<p>I had called in to the Cal financial aid office about regent scholarship and they told me the invitations are going to be sent out in stages until beginning of March. However, all of the posts I have seen are from Feb 11-12th. Has anyone received invitation recently?</p>
<p>Based on the posts I have seen, the UCB regent sends out about 1000 invitations and about 200 are finally selected which is similar to UCLA regent stats. In my son's high school about 15 kids got invited for UCLA regent scholarship, where as UCB invited only two kids from his high school both of which are not interested in UCB as they have early admission to MIT & Stanford. My son got invited for UCLA regent, UCSD direct med program but nothing so far from UCB. His stats are UC UW GPA 3.86, UC Uncapped GPA 4.77, SAT 2330, SAT Subject (M 2:800, Chem: 800; Phy:800; BioE:800)</p>
<p>There seems to be some disconnect between the various data points here. Can someone
who has some info on the UCB Regent selection shed some light.</p>
<p>I have the same basic question - but wondering if any OOS students were selected for regents at either UCLA or UCB. My son has essentially identical SATs (2300 & 800’s) with a 4.0 UW but did not receive anything from either UCLA or USC. Wondering if that is because of OOS - or bad essays - or the fact that his school did not offer all the UC required classes (like art - but he easily qualifies by their testing criteria).</p>
<p>Does the acronym OOS somehow refer to out of state students. My understanding is that UCB does not invite out of state students for interview but simply offers them the regent scholarship directly. So there might be pleasant surprise at the end for you. I am not familiar with the mechanics at other UC’s. Btw, USC is a private school and is a different deal.
There might be some connection to the major applied, my son applied to BioEngg which very competitive.</p>
<p>@XMP - Thanks! Meant UCB not USC. Yes - Out of state. Son also applied for BioEng. Really just interested in the “Perks” of the award - like priority registration - otherwise the risk of an extra year due to not getting classes while paying the OOS tuition… Hope you are right on the surprise, but since his stats match your son’s and your son has not seen anything - I won’t have my hopes up. Looks to me like no-one has received an invite since the initial letters went out.</p>
<p>As I understand the main perks for Regent is priority registration, housing and better faculty advisement. The financial benefits seem to be varied based on need, minimum award is $2500. One benefit of being OOS is higher chances of admission for similar stats as they expect you to pay more.</p>
<p>@XMP - good Luck to your son - Maybe they will cross paths - at Berkeley or elsewhere. Hope there is another wave of the invites and your son gets a letter. The level of competition at the top schools makes it easy to forget just how exceptional that record is. Congrats on the great academic record - he will obviously do well.</p>
<p>What is interesting to me is that my son got the Regents invitation from UCB, but nothing from any of the other UC’s he applied to (UCLA, UCSD, UCSB & UCD). Which makes me think that maybe UCB is more holistic than the others?</p>
<p>@tx5 - looking at some decision threads from last year, I got the impression that UCSD and UCD just sent out Regents letters with their decision with no application or interview process. Don’t know that for sure though. Congrats on the UCB Regents invite!</p>
<p>ID80ChE, thanks and good luck to your son as well. Since they have applied to the same major of BioE and based on the stats he stands a good chance , they might end up at the same place.
tx5athome, congrats on your son being nominated at UCB which means he is admitted for sure at UCB, not necessarily true for other UC’s. I have been trying to make sense of the admission stats at top school, the only thing I can conclude is that it is kind of random. These top schools have over-abundance of highly qualified students to choose from, they might say their process is holistic, I think it is bit random like winning lottery. Stanford is known for selecting very well rounded student, but the only kid who made it to Stanford from my son’s school was math wizard with perfect academic record. For people who say there is negative bias towards Asian students at top schools like Stanford, this kid was Asian as well.</p>
<p>Cal does seem to be more holistic than UCLA, but slightly more selective I guess (as in fewer people got it, but they had more than scores going for them). That’s just judging from my peers at school and some past scholars I know. </p>
<p>My scores weren’t as good as the ones mentioned in the post (ACT 33, UC GPA 4.24), but my essays were really strong (according to my AP english teachers who are both Cal alumni) and my ECs are arguably focused and strong. I did get invited for the interview. I understand that the only GPA that matters for UCs is the standard UC GPA which is A-G classes for sophomore and junior year capped at 8 weighted semesters. </p>
<p>Also another tip, it’s not proper to call it “UCB” and alumni/students sometimes take this as a pride thing. The proper abbreviation is Cal or you can go with the full name UC Berkeley. It’s because Cal is the original University of California and the other campuses are branches of it (this is less true now than in the past as administration the regents/president have moved to their own office in Oakland (next to Berkeley), but Cal is still considered the flagship campus)</p>