Your stats are very good, i think you have a very good chance overall. But Berkeley’s engineering is much more difficult to get in.
Attention all in this thread: please feel free to ask/message me any questions you have about admissions or life at Berkeley, as I have been accepted early as a regents candidate and I have a brother there who is a third year econ student, with many friends in multiple fields. I have visited the school many times (including dorms and nearby apartments, classrooms, and shops) as well as sat in on many of my bros classes. Ask away!
Does the January Start option something that is offered to all incoming freshmen or is it decided by Berkeley administration?
Is the first day of instruction for Fall 2017 in UCB some time during mid-August? UCLA and UCSD seem to start in late September.
Yes, @Helium9 . UCB follows a semester system and the other UCs follow a quarter system. That is why UCB starts in late Aug and others start in late September.
@cricketfan Thanks.
hey ive heard a lot of friends talk about decisions being released tomorrow (3/24) is that true?
also if someone wants to chance me:
major: mechanical engineering
ACT 35
GPA (UC) 4.5
sat math: 790, chem : 730
senior schedule: ap comp, ap chem, ap psych, economics, multi variable calculus (calc3)
extra carriculars: varsity soccer, jazz band, math club vice president, math tutor, club soccer
acceptances: UCI UCLA UCSD UCSB CPSLO SDSU
no rejections thus far (fingers crossed)
NO. Decisions will be released MARCH 30th.
Berkeley sent all applicants an email back in February saying so–I don’t know why people are questioning this.
didn’t get the email
On Cal’s admission twitter, they never say it’s exactly coming out on the 30th. They just say it’ll come out at the end of March (keeping it vague for some reason). Although the email they sent and the portal says it will come out on the 30th, who knows. it might come out a few days earlier
@2021person @bigpoppa33 Jesus Christ, guys. Can anyone grasp this? The portal says EXACTLY March 30th. It used to say “by March 31st.” Now it says March 30th. They will be out on - you guessed it - March 30th.
^lmao chill out no need to be rude
This link says decision comes out tomorrow March 24th http://admitguide.com/
Not sure if it is true
@ry200388 I mean, if it does, cool, but I wouldn’t get too hyped about it possibly coming out tomorrow, since UCB emailed us last month to tell us that it would be coming out on the 30th.
Lol that link doesn’t look too accurate.
That link doesn’t look accurate from the other campuses and dates it shows. For instance it shows Davis as 3/13. Actual was 3/10. It shows UCLA as 3/18. Actual was 3/17. Didn’t look at any of the others.
At any rate the official UCB date is 3/30 so that’s our expectation. If decision comes out sooner then it will be a welcome surprise!
@ry200388 Last year it was 3/24 - so maybe.
@cricketfan January start is decided by admissions
Someone may have asked this previously, but I was wondering whether LOR requests were independent of major or not. I got a LOR request, and I applied for EECS btw.
@bobthebuilder13 , I also got LOR and I have applied to EECS.