<p>I have a different email then, I guess. Mine says:</p>
<p>"Each year we ask a small group of students for additional information to enhance their application. We'd like to learn more about you and your academic experience, particularly in regards to your extracurricular involvement, special skills and talent you mentioned on your application. This could be success in arts, dance, drama, debate, athletics, etc."</p>
<p>To the OP: What were the individual questions the questionnaire had you answer?</p>
<p>cr_book - I sure hope so.</p>
<p>fhima888888: you must have some kind of special talent or ability (won awards on national level, etc.) and they want to know more about it. answering the questions can only help your chances even if your stats are already high.</p>
<p>Cool - I just finished it. Thank God for being in the midwest - the UC's server clocks are on Pacific time - as in I have 2 extra hours. Woo Woo. But I'm done. For anyone who got the same email I got, my college counselor says that the out of stater's chancs of getting in go from 20% to 33%! Woo Woo. He said that Berkeley chooses applicants in the next tier under the clear admits (the legacies, development cases, athletes) for this kind of review. So if you get an email asking about your ECs, according to my college counselor, you're doin well.</p>
<p>quick question:
Did everyone who got an supplement questionaire get it on the same day?</p>
<p>Or do you think they are mailing these out continuously as they go through applications?</p>
<p>I just got one from UCLA
and if it means I'm borderline, I'm hoping to eventually get one from Cal..
otherwise I'm probally a reject. :(</p>
<p>fhimas88888888: nice with the 8's lols..anyways..can you clarify on what your counselor said?thanks! also if i'm in-state does that mean i have a higher chance you out-of state?..and what do you mean by the next tier..thanks!</p>
<p>^^ please copy the main instructions for the questionnaire here. Otherwise PM me and I can see if it looks similar. </p>
<p>^ My counselor said that if you got one of the letter requesting that if you're complete a questionnaire about your ECs that you mentioned in your app, then you're on the top tier under the automatic admits. Automatic admits for the UCs are athletes (say the soccer team needs a goalie - well then the best goalie that applies or is recruited is an auto admit), legacies (both parents or one parent went) and development (parents likely to contribute money to the school) cases. </p>
<p>Those who get the questionaire (according to my counselor) are right below those auto admits - kids who have really outstanding ECs, grades, scores, etc. He said that if you get a letter, than you're doing well in the admissions process. He did mention, however, that some part of it is random, in that you * could * be at the top of the applicant pool but the luck of the draw causes you not to get one. I'm not quite sure how it works, but he indicated that out of a top group of applicants, a random group gets these. I guess I need clarifaction on the random part of his commentary, b/c I guess I'm not very clear on it. </p>
<p>Yes, if you're in state, right off the bat your acceptance rate is 26 percent and out of state is 20. </p>
<p>I hope that answers your question.</p>
<p>fhimhas, your counselor is WRONG about at least one thing, most likely two:
1) UC does NOT take legacy status into account at all. Nowhere on the application does it ask where your parents went to college for this very reason--they don't even want to know about it.
2) The UC system does not consider "development." With 100,000+ applicants each year, it would be difficult and way too time-consuming for them to track down information about who has donated what for each applicant. Beyond specific requirements for individual campuses and majors, these are the only factors UC considers in its undergrad admissions process:
<a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/general_info/uc_reviews/freshman_app.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/general_info/uc_reviews/freshman_app.html</a></p>
<p>I don't think that the UCs would have to try very hard to figure out who are the valuable development cases and who are not. If someone is donating millions or hundreds of thousands of dollars, that's not so hard to find out. </p>
<p>Regardless of ** who ** these clear admits are, the basis of the contention stands.</p>