UC Berkeley Fall 2020: Transfer Waitlist Thread

Is it possible to be accepted for spring ?

I was waitlisted last year. People usually start hearing back starting first week of June in waves. Last year nobody was admitted due to over-enrollment from regular admission of both transfers and freshman per the admissions office. Admit rates depend on yield so it can jump hugely each year. I don’t think freshman waitlist correlates to transfers as freshman have a separate allocation of spots than transfers each year. Transfer waitlist will depend on yield from the regular admissions vs. desired enrollment per year.

^^^ @djbassbaby well said!

Does anyone know how to fill the spring grades? do I fill in IP or the current grade?

that’s what i did.

I feel like it would be pointless to put your spring schedule and “IP” notation because they already know that info from TAU. UNLESS, you’ve changed your spring schedule after the TAU and haven’t updated them.

You don’t want to regurgitate ‘already-reviewed’ information on your waitlist form. I’m unsure whether I should input my current letter grades. The directions don’t necessarily say that though. In fact, they say we should put final grades, which we can’t do because the semester hasn’t ended. I will likely be leaving the grades section blank.

@Ohm888 Do you know if we need to submit our transcripts AND enter in courses for the waitlist statement? Do we do both or only one? If we need to actually enter the courses what if we have more than 6 courses (even though there are only 6 spots on the waitlist statement to enter courses)?

Submitted mines!!

Did you guys submit something for the essay ?

Yeah, I just wrote about why Berkeley is my first choice, with regard to specific programs/ clubs. I mentioned specific classes that caught my interest (do some research). I made mine super brief (~200 words) and explicitly said that I will be SIR-ing if admitted.

Just try to name drop as much as possible. Professors, clubs, programs. etc.

Waitlisted
Major: Psychology
GPA: 4.0
69 transferrable units
Finished all pre-reqs for the major

But I got into UC Davis and I got the regents invitation from UC Santa Cruz so I decided to submit my SIR to Santa Cruz

Good luck everyone! I hope everyone is able to get into their school of choice!

HAS ANYONE HEARD BACK YET? Some schools are doing early waitlists

Nope, I think even freshman for Cal didn’t hear back early. All competitive schools are really slammed right now with everything going on.

The first wave probably its gonna be on June 7th

any 4 address glitches?

Nope do you have it ?

@“UCLA22CogSci/LINGCS” nope not yet hopefully one day :smile:

what’s 4 address glitch?

It was asked on Twitter whether those glitches mean anything. UCB has replied saying they’re not indicative of anything whatsoever.