Dont lose hope yall, I got rejected from every UC including riverside, and I got rejected from UC berkeley too! Now Im homeless.
Hey guys… could I get some speculation? I was accepted to UCLA and I was wondering if anyone knew if there are correlations in acceptances ? Thanks!
@Calebdwking Yeah me too! Usually, getting into UCLA is a good indication for Cal but there’s definitely no guarantee. The schools look for different qualities in their students and sometimes they overlap, sometimes they don’t. Fingers crossed like a DNA double helix for Thursday…
@Calebdwking Based on my research, Cal is more holistic than UCLA, so Cal would weight EC’s and essays more heavily than UCLA does. People that have been accepted to UCLA have been rejected from Cal and people that have been rejected from UCLA have been accepted to Cal, but people have also been accepted to both. Since you were accepted to UCLA, your stats must definitely be good/on par with those that Cal is looking for, so I think it would depend on the more subjective areas of your application.
Good article. https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-freshman-applications-20161219-story,amp.html
Seems weird that Berkeley dropped to #4 in applications behind Irvine and SD… Hopefully that makes it easier for us!
@woakley5 i dont think it would be easier, it might be easier than UCLA this year, but it doesnt mean its easier than getting into berkeley last year cuz berkeley’s application number still increased around 2000
if you are admitted can you choose to defer to spring 2018 or is that only for people accepted off the waitlist
Yes, Cal is more holistic than UCLA which is more on stats. My S got UCB Regents invitation but not from UCLA, I guess 35 ACT is not good enough for UCLA.
@srk2017 …or UCLA didn’t like him as much as Berkeley did, totally independent of his ACT score.
I got into UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Diego. I never got a LOR req from Berkeley which is worrying me. I don’t consider myself at the top of the applicant pool, but a friend with the exact same ACT score and what I’m assuming is a similar GPA did get one (his could be lower).
I have a 34 composite ACT one sitting; my school does not do GPA on a 4.0 scale but rather on a 100 point scale, and it’s a 98.6 weighted. 3 Years marching band, VP of school HOSA club, President of the red cross club, lots of volunteer work, and 2 internships at major companies. I’m assuming my essays were good enough considering the other 3 UC acceptances. I applied to UCB as “intending social sciences major”. I am an OOS applicant.
Is the lack of the LOR request a bad sign? Everyone here has been saying it means that a person who receives one is a “maybe”, but I don’t see myself being a definite yes. Lots of people with similar stats did get LOR requests so that’s why it’s worrying me. With my stats and previous acceptances, I don’t see myself at the bottom of the applicant pool either. Really confused, anyone know if I should read into it this much?
((Also accepted to: Georgia Tech, Emory, Emory @ Oxford, UNC, U Michigan))
If I was rejected from UCLA, should I even hope for a light at the end of this long, pitch-black tunnel
So far I learned that getting or not getting into any other UC school is NOT always mutually exclusive so don’t use you’re rejection form UCLA as an indication for UCB.
@rhanon510 I read 2 different theories on the LOR. If Berkeley ask for the LOR then you are on the bubble. Maybe in your essay you put special circumstances so they will use the LOR to determine your true potential. The other is that Berkeley is testing the LOR and sending it randomly to 20% of the applicants.
I didn’t put any special circumstances; nothing was there of that nature. Really hoping it was just random, despite the video I saw on the presentation about it. Just doesn’t make any sense to me how stats like those can be neither at the bottom nor the top and still not receive a request.
@rhanon510 your stats look above average–they generally send LOR for people whose GPA and SAT don’t match up or when they need additional information. Not sure how your GPA would translate to UC GPA, though–if you want to calculate it, as an OOS applicant, do it as such:
-grades between 90 and 100 give you four points;
-grades between 80 and 90 give you three points;
-grades between 70 and 80 give you two points;
-grades between 60 and 70 give you one point;
-add an extra point to any AP or dual enrollment classes;
-only use sophomore and junior year grades.
Add up the points for each grading period and divide by the number of classes.
So, if we look at Person A’s schedule and grades:
AP Calculus AB (93/96)
English (96/89)
AP Chemistry (83/90)
History (99/94)
Physics (76/85)
Drama (98/no course)
Their UC GPA for those grades would be 5 + 5 (both semesters of calculus) + 4 + 3 (English) + 4 + 5 (chemistry) + 4 + 4 (history) + 2 + 3 (physics) + 4 (drama) divided by the total number of grading periods, 11. That is, it would be a 3.9 UC GPA.
I hate speculation, but i can’t stop overthinking the admission process. :(( 3 days to go guys.
@scarletwitchx Using the system you provided, with sophomore and junior year grades only, my UC GPA is somewhere between a 4.08 and a 4.33, likely towards the higher end. Will graduate with 11 AP’s in high school, with one in sophomore year and three in junior year.
@rhanon510 if your GPA is 4.33, then that is the reason why you didn’t get an LOR request–your grades and test scores match pretty well. That doesn’t mean you’re an automatic admit, but it does mean that they have no reason to wonder why your GPA is low when your test scores are high or vice versa.
I have a 4.0 unweighted, 4.5 weighted, 34 ACT, and I was asked for letters of recommendation 2 days after I applied. I do not think I am a borderline applicant. I had strong essays and extracirriculars too.
I was accepted too all the UC’s I applied to except UCLA (waitlisted) for computer science in college of engineering. I’m hoping to get into Berkeley for Letters & Science.