<p>So, if you didn't get the e-mail, you probably didn't get the regents?</p>
<p>Oh, well. If I get in, the UC's are still comparitively decently priced.</p>
<p>Wait, 99% in? I thought it meant that I was already in? Haha, I like 99% odds, but it'd be nice to know if it was guaranteed.</p>
<p>hey guys, be clear on this. if you get the regent scholarship, that indicates that you got into berkeley? i got mine...</p>
<p>i got an email too:</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>On behalf of the faculty at UC Berkeley, I am pleased to notify you of your candidacy for the Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship. This award is the most prestigious offered to the entering class by Cal, one of the world's premier learning and research universities. Benefits include prestige, monetary award, guaranteed on-campus housing, Faculty Sponsor, student association, and financial aid advising.</p>
<p>I have sent you a letter notifying you of your candidacy. The letter contains the web site log-on instructions so that you may review the scholarship benefits and register for your scholarship interview at: <a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/myberkeley%5B/url%5D">http://students.berkeley.edu/myberkeley</a>.</p>
<p>If you are unable to schedule your scholarship interview appointment via the web, please contact our office (see below).</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William Berry, Chair
Committee on Undergraduate Scholarships and Honors</p>
<p>Judith Frank, Assistant Director
Financial Aid Office</p>
<p>i haven't gotten the regent notification email from other UCs.. hm?
i applied to berkeley, la, sd, and irvine.</p>
<p>does this email.. mean.. that..
berkeley wants us?</p>
<p>Congratz... you're in! Go celebrate.</p>
<p>UCLA regent scholarship chooses top 1.5% of the applicants to invite.
how about CAL?</p>
<p>I definetly think something is amiss. A couple of my friends and I got the ucla invite, but we did not get the berkeley invite. Some other friends of mine, however, with substantially lower scores (not to mention less accomplished) got the berkeley invite but not ucla... Is it random or something? Your thoughts on this?</p>
<p>Maybe Cal has not sent all of them yet.</p>
<p>All I can say is: hopefully true.</p>
<p>has UCLA sent all of em?</p>
<p>is this mostly for in staters or for everyone?</p>
<p>Is it possible that each person can get only 1 invite from one UC? Do they coordinate their scholarship offer?</p>
<p>No. I found out five minutes ago that one friend who got UCLA also got berk. But an intersting trend. He received his email at 5:04 western time. His last name begins with G. Another friend who has higher stats than he does and myself have last names towards the end of the alphabet. Hopefully it is alphabetic.</p>
<p>haha i really hope so... can the people who already got their invitations confirm this?</p>
<p>Hmm...I was hoping that this would be the case too, but I'm not so sure anymore. My friend also received an invite, and his last name is V. </p>
<p>I guess...let's wait around a little bit longer to see if we got anything?
=/</p>
<p>Hello Lavalitaaaaaaa :d :d :d</p>
<p>Otl.</p>
<p>awww i wanted it but i dont think i will get it. what criteria do they look at ?</p>
<p>This is from the Cal student paper a couple years ago.</p>
<p><<
Berkeley Beefs Up Regents' Scholarship to Attract Students
BY Shauna Sweeney / Contributing Writer
Thursday, November 20, 2003</p>
<p>With growing numbers of UC Berkeley's top freshmen
admits enrolling elsewhere, campus officials are
upping the ante of the university's most prestigious
recruiting package, the Regents' and Chancellor's
Scholarship.</p>
<p>The proposal would give next year's scholars priority
registration, guaranteed first-choice housing and a
$1,500 research grant.</p>
<p>This will be on top of current perks which include a
faculty sponsor, guaranteed campus housing, membership
in the regents and chancellors association and all
financial need met or an honorary award of $1,000 per
year if there is no need.</p>
<p>Offered exclusively to the top 200 incoming
undergraduates and advanced-standing students each
year, it is the most esteemed award UC Berkeley has to
offer.</p>
<p>However, a growing number of the recipients are
turning the award away in favor of other universities,
said Richard Black, assistant vice chancellor of
admissions and enrollment.</p>
<p>Only about 41 percent of students offered the
scholarship end up attending UC Berkeley. And in
recent years, other UC campuses have edged forward in
competing with UC Berkeley for all admits.</p>
<p>Last year, UCLA wooed nearly 1,200 UC Berkeley admits
away and became the most selective campus in the UC
system.</p>
<p>So the UC Berkeley admissions office has focused much
of its efforts on the leading applicants. To combat
falling numbers, Black proposed a one-year trial
period to make the award more enticing to top admits
next fall.</p>
<p>And the office may hire a full-time events coordinator
for both the association and the undergraduate
scholarship office.</p>
<p>"There is a general interest in recruiting outside
students," Black said. "We are seeing if there are
steps to improve our presentation."</p>
<p>But the campus's biggest competitor for the
scholarship winners, UCLA, still offers a hefty
package in comparison to UC Berkeley's award.</p>
<p>Regardless of financial need, UCLA recipients are
considered for a $5,500 honorarium.</p>
<p>The sum could even be bumped to $6,000 for next year,
according to Gail Ishino, assistant director of UCLA
undergraduate scholarships.</p>
<p>Other UC schools also have higher monetary awards for
their recipients. UC Santa Barbara gives students
$4,000 each year. >></p>
<p>they actually extend more than 200 offers. They invite about 1000 candidates to interview, and extend offers to about 600, about 200 of whom matriculate. </p>
<p>these are round numbers, btw. and if you got the invitation to interview, you are admitted. they don't say it in the email, but when you go to your interview the first thing they'll tell you is that you've been admitted.</p>
<p>cal's scholarship doesn't give priority registration. ucsb is $6000, ucdavis is $7500, ucsc is $3000, uci is $9000 (this is more than tuition!), ucsd is $5000, ucla is $5500, cal's is $1000. If you qualify for aid all campuses will match up to your financial need, or the honorarium, whichever is greater.</p>
<p>the reason the other schools can offer more money than cal is that they (1) have bigger/more donations to fund the scholarship on top of the ~$1.2m they automatically get from the state and (2) they have fewer regents scholars/fewer regents scholars with large financial need.</p>
<p>UCI's is $9,000 a year no matter what, and UCLA's is $5,500 no matter what, so yeah, those are definitely more attractive. But still, priority registration and first choice housing are definitey nice, and would definitely make me consider Berkeley more than I would otherwise. So yeah, it would be nice to be offered this award.</p>
<p>I'm in the running for the UCI and UCLA ones, if you haven't guessed, but still no word from Berkeley. I guess I'll wait a day or so more...</p>