@robogineer1649 do you mean Thursday the 12th or Tuesday the 10th?
@robogineer1649 That is not entirely true. OOS students got off the waitlist for civil engineering. So probably only civil engineering has given offers to all their students!
@Turbanator26 Tuesday the 10th.
Hi guys! So I was accepted on the 2nd to L&S and figured I’d post my Waitlist Statement because I hadn’t seen many examples from accepted students and I know I would be freaking the f*** out if I hadn’t been accepted yet (not that you should, that’s just me haha)
“Contrary to the stereotype of senioritis, in the first semester of this year I was able to significantly raise my grades. I was able to attain better grades in Physics, Spanish, History, and even Philosophy, which has been a very challenging class for me due to the fact it’s online.
At the end of the 1st semester of this year, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disorder that requires me to give myself insulin 6-10 times a day and constantly monitor my blood sugar. With this diagnosis in mind, I have started volunteering with the diabetic community. In early March, I volunteered at the Bay Area Diabetes Summit held at UCSF and assisted in teaching 5-6 year old children with Type 1 Diabetes about their condition, and what it’s like to be a “big kid” with Type 1 Diabetes. I also plan on volunteering as a camp counselor over the summer for a camp that is specifically for kids with Type 1 Diabetes.
However, my volunteering experience since submitting my application to UC Berkeley has not stopped at diabetes related things, as I got involved in a local production of the play “The Vagina Monologues”. This production was very important to me as all of the proceeds went to “Chest of Hope”, a local charity that acts as a safe house for victims of domestic violence and sex trafficking. Through the efforts of my directors, my fellow cast members, and myself, we were able to raise thousands of dollars to support this worthy cause.
At my school’s chapter of Junior Statesmen of America, we are organizing a school-wide campaign. The campaign is titled “Fight Apathy” and is intended to fight political apathy and encourage students to formulate and express their political opinion. As the president of the JSA chapter, I have been very involved in this process and am excited for the prospect of having a more politically involved student body.
I also had a fruitful season in Speech and Debate this year. I qualified for state championships in Congressional Debate, as I did my junior year, but what really made this year successful is the fact that three of my fellow Congressional Debaters that I had previously mentored ended up qualifying for state as well.
Quite honestly, UC Berkeley was, and continues to be, my dream school. The level of academia as well as the dedication that you consistently promote towards public service both go unparalleled by other institutions.It’s for those reasons (as well as a myriad of others) that I feel that I could not only thrive personally, but also contribute positively to the Berkeley community as a whole. I am honored to have been waitlisted at your school as opposed to being flat out rejected, but of course this is not quite the answer for which I had hoped. If I am lucky enough to be admitted off the waitlist and offered admission to UC Berkeley, I will gladly decline my admission offers from other schools and will most definitely enroll at UC Berkeley.”
Does anyone know anyone who has been accepted into biochemistry? I haven’t even seen one person. I’m in-state but it seems weird that they haven’t accepted any from my major…
@robogineer1649 is there any way you can ask that person? :-S
@Parislove98 No I will not be asking this individual anything else I apologize, but I really do not want to overstep my boundaries.
Yep, I thought that in-states would have been admitted first, as they have been previous years. I just hope OOS students won’t be just a tiny fraction of those admitted off the waitlist, at least. 
@robogineer1649 Did any of what you learned today conflict with what I heard about L&S hearing again on 5/10? You think those will be OOS only?
@robogineer1649 it’s totally fine! I understand 
@Alkaseltza I believe that may be because of the extra 5000 acceptances they need to send to Cal Residents. Here I am citing from the Berkeley News website: “In fall 2015 the UC regents approved a plan to increase enrollment of California undergraduates at UC campuses by 10,000 over the next three years, including 5,000 freshmen and transfer students in 2016-17.”
So it would be pretty logical to send nearly all waitlist acceptances to Cal residents (whether they actually deserve it or not 
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Website: http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/01/11/more-than-100000-students-seek-admission-to-berkeley/
My sense is that the in-state/out-of-state thing cuts both ways. A lot of this comes in at the legislative level, not from the UC system or the individual schools. Simply put, regular admission favors out-of-state and even out-of-country candidates because the UCs can charge far more for tuition with the non-Cali supplement (which is not legislatively limited), while at the same time the UCs are limited in effecting in-state tuition increases (by law), and are not permitted to give financial aid to the non-Cali applicants (also by law). So the system over accepts those applicants, knowing the yield will be lower because of market forces (it’s more expensive to go if you’re not a Cali resident), but trying to get as many of these higher paying students as possible. So at that stage through the regular SIR final commit date, California applicants are at a disadvantage. But then the wait-list gets used to re-calibrate the portfolio with Cali applicants to ensure hitting the legislative targets for in-state enrollment. I think that’s what were seeing now in the first wave.
@Faith2020 All the information I received was pretty much what I told you guys. I did not learn any more or any less than what I described so I will not give you a definitive answer as to if only OOS will be accepted on the tenth, but if you made me guess I would say that it would be a combination with a heavy emphasis on OOS.
When will Berkeley waitlist results come out?
@yoyohi seems like the 10th for the next wave (hopefully more OOS oriented this time -.-)
I don’t think the next wave is just for OOS people. They didn’t consider stats for accepting the waitlisters because I know someone who has GPA of 3.7 and SAT 1950 got accepted on May 2. He didn’t have any sports or clubs and wasn’t from a specific ethnicity. I didn’t get accepted with 2250 SAT, 4.3 GPA and tons of clubs and activities. I think they choose randomly like lotteries.
@johnm2020 well it could have to do with the yield for the major he applied to, or his essay(financial issues and hooks and whatnot) and if he was, y’know, in-state. I don’t think UCB would make us write an essay if they weren’t going to consider it 
Are you in-state? If so, maybe your major /college hasn’t begun accepting yet or was just hard to get into (e.g. EECS).
@Alkaseltza our Major was the same( biology). We both are from CA. He was spending lots of time in parties because he wanted to have fun. I strongly believe they chose randomly by chance.
@JohnM2020 here are 2 incredible examples from my school
170th person in ranking got into Princeton, brown and columbia. Her ACT was also around 28. Reason for her acceptances: her father was shot dead just before she sent her applications.
Another person got into Berkeley, Stanford and Yale. He had decent grades and decent ACT but no EC. I remember him running to our college counselor to ask what to write in her EC. Then he bought the ECs. He found a proffesor who was his father’s business partner and showed as he created 1-2 projects. He also had internships and research works by his father’s help.
Life is not fair, neither the admission process.
I can’t imagine admissions would waste time asking for stats/essays if it’s totally random. In some instances, it may be that they assume students with higher stats have commited elsewhere and will probably go elsewhere (even though they’ve remained on the waitlist). This messes with their yield and they want closure on the class ASAP. I agree that major/department comes into play as well as many other factors.
@bsalum I think they ask them to show that they are following the basic rules, but in reality they have chosen too many people with lower stats.