<p>Could someone explain what the spring admits to Berkeley is all about?</p>
<p>Do you just not go to school for your first semester of college? How does it work? Do you hear back at the same time as everyone else?</p>
<p>You hear back at the same time as everyone else. You could not go to school for your first semester, or attend a CC and earn credits, or enroll in FPF, which is a special program at Berkeley that lets you take courses for credit. I'll write a much more detailed post about this come March 29th when everyone will be hopping on CC clamoring to know about it. For now I wouldn't worry about it.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the average stats of those who are given spring admissions? It's lower than the fall admissions but how much lower?</p>
<p>CAL has a nifty report generator at <a href="https://osr2.berkeley.edu/Public/STUDENT.DATA/PUBLICATIONS/UG/ugstat2.html%5B/url%5D">https://osr2.berkeley.edu/Public/STUDENT.DATA/PUBLICATIONS/UG/ugstat2.html</a></p>
<p>Here you can compare historical stats on Spring vs Fall admit students to your hearts content. </p>
<p>When I did some comparisons of Fall 2004 vs Spring 2005, I did see that GPAs were slightly less for Spring admits.</p>
<p>My one data point: S was a Spring 2005 admit, went to FPF, and is doing well at CAL</p>
<p>I did not find that the students in FPF were any less than Fall students. The explanation I heard about Spring Admits was that the City has a limit on the number of students who can be enrolled at the University and because of some "Super Seniors", the school cannot enroll all of the freshman it wants right away. Perhaps lower academic standards has something to do with it, but I had better GPA, SATs, ECs, AP classes, essays and recs than one of my high school friend's who got in for fall. I've met some BRILLIANT Spring Admits and some not so briliant regular admins. A lot of the time it's random. We get a lot of crap, but I think the reputation Spring Admits get is unwarranted.
FPF is a great program, the classes all count for your transcript, GPA, major, everything. All of the classes are the same as on campus, and I had some AMAZING professors. A lot of the professors are Cal professors, some are just extension professors. I lived on campus, with everyone else, everything was all the same.</p>
<p>Sounds like it's like basically an unofficial Fall acceptance.</p>
<p>That statistics table generator should let you do full outer joins or multi-table queries to let you compare data between Fall and Spring...</p>
<p>do people who received the supplemental questionnaire have more of a chance of being admitted as a spring admit then?</p>
<p>SQL:
1. Spring Admit is not an unofficial Fall acceptance. They are different. However, in the scope of one's undergraduate education it is not a big deal to be a Spring Admit
2. Agreed on the outer joins. </p>
<p>confused_junior:
1. I don't think there is any correlation between supplemental questionnaire and spring admits</p>
<p>spring admits get some crap for "not being able to make it in fall" (notice the quotes. i think the school just cuts off based on gpa/sat scores but who knows.) there is nothing wrong with being a spring admit because by the time you graduate, no one will know/care. actually, the classes you take at FPF are less competetive so you'll probably get a better grade and improve your gpa.</p>
<p>I was a Spring Admit. My advice is battle the decision when it comes, don't stress about being one now, but the basic rundown is what everyone said. Your choices are CC, no school, or FPF on campus.</p>
<p>FPF or the Fall Program for Freshmen allows you to take up to 16 units, fully transferable (GPA too), from a semi-wide selection of course. You are about a block from Unit 2 Housing and take at least one class on campus. You are eligible for housing, but it is by NO means guaranteed, but there are plenty of other option (Tau House for instance). You have access to everything on campus (there is an increased RSF fee). You'll mold into life at college quite well. The program is not as great as being on campus, but you're at Cal and thats worth it in itself (oh and you'll be there for football season!)</p>
<p>GO BEARS!</p>