We have an update for the Transfer Admissions podcast. There is some important information about Assist.org that students need to make sure they are aware of. Plus – did you know that you aren’t done with your application in November? There is an additional questionnaire that you must fill out in January. Sharon Mueller and Joey Wong stopped by the Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer to fill us in on changes for this year, why you should keep checking your email and why having the required courses is important to your application.

If you are looking for information about frosh admissions please check out our Frosh Admissions podcast.

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LAURA VOGT: Hi, my name is Laura Vogt and I’m the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services. Welcome to another episode of the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. Sharon Mueller and Joey Wong are joining us today to discuss transfer admissions and how you can apply to Berkeley Engineering, what is important on your application and what you need to know about Assist.org. Welcome both of you – thank you for coming on the podcast! Sharon – you’ve been a guest many times but for those that are joining us for the first time, please introduce yourself.

SHARON MUELLER: I am Sharon Mueller and I’m the Director of Advising and Policy in Engineering Student Services.

LV: Thank you for being here! Joey – please tell the folks listening about what you do at UC Berkeley.

JOEY WONG: Yeah sure. Hi, I’m Joey Wong. I’m one of the advisers here in Engineering Student Services and I helped coordinate and manage the transfer admission process every year.

LV: Welcome back both of you and thank you again for being here. And earlier this month I interviewed a couple of folks from admissions about the Frosch applications and admissions. So if you’re in high school

Are you a senior in high school applying to UC Berkeley in November 2018? Than this Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer is for you. Our yearly check-in with the UC Berkeley admissions team for frosh admissions brings us Djenilin Mallari an Henry Tsai. This year we discuss using online resources, tips for writing an essay that will highlight who you are and how the admissions team approaches each application (hint: it is a holistic process).

If you are applying to transfer to Berkeley Engineering, please check out tips on the Transfer Admissions podcast.

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Freshman Admissions Fall 2018 (2019-20)

LAURA VOGT: Hi my name is Laura Vogt and I’m the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services. Welcome to this week’s episode of The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. And this week I’m really excited to welcome Djenilin Mallari and Henry Tsai from the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions. Today we are discussing students that are applying as incoming freshmen to Berkeley Engineering. Djenilin would you please tell us a little more about yourself?

DJENILIN MALLARI: Sure I’m happy to be here. Thanks for having me. My name is Djenilin Mallari. I’m an assistant director in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions here UC Berkeley.

LV: Thank you and thank you for coming in for the first time over here in our little podcast. Henry can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and how you came with us last year.

HENRY TSAI: Yes. Thanks for having me again. And my name is Henry. I’m also an assistant director of undergraduate admissions at UC Berkeley.

LV: And thank you. I really do appreciate you taking your t

This week on the Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we learn more about the Senior Class Gift Committee with Julia Snippen. The College of Engineering is looking for dedicated and enthusiastic seniors to join the 2018 Berkeley Engineering Senior Class Gift Committee! We’d love to hear from those of you who are interested by the end of day, Monday October 15. The first meeting is on November 2.

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LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to the Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. Today we are discussing the Berkeley Engineering Senior Class Gift Campaign and I’m so happy to have Julia Snippen from the College of Engineer Dean’s Office here with us today! Welcome Julia – can you tell us a little about yourself and how you are involved with the campaign.

JULIA SNIPPEN:  Hi. Thanks so much for having me here.

LV:  Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got how you are involved in the campaign.

JS: Sure absolutely. So I’m the Associate Director of Development for the College of Engineering. Many of you may not know exactly what that is but we’ll talk more about that. It is all to do with fundraising and securing resources for the college. And that is for the entire college no matter what department you’re in the work that I do and the support that I work to Ranglin is benefiting every single student. And it’s a wonderful wonderful job to have. So the senior class gift committee and campaign is something that will start talking about in the fall and winter and then will really start rolling as more of a full fledged campaign in the spring. And it is primarily geared toward encouraging participation from your fellow senior classmates in the College of Engineering to start thinking abou

This week on the Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we talk with Luis Castillo, Student Development Manager, about the Center for Access to Engineering Excellence. You can learn more about their tutoring services, study spaces, workshops and more. Check out the tutoring schedule now on our website.

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LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. My name is Laura Vogt. I’m the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services. This week I am delighted to have Luis Castillo on the podcast. He is the Student Development Manager for Engineering Student Services. Luis, please introduce yourself and tell us what services you work with in ESS.

