Is it 5 EST?
@parisgeller It is 5 PST, so 8 EST.
@johnlimster UC weighted or weighted by your school? And are you OOS? Everyone I know who has gotten an LOR request so far has the disparity.
Do any of you happen to know what the average UC GPA is of admitted students? Do they look more at regular unweighted/weighted GPA or UC GPA?
My unweighted GPA is a 4.0 and my ACT is a 35 and I got a LOR request, so I don’t think that theory is correct
@scarletwitchx weighted by my school. And I am from California.
Maybe the high stats were asked early on for Regents consideration? Were all Regents asked?
@charcoalatey2021 The average weighted and uncapped UC GPA for Cal admits is a 4.41.
@wormholes Ok thank you! My school doesn’t let students take AP courses until junior year, so my UC GPA is less than that; does admissions take that into account?
@gratefulmama not all regents were asked - my friend received a regents invitation with a 4.0 UW/4.7 W and 2300+ SAT with no LOR
@charcoalatey2021 i think so!
UC’s look at Weighted A-G 10-12 GPA
Also, don’t take a rejection from UCLA as an indicator for rejection at UCB. At my school, people are rarely admitted for both. One takes about 10 of some of the top 30 students and the other takes another selection of about 10. Again, this is just my school but the model may present itself at your school as well.
@wormholes @roonilwazlib100 Oh okay. Thank you so much! Ugh just 3 more days 
According to this link (http://admissions.berkeley.edu/studentprofile), the average weighted GPA is 4.42 and the average unweighted GPA is 3.92. Weighted by school does not translate to UC GPA, since most honors courses are not UC weighted, which could be a reason–the only UC weighted courses for most people are AP courses.
On that note, the people I know who never got LOR requests are either people who probably won’t get in or people who were admitted early (although I know that some people who were admitted early got LOR requests). Although this is purely anecdotal, the few early admits who were asked to submit an LOR generally had good ECs. On the UC Berkeley website, they say that they request a letter of rec if they feel that they “need more information.” However, for students who received a request two days after they submitted their application, they were obviously not reviewed.
I recall seeing a statistic somewhere on CC about how 5-6% of applicants do not receive a LOR request, and most of them are admitted, and how the next 30% (?) receive an LOR request, and about a third of them are admitted. However, I’m not sure how accurate that is.
(Just a note: this is my understanding of how UC Berkeley sends out letter of recommendation requests, but I could be wrong.)
(btw I was asked for Regents with a 4.6-ish UC GPA and 2300 SAT and no LOR) (all the other people from my school who were admitted early had similar, if not better, stats)
I watched the admissions video on letters of rec and there are basically three reasons they’ll ask for a lor- 1) The algorithm determined you were a borderline candidate. 100 percent of borderlines recieve the request 2) a human person read your app and determined you were borderline 3) your test scores/GPA were very high and the LOR was to determine regents
@scarletwitchx @collegehopeful2021chs so with stats like mine… I should be fine?
@gratefulmama - My son got regents interview and no LOR request.
Question: I am OOS and attend a small independent school with an extremely rigorous curriculum. Though no courses are formally designated honors or AP, the entire curriculum is at an AP level (as shown by how well students do on AP tests across the spectrum). That all said, how do the UCs take that into account when looking at my GPA? I have a 3.95 cumulative unweighted GPA. If I exclude freshman year, it would be 3.97. My school does not weight GPAs in any way (the max possible is 4.0). And, with the UC GPA calculator, without any classes designated as AP, my GPA would max out at my unweighted GPA … I think … is that right?
I got a 2220 composite on the old SAT, have a 3.97 10-11th grade cumulative unweighted GPA, and have already gotten accepted to UCLA & UCSB. The only other UC I applied to is UCB. And I was asked for a LOR request. I’m wondering why … maybe because my school doesn’t offer AP/Honors? Thoughts?