<p>Well, she's not really my friend. I just saw it on Facebook. She got the Cal "ADMITTED" pin today when she went for her interview (I have no idea to what interview she's referring). Is this even possible? Has this happened to anyone else? Or is she trolling? I'm just slightly confused from seeing this. Any feedback would be appreciated.</p>
<p>If you get the Regents Scholarship then you are also admitted.</p>
<p>yes, its true- a family friend’s D also got her “Admitted” pin today at her Regent’s interview in LA</p>
<p>My friend also got in.</p>
<p>They pick the top candidates (I’ve heard it’s the ones they think will also get into ivies/Stanford, so they try to bribe in a way haha) to be interviewed for a regents scholarship (couple thousand + scheduling perks). When they go to the interview, they are told that they were accepted.</p>
<p>I have no idea how they pick Regents - one girl at my son’s school has a much lower GPA and test scores and she got a Regents and was admitted recently. There is more to it than scores and numbers…he also applied to UCSB and was offered a Regents there, but not at UCB or UCLA.</p>
<p>@2ndGenBruin If this was asked in a Private school thread I would have said, it also depends on the ethnicity as the threshold of qualification greatly depends on it. Given that this is the UC system, hopefully someone more knowledgeable can shed some light.</p>
<p>UC GPA is not the high schools GPA - only counts 10 and 11 grade courses, ignores course that are not part of the a-f categories, does not use + or -, uplifts for AP/Honors differently, etc - therefore you are comparing by a GPA that is not the basis for UC admission. You would have to work out the UC GPAs to know if the stats were indeed comparable or not. The ‘bar’ for getting Regents is highest at UCB and UCLA, lower at the other campuses of the UC system.</p>
<p>Yeah, I understand the UC gpa thing and I am not going by HS gpa - my son had a 4.0 UW and hers was weighted under 4.0. He has 9 APs, 7 honors, etc. I think there is a cap on GPA for UC (only 8 semesters of weighted are counted) so the other girl’s gpa was possibly as high but I think she said it was much less, like 3.7 W - and her SATs were a couple hundred points less (acc’d to her). So I guess what cahsparent said is probably true, there are other factors besides #s. I was surprised that he was offered Regents at Santa Barbara - -and it’s pretty nice: 6K a year and all merit, not need-based, and no additional competition for it like at UCB.</p>
<p>@2ndGenBruin I’m with you on that. A part of me wants to believe that, once you reach a certain threshold in terms of GPA and test scores, the process is completely random. My friend has lower test scores and GPA than me, yet he was invited for UCLA Regents and I was not. However, he does have a much lower income than me. Perhaps the scholarship is based on income too?</p>
<p>They may not admit by race, but they do by sex, or so I’ve heard.</p>
<p>I know a former student who was already admitted…she’s pretty darn brilliant</p>
<p>Conversely, one of my friends was not invited for a Regents interview (i.e. has not been admitted yet), but got into Caltech. Even if you’re not invited for a Regents interview, you can still be a competitive applicant.</p>
<p>Regent’s invites are only sent to a very small percentage of the overall class…a great many (most) students will be admitted on notification day</p>
<p>so if you were invited for the regents and chancellors interview, but didnt go. Will they assume you dont want to go and reject you?</p>
<p>hard to say what they do in that case. one way to look at it is you are still a highly desired applicant so they leave you on the admit list. however, i know an engineering major with platinum stats that blew off the UCLA regents interview a few weeks back and did not receive one of the likely letters UCLA sent out this past weekend…her stats exceed almost everyone of the LL recipients that posted theirs. it’ll be interesting to see if she gets into UCLA next week.</p>
<p>There was a UCLA regents interview? This is the first I’ve heard of it, but maybe I just didn’t make the cut… I was only asked to submit a couple of essays and a recommendation.</p>
<p>Being the idiot that I am, I ignored the Regent’s interview email because it was the same weekend as Science Olympiad and I also had athletic commitments. It got caught between the leadership scholarships emails that I also didn’t apply to. You’ll still get into Berkeley, and you’ll still be happy come notification day.</p>
<p>At the UCB Regent’s interview, we were told that there were over 60,000 applicants, and that invitations to Regent’s were issued to the top 1% of applicants.</p>
<p>All these people are right. Regents and Chancellors scholarship candidates (picked from the top~2% of Berkeley applicants) are implied admitted, so they tell you when you come to the interview. Whether or not you go to the interview doesn’t change the fact that you were in the top percentages of applicants.</p>