Accepted. In-state applicant for Legal Studies major
SAT: 1500
UW GPA: 3.9
W GPA: 4.58
SAT II: 760 (USH) 760 (Literature)
Great ECs about working for a congressman, member of school board, on city government, etc.
3 APs taken, currently taking 4
Letters of Rec were great as well
Accepted in state to college of arts and sciences.
SAT: 1420
UW GPA: 3.85
W GPA: 4.3
SAT II: none
Good essays and ECs.
Asked for LOR
Accepted to Davis, waitlisted at UCLA and UCSB
I’m gonna probably choose Lehigh over Berkeley. I’d rather take the private school east coast academics/vibe over the over-priced public school west coast academics/vibe.
Hopefully they admit a waitlisted student to fill my place in the class.
@kidfromoklahoma5 Hopefully that’s me haha. Berkeley is my dream school
I got into berkley and it’s academically my best option but I can’t afford this. Probably will give it up for University of Rochester. Hopefully my spot is taken by a waitlisted student who really wants to go and can afford it lol
@kidfromoklahoma5 Ah, sweet to think that!
@tigerman333 Ahahah, same. Hope that’s me LOL. Man all of the waitlist student competing within each other is crazyyyyy. You never know if the acceptance rate for waitlist is highhh. Hopefully…
Berkeley is my dream school. Cross fingers guyssss!
@trickledowneco I am not lying about my scores, I been rejected/waitlisted to every single UC except UCR and UCM (didn’t apply to those two). I myself am very surprised that I was rejected/wailisted to those schools because most of them were my safety/reach schools. Even my counselor believed that UCLA and UCB were achievable. Unfortunately I didn’t make it. I myself have no clue why I wasn’t accepted.
@PinstripeQ I got financial aid as an OOS student, I’m sure you will too. You can email Berkeley to ask directly.
@SierraLobo Thank you so much
@SierraLobo @PinstripeQ I’m in the same boat. Sierra, if you don’t mind me asking, how much did you receive - was it a grant, or what?
Also, this is from their website- http://financialaid.berkeley.edu/meeting-nonresident-costs Berkeley seems pretty adamant about keeping nonresident financial aid low, put simply.
@PinstripeQ I’m OOS and my mom makes about 80K a year (parents are divorced) my dad makes over 100K, but I got around $13,000 in aid (whatever the in-state tuition is). I would DEFINITELY check and see if that 13,000 would make a difference.
@valsedeladieu I got about $10,000, it was aid for middle class people.
@beegbeeegboi you should have gotten into UCSD and UC Irvine though. Did you? Maybe recommendation letters were not good.
UC application didn’t ask for recommendations except for the people who specifically got requests from Berkeley. For @beegbeeegboi I’m wondering: could essays have unintentionally come across as super obnoxious? Or could something on transcript be interpreted as not meeting A-G requirements? If neither of these, then I think you, or preferably your counselor with you there, should call the admissions office of at least one of the mid-tier schools and politely ask why you didn’t get in. My daughter did this after being rejected from CP SLO and was told “it’s because you didn’t meet the language requirement…oh wait, you did…huh…well, you can send an appeal.” (She ended up with other options and didn’t bother.) She was also rejected at UCI though admitted at Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD. Oddly, she and other UCI applicants received emails a couple of days ago un-rejecting them based on “auto-appeals” that they never initiated (see UCI thread). Mistakes are possible.
…note, I am not encouraging everyone to call admissions offices to question their decisions. Fully agree that admissions have become unbelievably competitive especially depending on chosen major, there is an element of randomness to who gets into elite schools, and one should “bloom where you’re planted.” No one should be snobby about UCs previously considered lower tier, or CSU schools, or community college route. My suggestion above is directed at a high stats applicant whose rejection truly confounds counselor expectations/published data for that school.
Any undeclared engg accepted
@beegbeegboi unfortunately, a lot of very qualified people (both EC-wise and score-wise) with GPAs like yours (is that capped or uncapped?) from competitive high schools have been rejected from all the UCs this year but Santa Cruz–I know plenty of people like that. I honestly do not know the reason for it, but I suggest appealing.
@RosesAndPoses Do you know if the aid you received was in loans or was it a grant?
@RosesAndPoses And was that after you submitted your SIR? Sorry for all the questions btw