jdom24

I've already accepted the fact my GPA is too low and I paid $70 to frame the rejection letter for motivation.

Akylahunter

Twenty-eight more days! woohoo lol

jaywonlee

four more weeks. oh my goodness.
one more week until i have spring break.
one week of spring break.
one week to wait for ucla.
the longest week of my life until the 27th.

justinetruant

@sparkyboy at the same time, however, I also such a bunch of high school seniors with SAT scores < 1800 and GPAs ~ 3.6 get accepted as well. the kids who fell into this category were well-spoken and seemed to have very profound or interesting essays. also keep in mind that the pressure to have perfect stats is much greater for freshman applicants than transfers!

@jaywonlee actually, when you put it that way, that makes it seem a bit better! perhaps we'll make it to April 27th after all!

jaywonlee

@justinetruant: the disparity between freshmen and transfer applicants is huge. i had a weighted 4.1 and 2100 on the SAT, but got rejected at UCSD. i half tried my three (now four) semesters at a CCC, and i was guaranteed admission at UCSD this time around (TAG). just gotta push through the month of april somehow.

Akylahunter

Twenty-seven days to go!

uctransfer2012

Twenty SIXXX DAYSS !

sparkyboy

Gosh! I just logged in to myBerkeleyApp and I have already been admitted!!!

"Congratulations! I am pleased to offer you admission to the University of California, Berkeley for Fall 2012! You have been admitted to the College of Letters and Science.

In light of the outstanding credentials you presented in your application, you and your family have every reason to be proud of your academic and personal achievements. The Admissions staff reviewed more than 77,000 total applicants (61,600 freshman and 15,700 transfer) of extraordinary quality before selecting you for this offer."

Akylahunter

Its too soon junior lol ^^

leeshkeesh22

@SparkyBoy: Happy April Fools

JavyUCB

I'm 3 pages into my 7 page paper I planned to work on during spring break. At this rate I will be done by Tuesday... I'm going to start reading some books or something to get through this month.

justinetruant

^ read the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami! you won't be able to think about anything else!

briceies

Right now I'm doing W. T. Vollmann's You Bright and Risen Angels. It's all kinds of dense, which I enjoy, and rambles on about topics philosophic and historic, while keeping kooky, so thoughtfully Pynchonian.

Best book I've ever read, though, is probably Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry. Recommend it. A+++++ would read again.

northbeach

SparkyBoy: Good one, considering I am constantly logging on checking my status. Probably because last year when I applied to Harvard, one day I logged in, or tried to, and my account had vanished. Duh, obviously "no admission" and a notice was sent a few days after my account had been deleted telling me that I had not been admitted. Haha.

Salmos

Since we're talking about books... I'm reading Joseph Frank's baby biography of Dostoevsky. 900+ pages for this condensed little fellow and I just now made it to page 15. Good read so far though.