<p>Are those of you on the waitlist sending in an Appeal? Since were weren’t technically declined, it’s a bit gray as to what to do.</p>
<p>No, the numbers don’t make sense, but that’s what I was told by an admissions officer when I called. As far as what we’re supposed to do, I guess if you have another good school you’re already admitted to then just commit there and wait it out for Berkeley. If you’re in a less fortunate situation where it’s basically Berkeley or bust at this point, then you may consider sending in an appeal. However, remember they say you should only send an appeal if you have significant new information, such as semester grades or additional achievements, for them to consider.</p>
<p>I had heard that last year more people accepted their offer of admission than they expected and so that’s why they didn’t go to the waitlist (they were somewhat overenrolled). But they doesn’t mean they didn’t have a waitlist last year. Maybe they were more judicious in acceptances this year and will go to the waitlist! </p>
<p>Should you display more interest in their school? If so, what is there to do? I have a really close relationship with my counselor. I’ve known her since the second grade. Should I ask her to call? </p>
<p>@bkybub, yes I would ask your counselor to call! </p>
<p>You can ask them to call, but Cal won’t accept anything. I called them several weeks ago to ask if my teacher (who got her degree from there) could send in a recommendation, and they said that they wouldn’t accept it.</p>
<p>@Gohardinthepaint “Hey guys, just wondering so if we got waitlisted and we submit our SIR to another school, can we then go back on our SIR if we find out we got off cal’s waitlist?” Yes, if you SIR and later get off the waitlist for Cal (or any another school), you can withdraw from the first school.</p>
<h2>Message from Berkeley’s chancellor which may be of use to you all:</h2>
<p>Dear Berkeley Campus Community,</p>
<p>Today the Office of the President is releasing admissions data for the 2014-15 academic year, and I want to provide the campus community with important contextual information about changes in Berkeley’s admissions process and enrollment targets. First, however, I want to offer my congratulations to another exceptional group of prospective freshmen who have been offered admission to our university. We had a record-setting number of 73,700 applicants this year, and I believe we all share credit for the fact that Berkeley continues to be so highly sought after by incredibly talented and qualified students from California, the nation and the world.</p>
<p>When reviewing the admissions data for 2014-15 the first thing that many of you will notice is that we appear to be offering admission to fewer students from California than last year. Yet, we actually anticipate enrolling at least 50 more in-state freshmen than we did in 2013. The discrepancy is simply a reflection of changes in our admissions and enrollment process. In the past, the number of freshmen we offered admissions to in April was based on an estimation of how many prospective students would actually enroll. While that estimation was carefully formulated based on historical data, it was still an estimation. As a result we have, at times, wound up with more freshmen than we were prepared for—something we want to avoid going forward in order to ensure that the university is able to offer world-class service and educational opportunities to all of our students.</p>
<p>Starting this year, the number of prospective students we offer to admit in April will be designed to generate commitments to register at a level below our ultimate enrollment goals. Then, drawing from what is now an expanded waitlist, we will carefully fill out Berkeley’s incoming freshman class in a manner consistent with our enrollment targets. This change means that Berkeley’s admissions process is now consistent with best practices at selective universities across the country, including all but one of the nine UC campuses that admit undergraduates.</p>
<p>The second change that the admissions data point to is an increase in our target for overall non-resident undergraduate enrollment from 20% to approximately 23%, over the next three years. This translates into about 100 additional out-of-state or international freshmen enrolling in 2014-15 as compared to last year, and I want to be sure the campus community understands what led to this decision.</p>
<p>Although I am convinced that we benefit as a campus and an intellectual community from a student body that is geographically diverse, the decision to marginally increase out-of-state enrollment was driven primarily by our commitments to maintain Berkeley’s academic excellence, access and robust financial aid programs. Those commitments have obvious and significant budgetary implications, as does our commitment to continue meeting Berkeley’s obligations to the state by adhering to our enrollment targets for students from California.</p>
