<p>nameless: Just contact them. You’ll be fine as long as you still have the units and pre-reqs.</p>
<p>ACCEPTEDDDDDDDD!!!</p>
<p>Objective:
Decision (including term): Fall
Intended Major(s), History of Art/Film Studies
Major(s) Accepted As: History of Art
UC GPA: 3.90
Major Pre-reqs Completed: Missing one Art Practice class
Major GPA (if known): 4.0
TAG/TAP: Nada
IGETC: Done by the end of Spring
Units by the end of Spring (specify Quarter/Semester): 62
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): PTK, AGS, Volunteer at a museum, teaching assistant
Job/Work Experience: tutor at CC
Volunteer/Community service: Over 100 hours
Personal Statement: I thought they were amazing, if I do say so myself 
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
State (if domestic applicant): Ca
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: CCC
School Name: Coastline/Orange Coast/GWC (I went to 3)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Income Bracket: Low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Research/conference experience
Attending Transfer Admit Day? (if admitted): Not sure
Reflection
Strengths:
Weaknesses: 7W’s/Academic Renewal
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I honestly have no idea, but my personal statement was very inspiring. My major also is not impacted.
General Comments: If I can do it, you can do it!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted Fall 2012
Intended Major: Philosophy
UC GPA: 3.81
Major GPA: Not sure (8 courses total w/ one B)
Major Pre-reqs: None offered, took 8 philosophy courses total
IGETC: Yes</p>
<p>Which other UC’s did you apply to?
Applied: UCLA, UCSD (TAG), UCI
Accepted: All
Rejected: -
Waitlisted: -
Pending: -
SIR: Haven’t decided</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: I brought up family responsibility a bit, but no clubs or anything like that.
Job/Work Experience: Worked part time, nothing out of this world.
Volunteer/Community service: None
Achievements/Awards: Nothing tangible
Personal Statement: It was simple and I’m happy with it.</p>
<p>State: -
Country: -
School Type: CCC
Ethnicity: Mexican
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Low
Hooks: 1st generation, that kind of stuff.</p>
<p>Reflection:
These decisions are either very very arbitrary or very very holistic. If the latter (which I hope it is), then certain things I was told didn’t matter, actually do matter a lot. What am I talking about? Anything that isn’t a tangible achievement. My objective statistics aren’t anything to write a book about. So they must REALLY consider the personal statement and other peculiarities that we probably don’t know about.</p>
<p>The best and only advice I can give is to treat your application honestly people. Mine was so simple. My personal statement was written in the last few days before the deadline, not out of laziness but because it doesn’t take much effort. If it is taking a lot of effort, I’d say you’re doing it wrong! I think they (the people who check the applications) can sense these things, and I’m sure they know when your essays are fake and/or formulaic. Think about what they’re asking and just answer it as real as you can. Don’t sell yourself out to drama even if everyone else is doing so. You’re not everyone else, that’s the whole point of the personal statement: to write about yourself. And few things are easier than that. </p>
<p>Don’t get paranoid. This board can be really useful for information, but it can damage you if you let it. Don’t believe everything people tell you.</p>
<p>Decision (including term): ADMITTED!!! Spring Term
Intended Major: Poli Sci
UC GPA:3.82
Major Pre-reqs: All
IGETC: Finished</p>
<p>Which other UC’s did you apply to? Applied:
Accepted:UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, UCB
Rejected: None
Waitlisted:
Pending:
SIR: Not Sure Yet…</p>
<p>Extracurriculars?
Job/Work Experience: 2 internships
Volunteer/Community service: a TON
Achievements/Awards: PTK, some other stuff
Personal Statement: I thought it was good.</p>
<p>Strengths: Idk
Weaknesses: idk
Why you think you were accepted/rejected: idk
General Comments: I thought i was set on UCLA but now im gonna have to make a really tough decision! Hard Work Pays Off!</p>
<p>Decision (including term): ACCEPTED FALL 2012
Intended Major:LEGAL STUDIES
UC GPA:3.48
Major GPA:4.0
Major Pre-reqs: 2/4
IGETC:YES</p>
<p>Which other UC’s did you apply to?
Applied:UCSB, UCI, UCSC
Accepted:ALL
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Pending:
SIR:BERKELEY!</p>
<p>Extracurriculars?
