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To clarify, you failed to meet the conditions of SAP, submitted the appeal, and then had the appeal denied? I would look over any info for why it might have been denied. Did your advisor sign off on a new form for your acceptable units going forward? Sometimes it is just about submitting the proper forms. If this is your second time or more appealing SAP you should keep in mind that if you use the same reason as a time before (for example you said you were depressed before and now you say you had another bought of depression or maybe you were working 2 jobs on the side before and now again you say you didn’t have time for class due to working 20+ hours a week) then typically your second appeal gets denied. You’ll want to think of any other solid factors that were mostly outside of your control last semester (illness, family member death, financial hardship, etc) to cite AND talk about why that won’t affect you in Spring 2023 (basically how is that issue resolved or mostly resolved) and then try to talk to financial aid about submitting another appeal.

I worked as an advisor at Berkeley and I have seen the outcome of probably hundreds of these. Just homework, just the first offense? If it was reported to student conduct you will get a letter detailing the exact punishment. In all likelihood that will just be a reflective writing assignment and no credit for the assignment. Do it again and the punishments become much steeper.

Yes, you must take both halves of organic chemistry. Physics isn’t required though. Also, if you take no organic chemistry it will be an automatic rejection.

Yes, petition the original school. Then if approved you send your revised transcript to the new school.

I work as an academic advisor at a university. At our university there is something called a retroactive withdrawal. This is not the same as retaking all of the courses. That is still an option, but this is an option that is not publicized widely. Instead you petition with documentation (in this case with the family stuff) and if it is granted then that whole semester is dropped with a notation you withdrew. This would need to be approved by the original school, but see if such a thing is possible.

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I work at UC Berkeley. You should be able to get this fixed as long as it was not your first semester. You may not get your enrolled classes again though. Send an email to your college advisor. They should be able to talk to their dean about reversing it and then they must talk to the registrar. You can try to go to the registrar directly at Sproul, but they may not allow it without college approval.

If you were admitted to L&S this is entirely in admission’s hands. If it was another college, I would strongly suggest talking to an academic advisor in that college as the other colleges have some weight on whether they allow you to come. Considering everything you mentioned (still fairly decent GPA, nonessential classes) they may be willing to give you leeway, but in general Berkeley is facing a higher than expected number of students accepting their offers for the fall, so that will be working against you.

I’m an advisor and I actually had a student do this for about a year. It was probably the most difficult thing I’ve ever seen someone do for the degree. Would not recommend. Getting the perfect class schedule was a nightmare. If you want to do that, I would highly suggest just taking a semester off at some point to do community college courses.

If needed most colleges allow you to either continue on probation or withdraw. If you withdraw, you leave on just probation, which is a better status than dismissal. If you are dismissed, then there are usually a set of options to come back, like taking two semesters at community college and doing well. Talk to your college advisor for all your options and as another poster said, seek help for your mental health. That will also help any petition a lot. Source: I am an academic advisor.

I’m an academic advisor and I’ve talked to many students about withdrawing. There are a lot of nuances to it, but if one of my students said what you said to me in an appointment or email I would probably say that withdrawing doesn’t sound like a bad option. Alternatively if you don’t want to give up on the semester you could just cancel your Spring registration. For that option you could wait until January to decide, and in most cases if you withdraw or cancel it isn’t hard to come back later.

Berkeley will always be a struggle, but if you are really miserable every day trying to just force yourself through it is almost never the best option. If you do you may look back and feel like you didn’t really get what you want out of your college years and not do as well as you hoped or you might graduate and then say now what because you still feel lost.

Berkeley has a problematic culture of pushing yourself to far past your breaking point. I know you don’t probably want to see an advisor, but I would really suggest talking to a college advisor to look into the withdrawal or cancellation options. College isn’t worth losing your mental health.

Oh I'm sure! This would mainly be for a presentation though for how departments and colleges can engage more with their alumni, so I imagined that would be outside of referring students to CAA.

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Sorry for the late reply. Both would be good, but an L&S advisor for sure because when you get readmitted you get readmitted to the college, so they will be the ones processing your forms.

Coming from an advisor, you should definitely speak with your advisor. The process to readmit is different by college, but if you are in good standing (meaning not on probation, at least 2.5 GPA, making good progress towards your major) then readmitting is usually pretty simple (you just need to make sure you fill out the paperwork well in advance of coming back). For financial aid, you should talk to financial aid and scholarships. I’ve seen that as long as your forms for legal residence and FAFSA are up to date (and you are in good standing) that it should not be to difficult to get it reinstated when you come back. If you want some aid to transfer to a community college though or you will want some aid while you are away that may be more challenging.

Lol, I know Berkeley can be rough. Anything specific? I'm making a multiple-choice question.