Email from UCB admissions about Mar 27 decions?

<h1>3: accepted w. Regents. Any word on #2?</h1>

<h1>3 and Accepted o_o</h1>

<p>but at this point, I don't think the email means anything...</p>

<p>And this has, insanely, become by far the most viewed and most commented on thread in the Berkeley forum O_O</p>

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<p>The wording went even beyond that. </p>

<p>email #3 from UCB:</p>

<p>"We know you're hearing from other University of California campuses, but before you give them your reply, please wait to hear from UC Berkeley: we're worth the wait!"</p>

<p>They asked many to hold off on accepting other UC offers of admission... ...only to reject them at a later date. </p>

<p>This will go down as a major admissions faux pas. :(</p>

<p>no email and accepted (L&S). seriously, that email was SUPPOSED to be sent to all, just some random glitch with the mail server made it NOT sent to all. but trying to decipher it was really good effort. looked like fun XD</p>

<h1>3 and accepted. at least berkeley hopefuls in the future will learn from our experiences with the email. :)</h1>

<p>In spite of getting email #3 and being accepted, let me re-iterate that the content of email #3 should have been thought through. I totally agree with remark_gi and jiffsmom that they should have skipped that one sentence. Have got quite a few emails from Ivies announcing decision will be posted on 31st. And they are all to the point. I would hate to be in anyone's shoe who got #3 and got rejected.</p>

<p>This reminds me of the King's telegram to the field commander saying
"Kill him, not let him live" and later saying he had meant "Kill him not, let him live" Just a minor mistake of the comma being misplaced.</p>

<p>For those who got #3 and got rejected, keep your head high! Goodluck and I am sure you will find the right school that you will enjoy.</p>

<p>Accepted without an email, or at least I think. The email might have gone in my bulk which I emptied.</p>

<p>To summarize the above posts: The email did not mean anything. Conspiracy theorists need to stop doing **** like this just to freak out other people or make themselves feel better. Honestly guys, just wait until decisions come out.</p>

<p>Congrats to all who got in!</p>

<p>good game, it's easy to summarize when you got in! Can you have a little compassion for those who thought just maybe it meant something, since there were two other e-mails sent to lots of other students that were worded differently...there was no conspiracy here, just poor editing on the part of the admissions office. It's just plain wrong to say 'we're worth the wait', which implies an offer of admission under these circumstances, and then deny at the designated time. Just disappointing in how it was handled.</p>

<p>Yeah, I don't think the email had anything to do with admissions. I didn't get any email and got into EECS.</p>

<h1>3 and rejected.</h1>

<p>Got e-mail #3 and accepted!</p>

<p>S got e-mail #3 and was accepted to Engineering. I'm ecstatic, he's "happy," but truly he's more interested in hearing from his top choices on Friday and Monday. </p>

<p>But I fully agree with Jiffsmom that the wording of e-mail #3 was absolutely unjustified and ill-conceived.</p>

<p>Of the thousands of prospective students who received e-mail #3 and were told "not to reply yet to other UCs," it appears MANY of them were in fact rejected (extrapolating from the small statistical sample on this thread).</p>

<p>As I posted earlier, as one of the elite universities in the country, Cal simply should not have told students to hold off on replying to other UCs in a mass mailing when Cal knew full well that some of those students were about to be rejected in 6 days. </p>

<p>As someone else posted, the Ivies managed to send a straightforward reminder of the decision date and the method for obtaining said decision date. Again, real simple.</p>

<p>This is what happened:</p>

<p>The Cal Admissions Office was caught COMPLETELY off guard by the March 19 "early release" of the UCLA decisions and the ensuing buzz created thereby.</p>

<p>Looking to "steal UCLA's thunder," Cal wisely and understandably decided to remind applicants to "not forget about Cal" essentially. So far, so good.</p>

<p>The problem was that somebody very unwisely chose to make the e-mail ever so tantalizing by adding some completely superfluous and misleading verbiage that requested that the recipient NOT take certain action that they otherwise may have very well taken (e.g., yayaitsjane). That is, swept up by the excitement of being accepted by UCLA, for example, and convinced they had no shot of getting into Cal, many students would have contacted UCLA with an enthusiastic, "Yes!" and accepted invites to local "Bruin Days" before they filled up, and contacted the Financial Aid Office to start negotiating, etc. Instead, those students took Cal at their word and didn't reply to UCLA or other UCs until they heard from Cal, only to be rejected.</p>

<p>Completely unnecessary and a very poor reflection on one of the best universities in the entire world.</p>

<p>I will contact the Cal Admissions Office next week to express my concerns about the e-mail they sent and will kindly request that they omit language that tells applicants to refrain from taking particular actions before they hear their admission decisions from Cal. </p>

<p>Will my phone call have any impact? The cynical me says no, but the hopeful me says yes. We shall see.</p>

<p>I received email #3 and was accepted.</p>

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To summarize the above posts: The email did not mean anything. Conspiracy theorists need to stop doing **** like this just to freak out other people or make themselves feel better. Honestly guys, just wait until decisions come out.

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Agree 100%.
That "game" was like the DaVinci code, only we need better, smarter investigators.</p>

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The Cal Admissions Office was caught COMPLETELY off guard by the March 19 "early release" of the UCLA decisions and the ensuing buzz created thereby.

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Lady, PLEASSSEEEE.</p>

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Will my phone call have any impact?

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No. They're going to do what the Chancellor says, not some unhappy parent. </p>

<p>Your theory failed. Just go away.</p>

<p>I vote you leave. No one is forcing you to read the thread.</p>

<p>wow, amazing thread...I'm so glad to be one year beyond this hysteria, I remember it well</p>

<p>dmission:</p>

<p>why should I leave? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember you posting that you were admitted...</p>

<p>I hope you have a good time wherever you decide to attend though.</p>

<p>Really, the overwhelming majority of students didn't take the email to mean anything--they realize that Berkeley's saying "we're worth the wait" is not aimed at any specific group of applicants. It's only the neurotic students on CC that really took the time to parse its meaning down to infinitesimal bits. And turns out that there was no pattern.</p>

<p>The end. Let this thread be over.</p>

<p>So it is written...so it shall be done.</p>

<p>P.S. D was accepted....email #3.</p>