<p>Let us ask questions here regarding anything about the UC applications. </p>
<p>I hope this thread will be helpful to anybody who happens to be applying this year. </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Does the third (optional) personal statement factor into the 1000 word limit?</p>
<p>If not, is 220 words okay for the third one?</p>
<p>yeah 220 is fine you can put pretty much anything there :)</p>
<p>In the field where you need to list your activities and awards, what does “years involved” mean? It gives you a choice of 9th thru 12th. Does it actually mean grades?</p>
<p>Were SAT scores asked for in the UC application? It’d be nice to put my shexxy scores…</p>
<p>ksForBerkeley, 9th means freshman year of high school. There is an additional space labeled “years after highschool” which means what it says…</p>
<p>What is Health Ed considered? A College Prep elective?</p>
<p>is there a word limit for the section where you explain lapses in education?</p>
<p>Also, I am trying to add two courses taken at UPenn, but the form won’t let me enter “CL” in the pull down menu.</p>
<p>1) How does the UC know whether or not to calculate +/-s or not.</p>
<p>2) If I take a class at a different University with a unit value of 4, but my institution has the class with a unit value of 5, which value do I use?</p>
<p>@edmfanatiq - no sat scores for transfers, but if you really want to i’d put them (with the year you took them) in the additional comments box ;)</p>
<p>@Cali Trumpet - 1) i’ve heard they calculate it the way your institution does, but how exactly they do that i don’t know 2) you list the different university & enter the units you earned there</p>
<p>Oh, thanks babe. I didn’t know UC’s didn’t check SAT scores for transferring. They only check AP testing scores…</p>
<p>Do you need to put all your SAT scores or can you pick and choose?</p>
<p>how come the UC app doesn’t have a term for Winter session? </p>
<p>If so, where do I put it under? Spring?</p>
<p>It does have a term for winter session. When you’re putting in your school info it’ll ask you if school is semester, semester w/ winter intercession or quarter.</p>
<p>So when do we send our transcripts to the UC’s?</p>
<p>I am Korean-American. For the first essay prompt (describe the world you come from), is it okay to write about my bicultural background, or would it be too trite?</p>
<p>Its not a trick question. Writing about your bicultural background would count as your world. If not, what else would?</p>
<p>@coutdown, you should be talking about the earth. u are, in fact, from this world right?</p>
<p>Since 2009 isn’t even over yet, the part where you put your family’s 2009 gross income should be an estimate-figure right?</p>
<p>eshug, I think when you get accepted…</p>