<p>I'm just curious. Does anyone do that? Are they more likely to get in due to the people who decline their spring admissions (when applying for fall)?</p>
<p>I don't know the answer to that, but I'm embarrassed to admit that I wish I was given Spring admit over Fall. And I'd wish they'd give me more than a month to make a decision. And I'm not a procrastinator, but I feel like this is a huge decision, a possibly life altering decision.</p>
<p>You can't apply for it, they just give it too you.</p>
<p>You don't get to pick it. They select a percent of students to be Spring Admits so act as the "reinforcements" for the people that cant handle an elite school. People given Spring admission are randomly chosen based on the % they feel they will need as backups. If you get it, it doesn't mean you are worse than the person that got Fall. It is random.</p>
<p>Hmm I disagree with that. I believe that the spring admits are those who are borderline admits whom the university admits as spring because they don't have enough space in the fall semester. It's not random.</p>
<p>Hrmm... I don't think spring admits are necessarily borderline and it is possible that the university just did not have room. Being a spring admit isn't necessarily an indicator of your performance in college because as a spring admit myself, I've been kicking ass and I was accepted into Haas. Although on the other hand... I do know a few spring admits and they aren't really doing that well...</p>
<p>Firepire: I always thought the same about Spring Admits, until my room mate showed me his acceptance letter recently... it's basically a rejection letter to the Fall Class... wouldn't that mean Spring Admits were "borderline" so they offered them Spring rather than a flat out rejection?</p>
<p>I got into Johns Hopkins (don't worry, not going there) and I got sprng admit.</p>
<p>My friend got into Brown and got spring admit.</p>
<p>My friend got waitlisted at JHU and got regeants to Berkeley.</p>
<p>What's not random now huh?</p>
<p>Private schools and public schools are on completely different tracks. </p>
<p>Proof that spring admits are the most "borderline" applicants: <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_houtreport.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_houtreport.pdf</a></p>
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Fall regular admission is the preferred outcome for most applicants and those decisions are made first. L&S and Engineering applicants who are denied fall admission next compete for spring admission.
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<p>Page 59, where it talks about tie-breaking -
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I analyzed only spring tie-break because that is the point at which people are accepted or denied to Berkeley...
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<p>Comparing applicants among other schools makes no sense. Compare applicants within Berkeley, and see the profiles of fall vs spring admits.</p>
<p>Damn that pdf said I could have appealed for Fall...</p>
<p>Having overheard a few conversations in the admissions office, I can tell you that appeals aren't really going to help you with the spring-to-fall movement. You were placed in the spring because they don't have ROOM for you in the fall. If you have a reason that supercedes this somehow, you MIGHT have a SMALL chance of success.</p>
<p>If you also read the beginning, it states that spring admit is done on a high school by high school basis. For example, if someone with high scores was spring admitted, and you have comparable scores, you're more likely to get spring.</p>
<p>The randomness some of you alluded to points more to the overall admission practice rather than spring vs. fall. In other words, what's borderline to one school may be quite acceptable to another. College admission is like a beauty contest, and beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.</p>
<p>Whether it is random or not, the point is that just because you are a spring admit doesn't mean you will do worse or better. It's really up to you how hard you want to work and in the end that's what really matters. Waiting a whole semester sucks, but in the end I don't think anyone really cares about it. At first I had that whole inferiority complex but after actually being at Cal for sometime, it's just a mixed bag. Some people do better and some people do worse.</p>