The Official UCB Fall of 2014 Decisions Thread

<p>@jonjon03 @HelloPersonC‌ Damn it sounds like you guys were able to complete most of the pre-reqs!</p>

<p>I have a 4.00 but my CC offered barely any of the courses listed on ASSIST…
completed Calc I, Calc II and partially completed 61b. I am planning to take 61a and Discrete math over the summer leaving me with
61c and math 54 in the fall.</p>

<p>I think I had well written personal statements too.</p>

<p>I think i also had good EC’s but I’m under the impression that GPA/Personal Statements/Pre-reqs are by far the most influential factors in determining whether or not you get admitted.</p>

<p>Regardless, good luck to the both of you! You both sound like strong applicants!</p>

<p>@HelloPersonC‌ Where are you currently attending?</p>

<p>@toepump I attend UCSC currently. From what i’ve read on here it’s rare for CC people to satisfy UCB’s requirements for L&S CS. And if they do, it’s only because they live near a prominent cc so i don’t think missing them is too important. Yeah thanks, good luck to you too. It’s nice that after this friday the transfer process will be over.</p>

<p>@HelloPersonC‌ Thanks man. And yeah that’s good news about the whole CC requirements thing…
And YES it will be such a load off of all our shoulders when this whole application process officially terminates… :smiley: </p>

<p>@toepump‌ Yeah man! I applied as EECS because L&S was just not enough. I went to UCSB initially for my freshman year and completed all the CS courses I could, then I wanted to go to UCB so I left and went to my CC for my soph year and have maintained a 3.96. So pumped for friday though!</p>

<p>@chaoscuber Good luck with EECS! That’s supposed to be super tough to get into! </p>

<p>It is great to see all the computer science transfers on here. I am going for EECS as well. I am currently at a CCC and I have taken all the classes that articulate, but only CS61B would articulate out of the recommended ones. Did anyone transferring to EECS take a circuits class for EL ENG 40? It says on assist “If no articulation, students are strongly encouraged to take an introductory course in electronics or circuits” so I am currently taking one but switched it to pass/ no pass. Hopefully that doesn’t hurt my chances too much since it doesn’t articulate anyways.
Anyways, good luck all the CS hopefuls!</p>

<p>I just wanted to let you guys all know that I’ve read every single post on all 45 pages of this thread, and now I’ve finally decided to make an account on CC just to chime in during our final days of reckoning; it’s like an opportunity to finally meet and talk to my favorite TV celebrities! Anyway, I’ve released so much angst in the past 72 hours, and it’s becoming exponentially worse with each succeeding day. I am no longer a human being with emotions, rather I have reduced down to a desensitized, empty husk of anticipation. My name is Brandon, and I am a victim of Berkeley’s LONG, drawn-out application review.</p>

<p>@Anxiety94 Brandon, welcome to your first meeting of AA (Applications Anonymous)…</p>

<p>No but really I feel you haha…so anxious! What’s your major and where are you currently attending?</p>

<p>UCLA gave me a peace of mind I never thought I could achieve. What if I get rejected from Berkeley? Oh no, I’ll only have to attend the second best public university in the U.S. woe is me.</p>

<p>Thanks, glad to be here @toepump. I applied to Cal as a media studies major in the college of Letters & Science, and I’m from a CCC in Orange County! I’m hoping to transfer in as a junior applicant, and Berkeley is my top choice! My gpa… well my gpa isn’t all that impressive. I applied in the Fall with a measly 3.64, because I slacked off quite a bit during my first semester of community college (most likely from the lack of motivation after graduating HS), but I’m going to try to finish strong this last semester!! The good news is that I’ve been accepted into all of the UCs except for ooklah (they required a 3.7 for even being considered in communications -_-), but I’m clinging onto my faith in Berkeley’s holistic review process; I’ve simply fallen in love with the NorCal mindset, specifically Berkeley’s. I’m utterly amazed at all of the awesome people I’ve seen here so far though, so good on you!</p>

<p>haha @onehandedred I feel a lot better now that I got into UCLA too but I have been dreaming of going to Berkeley for the past 2 years and it would be a whole other level of happiness for me if I got in! I can’t help but still be super excited/nervous for Friday</p>

<p>I wish I could freeze myself until Friday so I wouldn’t have to wait so long. But what if they forget to unfreeze me and I eventually wake up in the future where berkeley doesn’t exist. X_X </p>

<p>And no one even goes to Universities anymore. And you are thrust into a war over the Great Question between people and otters… Sorry all I could think of was South Park.</p>

<p>@Bigcityofdreams HAH… that is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard, but I couldn’t agree with you more. I often find myself brewing very interesting scenarios whilst waiting for judgement day, and most of them are fairly abstract: thinking of what kind of things I would do to get accepted, falsely correlating irrelevant statistics with my acceptance chance, making absolute nonsensical deductions like, “If I watch that car behind me drive to the other side of the road, I will be accepted.”</p>

<p>I’ll admit that I’ve developed very obsessive behavior, and that I’m setting myself up for a major mental breakdown. There is no doubt that I will be sobbing on Friday, be it tears of bliss or of utter devastation. </p>

<p>@Anxiety94‌ </p>

<p>Lol that sounds a little OCD, but I have done a lot of this same stuff. The one thing you mentioned in particular that I’ve done is think of things I would either do or not do to get accepted. So, what would you do, and what wouldn’t you do?</p>

<p>Also, have any of you already considered the fact that your application decision has most likely already been made? That it’s just sitting in a virtual folder along with thousands of other applications? The decision has already been brought into existence, but we just won’t know what it is until Friday. In times like these, I wish I had psychic abilities. ~X( </p>

<p>@Anxiety94‌ </p>

<p>It not only most likely has been made, it has been made. Weeks ago. They could have told us last month, but no.</p>

<p>@music1990 To be quite honest, I don’t think you want to know. I would go to some pretty extreme extents, as long as it doesn’t jeopardize my physical and mental well-being (as long as it’s not a survival risk). Feel free to ask me one, or share one of your own.</p>

<p>@Anxiety94‌ </p>

<p>LOL. Yeah I know what you mean though. It’s pretty embarrassing how badly I want to get in, so I probably wouldn’t want to share it on here. I totally identify with that obsessive over thinking though.</p>

<p>@music1990
There are very few things in this world that can make me anxious, and this just happens to be one that has escalated to a whole new level. Anyway, I’m glad to see a fellow music lover here. What’s your focus in that department?</p>