Regent scholarship

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Well, according to the blue brochure, 2000 are considered for the scholarship. Again, that means nothing. They may consider 2000 but only send 1000 interview invitation letters. Now, the magic percent I keep hearing is 1.5%, but again, 1.5% for what? For UCLA's Regents' scholarship, the top 1.5% are invited to submit a scholarship application, and the top 100 of the 50,000 UCLA applicants actually get the scholarship, so it's a very small percentage of people who get that honor. </p>

<p>Back to Berkeley, about 10,000 are admitted each year. They may accept fewer this year just because too many people enrolled last year and they may not want the same problem to occur, but it should only be by a few hundred less, if any at all; I've also heard that they're just going to expand. Anyway, if 2000 (at most) get the letter, then a whopping 20% of the accepted students have been invited. Of course, I believe that most, or at least a good portion, of these students will not matriculate at Berkeley because a $1000 x 4 years scholarship is not enticing enough to pull away an acceptance from HYPSM + possibly more financial aid.</p>

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<p>SQL, would you share where you heard or read that 600 Regents scholarships are offered?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>It was somewhere on this board, but even if it came from the UCs themselves, I wouldn't believe it. Case in point: UCLA says that the top 1.5% are sent invitations, and then they say that 1000 are sent letters. Well, 1000 / 0.015 implies that they get nearly 67,000 applications, which is simply not true. Berkeley's phrasing isn't impressive either, if you read it carefully.</p>

<p>Source of the UCLA information: <a href="http://www.fao.ucla.edu/regents.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fao.ucla.edu/regents.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>EDIT: I believe that the number 600 came from an old Berkeley article that said that one in three recipients of the scholarship became Regents' Scholars (fancy phrasing of, "they decided to matriculate at Berkeley."). Well, if Berkeley has 200 new Scholars a year, and those 200 are one-third of the recipient group, we get a magical number.</p>