<p>Yeah so I know that there have been threads about this before, but this time i want to make this work. Does anybody know if there is any relation between admission decisions and receiving the email and/or letter from Berkeley about the coalition for excellence and diversity in mathematics...etc. Its an invitation to a conference about berkeley that you have to rsvp for. It says in the letter and the email that the coalition has no connection to admission status, but i know doubts have been made about this before. So does anyone know if there is a relation? also on the letter they sent me they said decisions would be available "by march 25th"...lol
please post if you or someone you know has been admitted or rejected after receiving the email or letter</p>
<p>^ I know lol, I’m on tenterhooks waiting for possible decisions today. I believe Ms. Sun said it was about a 50/50 chance on getting in or not.</p>
<p>all she said was that 3 people responded on here saying they got in after receiving it…and no one has said they got rejected after getting it…which is giving me false hope probably</p>
<p>(i got waitlisted at ucla so im freaking out about cal)</p>
<p>Yeah I was wondering the same thing! I went to the SoCal session and it was all about Berkeley. Idk just seems weird that they would invite us for no reason. Hoping for the best, but Cal is a reach for me!</p>
<p>My older son received the invitation 2 years ago and was rejected. He didn’t attend the reception. He also received a questionnaire before decisions were released. It asked the other schools that he applied to and asked him to rank them in order of preference. He did not rank Cal first. I often wonder if that affected their decision to reject him.</p>
<p>My younger son also got the invitation to the reception, which we attended. He never received the questionnaire email. It will be interesting to see if he gets accepted.</p>
<p>“Level of interest” is officially not a freshman admission criterion at Berkeley, according to its common data set, section C7.</p>
<p>My cousin, who is currently a freshman at Cal, received this letter last year. I asked her about this coalition and what it does, and she said she hasn’t heard a word from them since she enrolled. I received this letter myself, but didn’t attend the reception. We’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>I’m a first year here, and also a “Coalition scholar”. Because of that invitation, I chose to attend a really late CalSO (student orientation) despite SIRing in March. </p>
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<li>I /still/ don’t know what it means to be a coalition scholar.</li>
<li>The Coalition CalSO was USELESS because it made me take a math placement test instead of a chat session with an advisor. Math placement test was fine, except I never found out how I did in it.</li>
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<p>Bottom line: good job if you’re a coalition scholar. But 1) attend the earliest CalSO anyway and 2) it’s not a good or a bad thing. I guess it sounds nice though…?</p>