<p>Ok, cool! I definitely want to check out the campus; thanks for the response!</p>
<p>Anything that happens before your official SIR (statement of intent to register) is no-commitment.</p>
<p>As for the interview: relax. They’re just trying to see if you’re a well-rounded person. Eg. did you take 15 APs because you were genuinely interested in most of the subjects, or did you take them because you think you have no chance at anything better than community college if you didn’t?</p>
<p>Or did you take 15 APs because APs were a joke anyways and you might as well get some college credit . . . 70% for a 5, god how do people even get 4s.</p>
<p>You don’t need to bring anything. And you don’t need to prepare at all assuming you know yourself well (my advice for all college interviews). I didn’t bring anything and just talked about my passions and my interviewing professor e-mailed me later saying he advocated for me strongly and I ended up getting the scholarship.</p>
<p>^ahh, if only I was so talented.</p>
<p>They deal mostly with your interest/major and how you’re enthusiastic about it. At least that’s how mine and some others went.</p>
<p>I asked 4 people to write letters of rec for me (I don’t think I have confirmation from any, yet, though). Is this overkill? People on other topics say that even 3 is a little too much and that most people don’t bring any. </p>
<p>Also, what exactly do they ask you? Do they ask you about why you want to major in that area? Career plans? That sounds like the interview I did for another school… </p>
<p>Also, I don’t think I got invited to the UCLA Regent’s Scholarship, although I applied for… I think their Freshman Scholarship?. But I got the Davis Regent’s Scholarship. Do the schools do them differently?</p>
<p>Yes, letrainfalldown, different UC’s invite different students for Regents.</p>
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<p>The pretension and d****iness in this post are kind of killing me.</p>
<p>Aww . . I’m sorry.</p>
<p>Blame the American secondary education system for encouraging mediocrity.</p>
<p>I’m having a teacher write me a letter of rec to take to the interview for rchs. Do you think my teacher (when writing her letter) should focus more upon why I deserve the scholarship or why I should be accepted to UC Berkeley?</p>
<p>^I wouldn’t bother with the letter…</p>
<p>At this point, it’s your interview that counts. Show some personality/passion/thoughtfulness.</p>
<p>Do most people have the interview first and then stay overnight, or stay overnight and then the interview?</p>
<p>Also, is the website still down for everyone else?</p>
<p>I think more people do overnight then interview, but the order really shouldn’t matter.</p>
<p>In any case, the overnight stay is pretty awesome, so sign up for it either way :)</p>
<p>@InflatedCoin: The coordinators sent out an email the other day saying that the website was down.</p>
<p>I had my interview this morning, and the first thing the lady at the check-in desk said was that this constitutes official acceptance! Yeah!
The interview was also one of the best out of all my other interviews, but that news made my day =)</p>
<p>My S went through this process last year. Although he applied to UC Berkely, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara, he was only invited to interview for Berkeley Regents. So I think each campus has their own selection criteria, since I heard similar things from his friends.</p>
<p>He went to the interview at a downtown LA Hotel. (We’d toured Berkeley previously and he had no time in his schedule for an overnight back up there.) When he checked in, they congratulated him on being admitted to Berkeley and gave him a button that said thing.</p>
<p>He came dressed in business casual, and went into the waiting room area (they must do a LOT of interviews) filled with students, alums and other Berkeley reps. There were various small group presentations going on and lots of phamplets and other information to look at. While he was waiting, he looked up the information on the professor he was going to be interviewing with. It turns out the professor does work in climatology. My S was planning on majoring in some kind of science, and had the summer before done an internship at USC working with a professor in paleoclimatology. So, at least in his case, they did indeed find a professor who knew lots about something he’d worked on.</p>
<p>My S did receive the Regents Scholarship. He strongly considered attending Berkeley. However there were/are the nagging budgetary issues with the UCs that tended to cloud the decision making. Nonetheless, Berkeley made it to his final three acceptances for consideration. In the end, however, he chose to attend Northwestern University, as he was accepted into their honors Integrated Science Program, which has a very good interdisciplinary approach to science study, which is what he wanted.</p>
<p>This is considerably late but if you haven’t had your interview yet, bringing ONE letter of recommendation wouldn’t hurt. It’s not a deciding factor but why not?</p>
<p>My letter of rec. was just the standard one I submitted to other colleges. I just chose the best one. Oh, and I’m an RC Scholar if that adds verity to what I’m saying :<</p>
<p>^You probably got in regardless of your letter. It’s unnecessary to do that. Makes you appear sort of insecure, IMO.</p>
<p>Trust me, make your interviewer like you, it’s all that matters. Not to sound cocky but after my interview, I just knew I received the scholarship. My interviewer was smiling the entire time and was selling Berkeley to ME instead of the other way around…</p>
<p>Heh.</p>
<p>Is the interview more about getting to know who you are or about why you like the school?</p>