UC Davis miscalculated my GPA. They included grades from an old university that I received Academic Renewal from. It brought my GPA down from a 3.625 to a 3.51. After getting rejected from UCLA on Friday, I’m wondering if I should reach out to Berkeley this week about this or if it’s simply too late. Anyone in a similar situation? Any ideas?
Why don’t you contact your college counselor first before reaching out to to Cal. I think it would be a better choice.
@mmm6291 I did and they were pretty unhelpful, as usual.
How did you know UCD miscalculated your GPA? Each campus has their own calculation system perhaps. Don’t worry too much.
@mmm6291 thanks that’s about as helpful as my counselor was. I know they miscalculated it because as I said they counted some grades from an old university that were wiped out when I got academic renewal. My GPA at the old school was reset to 0.
I would appeal if denied
Hello, all -
I made an admission decision thread similar to the one @Mont2LA made for UCLA. Feel free to post your admission decision here, so that we can congratulate each other, discuss it all, etc. - but please post your decision in the decision thread as well. This will help future applicants, preventing them from having to sift through hundreds of pages on this thread.
Here’s the link: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/1886236-uc-berkeley-fall-2016-admits-waitlists-and-rejections.html#latest
Only 4 days, and ~1 hour!
Good idea, @goldencub
Man, I need to stop refreshing this page but I can’t O.O
@goodmarks, Davis did the same to my GPA. I had a class excluded and they computed it into my gpa, I got accepted but I’m hoping ucb doesn’t do the same
Davis had my GPA considerably lower than I expected as well. Should have been ~3.8, and they had a 3.5.
They counted one UC transferable course as non-transferable, which I think is a mistake. They also considered 3 C- grades (C isn’t failing, but a C- generally is) and didn’t consider that I retook those courses for A’s. I still got admitted, but was definitely shocked.
Definitely has me worried about how Berkeley will calculate my GPA, but those 3 bad grades are also 10 years old so they shouldn’t be weighed heavily if those grades are the ones they choose to use.
https://medium.com/@CalAdmissions/11-times-the-campanile-looked-flawless-4f821f1192a0#.c4yn20xuz
What’s your favorite picture of the Campanile?
would u go to berkeley for your 2nd major pick or if u find out they reject you go to another school for your first pick
Yeah Davis had my GPA as higher but they didn’t count my sign language class which I got a b in but I thought I needed for UC so idk it’s weird! Do you know if you can see your GPA in other UC acceptances because I got accepted into UCI, ucsb, UCSD,UCLA, and UCD but I can only see it in UCD.
@hazeldarling One thing to keep in mind is that it’s a preliminary (I believe) transcript evaluation, so things can be changed for graduation requirements. But if you’re denied because it was improperly evaluated, that definitely sucks.
That’s weird they didn’t take your sign language. I took a sign language course last semester and am taking one now, both for my foreign language requirements. Both say transferable on my UC Davis Credit and Examination Summary. I don’t know what school you go to or the class itself, but I would think it would be accepted.
I haven’t seen these for the other UC’s I was accepted at.
@briank82 yeah like I checked it out with two different counselors and everything. I mean I’m planning on going to UCLA and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be but idk I’ll see. It would just really suck if I had to take it over again.
@briank82 @hazeldarling off the top of my head probably the ASL was not seen as the equivalent of a UC semester course, which is either one accelerated at a CC or two semester. If you took the equivalent of one-half of the two course sequence they won’t give you credit. Since you’re talking about the course in the singular, that’s probably it.
@Ohm888 Ugh I hope that’s not it! But it does make sense. #-o
@ilovefriedchicken I’ll respond here. The other thread is only for admission decisions.
“How would you know that uc Berkeley already received my appeal? When I go to my portal, it doesn’t state if they have received it already.”
Appeal for what?
If you emailed them about changed coursework or something, they should email you, I believe. If they don’t, just follow up when they release decisions, and they will either rescind you or tell you your acceptance is still good.
“And when are they going to release their decision?”
April 29th. It’s on the portal. Probably around 4-5 PM, pacific time.
@briank82 It’s only considered failing if the course is a P/NP. If it’s a letter grade course, it’s considered passing
Is Berkeley your guys #1 choice?