Haas (UC Berkeley) 2013 - Calling All Applicants

No, you don't. See this from their admission requirement page. esp the highlighted part.

The UC Berkeley Graduate Division requires that all applicants who received their degrees from countries in which the official language is not English submit official evidence of English Language Proficiency. This requirement applies to applicants from Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and most European countries. This requirement also applies to US citizens who received their undergraduate degrees in these countries or regions. Only applicants who have completed a full year of US university-level coursework with a grade of B or better are exempt from this requirement.

Submitted for R2, now fingers crossed. Haas is a very competitive school. Good luck everyone.

Hi,
I have a question pertaining to transcripts in case of an international undergrad degree.

The application form says: "If your international institution does not issue official copies of your transcripts or degree certificates, please upload scanned copies of the originals with your online application found under the Education section. "

Did you just upload scanned copies of your mark-sheets? Did you have to send anything by mail?
I did my undergrad from Mumbai University.

Thanks!

My university gave a trascript that lists all the courses I took and my performance (grades) in each. If mark-sheets are the closest documents you have to something like that, you just need to upload scan copies of those.

I believe you need to arrange for your college to send official versions of these documents directly to Berkeley in the event that you get invited to interview. It's better to take care of this beforehand as they only give you 2-3 weeks before they decide to delay or jepordize your admission for this reason.

Also, I read somewhere that you need to upload a scan copy of your degree certificate if its from an international institution. Just FYI as I saw that in the last minute. Hope that helps.

OK, submitted for R2 as of 1 hour ago. Fingers crossed!!

Applied for R2 as well! Surprised how little love this thread is getting since two rounds have already finished.

Good luck to everyone!

Congratulations! And best of luck!! Check past comments on this thread - someone had posted the questions that he was asked during the on-campus Haas Interview.
It seemed like it was a fit interview basically and the interviewer only had a resume.

Could you share some information on when you applied and your background! It would help some of us still waiting to hear back.

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I received a mail today from Haas about a winter coffee break informal chat . Has anyone else received it too??

Yes.
I think that went out to everyone. By everyone I mean even folks who haven't submitted their app yet

Submitted R2 as well. Good luck to us all!

I received an email with the subject Berkeley MBA: For Round Two Applicants. A part of the email said: We anticipate interview invitations to be extended beginning in December up until our Round Two notification date of February 21.

Does that mean that there will be invitations going out this upcoming week for R2 applicants? I think that is so soon! How long do R1 waited until the first invitations started going out?

I think Berkeley's R1 and R2 interviews will definitely overlap. R1 interviews, for the most part, seem to have gone out to international applicants and a few R1 applicants.

I do think it's so soon that they are releasing interview invites for R2 applicants 1-2 weeks after application submit deadline...

I got an interview invite (EWMBA) on Nov 21 , 2012 (RG 1). Lets see how it goes , good luck to all of you !!!

Just got invited to interview at 5:30PM EST on 12/4

Congratulations - I'm assuming you're FT MBA applicant? (Don't want to get mixed up with EMBA applicants). Do you mind sharing your profile?

Congratulations! Are you a R1 or R2 applicant?

Yea, FT, R1, White, 7 yrs Financial Services, 5 @ HF in NY, 740 (49/42), 3.66

Congratulations on the interview invitation!!!

They are still calling R1 applicants! So that makes me wonder when will they start calling R2 applicants What do you guys think?