<p>Can anybody think of other logical reasons as to why some people didn't receive an email???????????? I don't think the technical glitch reasoning makes sense cause there were too many people, I think, who didn't get the email for it to be an accidental thing.......<em>sigh</em>.....someone relieve me please so that I can finish my homework...</p>
<p>dmission: if you re-read my post, you will see that i said some, not all. having said that, i was specifically told that ucb used the point system for their regents, as did the other uc's and if you will view their stats, 99% of their students are top 10% of their graduating class. if that isn't playing a numbers game, then what is? grades are indeed "very important" with sats being "important". if i noticed any trend this year with acceptances, it is that the expectations for admissions rose, not declined. students that i expected to get in to many of the campuses were rejected. i have only heard of one case of a surprise acceptance and this guy had stellar ecs and decent grades, just not top 10%, yet still a worthy candidate for ucla. i come from a VERY competative high school. making top 10% is almost impossible for most students. bottom of the top 10% has a 4.45 gpa.</p>
<p>No, I'm saying that people with good grades and have an equal amount of EC's to balance it out still got rejected from UC's.</p>
<p>yayitsjane. i think you should be happy with UCLA. frankly, many of us didn't get in, and our last hope is berkeley. please be satisfied with what you have. thanks.</p>
<p>agreed with drsarah. berkeley is my last hope. i didn't make it to UCLA, which was unexpected to me</p>
<p>Maybe Scooby Doo can help us solve this mystery....</p>
<p>Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? Maybe Sherlock Holmes can help us too. :)</p>
<p>when all is said and done, i am still not convinced this email has any hidden meaning. wish it did, just don't believe it. thursday is just around the corner though.</p>
<p>I agree with kittycat123. Personally, I think it has something to do with surnames. The system could send the emails out alphabetically.</p>
<p>Even if that is true, everyone should have received it by now. It doesn't take 3-4 days to send those emails.</p>
<p>Somewhere in the annals of this thread's reports on the time of recipiency of the Berkeley emails is evidence that the alphabetical theory is incorrect...</p>
<p>I can understand the holistic review of LA/Berkeley seemingly rejecting "more qualified" applicants. What I don't get is the similar pattern from Davis, which most certainly DOES use the point system.</p>
<p>no school will ever make all the right choices in admissions. don't forget that they are trying to create a well-rounded community, not just an institution of geniuses.</p>
<p>I dont think its the AMOUNT of ECs that count on an App. i think its ewhat you do with them. EVERYONE HAS VARSITY SPORTS SORRY!!! However.. when you put your varsity sport WON STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.. THAT is a strong EC... </p>
<p>As for the letter. I honestly think those who didnt get a letter are automatic reject cuz I NEVER got one for UCLA and I got rejected..... getting a letter doesnt necessarily mean u got in tho.</p>
<p>as for the uc's that use the point system, let's not forget that it is composed of more than just gpas and sats. minor and major leaderships, talent, first generation, adversity, etc. all count towards your acceptance. a student who has a sat of 2000 and parents who attended college is on the same level as a student who has a 1750 and parents who did not. not to mention that uc's love when students hold jobs. sucks i didn't know that going into the admission process.</p>
<p>not to mention that after some snooping around, i discovered that a couple of students that i would never consider Cal material received the "worth the wait" email, while other students that i know have been accepted or are going to be (some are regents, others should have been) never did receive any email. it is just doesn't make any type of sense to assume it means acceptance. it goes against logic.</p>
<p>yay, i still have a chance then =)</p>
<p>OoPurestOo: I recall a bunch of threads of people calculating their point totals. I think several high 8xxx's got rejected while some 7xxx's were accepted. I know people tend to overestimate their activities, but I don't think it would matter by 1000 points.</p>
<p>kittycat123: I didn't get the email for UCLA either. (I got in though)</p>
<p>I got absolutely no email from UCLA and I also got in.</p>
<p>Ditto........</p>
<p>UCLA didn't send emails, they just sent the engineering likely... </p>
<p>correct me if this is wrong.</p>