<p>Has anyone heard lately on their appeal? Did anyone got in so far?</p>
<p>BTW ..is the status message on the appeal screen are there different versions of it... e.g. one says we will do our best to post by May 1st...another one I noticed on one of the messages as .. your results will be posted after May 1st...</p>
<p>wait, foxnews.</p>
<p>Where did you read this "your results will be posted after May 1st." thing?</p>
<p>I vaguely recall reading in one of the posts... I do not know for sure... Hence the question... It is possible that I might have mis-read it....</p>
<p>maybe the after may 1st thing is if you sent in your application after april 15th? a couple of my friends got their appeals rejected recently :(</p>
<p>are they going in order of who sent it in first? that seems to kind of be the pattern with my friends...</p>
<p>sprezzatura986: You are probably right about May 1st thing. Would you mind giving little bit details about your friends appeals... like when they applied...what were their college etc... thanks...</p>
<p>mine says "we will do our best to post our decision before may 1st" or something like that..</p>
<p>no, my friend who was a borderline (got to answer additional questions) got rejected and he appealed on 04/12 or 04/13 and he already got rejected again yesterday.
Another of one my friends and I also sent in our appeals on 04/12 and they are still reviewing. So, I don't know what's up... Does anyone know?</p>
<p>i think they all applied around 4/12 or 4/13? they all got into either UCLA or UCSD or both.</p>
<p>vagan: i'm guessing they're doing rolling rejections and then the people left at the end get accepted?</p>
<p>i sent mine like 4/14 or something..i don't get why they would send rejections first..IMO i think it'd make more sense to send acceptances first cuz that way those ppl accepted can just submit the Cal SIR.</p>
<p>BTW this is totally unrelated to appeals, but i found out that one of my friend's friends got a borderline questionnaire and DIDNT EVEN RESPOND TO IT...AND GOT ACCEPTED!!!!! WTH?!?! and i spent like countless hours on the questionnaire and was rejected (initially only, hopefully). how can you explain that?? did they even read our questionnaires??</p>
<p>By indulging the overview of UCB's Appeals Process (in PDF format), one will notice that the University's reconsideration is multi-tiered. First, the committee review a student's appeal and determines whether or not it holds merit. If the request for reconsideration is found to have sufficient merit, it is passed along to the Director and Associate Director who finalize a decision.</p>
<p>Judging from the information you all have been providing, it seems as though those who sent in theirs around April 12th might have "advanced" to the next level (i.e. "Hello, Mr. Director").</p>
<p>Because rejections have been distributed already, we can follow from this conclusion that one may be happier by not yet having received a decision. It is true, after all, that it could quite possibly mean an advancement of your appeal and a significant increase in your chances of success.</p>
<p>Another fortunate indication stems from this fact as well: Because rejections are handed out on a per-review basis (possibly because of a rush to meet the May 1st deadline), each student is not necessarily compared side-by-side in competition for the same admission slot. Taking into account the 2.9% appeals success rate, one might also conclude that the pool has greatly decreased, providing better odds.</p>
<p>-Collin</p>
<p>Responding to previous posts... I sent my appeal in on April 5th and received confirmation of receipt on April 6th... I still have not heard from them. So it might not be based on order of submission.</p>
<p>man, colline, i hope you're right! :)</p>
<p>by the way, that was a really well-written post...</p>
<p>where'd you get the confirmation of receipt??</p>
<p>infamy, you are saying that getting to answer questionnaires doesn't mean you are a borderline? O I thought they were. Anyways, your friend must have been really smart or something.</p>
<p>I think the reason they don't reply the acceptances first is because appeals has to go thru a lot of (3-4) officers before the final decision. I read that somewhere on CC. That's why they are taking hella forever? Do you think it makes sense?</p>
<p>I hope you are right too colline. :)</p>
<p>lol nah, i meant that i don't think they even cared about the questionnaire. that person honestly doesn't have that great grades/sat scores/ecs etc. i don't even know if they read our questionnaires haha..but it might be cuz i'm still kinda bitter, although that could change..</p>
<p>What are these borderline questionaires?</p>
<p>sprezzatura986, I think that could be it according to colline.</p>
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Another fortunate indication stems from this fact as well: Because rejections are handed out on a per-review basis (possibly because of a rush to meet the May 1st deadline), each student is not necessarily compared side-by-side in competition for the same admission slot. Taking into account the 2.9% appeals success rate, one might also conclude that the pool has greatly decreased, providing better odds.</p>
<p>-Collin
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<p>Can you possibly link the PDF on appeals?</p>