<p>In the wake of the state’s disinvestment in higher education, UC Berkeley’s financial model is more dependent on tuition than it has been in the past. In order to sustain the excellence of our programs and the student experience, tuition from out-of-state and international students is crucial. The original non-resident target of 20% was based on a financial model that anticipated small increases in our most important revenue sources, including tuition, that would, at the very least, allow the university to deal with the rising costs of goods and services that are beyond our control. However, funding from the state of California remains essentially flat, tuition is still frozen and federal research dollars are in shorter supply. While this is, to some extent, understandable in the context of a still-recovering economy, the fact remains that we have an unavoidable need to increase revenue in line with rising expenses.</p>
<p>So, with a major cost-cutting efficiency initiative already underway on campus, constraints on our leading sources of revenue and rising prices for the goods and services we use, a moderate increase in out-of-state and international students was the best available option to help minimize the campus’s ongoing operating deficits.</p>
<p>The funds we have generated by virtue of increased out-of-state admissions in recent years have played a key role in protecting and even enhancing our academic core. This extra revenue is what has allowed us, among other things, to increase the number of seats available in key courses for students at all levels; extend Berkeley’s financial aid programs for California students so that families with annual incomes up to $150,000 now receive support through our ground-breaking Middle Class Access Plan; maintain our need-blind admissions; sustain a four-year graduation rate that is among the best in the country; and keep levels of debt far below the national average for the 40% of our students who do graduate with outstanding loans. I want to assure you that we are committed to continue adding resources to the academic core to ensure access to classes and the availability of high quality academic support for all of our students.</p>
<p>The reality of our financial situation is one reason that I will continue to devote a significant amount of time and energy to advocacy and engagement focused on generating increased support for Berkeley’s public mission and academic excellence. I am convinced that the future vitality of California’s economy and quality of life is directly connected to the financial health of public higher education in this state.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Nicholas B. Dirks
Chancellor</p>
<p>@nerdess thanks for the information! where did you find this though?</p>
<p>@swiftswimmer My son forwarded that same letter to me this morning, so maybe it was sent to all current students???</p>
<p>Oh, I just checked and it was sent to “Faculty, Staff, and Students”.</p>
<p>good news for people on the waitlist </p>
<p>I wonder when the wait listed students start finding out if they got off the waitlist?</p>
<p>I wonder when the wait listed students start finding out if they got off the waitlist?</p>
<p>‘Students who remain interested in the wait list will be notified after May 1. At that point, UC Berkeley will know how many seats are available in the 2014-15 class, Jarich said. The 2014-15 final freshman enrollment number is projected to be approximately 3% higher than the 2013-14 school year enrollment.’</p>
<p>It looks like Berkeley’s acceptance rate went down from 20.8% last year to 17.3% this year before the waitlist. They also admitted around 1300 fewer students.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2014/fall-2014-admissions-table1.pdf”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2014/fall-2014-admissions-table1.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2014/fall-2014-admissions-table2.pdf”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2014/fall-2014-admissions-table2.pdf</a></p>
<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I am an international wait-listed applicant.
Does anyone know how long the appeal letter will be(for example, word limit) and what structure it will have.
I couldn’t find any official information about this year’s appeal form. </p>
<p>Please help !!! 
</p>
<p>Does anybody know how many people from the pool of 3000 opted-in to be on the wait list?</p>
<p>This answers a lot of the questions about the waitlist. About 2150 opted into the waitlist, 3400 were waitlisted, they will accept 100 more out of state students than last year, and 50 more in state students than last year’s total admitted.
<a href=“UC Berkeley admission falls 9 percent from last year under new enrollment model”>http://www.dailycal.org/2014/04/18/uc-berkeley-admission-decreases-9-percent-due-new-enrollment-model/</a></p>
<p>So I guess since there are more than 1300 places to be filled, UCB might as well just admit all 2150 on the waitlist and expect most of them to eventually enrol?</p>