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The tendency to doubt one’s academic legitimacy or success — otherwise known as impostor syndrome — seems to occur most frequently among transfer students. It’s a persistent insecurity that persuades us we don’t belong…because we did not begin on the same four-year track as most of our undergraduate peers.
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UC Berkeley Admissions announced that a “small group of applicants” received premature admission decisions in a tweet Sunday.
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I initially didn’t want to come to UC Berkeley. It’s surprising for me to admit that truth following the last four months of calling this campus my home.
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At UC Berkeley, the tell-tale sign of spring isn’t blossoms in bloom or newborn squirrels frolicking around campus. It’s shell-shocked high school seniors and their parents, roaming the campus in hordes behind a college student walking backward. Once again, college-admissions season is upon us — a fact made all too apparent
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The percentage of out-of-state students enrolled in this year’s freshman class decreased while the percentage of underrepresented minorities increased.
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UC Berkeley released data outlining the ethnic and geographical make-up of the fall 2012 entering freshman and transfer classes late Thursday. About 41 percent of freshman students admitted to UC Berkeley for fall 2012 enrolled, making the incoming class 5350 students. In the wake of decreased state funding — which
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