Is there a fax number of Cal undergraduate admissions ?
Call admissions and ask for their FAX #.
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If you know the very person who is supposed to get the fax, talk to her/him and get the particular fax number.
If you don’t, don’t send the fax. Who knows where it would end up!
This applies in general, not just for admissions.
@Gumbymom I am not sure who to ask, and you seem to be giving answers to the questions from uninformed students and their parents…
It is about conditions of admission. Unfulfilled conditions of admission!
My son has a very unusual education history. He jumped through grades, ended up with no choice but to do homeschooling at age from 10 to 12 (two school years), during which he, mostly on his own, took grade 9 HS courses on line, prepared for six AP tests (Calculus BC, Physics 1, Physics C both parts, Statistics, Chemistry) and attended local Community Colleg taking hard math classes. Then we went to high school (that decided to admit him as a 9th grader and not 10th grader despite many proofs to the contrary). Then he ran out of classes to take, so he attended HS 50% of the time and another 50% spent in the local 4-year university as a non-degree student taking upper division math courses. he applied to Berkeley when being in 11th grade (which we all, except the HS, counted as his 12th).
During application process (to Berkeley) he promised (1) Home School transcript; (2) High School transcript; (3) GED diploma (the though was HS will not let him graduate from 11th grade); (4) CC transcript; and (5) 4-year university transcript. Fast forward to today - he graduated from 11 grade, he is 15 and a frosh at Berkeley. Now the problem. His CalCentral still shows that he did not submit:
(A) GED
(B) transcript from an entity that administers GED - he did not promise that, but it is still listed as missing;
© the home school transcript.
Yes, he wrote to his Admission Officer - weeks ago. Admission Office said “OK, we do not expect GED as long as you give us HS graduation proof and final transcript.” Final HS transcript with the graduation date clearly written was sent 6/28/2018, but the GED “task” and another task “transcript from IT PRONETS” (this is the entity administrating GEDs in our area) are still red. SHOULD we worry??
Also, the Home School transcript task is still red, even though we sent the home school transcript on 6/30/2018. Asking Admission Officer about (in email) it results in auto reply to the tune of “I’ll contact you in 5 days or less” with no follow up in 5 days or more. Everyone seems to be very busy. So, my son has three red tasks in the conditions of admission. What should be do about it???
Will all this prevent him from registering to courses? he did pass his Golden bear Advisement…
@ElenaParent: Have you tried calling admissions and do you have a name of a specific admissions officer you can talk to about his unusual case?
I would talk directly with someone familiar with your son’s application and make sure you document everything they tell you.
tel:510-642-3175
Other than personally visiting the admissions office and making sure you talk with a supervisor, I really cannot tell you if there will be any issues.
Best of luck and please update if you get any answers.
@Gumbymom yes, we know the name of the Admission Officer responsible for my son, and this is the person that gave the two answers I already told you about (“we will not expect GED from you” and a generic autoreply “I’ll get back to you” -in response to home school transcript question.). The only thing we can do regarding GED is to hope everything is ok, because the Admissions Officer, after all, did sent that response, saying “we will not expect GED”. And for home school transcript, I guess, we will printout everything again and sent to Berkeley with “proof of delivery” this time… After all, the home school transcript is a simple paper produced and signed by parents!!! (we also include his AP report there for the corresponding years, and his CC transcript for these years)…
Also, I’d be glad to visit admissions! But I am on the East Coast. Not sure I should fly to Berkeley for that!
Yes, I’ll let you know when (and if) anything on the portal changes, regarding these three red flags!
@ElenaParent: I think you have done all you can. I would bring a copy of all documents with you and your son when you attend orientation if you are flying out just in case.
Thanks, @Gumbymom ! But the funny thing is, he doesn’t want us to come with him. He wants to be a grown up. He, barely 15 year old, will fly alone with two suitcases, take uber at the airport, and get to his dorm. No parents in tow… Fine by us - the maximum can happen is he will miss his dorm appointment. I hope he will find a way not to spend a night in the streets… 
On a serious note, of course he will have with him all printed copies, and all files on his computer, and separately on a drive. But it will be him, not us, talking to admissions while he is at Berkeley…
@Elenaparent: Wow, your son sounds like a very special individual. I am known to be a “helicopter” parent and I am sure both my son’s would have been fine handling their college move-in/orientation etc… but since I was footing the bill I really wanted to get a better perspective of what I needed to know to make sure they were successful in college so both my husband and I tagged along for their orientation and move-in.
You must be a very proud parent and I am sure your son will do great things.
I never lived in a dorm while in undergrad or grad school, so I’m living vicariously thru my kid and wouldn’t miss the first move-in and parts of the orientation for anything in the world. My wife had the opposite approach, she pretty much gave the “you’re on your own now…” to her two kids after dumping them off lol.
@ProfessorPlum168 I would love not to miss it. Especially I would love to ask all the questions about units and such that I have. But he doesn’t want us there. It is his school, his studies, his Berkeley.
I understand - all his life since the time when he was taking community college math (200-level courses - for sophomores!) at the tender age of 11, on campus, sitting in the class with kids literally more than twice older than him, and ever since he was taking senior-level-math-for-bachelor-math-students - at age 14, again in the classroom with kids who were 22-23 years old, - ever since then he had to be proving to everyone else that he is not a baby, and earned his spot to be where he is. I want to give him credit for all that, and show him that we do not think he is a baby. And he is NOT a baby, he is a 15-year old man. There are not so many opportunities to show that we believe in him, and NOT coming to orientation, since he asked, is the least we can do.
Well maybe we’ll get to read about him in the Daily Californian newspaper someday. I’m sure I’ve read about a few over the years who were between 12-15.
@Gumbymom , you asked to give you the resolution of my son’s pending admission tasks? So here we go. The GED related tasks (both of them) cleared all by themselves, two days after I posted here. As for the Home School transcript - I sent another copy yesterday with, overnight delivery. Guess what? As of today, 7/20, the task shows as completed, with the day of completion 7/2. (??!!) But I am happy with the result! Thanks for caring!
@ElenaParent: I guess you need to have patience for all things related to admissions. Best of luck to your son.