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Make sure you’re holding on to your figurative hat, because Berkeley admissions is about to go all high-tech crazy on your ass.
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is cooking up a new website called Picture Yourself at Berkeley, which allows prospective students (both freshmen and transfer) to sign up for personalized UC Berkeley web pages. Think of it as a sort of BerkeleyMyFaceSpaceBook. (That’s got quite a ring to it.)
If interested, students take a quick survey—major interest, ethnicity, athletic preferences (presumably followed by superpowers, favorite color, favorite Jonas brother, and a weigh-in on the Kanye/Swift debate). In return they are given their own web page complete with Berkeley goings-on that are especially suited to their interests. Sorry, though, folks, no Walls or Friends. This is serious college business.
In bureaucrat-speak, this site exists to “maintain the standards of UC Berkeley, and recruit, select, admit, assist, and enroll an academically excellent, highly accomplished, and broadly diverse freshman and transfer class.” All we want to know is whether we can change the font of the site. Curlz MT really captures our bubbly, free-wheeling personalities.
But wait, that’s not all! This high-tech dog still has some new tricks. There will also be virtual college fairs, “webinars,” and online chats with current Berkeley students and admissions officers, in order to include students who cannot physically attend events. There will even be (wait for it) “Skype presentations to schools.”
It’s sure to be a virtual good time.
Image source: ChrisL_AK under Creative Commons
Picture Yourself at Berkeley project reaches out to connect with prospective students [UC Berkeley News]
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