After looking at past threads, it seems like not all applicants received an invite; however, it is not nearly as prestigious as regent and does not mean guaranteed admission.
Anyone know the qualifications for the Regent Scholarship?
@infiniteCircle again from stalking last year’s thread, what i know is it should be either the top 1.5% of applicants (stats-wise and ecs) or, as quoted from someone on that thread:
“Heard this from a friend who works with Admissions to decide who gets Regent’s Interviews. Take with a grain of salt:
After seeing a certain level of stats, application readers will score your essays out of 5. If you receive a 5 on each essay, you will receive an interview.”
According to this link,http://alumni.berkeley.edu/community/scholarships/2015-scholars
Fewer than 9000 people are “qualified” for the leadership scholarship, which would mean that only a fraction of the applications would be considered.
At least that’s what I understood. Can anyone else weigh in?
If it really is only 9000 qualified people, that is actually pretty good given that the total amount of applicants exceeds 100,000 people.
@treker205 Thanks again for the info.
@raghavkapur to be fair, it actually says “selected from more than 9,000 qualified applicants” meaning it could be more, but that still sounds fairly selective to me.
Did anybody not get the invite?
I got the invite this afternoon. I assume everyone gets it.
If it says more than 9,000, I’m assuming it’s between 9,000 and 10,000 because or else it would say 10,000+. I also received the invitation for all 3 scholarships.
I think you guys are reading it wrong, they’re just saying that over 9,000 people applied, all of whom were qualified (like “we had many deserving applicants but only 700 winners” sort of idea). I got it too.
@waddups Nope, I don’t have OOS school-specific stats but in 2014 the overall stats by residence were:
In-State
8290/43875 (18.9%)
Avg GPA applied: 3.61, Avg GPA admitted: 3.89
Avg SAT applied: 1842, Avg SAT admitted: 2032
Avg ACT applied: 28, Avg ACT admitted: 30
OOS
3206/16662 (19.3%)
Avg GPA applied: 3.71, Avg GPA admitted: 3.92
Avg SAT applied: 1995, Avg SAT admitted: 2154
Avg ACT applied: 30, Avg ACT admitted: 32
International
1318/13256 (9.9%)
Avg GPA applied: 3.68, Avg GPA admitted: 3.90
Avg SAT applied: 1992, Avg SAT admitted: 2130
Avg ACT applied: 29, Avg ACT admitted: 32
(OOS admit rate is higher, but that’s probably because the applicants are a lot more self-selective.)
@itsmyusername I suppose you are right.
The recs are due tomorrow but neither of my recommenders received the link from berkeley
I had the same problem, but it was resolved a few days ago. Have your recommenders check their spam folders just in case. If no link arises and you have access to a different email address, exclude whoever you have and add them again. Originally, I was afraid that clicking “Exclude” would be irreversible, but that was the suggestion I was given when I sent an email to the admissions office. Afterwards, both of my teachers received the link.
If you read the bottom of the Cal Alumni Scholarship email it specifically states the following:
“Your receipt of this scholarship invitation does not in any way reflect on your application for admission to UC Berkeley. You are no more or less likely to be admitted to UC Berkeley because you have received this invitation, and your decision to apply or not apply for Cal Alumni Association scholarships will not affect your application status.”
@itsmyusername Where did you find the stats for the L&S students?
Does anybody know how many people are offered to apply to the “The Achievement Award Program” from the Cal Alumni Association (6,000 per year for four years)? I got an email for that, and the leadership one.
@Runners I received the leadership invite as well. I did some digging and it’s sent to almost every single applicant and depends somewhat on what you put for scholarships on your app. But from what I found out (Ms. suns UC app blog as source) is that on average for every 100 applicants 12 get interviews of around 45 min and of those 12, 3-4 are offered the scholarship. So for every 100 applicants roughly 3-4 will get it yielding a 3-4 percent award rate.
@Runners
Hi. I also got an invitation for leadership scholarship long time ago
However, people say there are three scholarships.
I know you got achievement award program, and leadership one. Do you know what the third one is?
@Liljuju
You said you got all three scholarhsip invitation.
I only got leadership one.
I know there is leadership one and achievement award program. Can you tell me the third one?