Oh ok. The video was from 2016.
My S didn’t get an LOR. We don’t know anyone at his school that did. We are in CA.
Hi! I applied under microbiology and was asked for LOR. I was accepted in early February and selected as a Regents’ Candidate. I was invited to a Regents’ Program on camus and most of the admitted students that were there were STEM majors. I asked the group in my table and I was the only one that was asked for LOR.
My D was asked for LOR on Dec 5th right after she applied end of Nov., I am guessing she is a borderline candidate for Berkeley and she applied BioEng. Hopeful:)
CHANCE ME
GPA: 4.41 W / 4.00 UW
SAT I: 1490
SAT II: 630 Chem 700 Math 2
Personal Info: White Middle Class Male, Deceased Parent, European First Generation Immigrant
In State
Extracurricular: Tae Kwon Do Instructor and 2nd Degree Black Belt, Cello Player, Key Club Member with many Volunteer Hours
Major: Computer Science (BA, not EECS BS)
What I gather from comments here, my son’s experience (Cal soph), and videos/articles is a fraction of the following get LORs: disadvantaged/Maybes for potential push to Yes and strong candidates as more context is requested (for Regents?). So the only thing we can think regarding application status if you get LOR is you’re still in the running. If you don’t get LOR you may still be in the running, too! Not helpful but helpful.
My dd got accepted in early Feb, no
LOR, no Regents either. Not sure if this helps to explain the LOR correlation.
@Camchar88 Honestly I feel like they place more weight on ECs. My GPA was not stellar, I had a 4.11 but I did alot of extra curriculars and explained my personal dilemmas in my essays. Berkeley is very holistic and I got into every UC I applied to, so im guessing that they place more weight on ECs
@Camchar88 @lapetite1999 I would agree Cal is very holistic but the grades/scores still have to be there (or explained if not). Your 4.11 is stellar btw. This forum is full of stellar students. Don’t think this is the norm. You should all be very proud of yourselves.
I think grades/sat are important to get you through the threshold. But once you are in a pile with thousands of other similar applicants, essays start to set you apart from others.
@ivyforest do you happen to know what the threshold is
so if i have pretty low scores (berkeley is definetly a reach) will i go straight to the reject pile
@Caligirl24 I honestly don’t know. I read from somewhere that UCB used computer to generate an initial screening. Can someone confirm this? If that’s the case, there must be a minimum value of SAT/ACT/GPA.
I saw that too @ivyforest. If they did do that, maybe they did a scores in combination with major. At least that would make sense
Really appreciate all the comments on LOR, great info! Since my d is seemingly “borderline” here are her stats in case it is helpful for anyone. SAT 1400 gpa 4.2 or 4.3
Forgot to mention, d was asked for a LOR.
@lovespink
I follow the IEOR twitter account and they’ve recently tweeted the following:
“Rumor has it @Cal_Engineer has picked all the incoming fall 2018 freshmen… can’t wait to meet you all! #berkeleyieor “
21 days to go lol
15 days""" as far as i know Cal is the 4th Friday of March
I believe the portal says 3/28…
“”“on or before”"" read people
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Your application has been received and is currently under review.
Decisions will be available [[[[on or before March 29, 2018.]]]]
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If UCLA releases on 16th as expected, Cal releases results 1 week after… check every previous year’s threads.