LUIS CASTILLO: Hello everyone, to build on Laura’s introduction my name is Luis Castillo and I am the Student Development Manager here in ESS. I work in the Center for Access to Engineering Excellence and what I do there is that I manage the center the physical space, all the touring that goes on in there, the student assistants that work there and the front desk. I also work closely with engineering student organizations through the funding that the College of Engineering gets for them. And aside from that I also managed the leadershape program that we put on every year in which we take engineering students up to the Redwood’s to talk more about their skills as leaders within engineering.

LV: Thank you. And again thank you so much for joining us today. Let’s talk a little bit more about the Center for access to engineering excellence. What is the goal of the center?

LC: The goal of the center has been to act as a service to all students. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re str

Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation & Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation

Today we are discussing two great opportunities you will have as a Berkeley Engineer – the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and the Berkeley Certificate on Design Innovation. I’ve invited Amy Dinh and Tyshon Rogers to join us today and give us more details on the programs and events that are offered by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.

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LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. My name is Laura Vogt, and I’m the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services. Thank you for hanging out with us this summer. And now as we get ready to start getting into school we’re going to talk about one of the fantastic things that we have here on campus: The Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and the Berkeley certificate in design innovation. I’ve invited Amy Dinh and Tyshon Rogers to join us today and give us more details on the programs and events that are offered by the Jacobs Institute for Design and innovation. Amy please tell us a little about yourself.

AMY DINH: Sure. So I’m the students services and programs manager at the Jacobs institute I’ve been here for three years and the institute has also been open for three years so it was very exciting to be here from the start and see our community grow. What I do is basically be a first point of contact for students who are interested in learning more about the resources we have at Jacobs as well as on campus in general if we don’t have what students are looking for. But we basically try to serve as a hub on campus for students interested in exploring human centered design and technology innovation through courses, events, being private student club, finding mentors here, or advising here and also taking advantage of maker space so I try to help students figure out which of those resources they might want to get involved and how to do that.

LV: Fantastic. Thank you so much for being here today. And Tyshon tell us a little bit about yourself.

TYSHON

Once again stepping out of the College of Engineering world we are looking towards Sproul Hall and Financial Aid. This week we have asked Joe Sell on to bring us some more insight to Financial Aid – you’ll hear about what to expect, how to get it and what to do if something is wrong.

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LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. My name is Laura Vogt, I’m the Communications and Events manager for Engineering Student Services and your podcast host! This week we have Joe Sell, A Special Projects Coordinator from the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office. Hi Joe, welcome to the podcast.

JOE SELL: Hi Laura, thanks.

LV: Can you please tell us a little about yourself and what services you and your office provide for students at UC Berkeley.

JS: So again my name is Joe Sell, I’m a special projects coordinator in the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office. I’ve worked at Berkeley for about three years now, just over three years. So I work in the counseling unit of the Financial Aid Office. So we not only provide you know in person, individual advising and counseling, but we also work with reviewing all student documents, student appeals. We do outreach different departments. We do satellite office hours in different departments, as well, dispersing, packaging financial aid – Basically a little bit everything.

LV: And so what is the best way for a student if they need to speak with a financial aid counselor?

JS: So the best way in my opinion is just in person advising. So students can come to Cal Student Central, which is 120 Sproul. They’re open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. So students can just come check in at Cal Student Central, they can meet with an adviser there. So the Cal Student Central advisors, they work not only with financial aid but they also work with the Office of the Registrar, with billing of payment services, so they really are a wealth of knowledge in all sorts of different areas. So it’s a good place to kind of get the first general questions are answered. At that point if it’s something that needs a little more of an in-depth conversation they can escalate the student to meet with a financial aid counselor on the second floor of Sproul. At that point we can then really kind of dig deep and have more of an in-depth conversation and see if we can answer

Golden Bear Orientation (GBO) is right around the corner. What is GBO? On this week’s Not So Secret Guide to Being an Engineer podcast we invited Micki Estuesta from New Student Services to give us an overview of what to expect, who you will be working with and why we think GBO is one of the best ways to start your time, not only at UC Berkeley, but as a Berkeley Engineer.

GBO is a mandatory, weeklong program (August 15-21) for new undergraduates that helps you:

LAURA VOGT: Welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. I’m Laura Vogt the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services. And thank you for joining this week for our podcast once again. And it’s coming, you’re finally going to go on campus and you’re getting to meet new folks and start your college career. So today I’m excited to have Micki Estuesta, the associate director of New Student Services to give us some backstage information on Golden Bear Orientation. Thank you for joining us!

MICKI ESTUESTA: Well thank you all for having me. It’s wonderful to spend some time talking with you all and sharing more about the whole experience the Golden Bear Experience.

LV: So what can you tell us a little bit more about you and what you do for New Student Services?

