@lindyk8, my Haas admission officer is Donna Brennan. I believe that she handles most if not all the Haas admits.
She is quite helpful: I emailed her with a transcript question in early May and she replied in the following morning.
From what I’m hearing about other Cal colleges, that seems like one of the perks that Haas gives to its students. B-)
@InfiniteSome , Haas here with Donna Brennan too.
It’s coming together in a weird, yet magical way.
My daughter, Quincy ='media studies.
I’m L&S too but I have Violeta Bermudez-Estrella. Emailed her 4 days ago and still haven’t heard back. It’s a pretty important question too so I’m getting a little concerned. I’m sure they are very busy this time of year, so I understand. Anyone else have her?
I’m L&S with Curtis Morisaki. It’s weird how 75% of L&S people have the same guy. Weird and impractical.
@spenceyboi, that’s definitely one of the benefits of having a relatively small transfer group into Haas.
On our Berkeley portal, it says that we need to “Pose for your photo ID” by June 7. I’m assuming this is the same as getting our Berkeley ID card? Are we supposed to head on campus for it?
@spenceyboi You provide your own photo. On your checklist there’s a link that says “upload your photo”. I believe you’re supposed to post your photo at least 2 days before your CalSO date because you have to meet certain specifications/wait for the picture to be approved.
@SWEEP1989 I’m in L&S and have Violetta Bermudez-Estrella as A.O., too. When I emailed her she got back to me within 48 hours. I put what I needed to know in the Subject line of my email to nudge her.
@MaMoi77 thanks! I appreciate it. I plan on emailing her Tuesday if I haven’t heard from her by then.
Hey guys,
I’ve been trying to confirm my berkeley.edu email address via facebook but when I go to my email and open it up, the link “click here” doesn’t allow me to click it. Does anyone have a similar issue? I’ve been trying to join a Berkeley group on facebook but I can’t until I confirm my email.
^^^^^^^ I figured it out!
Well, my daughter went over to Berkeley for the overnighter, having done it last year at UCLA, and here’s the score: UCLA 10; Berkeley 1. They gave her a room and her roommate has a bunch of friends so left for the entire evening. Ok that happens. But NO AGENDA, no tour, no icebreakers. They’re just plopped in a room basically. There is a message to meet at a cafe on campus at 6-8 to eat, but she’s not even sure if she’s supposed to pay for the dinner or not. At UCLA they had ice-breakers, a tour of Westwood, a group dinner at a pizza restaurant. Very welcoming from start to finish. She said it can’t get much more unwelcoming at Berkeley. I would recommend people bypass the extra charge for the overnighter.
@lindyk8, ah, I’m sorry!
@luckie1367, Oh she’s fine. She knows berkeley pretty well and there’s some girl she’s with now. But it’s just not the same vibe at all. I did tell her it might rev up at the dinner. She really liked the UCLA overnighter, and is still in contact with some girl she met there.
It seemed to me UCLA just had a more welcoming vibe in general, but tomorrow may be a whole new story. B-)
@lindyk8 It makes me want to pull my hair out when I read things like that. Pretty much everything UCLA does seems more welcoming. I feel like UCLA wanted me 10x more than UCB does. (Nothing more welcoming than giving me more money than I needed). Hopefully it gets more exciting when I’m actually going to Berkeley, but oh well.
UCLA seems more welcoming? Ugh. Sorry but I’m really tired of everyone chastising Berkeley because it doesn’t throw as much transfer love. You’ll meet a lot of transfers in your classes and such, so you don’t really need that many welcoming receptions honestly. Berkeley wants you just as much as UCLA does - lindyk8’s example of an overnight stay is one where the host didn’t really care. People do care. You’ll meet them.
I always have felt more welcomed by UCLA than Berkeley. Maybe you, @ocnative , are an exception to the usual treatment.
I will say this: someone could throw a great “party” and then that’s it. Another could not throw a party and they do more later. I’m sure it all evens out.
This was the drill: no agenda except go to Crossroads between 6-8. Are they expected to pay or is Berkeley. No one knows. She meets up with some others on the floor. No one has any idea what’s going on. They head over to Crossroads. It ends up they were supposed to have vouchers that I guess a few people got, but most didn’t. So they’re told to wait until they print some vouchers and bring them back. This was at 6. By 7, when they still hadn’t arrived, my daughter left because she was alone again, as ppl had come in groups. So she went to the Melt. She texted me a little after 7.
I go look on the page and it says activities are planned from 8-10. So I text her that. She has no idea because no one told her and it’s not in the sheet they gave her. She texts her roommate who responds she’s not sure what’s going on but she thinks there’s a hike at 8pm and to meet in front of unit 3. A hike at 8pm? So maybe it’s a tour. My daughter goes to the front at 8pm and they take them to an empty room with some music in the background, and tell them to mingle. That was it.
After about ten minutes my daughter went to her room and went on her iPad.
@ocnative, you cannot honestly say this was a warm welcome. But I agree with you. These welcomes are trivial in the scope of things.
My daughter did say she thought maybe as this was the first group they just weren’t prepared. And I have no doubt that the environment itself will be fine. And tomorrow might be great.
To me, I kind of chuckle because the approach inadvertently reflects the stereotypes:
Berkeley = goggles/nerds
UCLA = Hollywood and parties.
:)). :))
The Cool Kids
The Math Club
(It’s like high school all over again.)
@WouldYouKindly, are you going to Berkeley? What’s your major?