Job/Work Experience: 3 Jobs
Volunteer/Community service:Amnesty International
Achievements/Awards:Forensics, Amnesty
Personal Statement:Pretty Good</p>
<p>State (if OOS applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:CCC
Ethnicity:Asian
Gender:Female
Income Bracket:LOW
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):First generation</p>
<p>Reflection: I took a gamble and graduated high school early through the CHSPE at the age of 16 and attended my CC for 2 years. Worked about 20-30/week while taking 16 units/semester+ summer sessions. Hopefully, I can graduate Berkeley when I’m 19/20(April Birthday) so that I can help support my mom.
Strengths:Overall pretty consistent. Only got C’s in my Spanish classes which lowered my GPA, other than that GPA is around 3.9.
Weaknesses:GPA
Why you think you were accepted/rejected: Luck
General Comments:
TEARS OF HAPPINESS!</p>
<p>Decision (including term): Accepted Fall 2012
Intended Major: English
UC GPA: 3.57
Major GPA: 4.0 (Based on Cal’s pre-reqs… For all other UC’s 3.8)
Major Pre-reqs: I never planned on attending Berkeley, so I didn’t make any attempt to complete their pre-reqs. Of the two that my CC offered, I only took one. However, I did take classes that were very “similar” to the ones that my school didn’t offer, and I did list those on my Berkeley App. Got an “A” in all of them.
IGETC: Completed by spring</p>
<p>Which other UC’s did you apply to?
Applied: UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI
Accepted: UCB, UCLA,UCSD,UCI
Rejected: none
Waitlisted: none
Pending: none
SIR: I already SIR’d to UCLA since I figured there was no way in heck I was getting into Berkeley, but right now I’m mulling it over.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars?
Job/Work Experience: Worked full-time for years while going to school, now work part-time as a Student Ambassador at my CC
Volunteer/Community service: Lots of volunteer work that related to my personal interests: literacy, animal rescue, presidential elections, etc.
Achievements/Awards: Dean’s List, Permanent Member of Honors Society
Personal Statement: I’d say it was excellent. I explained my background and all of the obstacles I’ve had to overcome to finally be able to transfer. I know it’s the only reason that Berkeley even considered me.</p>
<p>State (if OOS applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: CCC
Ethnicity: white (did not provide ethnicity info on my app)
Gender: female
Income Bracket: EFC=0
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Slightly older student who has had multiple jobs and gone to school at the same time, struggled early on, but have had an upward trend (straight A’s the past four semesters)</p>
<p>Reflection:
Strengths: Personal Statement, Founded my own club related to my major, Leadership and real world experience
Weaknesses: GPA, LOTS of W’s from when I worked full-time
Why you think you were accepted/rejected: Personal Statement
General Comments: I was NOT expecting to get into Cal at all! I was missing one of their major pre-reqs. I only applied because I had an application fee waiver for up to four UC’s, and I wanted options just in case I got rejected from LA. Now I don’t know what to do!</p>
<p>Accepted for spring 2013! This year is going to be a long and complicated one, because i have to stay at a CC one more semester but there are all these guidelines to follow now!
D:
BUT I cried and my head still hurts from all that shock from yesterday.
Did my SIR day of, so freaking happy! I’m still in a state of disbelief.</p>
<p>Decision (including term): Admitted Spring 2013
Intended Major: English
UC GPA: (gpa overall at my cc 3.4) Math -.-
Major GPA: 4.0
Major Pre-reqs: all completed by the end of Spring 2012
IGETC: complete</p>
<p>Which other UC’s did you apply to?
Applied: UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCR, UCI, UCD ->USC (i know it isn’t a UC but still)
Accepted: UCR, UCD, UCSB, UCB
Rejected: UCLA
Waitlisted: UCSD
Pending: UCI, USC
SIR: yes</p>
<p>Extracurriculars? Volunteer, Mentor, Tutor, TA, Sports (HS) Speech and debate, latin club, environmental club, ETC
Job/Work Experience: Yes, retail, and with my volunteer stuff
Volunteer/Community service: HS presidential award for volunteerism, telethon volunteer, mentor volunteer, tutor volunteer
Achievements/Awards:Presidential award, honorable mention National Latin exam, and others.
