<p>registrar.berkeley.edu</p>
<p>It should be somewhere on there, and you might find additional answers to your questions there.</p>
<p>Firstly, contact admissions office. Their number is 510-642-3175. Ask them that you sent in your SIR, but you no longer want to attend Berkeley. Also indicate that you understand that your forfeit the $100.</p>
<p>If UCSD feels like the school that is right for you, then go there. Don't be pressured into attending Berkeley because of reputation, prestige, or whatever reason that others keep telling you. Go to Berkeley because you want to.</p>
<p>M1st3rmarbl3s: Yes, you need to pay the $100 first. However, if you're on financial aid and need help paying that, you can call them to get it waived.</p>
<p>So my SIR is not complete?</p>
<p>M1st3rmarbl3s-
I agree with eiffelguy87: go to the school that feels right to you.
Our neighbor's son gave up UCB, UCLA, and UCD, all with Regents and Chancellors scholarships (some with Alumni scholarship as well) to go to UCSD because of its premed program and he loves it. Few of his friends at UCB are wilting under the pressure there, and some are even revising their medical school aspirations.
It may be likely that your SIR is incomplete. Hopefully, this will help your situation!</p>
<p>If they got my initial one where i accidently clicked the okay button without even thinking and they said thanks for joining Cal for 2006 on the next page. DOes that mean I'm in their file now, or does that mean they have to wait until they get my payment. I'm really freaking out because now i'm leaning towards UCSD and I don't want to be forced to go to Berkeley.</p>
<p>You can tranfer from UC to UC, and many people do yearly. It's fairly tough, much tougher than going from a CA cc to a UC.</p>
<p>well i'm too smart to go to a CC and I'm rich enough to go to a UC so I don't want to go to a CC. thank you. I love San Diego, but I guess if i can't... then i have no choice. UCB is a good school too... just the environment sux for me.</p>
<p>too smart to go to a CC...lol. come to berkely so i can get some of that money</p>
<p>M1st&etc: Yes you can switch. Just call Cal to indicate that you're pulling out. Do it soon! The number was in a prev. post.</p>
<p>M1st... check out UCSD before you SIR there and then decide you've made a mistake! Or perhaps you were at Welcome Day over the weekend. I live really close to UCSD and play soccer there. It is very different that UCB, and if you like UCB you will probably not like UCSD. My opinion is there is no environment there!</p>
<p>UCB has a GREAT environment!! I suppose it varies from person to person, but when I went this past weekend I was totally expecting the nerdy, bookish all-study-and-no-play atmosphere everyone talks about. But it wasn't at all! Sure you still have those people but there ARE still the social people who just like to chill and have fun.</p>
<p>Yes.. it's not all nerds. There are people who study hard then party harder.</p>
<p>Another thing about UCSD is that public transportation is not as good as near UCB. You really need a car to see or do anything. The campus is at the north end of SD there's not much going on in the area. Whereas, UCB has so much nearby, across the Bay, great transportation system. San Diego is my hometown and I love it. I think it would be really hard to be a student at UCSD though; community and environment has a lot to do with your college experience.</p>