<p>I am a potential Berkeley Regent Recipient. Currently, I am a candidate for the award and was just OFFICIALLY accepted to Cal, a few weeks before actual admissions decisions are out. I wonder, how do potential Berkeley Regents fair against the UPenn applicant pool? Does anybody know of someone who was a Berkeley Regent and got into UPenn? Looking for some insight. </p>
<p>Please and thank you!</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat! I don’t think you can really compare though. You clearly have a lot going for you, but so do the majority of Penn applicants. </p>
<p>Best of luck though! I’m just crossing my fingers until the 30th…</p>
<p>I got into regents, as did all my friends at Penn who are from Cali. I didn’t get the impression that it was a particularly selective program…</p>
<p>well only the top percent of berkeley applicants get the Regent’s candidacy. so less than a thousand of the 50,000 + that applied get the candidacy. </p>
<p>hopefully we get into UPenn!!!</p>
<p>The thing about Berkeley (or any UC) is that their applicant numbers are very skewed. While a student with roughly 3.3 gpa would almost never apply to Penn, thousands of students do apply to Berkeley. They fill out the UC app hoping to get into schools like santa barbara, riverside and santa cruz. then they look down the list and check off the box to berkeley and ucla just for the hell of it- no additional work required.</p>
<p>Many people get into regents and especially berkeley in general who don’t get in to top privates. </p>
<p>Just my experience</p>
<p>I also qualified for the regents and got an early letter to Penn. I think it varies on a case by case scenario. I am not sure as to the selectivity of Berkeley’s Regents program.</p>
<p>^ yes, berkeley despite being a top ranked USNEWS&WR university (and also a great school in general) does not compare equally to top level privates/ivies who are often dealing with students that are so qualified that if they did want to/are going to school in cali they’d prob end up at stanford anyway. I think while Regents is an accomplishment you can just never be sure…some people are accepted at Harvard and rejected at Yale…</p>
<p>CollegeGuru, I do somewhat agree with your statement, but I disagree with what you say about students “that are so qualified that if they did want to go to a school in California they’d probably end up at Stanford anyway.” I got into Berkeley via Regents and will hopefully be accepted to one or more of Cornell/Brown/Penn (at least I have the stats to be accepted). I didn’t even apply to Stanford because I don’t like it at all, and if I get accepted to the above three schools, I will probably reject them all and go to Cal. Berkeley is a really great school and I love it.</p>
<p>I think Berkeley is a great institution, and has a phenomenal reputation internationally.
What is hindering the university is what is hindering public schools across the nation: money. Severe budget cuts have ruined the experience for many.
One of my friends was in a introductory class in a 400 seat auditorium, but there were many more sitting in the hallway watching on a television screen because of lack of space.
It is also nearly impossible for freshmen to get the classes they need.</p>
<p>Berkee</p>
<p>I was awarded a Regents Scholarship after going through the interview process and was also admitted to Penn and a number of other top schools. Of the several other people I know who were interviewed, virtually all of them were admitted to top privates.</p>