Personal Statement: It’s honestly all a blur to me! I think they were good, they changed a lot last minute.</p>
<p>Decision (including term): Rejected Fall 2012
Intended Major: Engineering
UC GPA: 3.94
Major GPA:
Major Pre-reqs: most
IGETC:</p>
<p>Which other UC’s did you apply to?
Applied: none
Accepted:
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Pending:
SIR:</p>
<p>Other Schools:
Accepted: Michigan!
Waitlisted: Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science</p>
<p>Extracurriculars?: President - School environmental club, VP - Amnesty International, founded nonprofit, Phi theta kappa
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service:
Achievements/Awards:
Personal Statement: poor, hastily done</p>
<p>State (if OOS applicant): MI
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Community college
Ethnicity: African-American
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 30,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):</p>
<p>Reflection:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/rejected: oos, essay
General Comments: After my acceptance to Michigan, I wasn’t going to go to Berkeley.</p>
<p>congrats bougiebouche!
ucla is the place to be for working artists! have fun.</p>
<p>Decision (including term): Accepted, Fall 2012
Intended Major: Industrial Engineering Operations Research
UC GPA: 4.0
Major GPA: 4.0
Major Pre-reqs: 100% complete
IGETC: Inc. Missing 1 arts/humanities class</p>
<p>Which other UC’s did you apply to?
Applied: UCD, UCLA, UCB
Accepted: UCLA, UCB
Rejected: UCD
Waitlisted: None
Pending: None
SIR: UCB</p>
<p>Extracurriculars?
Job/Work Experience: Math tutor (4hr/wk), Student government (1 year)
Volunteer/Community service: ~40 hrs
Achievements/Awards: Deans list all college semesters
Personal Statement: Below Average (wrote it the night before I submitted my app.)</p>
<p>State (if OOS applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: California CC
Ethnicity:
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 150k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): One of my parents is handicapped and has been my entire life. </p>
<p>Reflection: Should have spent more time in PS
Strengths: GPA, ECs, completion of pre-reqs.
Weaknesses: PS
Why you think you were accepted/rejected: I attended 3 schools in order to finish my pre-reqs which shows dedication. Also, my GPA.
General Comments: GO BEARS!!!</p>
<p>@newchapter</p>
<p>We have very similar stats and stories, including major. I hope to see you at Cal. Congrats!</p>
<p>Decision (including term): Denied, Fall 2012
Intended Major: Computer science (EECS)
UC GPA: 3.92
Major GPA: 4.0
Major Pre-reqs: Missing 61A, 61C, EE20N, EE40, CS70
IGETC: Not required</p>
<p>Ahhh!</p>
<p>I logged onto my UC App to find my ID number to check Berkeley admissions decisions, and only just realized that I had made a mistake in grade reporting on the UC App (accidentally posted a higher grade than I received) and forgot to list a class I withdrew from. The mistakes are understandable, in that all of my grades were pretty much the same except for that one class, and the class I forgot to list was a class I took only for fun and was separated out from the other classes on my unofficial transcript.</p>
<p>I was admitted into Berkeley and other UCs. 
