<p>Diivio, similar situation for me: Indian international, CoE. Congrats, dude!</p>
<p>Race does not play a role in Berkeley and all other UCs. I believe it’s called Proposition 209.</p>
<p>I don’t think you should feel entitled to being accept by ANY university. I do agree that your stats are good though.</p>
<p>Wow, so because you got waitlisted at Caltech, you deserve an automatic acceptance into Berkeley? </p>
<p>Ignorant pricks like you shouldn’t go to Berkeley. Glad we rejected you. Even if you did go, and you had the same attitude, no one here would talk to you.</p>
<p>Maybe the admissions committee are more astute at judging character than seemed possible with just the data on the application.</p>
<p>UCs don’t practice AA. They have done so for years. Try reading a book or something.</p>
<p>rejected too, but quite relieved, not suprised at all. congrats to those accepted.</p>
<p>I agree with the other posters that think it might be arrogance that led to a rejection. Berkeley and many other schools get hordes of applicants who are just as good or better (3.85 GPA? 2240 SAT? Still plenty of room for improvement.) than the OP, and they’re not asking for each and every one to be the nicest person on the planet. But this self-deserving attitude where he feels entitled to an acceptance may have stood out if his essays did exhibit that much arrogance. I can’t say for sure what happened but personality does play a role in interviews, scholarships, and college admissions. As I said, they aren’t looking for someone super-personable so much as they will avoid the handful of people who don’t seem nice to be around.</p>
<p>If you truly feel that your essays were honest and modest (in other words if you don’t think there was a personality problem) then ask to appeal.</p>
<p>Uh, try slowing down when you read his profile. It doesn’t say anything about the Nobel Prize.</p>
<p>You’re religious so you should believe in some cosmic force affecting everything you do. Going by your rules I can get a proper rationale for your rejection.</p>
<p>You’re an arrogant conceited prick. College decisions are extremely random but you come here saying you DESERVED to get into an extremely EXTREMELY competitive school.
I’m an Indian who knows my hindu mythology (despite my current state of atheism).</p>
<p>You should know that when the sage Durvasa gave Indra a garland as a gift, Indra, with pride, put the garland on his elephant’s head and the elephant put it on the ground and trampled it. Durvasa cursed Indra and made him lose his status as the king of the gods.</p>
<p>There are countless other parables about the dangers of pride. Kamsa was extremely prideful and arrogant. Ravana thought he could handle anything that came his way and even woke up his brother when he knew that waking him up would kill him. He thought he was strong enough to beat anything that came his way.</p>
<p>You really should take note of your own beliefs and tone down the arrogance a bit. You didnt get in. Tough luck. Don’t look for reason. You get what you deserve and maybe the universe (or the college staff) knew you were arrogant.</p>
<p>Yes I know I’m being harsh and I know I’m insulting you but you seriously have too much of an ego.</p>
<p>I always thought judgments made from admissions essays were bunk. Even the most arrogant, selfish, racist person can conceal their truth nature long enough to write a good essay and make it into UCLA (true story).</p>
<p>It’s also possible for someone who is very talented, motivated and charming to unintentionally come off smug and self-absorbed in their essay.</p>
<p>If you are this qualified, then are you really angry that you got rejected?
Are you really going to consider going to berkeley?
Just a thought…
I don’t see why you should get mad if you got into UCLA and waitlisted from Cal tech.</p>
<p>look sanjeet, i don’t care if you are a good student or not. i wouldnt want you to work for me if your attitude is “i’m almost good enough for A, and if A is miles better than you, then i’m a shoe in for your inferior institution.”</p>
<p>take your trash personality out and go to UCLA. i heard they tolerate “diversity,” try adding your arrogance into that melting pot haha</p>
<p>The OP might have been a courtesy wait list at Caltech. A courtesy wait list is one who will NEVER come off the wait list, but the tip is a courtesy to the school, or when a family member is an alum, or for a variety of reasons. It can be done when a school somehow even perceives that a rejection would create a student who would be on their doorstep or appealing, or calling for an explanation. Schools NEVER divulge who is on the real wait list and who is on the courtesy wait list.</p>
<p>i second whoever said “arrogant prick”. sorry.</p>
<p>I also know many people who were waitlisted at Caltech. Some got into Berkeley Engineering, and other didn’t get into Berkeley L&S. There are students who get accepted to MIT but rejected from Berkeley EECS. Essentially, just because most Caltech students can get into Berkeley does not mean that a waitlisted Caltech applicant is guaranteed a spot at Cal.</p>
<p>wooowwwww. Get over it, if i was an admissions officer I certainty wouldn’t let you in. Not even someone as qualified as you deserves to have that much arrogance.</p>
<p>give this guy a break…jeez. I got in to berkeley and i seem less qualified than him and im not a Cali resident. So obviously he could have gotten in. He seems arrogant because he’s frustrated he didn’t get in. He may not be like this in real life.</p>
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<p>That might make sense, except for the fact that Berkeley doesn’t practice AA</p>
<p>btw uc berkeley is comparable to caltech in engineering so the fact that you got rejected shouldnt be too surprising considering u got waitlisted at caltech. I think you’re underestimating UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>Ashwin, there are way to many indians who have no life and study 24/7 at Berkeley. They realized you would just be another one of them.</p>
<p>Gandu mader chod!</p>