<p>I’m on the 6th of March too. Have to miss first track meet of the year :(</p>
<p>Im on the 6th of March as well. 3:30. This is rather exciting! I hope the invite=acceptance. :D</p>
<p>I got a postcard in the mail today lol
anyone else?
I guess the emails are their form of a letter??</p>
<p>yeah, i got a postcard too. hopefully not getting the letter this year doesn’t indicate something has changed with the regents selection process; I’m hoping the second email took the place of the mail package.</p>
<p>I have a student who was invited to the Cal Regent’s interview so I called the scholarship office to see what I can dig up. This is what I figured out after deciphering the cryptic conversation I had with the scholarship office:</p>
<p>1) The admissions office has control issues. The scholarship office is not “allowed” to tell students they are accepted because the admissions office is in charge of that.</p>
<p>2) When I asked if the interview is an indicator that a student has a very good chance of being admitted but that it wasn’t guaranteed, the rep said “you may go a step beyond that.” My interpretation of this charade is that the student is admitted if offered an interview for Regent’s, but for whatever reason (control issues?) the admissions office is telling the scholarship office to keep mum about the status of the acceptance.</p>
<p>For those wondering, my S went to his Berkeley regents interview a few days ago. He was greeted with a “welcome to uc berkeley” and given a yellow badge that said UC Berkeley undergraduate admissions with a BIG “I’m Admitted” on it. So if you are going to the regents interview, obviously you’re admitted. There was no mystery to it. Congrats you’re in.</p>
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<p>That’s true in any bureaucracy. For something to be done officially, it must go through the proper channels, whether or not everyone knows what the end result will be. I don’t know that I’d call that “control issues”…</p>