UC Berkeley Transfer Waitlist Fall 2018

Thank you so much, @diane6239 !
I sent my transcript just in case. I got worried when I saw the message and I try to call the admission office and they were already closed. I submitted anyways. But, I appreciate your help. I heard that is’s better to submit the unofficial transcript, even though they’re not gonna consider as much as the transcript we have already sent to them when we applied back then. I also call them several times to ask about the transcript, but they kept saying different answers, but they always said: “You should provide as much information you can to us”. I talked to some people who got off the waitlist last year as well, and they told me that we have to send the unofficial transcript and it’s better if we send as well.

@caldreamer does any of the people from last year happen to be a CS major?

Do you guys also have long essays? mine had about 456 words and I am getting a little scared cause they said in the prompt that longer essays are not necessarily better :frowning:

Yeah I had a long essay as well, haha. I don’t think the length matters, but what you write does, so don’t stress, Im sure you’re essay was great :slight_smile:

My essay was long too! I think I have like 11 words remaining. I pretty much talked about everything I achieved after submitting the apps in November.

@diane6239 I’m not quite sure. I think one of them was Econ and the other ones I don’t remember. Also, my essay was long too. Don’t worry about length. As I talked to people from previous year, they sent me their essays to be based on what approach and most of them were 490-500. So, length doesn’t matter, as long as you talked about things that show to them some content regarding what you’ve done after the application, challenges or some other relevant topics that correlate to yourself. I called several times the admission office at UCB and they told me that they will be more inclined towards our previous application (which we submitted in November) and our essay to take the decisions. So, I’m sure you’ll be fine.

@CollegeBoot aww thanks.
@Ak1097 @caldreamer , thanks to you guys as well. Y’all made me feel so much better. Can’t wait for the first wave of admission to come out.

I remember people from last year’s waitlist thread were talking about addresses glitches. I’m currently seeing 4 addresses on my portal. Is anyone else having the same?

@diane6239 Is address glitches means that ur admitted?

I have no idea, but I want to say no because I believe they start looking at waitlist students apps after June 1st so I have no idea what the glitch means. Who knows maybe they already are looking at our applications and predicting how many people they’ll take… All this is just making me so nervous.

Where do you guys see those address glitches?

When you log in into your MAP@Berkeley, on the right side underneath “Helpful links”, there is a “Verify Address” section. That’s where we see it. Mine is back to two addresses tho. I’m probably reading too much into this it’s probably just the IT team working on some updates on the page haha

This Thread is pretty silent. Anyone wants to share their stats? here is a sample:
Major
GPA:
EC:
School you applied to:
School you got accepted/ rejected/ waitlisted

I’m just really curious about how many CS students are on the waitlist this year.

Although the amount of people on this thread can’t be accurate at predicting the waitlist, but i guess this is a pretty good sign that the waitlist is a lot shorter than we think lol

Haas has already started reviewing the waitlist. They emailed me on Thursday asking for an unofficial transcript.

@FequalsMG well the amount of people TALKING is low but there are about 3.6K views on this thread…
@Ak1097 that’s cool. I wouldn’t actually be surprised if all the colleges are doing the same already in order to release the first wave on June 6th they have to start much earlier than just June 1st.

Yeah the UCLA waitlist thread is really dead too!

Hello everyone! Any comparative lit waitlisted here?

@viviantong are you waitlisted at UCLA too?

@Arikari What college is that in? L&S? Also do you mind sharing your stats with us?