<p>historically spring admits end up with higher GPAs than fall enrollees. dunno why.</p>
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<p>No idea if this is true, but a speculative possible reason is that spring admits who spend fall at a community college have a more phased transition to university life.</p>
<p>Going straight from high school to university typically means a new living situation, new social events, new roommates, living on one’s own and dealing with “household” matters formerly handled by someone else, etc. as well as transitioning from high school level academics to university level academics in a highly competitive environment. Some students may have a rough first semester in terms of GPA because of all of the changes at once.</p>
<p>A spring admit going to community college in the fall transitions only the academics at that time, without the other distractions and in a less competitive environment. Additionally, if his/her first semester academic transition is not great (e.g. getting C grades), then the lower grades at community college will not factor into his/her Berkeley GPA. Then the student goes to Berkeley in the spring already familiar with university level academics and will know how much s/he needs to study (though Berkeley will be a more competitive environment).</p>
<p>going to spring is better than nothing and i’m pretty sure fpf’s live with fall admits or near them so they’re basically mingling with them a lot and they make close friends in FPF because i think class sizes are smaller or something. somehow my friends knew each other and they were in FPF together. so the only difference is u take classes in a diff location. that’s all.</p>
<p>@thunderhorse- nope my birthday is in the spring haha. my friends birthday is in the fall and she’s in fpf too. so idk birthday is a factor in getting into fpf?</p>