Any info on regents yet?
@lindyk8 through google i found this link http://calparents.berkeley.edu/reception/ , seems like it’s open to anyone who wants to sign up?
I spent some time searching berkeley media studies and there are the random, this is an easy joke major by ppl not in the dept. I will admit that.
However, to be fair, last year when my daughter SIR’d to communications at UCLA there were random ppl not in the dept. saying it was an easy joke major all over the place.
As majors go, any communications dept is going to be easy/easier. Without a doubt, esp in terms of Hollywood jobs (maybe internships), UCLA has the edge. Re: tech, I’m not sure it’s that relevant- more predicated on internships, I would say.
@lindyk8 that makes more sense. I’m not sure why every teacher has been against Berkeley, but it could be due to my college being closer to UCLA than Berkeley. One of my teachers worked in a grad program and apparently when admitting, because Berkeley is so theory-based, they looked down upon students who went there.
Yeah, I don’t know. It kind of got me worried @onmyway8, jobwise, but I think it boils down to a lot of variables. Internships, minors, etc.
I went to a Cal Socal reception in Rosemead yesterday and now I’m back to not knowing where to go :-S
Anyone heard about regents? They said middle of the month and we are almost there.
I just wanted to leave this here for those transfers / prospective transfers who have / had elitism concerns about Berkeley: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/05/11/op-ed-a-response-to-the-uc-berkeley-student-who-said-community-colleges-should-not-exist/
The elitism addressed in the article, and even more so on the Berkeley Confessions page, is truly gag worthy.
You know what? Just ignore this stuff. The second commenter in the article said it right. Some idiot posted on FB. Any sort of response is defensive. They’ll always be ppl who aren’t going to like the transfers, aren’t going to like the Asians, aren’t going to like this or that major. Don’t get sucked up in it. I believe @cayton said the issue was basically a non-issue at UCLA, despite prior comments by others to the contrary.
And one poster to FB does not represent the entire campus.
@lindyk8 : As helpful as you are at just providing general information, you are also exceptionally good at giving motherly support. As a transfer with many of my close friends at four years, I’ve had to endure a lot of attitude towards my time at CC. If anything, it gave me a thicker skin towards this BS. You made it seem so simple…There’s just always going to haters and you can’t give them the time. Thank you! 
I still haven’t received the admission package 
@HumbleTeen : i went to a socal reception for berkeley and talked to the finaid people. They told me that they already had interviews so if you haven’t heard back, you didn’t receive it. I was confused because I was under the impression that transfer didn’t have to interview to get Regents…but I guess not? o_o
@giraffinyoucrazy I don’t think transfer students are interviewed for Regents.
@lindyk8
Reading that ignorant student’s words made me cringe. Textbook example of someone who’s good at academics but not very smart or knowledgeable in the worldly sense. Community colleges exist for a reason in the state of California, and they’ve always been designed the way they were for transfer students to take advantage of them, provided they work hard. California has had this system in place since the inception of its “Master Plan” in 1960, and informally for a few decades prior to that.
Here’s some text from the Wikipedia article on the subject of the Master Plan: "Clark Kerr stated that the goal of the master plan was to balance the “competing demands of fostering excellence and guaranteeing educational access for all.”[7] The Master Plan achieved the following:
It created a system that combined exceptional quality with broad access for students.
It transformed a collection of uncoordinated and competing colleges and universities into a coherent system.
It established a broad framework for higher education that encourages each of the three public higher education segments to concentrate on creating its own kind of excellence within its own particular set of responsibilities.
And it acknowledged the vital role of the independent colleges and universities, envisioning higher education in California as a single continuum of educational opportunity, from small private colleges to large public universities.[5]
According to the Plan, the top one-eighth (12.5%) of graduating high school seniors would be guaranteed a place at a campus of the University of California (Berkeley, Los Angeles, etc.) tuition-free. The top one-third (33.3%) would be able to enter the California State University system (San Francisco State, Cal State L.A., etc.). Community colleges (Bakersfield College, College of the Canyons, Citrus College, etc.) would accept any students “capable of benefiting from instruction.”[5] These percentages are now enforced by sliding scales equating grade point average and scores on the SAT or ACT, which are recalculated every year. No actual rank of the students in high school are used as many schools do not rank students.
