UC Berkeley 2023 Applicants Thread

@financekid123 Don’t worry, based on my last year’s experience: you’ll receive info from other campuses later

@sarahk312: Berkeley interviews as stated above for the Regents and Chancellor scholarships. They also only request letters of recommendation from a small percentage of applicants so if you do not get an interview or an LOR request, it does not mean anything in terms of admission. You will find out your admission decision in March one way or another.

So does a request for LOR not mean anything?

@JayBel: of course it means something. They want more information about you and below are some reasons why they would request an LOR.

-Academic performance and potential (both overall and in the context of the applicant’s high school class)
-Love of learning
-Leadership (in school, family, or community)
-Persistence in the face of challenges
-Cross-cultural engagement
-Originality/Creativity
-Demonstrated concern for others

@Gumbymom Thanks for clearing it up :). I got a request yesterday and I was wondering why.

When would the last date for a LOR request be?

Anyone know when the uc verification audit requests are sent?

^ ya does anyone know? I’m not certain but I think their sent out until the end of January.

My son is in state. He’s really hoping for Berkeley for Mech engineering. His top hopes are Berkeley, Cal Poly SLO, Purdue, WPI. He was accepted at WPI and Purdue. He was deferred at Georgia Tech. He has his log in info for all 5 UCs he applied to… UCSD, UCI, UCR, UCSB, and UCB I’m glad it is robotics build season so he doesn’t have time to stress about waiting for decisions… I however am a mess.

anyone know when early decision notifications will go out this year? last few years it was around 2/10

@RoboticsWidow

My son also did robotics in high school and got in to Berkeley as ME in 2015.
He found ME at Berkeley to be really dry and declared EECS as second major.
He only decided to complete ME for the sake of it.

When do regents usually come out? Not expecting it, but hoping for it.

Usually around Feb 10 or before esp on a Friday

do the regents results come through an email? the portal? and does anyone know a general time frame or date

First year pathways email, anyone?

yes,maybe everyone…

@Castiel19 i got one and berkeley is a TOTAL reach for me so i’m guessing everyone got it

we got the email too. it seems to me like it probably went to everyone. did anyone NOT get it???

I got it too

Regents coming out friday, february 8?