Leadership Award Invite

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I don’t think my son checked any box for scholarships and he got the leadership award invite. </p>

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<p>@JCCMom, pretty sure your son did. You might want to check by accessing his application. If he didn’t, then I may be wrong.</p>

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<p>Just checked his application and here is what he checked under misc:</p>

<p>Miscellaneous (3)
Extensive community service involvement or volunteer experience
Participates in extracurricular activities
Working part-time</p>

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<p>@JCCMom - I think it is close enough. They just want many people to apply. So far, my hypothesis holds!</p>

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<p>@agg999 - what about people who got the email from UCB but not UCLA even though they checked “Student who has demonstrated academic excellence as well as leadership in extracurricular activities”?</p>

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<p>I am only talking about Berkeley. UCLA probably has different policies because they two separate alumni networks. Also, I am saying anything close to “Student who has demonstrated academic excellence as well as leadership in extracurricular activities” probably triggered UCB to send the invitation. </p>

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<p>@spaghettiab UCLA’s invite system for the Alumni scholarship is a whole different process. They invite the top 4% of their applicants only.
I’m assuming for Berkeley, they just invite whoever is above a certain GPA, checked specific scholarship boxes, and agreed to receive invites from scholarship organizations.</p>

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<p>This idea makes sense. I didn’t get the invite and I also didn’t check any box that mentioned leadership. I did check “participates in extracurricular activities” and a few more academically geared boxes (“pre-med”, interested in career in medicine, etc). </p>

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<p>Did any international student get an invite for regents Berkeley?</p>

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<p>Did any international student get an invite from Cal alumni association for leadership award ?</p>

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<p>international here and i got the leadership at cal. nothing else though :(</p>

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<p>Yep, international here too and got a leadership award email from UC Berkeley. </p>

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<p>@pHyRe7 & @ StanCardinal pl. do ask your friends too if they have got the leadership invite cos mine didn’t get it
.</p>

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<p>@StanCardinal</p>

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<p>I didnot check any of the scholarship boxes but got the leadership invite…</p>

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<p>i dont know anyone else that applied to a UC school haha</p>

<p>few here apply, mostly due to the cost i suspect.</p>

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<p>My D1 got both the Leadership invite, and the Achievement one. She doesn’t have spectacular EC’s (consistent with 2-3 activities) or leadership stats. Just double checked, and she did not select the box that references leadership. SAT 2030, ACT 31, UC GPA 4.12 (DE program graduating with AA at same time as HS), low income.</p>

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<p>It could be that the admissions send the pool that has 1-3 scoring to AA. That pile could be about 20,000 kids instead of 80-90,000. Then AA may go through the applications not just the applicants who selected a particular scholarship box. Just my thinking.
After reading the posts related to this subject over 6 years, I have a no clue about what the actual process could be. One thing for sure, the kids who got the e-mail have a very high probability getting admission letters.
In 2008, from my D’s class, kids who got the invite had gotten the admission as well.</p>

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<p>It looks to me from the website that anyone can apply for the Leadership Award – <a href=“Scholarships - Cal Alumni Association”>http://alumni.berkeley.edu/community/scholarships/leadership-award/how-apply&lt;/a&gt;
Doesn’t seem particularly exclusive or hopeful re admission to me (I was so hoping it meant something big b/c my son got the invite email!).</p>

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<p>There was a posting by askmssun which said over 50% of applicants to the award we rejected by ucb. Sounded like she was a reader for these award apps. Unfortunately, cannot find that thread anymore</p>