<p>I just wanted to post this so future applicant to Berkeley see this. It can be tucked away until next year, but I wanted to post it in order to save future applicants their possibly wasted money.</p>
<p>On February 6th, I got an email for Berk., with the subject of "UC Berkeley Celebrating Women in Engineering " saying this,</p>
<p>"Thank you for your application to the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley! Although Cal has not made its admissions decisions yet, your application is among those that we consider highly competitive."</p>
<p>The email then went on to boast some positive aspects about Berkeley. Now, because none of my other ENGR. friends received this email, and because it said that my application was highly competitive, I figured it was a likely letter. I mean, why else would they say I was highly competitive, or invite me to an Engineering program designed to lure me into UCB? I am male, so I figured I was especially selective (since the program is intended for women). I called the lady and asked her if I should go, even though I wasn't a woman. She said, "We invite our female ENGR. applicants and our top male applicants." Well, my dad paid the several hundred dollars to fly to Berk. (I am out of state, in NV) and attend the program. To cut it short, I got rejected.</p>
<p>My purpose is not to whine. I am not bitter. I just don't want future applicants to be mislead by the email. I, along with my parents, friends, and counselor, believed it was a likely letter. I wasted several hundred dollars and a Sunday because ultimately I was rejected. So think about that before you spend the money to fly up somewhere before you have "officially" been accepted, regardless of how "likely" the letter is.</p>
<p>my situation was the opposite: I didn’t get the email but was admitted. it’s totally weird…and I thought I was most likely a reject because of that. anyways, didn’t something similar happen to some UCLA Regents students? they were invited for Regents but ended up being rejected. go figure =P</p>
<p>Yeah, this year it seems “likely” letters and “likely” statuses may not be guaranteed (e.g. UCLA rejecting its own Regents’ Scholarship invitees).</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that. Same thing happened to my coworker’s daughter. After she got the email, she dropped by our workplace giddy and excited about Berkeley and talked about the great things she would do at berkeley. Then came the rejection. Poor girl.</p>
<p>i did get the email and did get in.
im glad i got in, too, because im from the east coast, MD.</p>
<p>i think this thread is a good idea… i certainly would have liked to have seen it before i invested in $800 trip… even though I may not have come that way…</p>
<p>@collegetime18: I’m the same way. Waiting has never been my strong suit. I wonder if the kids deal with it so much better because they are occupied with classes and hw. </p>
<p>@initiatelaunch: “and apparently quite well off” … HAHAHAHAHAAA! I know what you mean.</p>
<p>Hi music1990 … yeah, my mistake … I accidentally pasted this reply into the wrong window. LOL Even though it is old, I must have opened it because it returned a search term and it sounded interesting.</p>
<p>lol for sure. I figured it was something like that, but I was just curious. I actually like reading old posts because it’s like a window back in time. But it sounds like a disappointing story for the people who got that email.</p>
<p>Lol, you freaked out over an advertisement and thought that they actually wanted you. What you got was no different than the 20 emails a day crap colleges send you. </p>