Get into UC Berkeley, Get 90% SRS Covered

[UCBerkeleyPostop]

I was accepted into UC Berkeley as a transfer student for fall 12. I was looking over my health plan and noticed that SRS is covered 90% up to $75,000 including travel expenses. Also, HRT is covered, which, of course, I can still take advantage of.

Partly because of my gender dissonance, I was a really poor student in high school, but after getting clean from drugs and alcohol and finally getting SRS in 2008, I enrolled in community college and achieved a 3.91 GPA and graduated with honors. I was subsequently accepted at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. As a low income student, all my fees are covered.

At one point in my transition, overweight, depressed and heavily using drugs, I was suicidal. What really helped turn it around for me was getting FFS, getting clean, getting fit and then, four months after my sobriety date, getting SRS and breast implants.

Sometimes, I just wonder how all of this happened. I do believe in miracles.

[Shawn Sunshine]

So how long do you need to go to college then there to get covered? Can you get into UC Berkeley with just a high school diploma?

[UCBerkeleyPostop]

Coverage begins at the beginning of your first semester. BTW being transgender will help you get into UCB although I did not mention it in my personal statement but under served communities receive priority. UCB is the number one public university in the world so admission is not easy. You can be admitted to UCB from high school with the right grades and SAT scores.

I was admitted because of my high grades, honors work and STRONG personal statement.

[Jamie D]

I have read where the University of California system (all of the campuses, Berkeley being the "flagship") have this benefit through their health insurance.

However, keep in mind that the State is financially broke, and these benefits are apt to disappear in time.

Cal Berkeley is probably the premier public university in the country ... and that comes from a person who attended a rival, private PAC-10 (now PAC-12) school.

[Sarah Louise]

In the Cal State system (PersSelect/BlueCross) all things pertaining to gender dysphoria are specifically excluded.

[Jamie D]

In the Cal State system (PersSelect/BlueCross) all things pertaining to gender dysphoria are specifically excluded.

Damned UC elitists!

[UCBerkeleyPostop]

I have read where the University of California system (all of the campuses, Berkeley being the "flagship") have this benefit through their health insurance.

However, keep in mind that the State is financially broke, and these benefits are apt to disappear in time.

Cal Berkeley is probably the premier public university in the country ... and that comes from a person who attended a rival, private PAC-10 (now PAC-12) school.

California-Berkeley is the premiere public university in the world. The health package is $1700 per year and, as health care is essential, I doubt that the health care benefit will go away anytime soon. As far as the SRS benefit, I also doubt that will go away because I don't think that that many people utilize it. 

Go Bears!

[Jamie D]

California-Berkeley is the premiere public university in the world. The health package is $1700 per year and, as health care is essential, I doubt that the health care benefit will go away anytime soon. As far as the SRS benefit, I also doubt that will go away because I don't think that that many people utilize it. 

Go Bears!

I have several friends who are Cal alumni.  It is certainly top-notch.

The financial state of the State is dire.  I don't know how much longer the State, and it's organs, such as the UC system, can afford to subsidize these perquisites.

[Michelle G]

Nice campus, and you just can't beat a warm summer evening concert at the Greek featuring your fav Grateful Dead guys

[MagicKitty]

Congratulations on all of your achievements. Certainly something to be proud of.

[pretty]

I had a 4.0 but I dropped out of school due to money issues. I didn't think about going to a school to get SRS covered. I will have to bring that up to my bf and see what he thinks (because I'm broke lol). 

Actually that could save money in the long run...

[Amazon D]

I have several friends who are Cal alumni.  It is certainly top-notch.

The financial state of the State is dire.  I don't know how much longer the State, and it's organs, such as the UC system, can afford to subsidize these perquisites.

Well soon we rollback the bush tax cts and then the nation will see we survived and then we can roll back the reagan tax cuts and so on and get back to that 50% tax braket for the rich and then all people can go to college for free again like they use too in the 60's

[GhostTown11]

Well soon we rollback the bush tax cts and then the nation will see we survived and then we can roll back the reagan tax cuts and so on and get back to that 50% tax braket for the rich and then all people can go to college for free again like they use too in the 60's

People used to go to college for free?!

[Jamie D]

Well soon we rollback the bush tax cts and then the nation will see we survived and then we can roll back the reagan tax cuts and so on and get back to that 50% tax braket for the rich and then all people can go to college for free again like they use too in the 60's

The secret of funding higher education in California is related to offshore oil and gas drilling in the State tidelands.

There is a state constitutional amendment that directs a percentage of the royalty income from oil and gas production in the tidelands be allotted to higher education.  That revenue peaked in the mid-1960's.  However, the ecoterrorist environmental special interests have blocked new leasing and exploration from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.  And, consequently, the existing oil and gas fields have been produced on a decline curve and are almost exhausted.

It has little or nothing to do with 1980's or 2000's era federal tax cuts, which apparently, even Bill Clinton supports extending.