<p>Does being accepted into UC Berkeley as a spring admit have any significant meaning?</p>
<p>Did they think you were good enough to be accepted, but not good enough to start in the fall?</p>
<p>Is it because they don't have enough room for all of their accepted students in the fall...so they send the rest to spring?</p>
<p>What does it mean? Is it a good thing? A bad thing?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Read the thread labeled "important" on this forum. Theres a gigantic FAQ on it.</p>
<p>Yes, just read the FAQ. Generally, spring admits would be rejected; many of those I've seen were rejected by UCLA but accepted to Berkeley as a spring admit.</p>
<p>It's a bad thing. But only for your first semester here.</p>
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Yes, just read the FAQ. Generally, spring admits would be rejected; many of those I've seen were rejected by UCLA but accepted to Berkeley as a spring admit.
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<p>Not true. You would know if you went and read the reasoning behind it on the berkeley website. And statistically speaking spring admits have a higher GPA by graduation time compared to fall admits.</p>
<p>Well I for one would be thrilled if my child were a spring admit at Cal! (I'm sure when the accepted posts come up in April that quite a few others might be thrilled to get that news as well.) I've met plenty of brilliant spring admits. The competition is so fierce to get in there that we might be talking about the difference of a 4.31 GPA and a 4.27 GPA or an SAT total that is the equivalent of one kid geeting two more questions right than another. No one at Cal cares who is a spring admit or not. Good luck to all with your applications.</p>
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In Letters and Sciences and for a few Engineering applicants, the campus has had for a number of years a process of Spring admissions for students just below the accept line for Fall admission. The campus admitted 2,500 students for Spring, expecting to enroll about 900. Half of these were admitted on the academic score (tier one) and the other half on the basis of comprehensive score (tier-two) with tie breaking for each pool.These additional students could be accommodated by the campus because a certain number of students graduate in December, thus making room for additional students...
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<p>Make of that what you will. It should be said that no one really cares if you are a spring admit, bessie is entirely right in this regard. From a fall admit perspective, I've never had the urge to ask either...they are all pretty smart; there is no real appreciable difference.</p>
<p><a href="http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/archives/archives.html%5B/url%5D">http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/archives/archives.html</a> (Moore Report)</p>
<p>Being a spring admit doesn't have to influence your success in college academics, it doesn't mean you are any worse off compared to fall admits.</p>
<p>Once you've been here long enough, perhaps after a semester, you simply forget that you were a spring admit. In fact I only remembered now after I read this post and plus nobody asks.</p>
<p>There could be a variety of reasons why you were a spring admit, it's best to just accept the fact and move on. Once again, being a spring admit doesn't mean you'll do any worse. For example, I'm a junior, double major with straight A's, so what really matters is what you do once you get here. Success is a function of intelligence and motivation, so just because your smart doesn't mean you'll be successful.</p>
<p>well, as was my case, i had to appeal to the admissions committee to get into berkeley... and i got in :)</p>
<p>however, i was admitted as a spring admit instead of a fall admit... i'm not sure if the same goes for all appeals, but that's just my story</p>
<p>lol</p>