<p>Still impressive… Hopefully I will get the opportunity to learn some! Maybe we will know TOMORROW!</p>
<p>OMG its TUESDAY!</p>
<p>I don’t think updates will be given until the end of the week… Sigh.</p>
<p>Hey, so if your appeal goes through, when do you guys start? If it’s late, doesn’t that diminish your total financial aid?</p>
<p>I have no idea when school will begin… hopefully in August for fall semester. </p>
<p>With financial aid, evidently my parents make too much for me to receive any grants. So, that isn’t an issue for me.</p>
<p>Ouch, that’s 25K you won’t be seeing again. </p>
<p>That’s odd though, almost everyone gets a little financial aid, even if it’s only a pittance.</p>
<p>I don’t get it either. My sister was able to get her tuition paid for when she went to UCR. I suppose, my parents started to make more money than before? Who knows. </p>
<p>UCLA offered me loans to take out, but I have a worry-wart mother who believes that loans will just cause you to be in bigger debt in the long run.</p>
<p>Loans are a necessary evil. I mean you can work and go to school, but your GPA, and thus any hope of getting into a grad program, will be severely impacted.</p>
<p>I’m barely managing a 3.5 with no job. I’m pretty sure, I’d be be in 2.5 territory if I had to work and study. </p>
<p>But hey, if you can swing the whole thing without any outside help, more power to ya.</p>
<p>I concur, working and going to school at the same time brought down my grades. I’m just happy that I have a traditional Asian mum that believes in providing for her children until they are fit enough to be on their own.</p>
<p>im nervous!!!</p>
<p>Emm… I just re-read my appeal letter. I see a few grammatical errors. Awesome… Hah.</p>
<p>Haha, i’m sure they’re not going to be like:</p>
<p>“Hmm, used your instead of you’re. Clearly not Berkeley material… <em>rips up appeal letter</em>”</p>
<p>Hahahahaha, I hope not!</p>
<p>lol… tooo funny</p>
<p>has anyone received any word from berkeley???</p>
<p>Not yet… Still waiting… It will be interesting to see who hears first. Let’s keep each other posted!</p>
<p>Guess we won’t know today :(</p>
<p>no, i suspect thursday or friday.</p>
<p>Lol… Does checking my berkeley app every 5 minutes qualify me as having obsessive compulsive disorder?</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>I hope they don’t keep count of the number of times we log on to check our status. that might scare them away.</p>