<p>I was wondering about how competitive it was to even get nominated for the scholarship but I couldn't manage to find any real statistics. Anyone have any idea about the level of applicant they offer the interview (gpa,test scores, etc)? :)</p>
<p>The first non-roommate friend I made turned out to be Regents candidate. He blames the fact he didn’t get regents on his terrible interview. He said he had friends who were interviewed before him but didn’t get asked any serious questions while he did – and he was caught totally off guard because of his expectations. This leads me to believe he was a borderline regents candidate while his friends were in more secured positions.</p>
<p>Anyways, he’s Asian with (IIRC):
idr rank, top 5% for sure though
2350 SAT
800 in 2 subject tests
11 APs, all 5s except two 4s
great internship at Kaisers Permanente
some other local ECs I forgot, probably not noteworthy</p>
<p>He was waitlisted at Stanford and a few lesser Ivys. This coupled with the fact he had a different interview from that of his friends who had it easier and were accepted to schools like Brown implies that Berkeley judges Regents based on a prediction of these school’s admission systems (because after all, the point of Regents to win over students who are accepted to better schools).</p>
<p>IMO he totally deserves to go to those schools though 
Edit: I recall reading a thread about Regents interviews where a bunch of candidates posted their stats…too lazy to find it sorry.</p>
<p>lol jeez your friend sounds like he got jipped. Someone like that will be successful no matter what though. Thanks, that shed some light! </p>
<p>Also, I think I saw that thread too but there were only a few actual stats on there. Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m an out-of-state Asian who got regents without an interview. </p>
<p>I had pretty strong stats overall. A couple of Bs throughout high school, but only freshman and senior year.
2350 first try with 800s in physics, math 2, and world history.
15 fives on APs and 2 fours, both senior year.<br>
Plenty of ECs and internships and awards and such</p>
<p>For a frame of reference, I was nominated with 4.38 GPA, valedictorian, 2360 SAT, 800 on one SAT II and 760 on two others, 7 APs with 5s on all of them, team captain of my sport for two years, two years on community service and four years of working. I think they look at your essays too, because in my interview we talked a lot about one of my personal statements. The interview is pretty chill, they asked me stuff about “why do you wanna study your major, how did you get interested in that, why did you consider cal” and they’ll ask you if you have questions for them - HAVE QUESTIONS. If they like you theyll probably just spend half the time trying to convince you that you should come to cal. Idk about other people’s stats, but in my experience Regents’ kids seem to be smart with social skills</p>
<p>I’m a Regents’ who had a 2300 SAT, fairly decent SAT II scores (800 Math, 750 Bio, 780 Chem), 6 AP’s (4 5’s, 2 4’s) and came out of HS with a 4.0 unweighted GPA. I had a decent amount of EC’s with several leadership roles, some awards, and lots of community service.</p>
<p>From what I was told, the committee that nominates candidates (CUSH) bases their decisions strongly on your application essays. I know for a fact that your interviewer is able to access it; mine pulled my essays up and skimmed them right in front of me. o_O</p>
<p>I’m also an out-of-state Regents Scholar with no interview (yay for no interview, haha)</p>
<p>-2020 SAT and 32 ACT (yeah, not super stellar for the SAT). 4.00 UW GPA and about 4.8 W GPA
-Salutatorian, 8 AP classes taken (7 AP tests taken, with two 5s, one 3, and the rest 4) and all the other core classes were honors.
-SAT II’s of 800, 730ish and 700 (Spanish, US History, and Literature, respectively)
-A little more than 200 hours of community service with local hospitals and libraries. Also, a year-long volunteer opportunity for an LGBT rights organization in my state, while I was concurrently the president and founder of my school’s Gay-Straight Alliance)
-Hispanic and first generation (ehh, dunno if that matters but people are putting theirs as well)
-Founder and pres. of a club for 2 years, secretary of a few other ones. National Honor Society for 5 years.
-One of my essays was about my volunteer work with different communities during high school. The other one was about growing up in a few different countries, being surrounded by these different languages and customs, etc. I thought it turned out pretty cool</p>
<p>:) Good luck</p>
<p>I was a Regents’ candidate, I interviewed but didn’t get it. </p>
<p>I had a 2390 SAT, 4.8+ GPA and 4.0 unweighted, 14 APs (mostly 5’s and a few 4’s), 6 IBs (all 5-7’s), varsity swim team captain (4 years varsity, california state finalist, league champion), science olympiad team captain (several state medals), rotary club vice president (lots of community service)</p>
<p>Rant time: All of other my high school friends who interviewed got the scholarship… only ONE of them chose to go to Berkeley… what a waste, they should at least give it to the people who WANT to go to your **** school. Up yours, Regents’ and Chancellor’s Association. *No offense to any current Regents’ scholars.</p>
<p>Statistically I think that around half of students offered regents actually decide to enroll. This isn’t a bad yield rate at all if the purpose of the scholarship is to attract students that would normally pick other schools over Berkeley, considering that the overall cross admissions yield rate of Berkeley against decent Ivies is never over 10%.</p>
<p>Handlebars; "All of other my high school friends who interviewed got the scholarship… only ONE of them chose to go to Berkeley… " </p>
<p>That was me.</p>
<p>Just curious, how many of you guys are going to the reception dinner thingy . . . there should be decent free food right?</p>
<p>bearfacts: hey, cool :)</p>
<p>Question for out of state regents scholars. Did y’all get a notification for candidacy?</p>
<p>For those OOS students with Regents’ Scholarships and financial need, did the scholarship increase the grant aid to cover the non-resident additional tuition that is normally not covered by regular need-based financial aid?</p>