Do you know if the admissions teams will be forgiving? I can’t believe that I had missed these mistakes, and have no idea how this could have happened as I had triple checked. I would still fit into the profile for a Berkeley admitted student, and my GPA is still in the upper percentile.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your advice!</p>
<p>@sleepyballoons</p>
<p>Read your conditions page. </p>
<p>Mine reads:
Your admission to Berkeley will be cancelled without further notice if:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>You do not satisfy all of the above conditions, or</p></li>
<li><p>Any information you submitted on your application for admission does not agree with official documentation.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I don’t know if “I forgot to mention a course I dropped” will fly. And I’d assume it depends on how big of a gaffe the grade reporting was. If it was more than two letter grades, they probably wouldn’t be too forgiving.</p>
<p>But this is just my speculation. Email your admissions officer, or call admissions and ask them.</p>
<p>Monergist-- The course I dropped was not a class necessary for any requirement (IGETC, major pre-reqs, etc.), and is more of a “Basketweaving” type of course. The gaffe in grade reporting was only one letter grade (B vs. A); I would have been proud to have listed my transcript as it is, and have no idea how this could have happened.</p>
<p>Thank you for your response. I would be surprised if this mistake weighs out my academic and other achievements…but you have painted an unforgiving and strict portrait of the system that has me worried. I hope this is taken as it is–a gaffe.</p>
<p>@fluxrad Congrats to you, too! It feels great, doesn’t it? I’m completely baffled by how lucky I am… Yesterday afternoon, I was sure that I was going to UCLA, now I have no idea what I should do! I feel like being accepted to Berkeley is such an honor, and I would be silly to not at least consider it. I think I’m going to go check out the campus in a couple of weeks before I make my final final decision lol. :)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted - Spring 2013!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] Community College GPA: 3.96
[</em>] Major Pre-reqs Completed: ZERO
[<em>] Intended Major: Double Majoring in Philosophy and French
[</em>] TAG?: No
[li] IGETC?: Yes</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: None
[</em>] Achievements/Awards: Deans list, scholarships, honors graduate, etc.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: I work full-time.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: YMCA (100+ hours)
[li] Personal Statement: Very strong.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Which other UC’s did you apply to?:[ul]
Applied: UCLA, UCB
Accepted: UCB
Rejected: UCLA
SIR: Don’t know if I’m going.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] School Type: Community College
[<em>] Ethnicity: Black
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: Lower Class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): <–All those…lol. </p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Honesty, integrity, and grades.
[</em>] Weaknesses: I didn’t do any of the prerequisites.
[li] Why you think you were accepted: Because the Lord is good!</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: </p>
<p>Wow! This is crazy!! Accepted to Berkeley with ZERO/NO prerequisites…</p>
<p>Hopefully my story will help someone out there:</p>
<p>I’m 28 years old. I was a horrible high school student, and I went to a state school in 2003 and did even worse. I dropped out of college to work a full-time job back in 2005, but after seeing how hard life was I decided to go back to school…lol.</p>
<p>Didn’t really expect this, as I was rejected by UCLA because I do not have any of the prerequisites to declare a philosophy major (I’m a business major at my community college, but I specified in my application that I wished to change to philosophy upon transferring). What’s even crazier is that the one philosophy class I did take last year, I had to drop since it ended up conflicting with my work schedule. While doing my application I would tell my best friend, “dude, I’m trying to declare a philosophy major with no philosophy classes and a big ‘W’ on my transcript for the one i did attempt! It’s not happening.” But he kept encouraging me to do it anyway.</p>
<p>I got a shred of hope when Berkeley contacted me in March asking me for additional information. They said that before they make their final decision they need me to answer some questions. I had posted my grades from the state school I attended back in 2003 on my UC application, and I guess they wanted to confirm that I was really that bad of a student back in the day…lol. I’m talkin’ ‘Ds’ and ‘Fs’ baby…haha. I thought, well, if they were going to reject me why ask any questions? Just reject me. So I held on to this hope for the following month. </p>
<p>Don’t give up guys! When I was rejected by UCLA, I was devastated and I thought Berkeley was definitely out of the question. UCLA’s rejection really hurt because it felt like I had been in community college for three and a half years, just to be rejected for not having three philosophy classes (I maintained a 4.0 for 80 units, and I just got my first ‘B’ last semester). But I resolved that if the UCs were going to reject me, I’d just stay at community college another semester and take as many philosophy classes as possible, and apply again in November to prove to them that I’m really dedicated to the philosophy program.</p>
