<p>okay so from reading this thread, this supplement is very important. I got the talent supplement just today. My UC GPA is 3.7 SAT 1940 SATII Bio 680 Math2c 710, so they obviously don’t wnat me for my grades. My parents didnt go to college, we’re low income, and I have a hardship essay about my family circumstances so those factors probably helped me out a lot. I earned the best GPA I ever earned in 1st semester of senior year (4.2), so I am VERY glad I didn’t slack off. And I think my counselor will write me a decent rec. Can anyone confirm that 50% of the people who received these supplements and completed them actually got in? I am very excited as UC Berkeley would be my dream school, and all this time I never thought I had an ounce of hope of getting in.</p>
<p>Hey FellowCCViewer, so are you positive that once you received the alumni email you had already been accepted? and i have one more question, was the “alumni email” your talking about refer to the Cal Alumni Association?</p>
<p>Are we supposed to just type in our grades or officially send in a report card or transcript or something?</p>
<p>You just type in your first half senior grades, similarly to what you did for the original UC application. </p>
<p>You will only send in a transcript to the UC school where you choose to enroll, after they offer you a spot and after you decide this is the one you will attend. Cal will list many actions you need to take between acceptance and when you arrive to begin your education, among them sending the transcript but also a myriad of major and minor actions - housing applications, medical forms, and even an alcohol education online class.</p>
<p>Just wondering, for the people that already got supplemented, when did you submit your apps? I’m getting a “little” paranoid…</p>
<p>@anagenesis
I received my supplement on 2/01 and I applied to the UC’s the very last day (2 am on november 30 to be exact).</p>
<p>And I felt CAL was a reach for me, too. I scored in the 1900s for the SAT, and I’m not quite sure what my UC GPA is, and my school doesn’t allow us students to know our rank but I’m in the top 10%.</p>
<p>And apparently CAL is sending the supplement to people all over the place. From this thread I see extraordinary students who score around 2200 getting the supplement, and I know a close friend who scored 1600s on her SATs with ok grades (like she even got a C in one of her AP classes) and still got the supplement. But both of us are low income and have unusual personal circumstances (i.e. I have a single mom, and I have multiple jobs, working to pay for my tuition yet I still manage to get pretty good grades) So I think some of us “borderline” applicants are considered since we have hardships that most other people don’t experience? Idk. I’m just laying out my thoughts on this.</p>
<p>Good Luck to everyone!</p>
<p>multicolor we’re in pretty much the same situation. i scored 1940 on my sat and i have hardships so thats probably why we’re being considered for berkeley. lets kick ass on this supplement</p>
<p>So, a borderline applicant not receiving the supplement probably means a flat out rejection?</p>
<p>3.89 UC GPA, 1990 SAT, with mild-medium hardship and bizarre circumstances. Awww :/</p>
<p>Thanks multicolore and keevwu. </p>
<p>I also have some unique personal circumstances+low income but I haven’t gotten anything yet. My stats are above average so maybe that’s why I didn’t get supplemented? Gosh, I can already see myself in the reject pile. Arghhhhhh.</p>
<p>Aagenesis, don’t worry about it too much. If your above average, you should be in the accept pile and you should not be worrying about the supplement at all unless you want to be in the “unknown” pile. Be confident in yourself!</p>
<p>And can anyone who got the supplement help me out? Like, were there questions that you simply answered with the word “yes” like when they ask if all/most of your friends are going to four-year college/university or if you have an adequate workspace at home? I have the urge of answering every single question with a detailed paragraph!!!</p>
<p>Haha, thanks. I’m just the kind that worries way too much. </p>
<p>I’ve been talking to my english teacher (who’s a private college counselor and a UC app reader) about in case I get supplemented and she says to go indepth as possible. Put in all the nitty gritty details. Definitely don’t put one word answers.</p>
<p>I have a 3.5 gpa and i received one of those emails. I was stunned that i even made it that far. I just applied because my aunt(alumni) pretty much made me.</p>
<p>Your odds have zoomed up from whatever you estimated to about 50% with that email. </p>
<p>Let’s be sure we are talking about the form you have to fill in on myberkeleyapp, not the simple mail survey sent to everyone.</p>
<p>my friend was talkin about the Berkeley supplement questionaire again and she told me this is just a random thing?..she said they just choose it randomnly and it has nothing to do with the borderline…I don’t know which side I"m supposed to believe to…I kno there’s nothing I could do about the admission but my hope of getting in to berkeley just declined…can someone make this clear?</p>
<p>nice friend - jealous of you and trying to belittle your having attracted the special attention of the admissions reader. </p>
<p>Just do searches and look at past years and the experiences of all those who received the supplemental requests, if you want to check yourself.</p>
<p>i didnt get any supplement 
after reading this thread, i feel my chances have crashed … how are the stats like of people who did not get a supplement and were admitted?</p>
<p>^ The VAST VAST majority of people who get into Cal/UCLA didn’t get supplemented. So don’t worry (yet).</p>
<p>Would it hurt my chance of being accepted if I do not include a rec letter? It seems kinda important, considering how the Cal committee talks about it…</p>
<p>I think only those ppl with high stats that received the supplements gets in…so don’t wrry too much about it unless you rly kno u have the stats to be qualified for berkeley…i gave up on mine</p>
<p>purplecandy - guess you didn’t read all the prior years of discussions and particularly the outcomes for those with supplementals. Enough supplemental recipients were admitted with low stats to show that your speculation is not true. Not only did about half of all the supplemental recipients get an offer of admission, but the connection between stats and outcomes was pretty random. Quite a few who thought they had no chance for Cal were admitted after receiving the supplemental request and replying. </p>
<p>Others reading this thread - if you received the supplemental request you should take it seriously and submit it.</p>