<p>I think you've misunderstood me. If anyone who signed up for the webinar clicked "no" in response to the question, I'm sure it was noted. They care about interest if for no other reason than marketing purposes. To say they don't care about interest is absurd. </p>
<p>Does attendance of the webinar influence their admission decision? No. They specifically said that during the webinar.</p>
<p>The "boost" the man mentioned had to do with IF you are admitted (i.e. because you watched the one hour webinnar, you now have more knowlege of UCB and thus will have a leg up if admitted)</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the webinar invite was sent to everyone or to a somewhat selective group?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>discriminatory to low-income folk who don't have computers? isn't the UC application online as well? or do the UC's have a paper application too?</p>
<p>UCs do have paper apps</p>
<p>Can someone explain this to me though:</p>
<p>Why would they invite random student applicants to a Webinar that has subjects that entail Housing and Orientation. Isn't that the kind of information that you tell admitted students?</p>
<p>Why were they wasting our time on that kind of information when we havn't even been accepted yet. Most of the College seminars I go to focus on talking about admissions, requirements, processes, etc. </p>
<p>This seminar focused on alot of information that is better for students already admitted to the school, which I am not saying we are, I just think its odd.</p>
<p>I felt that it was odd too.
When they asked "what things could we improve in the webinar" i suggested maybe a campus video. Although we saw pictures of dorm buildings we never really saw other parts of the campus. It would have been cool if they did a movie or flow of pictures that would act as a tour.</p>
<p>Invitation to webinar does mean that you have greater than average chance of admission. First webinar was conducted by marketing department at UCB. They do NOT have admission info OR have any influence on the admission decision. HOWEVER, they get measured by improving yield for UCB. So they target profiles who have better than average chances of admissison. They do have access to your profile. Then to this targeted group they pre-sell. There is no way they can invite every applicant to the webinar. Net-net: webinar does not mean you are admitted, but invitation to webinar is better than no invitation.</p>
<p>I think they invited everyone to Webinar.</p>
<p>Anyone has an official report?</p>
<p>was there anyone who did not receive an invite?
and was this the first year of the webinar?</p>
<p>Darnit. I missed it.</p>
<p>I thought the webinar was pretty cool, but it got boring over time and even the webinar director was just randoming moving the cursor around :P . They had this poll at the beginning of what we would like to learn more about during the webinar, and a far majority voted that they wanted to learn "more about the campus life". It was lame because they didn't talk about campus life at all during the webinar lol.</p>
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<p>I know the Webinar was so disappointing. I voted for "campus life" and I didn't really learn much about it. I regretted spending that one hour... sigh...</p>