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Originally Posted by RedTapePatrol Is the undergraduate administration at Cal still really bad? Aka a simple mistake in the system somewhere can take many many visits and forever to clear up, thus effectively causing a big mess in the student's academic progress?
Or, to put it in another way. Does Cal's administration still function like your local DMV? |
It can.
I had a mix-up with transfer credits that resulted in a terrifying email midway through my first semester on campus: Your admission will be rescinded in 10 days.
After a visit to the L&S Deans, I figured out it was because I had taken Music 8 in the winter quarter (before I started at Cal) and failed it, and chose to take it again spring quarter (while I was at Cal). Because of the fail and desire to repeat, I had called to ask if I could hold on sending my transcripts until the end of the semester. Apparently the "sure" I got didn't mean anything, resulting in that email.
I met with the L&S deans AGAIN and got a retroactive approval for dual-enrollment and a stay on my penalty. So it took 2 visits to the L&S office and a visit to Admissions to get that sorted out, which sucked but was entirely my fault.
You'll find the system can be kind of... arbitrary... sometimes as well. The approval of my English classes for transfer as English department credit required meeting with a professor and justifying why the course I took matched the same at Berkeley. Had I had a less strict professor reviewing my case ("You only wrote one substantive paper? I think three would have been more appropriate."), I might not have had to take Shakespeare AGAIN.