<p>Someone asked for a brief profile of an EECS Regents candidate, so here it is…</p>
<p>Solid academics and test scores (4.00, 2310, 3x800 SAT II, 9x5 AP)
Extremely underwhelming ECs. Absolutely zero leadership.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’m not sure how I made the cut.</p>
<p>Thanks to some profiles of EECS Regents, I get some clarity - eliminates the major-specific quotas theory. :)</p>
<p>One remaining doubt is about citizenship - is Regents scholarship, by any chance, meant only for American citizens?</p>
<p>UCB regents invite: No
UCB leadership and achievement invites; yes</p>
<p>UCLA regents invite: yes
UCLA alumni invite: yes</p>
<p>UCI CHP: yes</p>
<p>UCSD Medical Scholars Program Invite: yes</p>
<p>My son applied 4UC.</p>
<p>@tinnova, you do not need to be a citizen to receive this scholarship. international applicants are reviewed based on their application. I believe out of state students may be reviewed this way as well but I’m not sure on that part. I just haven’t seen anything about interviews for out of state students. </p>
<p>Anybody else from the Bay Area going on the overnight?</p>
<p>@giantsfan0824 transfer invitations usually come out about one month after freshman invitations</p>
<p>heres some more data for those curious:</p>
<p>UCB regents invite: Yes
UCB leadership invite: Yes</p>
<p>UCLA regents invite: No
UCLA alumni invite: Yes
UCLA Stamps Scholarship invite: Yes</p>
<p>UCSD Medical Scholars Program Invite: yes</p>
<p>@mothergoldenbear I appreciate the information. Thank you very much</p>
<p>I wonder who isn’t a Cali resident and got the invitation. Is there any? Or we have different dates?</p>
<p>Despite my screen name, I am a
California resident. Last year the out of state Regents Scholars did not interview and found out when they were admitted. </p>
<p>@tinnova: “Is regents invite related to chosen major, or independent of it? Wondering if there is a quota per major, for example. Any idea?”</p>
<p>I know that they have a quota by college. I’m not sure about if there is one by major (but I would expect so). I was told they did that because if they didn’t, they would all be engineers. </p>
<p>@MOSLEE0102 maybe it’s by major…what did your son indicate his major as</p>
<p>By getting regents you get in to the major you applied to, which include the impacted engineering majors. But considering such a low number of applicants get regents anyways, I can’t see how they’d really need to deal with quotas with 1000 or less applicants being tapped for regents </p>
<p>collegebudi
major is engineering…</p>
<p>Here is another data point
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<p>So if you got the UCSD medical scholar invitation, you are among the top 3000 or so seniors [merit based]</p>
<p>Interesting. Although the med scholar invite isn’t by any means a guarantee of admission to UCSD, considering that those with med scholars invites are in the top 3,000 applicants, bearing any unusual disciplinary history or extenuating circumstance admission is likely (although not guaranteed). </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got the interview invite! Make sure to come for ROHP so you can experience being a student here for a night. </p>
<p>any tips for the interview? </p>
<p>Sooo would chemical engineering be considered impacted? I used to be torn between ChemE and regular Chem; after reading more about them, though, I decided that Chemistry fits better into what I want to do in life (yes, despite the lower salary 
). I had already applied as ChemE, since it’s easier to switch out of it before enrolling than to get into it once enrolled. Do you think Chem would’ve “increased my chances” (hate this phrase lol) for the scholarship?</p>
<p>By the way, congrats to all accepted! :)</p>
<p>My GUESS is that they choose Regents’ by college, not major. Since the College of Engineering and the College of Chemistry are both notoriously hard to get into, it probably wouldn’t make much difference which one you applied to. However, if you were thinking of Chemistry in Letters and Science, then it might be a teensy bit easier. And the reason I think that is that the top 1% might be a little bit broader in L&S than in COE and CoC … those two colleges have so many top applicants they turn some away (scores are high and not a very big spread). I haven’t really heard too many stories of high GPA, high test score, solid EC applicants being turned away from L&S.</p>
<p>@soaringcicada Yeah, I was referring to L&S. I guess it wouldn’t have made much of a difference, then. Now I’m concerned for actual admissions, though. I thought they considered you for your second major if you didn’t qualify for your 1st, but apparently that’s no longer true. 
Debating whether to call admissions for a change to Chem or if it’s too late. Sorry for getting off topic by the way… </p>