Housing offers are coming out. It seems to be in waves.
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Yes, just got unit 1
Mine got an email that he didn’t get housing this round. We are upset
The email is very poorly worded. Berkeley guarantees housing for your freshman year. There will be another wave of housing offers coming. It is frustrating. Every offer I heard about today was for triples. I don’t know that all the offers were triples. My kid didn’t get an offer today either. They are really hoping that means they are not getting a triple!
My daughter got hers, and it was a triple.
They guarantee housing IF the student selected “Any housing, any room” as the 5th choice on the housing application.
True and hopefully everyone did that.
Mine got Unit 2 triple, but put down Clark Kerr for all spots. He’s kind of bummed but still okay. Anyone know if there is a process to switch?
Lots of first year students will be assigned to a triple in the units even though it may not be their first choice, simply because of the amount of space available in the units. My son was in a triple in Unit 2 last year (this was not his first choice either). In retrospect, he was glad he ended up there since he had a positive experience and made friends.
It is possible to submit a room transfer request, but I don’t know how likely it is for a student to be reassigned. The info is on the housing policy page: https://housing.berkeley.edu/rates-contracts-policies/policies/
You never know how housing will work out. My son got his first choice last year, a double in Foothill. It was extremely expensive and his roommate stayed up until 2am every night gaming. 
You never know, just let it play out.
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It’s not uncommon. My older son is up until 2 or 3AM every day, for group gaming if no test is scheduled next day, he only needs 5 hours sleep anyway. I do feel sorry for his roommate.
In the hopes of helping the housing anxiety of anyone next year reading this … my son didn’t get housing in either of the first two housing release waves. We knew he was guaranteed a spot because we made the deadlines and put “any room, any location”, but since he didn’t get in waves 1 or 2, we assumed he’d get whatever was left. Yesterday, in wave 3, he got his first choice room type and location - Unit 1, double mini-suite. So later wave, doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t get the room type you want.
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Agree, it was similar for my kid. The main thing they wanted was a double preferably in Blackwell, Unit 1 or Unit 3. Yesterday, they got a Unit 3 double.
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My daughter has online advising for College of Chemistry. She has not received any information other than the time. There is a zoom tab, does anyone know if they just use the zoom tab at the scheduled time? Will they send anything?
I know it’s July, and we were admitted months ago, but I work in a school and things are just slowing down. I wanted to post this so that people can see that not every kid who got in has a 4.0 unweighted and a million dual enrollment classes.
Decision: Accepted
Merit scholarships awarded (if any): None
Major (and division if applicable) applied to: L&S, Applied Math
ACADEMIC STATS::
UC Unweighted GPA: 3.85
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.14
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.4
ELC (top 9% CA HS): Yes
Comments about course load (including senior year):
Number of a-g courses: No idea, but kid took more than the required in math and science and only 2 years of language as opposed to the recommended 3
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 10 I think
AP courses/exams (scores in parentheses): Euro (4); Calc AB (5); CSP (3); APUSH (4); Chem (4). Scores pending on Calc BC, Physics 1 and Gov
IB courses/exams (score in parentheses): None
DE courses: Two but they were only 2 units each and one was not transferrable. It was just in an area of personal interest
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: Boys and Girls State (first class where it was coed), Founder and VP of a club, District level advisory board, varsity athlete
Job/Work Experience: Worked for the city
Volunteer/Community service: Math tutor and SAT tutor for Schoolhouse World; local library volunteer for 7 years
Summer Activities: Cal Poly EPIC and a UCLA engineering summer institute
Personal Insight essays (general details/topics): how music and math connect; why they wants to study math instead of engineering and how they came to that conclusion; how they define leadership; interest in cars
Supplemental/Augmented Review: Yes or No NO
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): CA not local to Bay Area
Country (if international applicant):
Applied for need-based financial aid? No
First Generation? No
Other acceptances/waitlists/denials:
Accepted: UCB, Purdue, Rutgers, Oregon State (honors and merit), UMass (honors and merit), SJSU, UCSB, Cal Poly SLO, UC Irvine
Waitlisted: Washington and UC Davis
Denials: UCLA, Stanford, Michigan
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Congratulations!
Sounds like the summer programs were were a valuable learning experience for your student.
They definitely were. Two of their PIQs were about their summer programs - the studying math one was about EPIC and the leadership one was about Boys and Girls State. I truly believe that for my student, the PIQs were what made the difference. I am clearly biased, but I had several people tell me they were fantastic and his English teacher, who has been teaching over 30 years, said they were some of the best he’s ever read.
And Berkeley gave them transfer credit for the UCLA Summer Institute as well, so that was a nice bonus. He had to commute for that one and spent two hours a day in the car, but he loved the experience.
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I 100% agree with the essays. It is a major insight into the student, that you just cannot get from classes and grades.
Anyone who opted into getting assigned a random roommate know when we will receive that information?
Any day now…I heard it was the beginning of August last year.