@goldencub I was also listening to the webinar and they were very helpful. Your recap is great and I feel that you got the most important/main points down.
@lindyk8 Is it not possible to transfer sophomore year? I am a freshman right now, and I’d like to be at UCB next year.
No, you must be a junior.
@lindyk8 Ah. Appreciate it!
@jsk11214 You need 60 semester/90 quarter units, at least, to be eligible.
It’s also rather difficult to transfer as an OOS applicant to UCB’s Haas (Stern is the business school, right?)
@goldencub Very difficult. But I want to try. Stern is the business school, yes.
@jsk11214 If I recall correctly, there have been no transfer admits to Haas that are not from a CCC in at least the past 5 years. Good luck, though.
@goldencub Just wondering if there are any other webinars scheduled for transfers, or if today will be the last one they present?
@jsk11214 BREAK THE CYCLE!!!
Haas has not accepted OOS (non-CCC students) for at least 10 years. 100% have come from CA community colleges. I mentioned this somewhere else yesterday. I will admit I have not seen the 2015 figures but it doesn’t seem likely to change much.
@jonuni94 I only know of the one today. I don’t think they have much else to cover.
@jonuni94 Are you watching the personal statement webinar right now? Could you possibly fill me in about what happened in the last 40 mins? I have class at 6 PM, so I will have to stop a bit early.
They said the Berkeley admission decisions will be released on April 24th.
hyperventilates
Your mind went blank after that @goldencub! :))
@lindyk8 Hopefully they don’t keep us waiting, but they probably will.
I’m hyperventilating every day and night. Even when i’m asleep. I’ve been having weird college admissions dreams/nightmares.
At least TAG decisions are in 3.5 weeks
Literally won’t make it until April 24th. I can’t.
@goldencub yes, I was listening in on the webinar. It was shorter than the first and ended at 6pm
If you left it at 5:41 which is when you posted, then I’d say you were pretty close to the part where they just opened it up for questions. Many of the questions asked were about final transcript mailing/academic update in Jan/if personal statements can hurt your chances/etc.
-They said that we should not worry about mailing out final transcripts until admittance. Once admitted we will then need to submit the official documents they ask for
-We must do the academic update on the UC website but also on the Cal link that we are provided with in January
-Personal statements will never hurt your chance, but either be beneficial or neutral.
Interestingly enough, I asked if Berkeley looks at major GPA for L&S transfers and he said that they look at that and major preparation. I was under the impression that they only look at overall UC-transferable GPA because we aren’t admitted in to the major but to L&S undeclared. Maybe someone can shed more light on this?
@goldencub
Ahh I just saw that you actually posted at 5:22 – at that point, if I recall correctly, they were giving us tips in general for writing the prompts.
-5 to 6 revisions is not too many. Revise as needed
-Grammar is not everything, but make the essay flow for the readers
-Use catchy introduction and not just “My personal quality is” or “The experience that is important to me is”
Many other small obvious types of recommendations – but overall they just wanted to stress that we should spend time on the essay. I liked the analogy they used that the UC app is like our resume, while the personal statement is our interview at a job where we expand on the things we added to our resume.
@jonuni94 From what I’ve heard about major GPA, UCLA is the only school that looks at it campus-wide, but various unnamed departments/schools at other UCs may sometimes look. I did read somewhere that engineering, at least at some UCs
look, and now it seems that Berkeley’s L&S does too. Thanks for that update.
I think it is fair to assume it would be most prevalent with selective majors, and maybe from what you said, Berkeley, in general.