid appeal to both. If they don’t offer you enough and you will make less money this year than you did last year, be sure to appeal. </p>

<p>As far as financial aid was concerned, the schools were ranked like this (from most aid to least aid):</p>

<p>UCSD
UCB
UCLA
UCSB</p>

154

<p>shiiiiit kc_sunshine…it’s been a while since I saw you one here </p>

<p>(i had a different screen name)</p>

155

<p>who cares if they give u FA or not, its Berkeley!!! i would go there, even if they dont give me anything, and I have to pay the whole way.</p>

156

<p>@KC - How did you go about writing your FA appeal?</p>

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<p>that’s a really stupid (but it’s nice to see that you’re excited)</p>

158

<p>If UCLA gives me 'mo money I am going there.</p>

159

<p>@CalBearGuy</p>

<p>Are you one of these peeps that wear the Cal shirt everyday, have Cal stickers on there car, and tell everyone you’re going to Cal? Just wondering…</p>

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<p>anonymousername-what was your screen name before?</p>

<p>The financial aid appeal isn’t difficult, but it takes a really long time. If you need to appeal, do it NOW (or as soon as your financial aid award is posted). You have to download a form from their website and attach all of the relevant docs. It has to be legit though, they won’t give you more money just because. In my case, I went from making about $19k in 2008 to making about $9000 in 2009. I had to prove it with paycheck stubs and proof that I left my full-time job at the beginning of the year. Berkeley’s financial aid department ended up giving me about $5k more after they reveiwed my appeal. They were very generous and helpful though, like I said, it took forever.</p>