<p>Moment of truth. Is this a truth or a lie? UCB don't post decisions a bit earlier?</p>
<p>Nope. They post on the exact date</p>
<p>hopeful… xD</p>
<p>Also, it isn’t RD, it is the only D, as there is no ED.</p>
<p>Beware, some of you guys will get a spring admission, there is an extensive thread that explains the difference between fall admission and spring admission.</p>
<p>Berkeley has a wait list now.</p>
<p>How about other UCs? All announced their decisions on March 25, or some sooner than others?</p>
<p>Cal is usually the last UC to announce decisions.
I remember a lot of them announce starting mid-March.</p>
<p>I hope my friend gets in</p>
<p>^how exactly is the waitlist thing going to work? are they accepting less kids and puttign msot on the waitlist so they don’t have too many people accept and too high of an enrollment? Whatever happens, I hope the freshman classes get smaller. Berkeley is too crowded as it is, and budget cuts are making it impossible to get into discussion! :(</p>
<p>It sounds as if they intend the same incoming class size as previous years. The waitlist is a reaction to turbulence in the entire higher ed ecosystem that reduces their confidence in historical acceptance ratios. </p>
<p>If a university has 1000 spots to fill, they have to offer more than 1000 students a spot as the applicants may have acceptances from other schools that they choose to attend. Schools all build up a model that will tell them this fraction. A place like Harvard has an extremely high ratio with almost every yes offer choosing to attend the school, but every other school has to contend with more realistic ratios. lets imagine that over the years, our hypothetical institution found that 1/5 of the applicants that were given a yes decision ultimately did not register with them, instead choosing another UC campus or an entirely different school - HYPS, Mudd, whatever. Then, our uni would need to send out 1,250 yes decisions to yield 1,000 incoming students. </p>
<p>With the increasing costs, bad economy, but also the impact of the budget crisis on perceived quality of life at Cal, the old models are not very accurate. Having a waitlist means that the school can be a bit more conservative initially, maybe sending out only 1,150 welcome letters and placing 250 on waitlist. After receiving the first round of commitments from students (925 SIRs filed), they may find there are 75 slots still to fill in the incoming class, thus they will start offering admissions to the waitlist. 75 get an offer to come in off the waitlist and they iterate over the summer to keep the incoming class at target size. At the same time, HYPS has waitlists and may offer slots, causing a Cal student to give up a spot here for their #1 choice; that hole is also filled by the waitlist, shuffling students down in a cascade from top institutions thru the rest of the pack.</p>
<p>The text below came directly from the UC Counselors and Advisers Bulletin and you should be able to verify the information with your HS counselor.</p>
<p>For the first time in its history, UC will implement a waitlist process for fall 2010 freshman admissions. All campuses, except UCLA and UC Merced, will participate.</p>
<p>The university is faced with an overenrollment of more than 15,000 students and must carefully balance new student enrollment with state funding. A waitlist is an enrollment management tool that enables campuses to attain their enrollment targets with greater precision while offering a space to as many deserving students as possible.</p>
<p>What students need to know:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>They might receive waitlist offers from more than one campus. Students may accept as many offers as they wish.</p></li>
<li><p>Once offered a spot on a waitlist, they must opt in. Instructions for doing so will be included with the waitlist notification.</p></li>
<li><p>Even if they accept a waitlist offer (or several), students should submit a Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) to a UC campus or other institution they have been accepted to. If they later accept an offer of admission from a campus where they have been wait-listed, they will forfeit their deposit at the first campus.</p></li>
<li><p>Wait-listed applicants will be notified no later than June 1 so families can plan appropriately.</p></li>
<li><p>Preliminary financial aid awards will be sent shortly after offers of admission and before applicants have to make a decision about accepting. Additionally, SIRs of wait-listed students will be considered on time for purposes of housing and orientation, provided they are submitted by the deadline stated in the offer of admission.</p></li>
<li><p>Eligible applicants who don’t receive an admission offer from any campus they applied to will be in the referral pool (note from Ms. Sun - this means the applicants will be referred to UC Merced for acceptance), even if they are on the waitlist at another campus.</p></li>
<li><p>Campuses will still consider appeals. Applicants who feel they have grounds for an appeal should submit one, but they should keep in mind that the purpose of the appeals process is to deal with errors and compelling new information and hardship. Students cannot appeal for a spot on the waitlist.</p></li>
</ul>