<p>After being rejected by UCLA last week, my professors told me that the UCs might of thought I was one of those students trying to apply to one of the least applied to programs in order to switch majors after acceptance. But I think my application is clear that I really do want a degree in philosophy. Plus, there would be no point for me to apply to the philosophy program and then switch back to the business program (assuming they were thinking I knew the business programs were too competitive), when I could’ve just applied to the business school, seeing that I have a 4.0 in the business prerequisites. </p>
<p>I was angry with UCLA after my rejection because I thought to myself, why don’t they just look at the classes on my transcript and say, hey, we will not take you as a philosophy major since you don’t have any philosophy classes, but we will take you as an anthropology major since you have four of those classes… You know, something like that. Don’t they have that power? I guess not… Rather, I was sent a harsh letter that basically said screw you, and don’t try to appeal. But Berkeley just proved that admissions does have that sort of power.</p>
<p>Another thing, I think UCs most likely communicate with each other, and in order to give another applicant at UCLA a chance, they rejected me there, and took me at Berkeley. </p>
<p>Anyway, my story just goes to show that lack of prerequisites are possibly not the reason for rejection. When you have a thousand applicants, and all of them have a 3.5-4.0, good extracurricular activities, and great personal statements, and you can only pick 10, at some point you’re just going to have to reject very good applicants. I don’t think it’s arbitrary; I think they turn to hooks or what’s unique about you that will bring more diversity to the campus. </p>
<p>I was not accepted into any specific major program. Berkeley is simply saying that I can come to their school… AWESOME! All I have to do is file a petition to the philosophy department if I enroll. I’m going to contact my admissions officer and see if taking some philosophy classes at my community college this summer and fall will help me for my petition to the philosophy department in January 2013!</p>
<p>Okay, I’m finished…lol.</p>
<p>@Monergist
congrats on berkeley! by the way, it is my view that Berkeley and UCLA do not really communicate on the level you noted. Not at all. UCLA in my view, well i am certain in my case, does not read anything that you write down on your application and only look at stats and email any questions they have. which i think is fine, while Cal seems to scrutinize applications and reads everything with great care. it is wonderful that these schools are so different. and completely independent from each other. </p>
<p>UCLA stayed in touch with me during the admission process, and i heard nothing from Cal. not one peep. admitted to both schools with generous financial aid packages, but Cal gave me an extra grant and i will not even need loans. all that and i never heard a word from them since last november?! amazing. but i wrote it all down on my app. and they obviously read every word and had no questions for me.</p>
<p>however, i am equally certain that all of the other UC schools who admitted me used the ratings generated by UCLA and Cal and never even glanced at my application beyond checking prereqs (maybe!). </p>
<p>anyway, congratulations! UCLA and Cal are both superb schools!</p>
<p>@sleepyballoons</p>
<p>Just realized you might not have a conditions page.</p>
<p>Well, I would personally be forgiving for one letter grade. But if someone had missed it by two or more, I’d probably be a little skeptic.</p>
<p>And the other class being unrelated might help your case, also. It says on my messages to just report withdrawals immediately to my admissions officer.</p>
<p>The conditions from my page sound unforgiving and strict, but maybe it’s just one of those things you’re required to say… You know, you can’t just say on a professional application, “hey if you mess up, don’t worry about it.” lol. </p>
<p>It’s probably not going to affect you. Let us know. Maybe you can Google it and find some similar cases.</p>
<p>Decision (including term): Admitted for Fall 2012
Intended Major: Political Science
UC GPA: 3.94
Major GPA: 4.0
Major Pre-reqs: Done, since two of them aren’t articulated (although I took courses on subject)
IGETC: Complete this spring</p>
<p>Which other UC’s did you apply to?
Applied: UCD, UCI, UCSD, UCLA
Accepted: All
Rejected: -
Waitlisted: -
Pending: -
SIR: Idernooooo</p>
<p>Extracurriculars?:
- CC Honors program
- (VP of Interact Club; 3yrs in HS);
- WASC committee (HS)
- (Co-founder, VP, & secretary of Robotics Club; 2yrs in HS)
Job/Work Experience: - Internship at an investment firm
- House sitter/pet sitter
Volunteer/Community service: - CSULB’s Carpenter Performing Arts Center
- SPCALA
- Poll worker
- Youth shelter (HS)
Achievements/Awards: - CC Dean’s list, honor roll
- Academic Achievement awards in English, French
Personal Statement: I’m not sure how great they were. One I reused from Freshmen application and the other was just so-so in my opinion.</p>
<p>State (if OOS applicant): -
Country (if international applicant): -
School Type: -
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Pretty low, let’s save face and say <30K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): First generation</p>
<p>Reflection:
Strengths: Not quite sure, EC’s perhaps? Maybe my personal statement.
Weaknesses: I don’t have a 4.0 GPA anymore.
Why you think you were accepted/rejected: Beats me, but I was always pretty optimistic about my application anyways. Haha.
General Comments: Congrats to everyone who was admitted! I have some thinking to do… Now where’s my thinking chair!?</p>