ME: Wonderful. I’ve been at UC Berkeley for three years and all my time has been a New Student Services. I have the privilege of focusing on my work really on three main areas: pre-arrival communications and programs for incoming students, parents support at orientation, and GBA programs focused on sexual violence prevention and mental health. So those are my main areas and I also have the esteemed privilege of working with all of the colleges.

LV: So it’s not just engineering that you have to work with all the time.

ME: Everybody, everybody. New Student Service

Katie Crawford joins us today for the Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer podcast from the Career Center to introduce us to the events, programs and resources that are available to students in the College of Engineering. Hear her tips on what you should be doing this summer to get ready for the first career fairs that happen in September. Also, learn some tips and advice of how to prepare for your post-Berkeley career before you get to Berkeley in the fall.

LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. I am Laura Vogt, the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services. Today I’m so happy to have Katie Crawford from the the Career Center with us. Katie, please introduce yourself and tell us what the Career Center does for the students of UC Berkeley.

KATIE CRAWFORD: Hello thank you for having me again.

LV: And let’s have you introduce yourself for all of our new students.

KC: Sure. So as Laura said, my name is Katie Crawford. I am the Career Counselor leading our engineering team at the Cal Career Center. So that means that I am the career counselor who sees all of the students within the College of Engineering including freshmen through graduate students and also run all of the programming career related programming for this population.

LV: What are the Career Center’s goal for Berkeley students?

KC: So in an ideal world the Career Center would love to see every student on campus graduate and walk across that stage with their dream job. That dream internship or their dream graduate school acceptance. So in an ideal world that’s what would happen and that is the reason, the sole reason we exist. We’re the only department (on campus) that solely exists to help students find their dream jobs and dream careers.

LV: So your point of being here, everything that you do, that’s what your endgame is.

KC: Yes. So we are very, very student centered office.

This week on the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we are talking about What’s Next. You’ve finished Golden Bear Advising and you’re registering for courses beginning this week! ESS Advisers, Chaniqua Butscher and Olivia Chan, join us to talk about what it means if you are on waitlists, what the swap function will do and how to make sure your schedule is the best for you as you wait for classes to start in August.

LAURA VOGT: Hello and and thank you for tuning in to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. My name is Laura Vogt, and I’m the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services. You’ve finished Golden Bear Advising, went over your schedule with your ESS Adviser and this week all of you will be registering! So what’s next? This week I am delighted to have two ESS advisers here to talk about what you should be doing now that you have registered. First, Chaniqua Butscher, please introduce yourself to all our new students.

CHANIQUA BUTSCHER: Well hello everyone. I’m happy to be here. Congratulations and welcome. I am Chaniqua Butscher and I am the ESS adviser for Mechanical Engineers with last names through O, nuclear engineers as well as energy engineers. So welcome to you all.

LV: And how long have you been on campus?

CB: I’ve been on campus a whole 12 years now in a variety of capacities. This is by far my favorite and I thoroughly enjoyed working with engineering students.

LV: And welcome to the podcast. We’re excited to have you here. And Olivia please introduce yourself.

OLIVIA CHAN: Hi welcome. Congratulations as well. My name is Olivia Chan. I’m also one of the engineering student services advisors. I advise Electrical Engineering Computer Science, last name P- Z, environmental engineering science, and engineering math and statistics And I’ve been on campus for five years.

LV: Thank you both so much for coming today and going over a few things that students should keep in mind over the next few weeks before they’re on campus.

CB: All right. So I think I’ll start off talking about the fact that you all have phase one coming up I know that’s very exciting for you. You’re going to have the opportunity to sign up for up to 17 and a half units during that phase once that period is over. You won̵

This week on the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we are talking about registration. Beginning next week all incoming freshmen and transfer students will be registering for their fall classes. Almost everyone has gone through Golden Bear Advising and has heard back from their ESS adviser, so it is time to double check your registration appointment on CalCentral and actually register. Monica Bernal, ESS Adviser and Laura Vogt, Communications Manager are going over some last minute tips to help make your registration process easier and get you the best schedule for your first semester.

Follow along with an illustration of the tips with our slide show for Top Tips for Registration.

LAURA VOGT: Hi my name is Laura Vogt and I’m the communications and events manager for Engineering Student Services in the College of Engineering.  Welcome back for this week’s Registration Tips episode of the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer! This week we are excited to have Monica Bernal joining us –  Welcome Monica – why don’t you tell us about yourself?

MONICA BERNAL: Hey my Berkeley Engineers! I’m very excited to be here. So I’m Monica Bernal,