Graduates of the community colleges would then be guaranteed transfer to the Cal State or UC systems in order to complete Bachelor’s degrees. This practice was carried over from previous years before the Plan was enacted, with graduates from the CCC being accepted as third-year students at the Universities by virtue of their prior coursework. Finally, the Plan established that the University of California would be the sole portion of the system charged with performing academic research, and would award master’s and doctoral degrees in support of that mission. The Cal State system, in addition to awarding master’s degrees, would be able to award joint doctorates with the UC.[5]
The “California Idea” - California’s tripartite system of public research universities, comprehensive 4-year undergraduate campuses, and open-access community colleges – has been highly influential, and many other states and even nations have imitated this structure."
Community colleges in California are important, and exist for a reason. I read somewhere that the basic philosophy behind the Master Plan and the community college transfer system that it lays down is that every person should be able to get a bachelor’s degree if they want to and wish to work hard for it. Transfer students come from a diversity of backgrounds and generally have had different life experiences and struggles to deal with. We’re just trying to succeed and want a chance at a better life. Thankfully, California realized this many decades ago and laid out a plan for the transfer student population to do just that. That Berkeley student needs to read up on California history and learn their shit before spewing uninformed opinions on the Internet.
And I’m inclined to think the overwhelming majority of people at Berkeley don’t give a shit if you’re a transfer or not. And yeah, I did say earlier that people at UCLA have been welcoming to me and other transfers and don’t seem to care that we went to community college. From what I’ve heard, most people at Berkeley don’t care either. Everyone there is a Golden Bear after all, right?
Thx @cayton, and just a side point: 25% of all community college students in the ENTIRE United States go to a California community college. CA leading the way.
And 1/3 of all graduates every year from every UC is a transfer. If transfers were so lame brain, the UC system would be in the toilet.
Something like 48-52% of graduates in STEM majors at the UCs are transfer students. (I can’t recall exact figure, but I believe I read it in a Berkeley hand-out.)
People who think badly of transfers are sad bitter people. Otherwise why would they care? They aren’t worth dealing with.
@mikeyminimo Then how come you said you got into UCLA in another thread? Btw, you’re kind of a buzzkill whenever you post.
@mikeyminimo But dude…this site isn’t your private testing ground to measure people’s reactions. Have some courtesy for the people who use it for legitimate reasons.
I was planning on attending one of the SoCal receptions, but I’ve been sick the last few days. Would any of you guys mind letting me know what I missed? What it more of a “congrats, you got in!” kind of thing, or was there important information communicated as well?
For the college of Letters and Sciences: regarding the semester cap, I’ve confirmed that it is a strict cap and that your registration will be flagged if you try to register for semesters after you hit the 120 unit cap without prior approval via petition from either a study abroad program or a second major / minor.
Given that the majority of admitted transfers, like myself, have the full 70 transferable units and that the minimum course load is 13 units, that means we would hit the cap during our fourth semester regardless of our class choices and those that want to stay an extra semester need to petition. If your a transfer with 67 transferable units or less, then taking the minimum 13 units per semester would allow you to stay that extra semester without a petition as you don’t hit the 120 limit until your fifth semester.
Additionally failing a class (or not passing a P/NP) can constitute an extra semester without a need for a petition, but would render a late registration date for that extra semester making the act of getting classes very difficult. Getting a petition approved would waive the late registration date in this scenario.
Regardless of reason though, federally generated financial aid will be minimal following the completion of your 4th semester as apparently both the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan and the Middle Class Access Plan have language limiting the eligible terms.
On the bright side though, I also found out that on-campus jobs received from work-study contracts can be extended past a student’s graduation term meaning that those who have trouble finding work after graduation can continue their work-study occupations for a short time even after they graduate provided your boss likes you a lot and requests for an extension. This can, but is not often used, for the paid research lab positions as well.
Hope this info can help someone!
@slantrhymes IMHO, it was more of a “This is why you should go to Cal” vibe brimming with success story speakers and general information on how to succeed there. The information fair was pretty general as well which provided a place to ask all the questions you may have had, but nothing an email or phone call to the right people couldn’t answer.
We need to SIR in order to access Bmail right?
&actuaryorbust, I don’t believe that is correct. I thought unit ceiling was 130 and you could pile on the units (within reason) during those 4 semesters, and you do not get to the cap until the semster after you reach 130. So if you have 129 units at end of 4th semester (transfer) you can take one more semester. (The cap is 136 for doubles.)
Heres a link. Am I reading it wrong?
http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html