<p>Hi</p>
<p>I recently received a questionnaire from Berkeley, i wanted to ask does this questionnaire have a significant impact on accepting and rejection process? Should i be worried. i got the disability one, it thought my stat were too low is this a good sign for me? Please help, and thanks for taking out your time to read this thanks :)</p>
<p>I received the “talent” supplement yesterday. </p>
<p>My stats are: 4.21 UC Gpa, 2080 SAT, 31 ACT</p>
<p>Does that mean I’m boarderline and they want me to give them a reason for acceptance?</p>
<p>This is really stressful. I hope I can write something they’ll like.</p>
<p>Received disability one.</p>
<p>UC Gpa- 3.95 </p>
<p>2100 SAT
CR- 640
M- 710
W- 750 </p>
<p>Everyone I’ve talked to who goes to Berkeley or has gotten in who got the disability supplement and any of the other ones has taken advantage of the optional recommendation. I am getting my recommendation from my Ap Calculus teacher who knows me really well and he even went to Berkeley. </p>
<p>I guess all you can really say is take it seriously and don’t get bad grades.</p>
<p>I hope I get in.</p>
<p>Good luck to the rest of you who got it.</p>
<p>i got one too, probably because of low income, single mother, 1st gen</p>
<p>3.73unweighted/ 4.0 weighted gpa 10-12
1780 SAT1
640 Math2/ 680 Bio</p>
<p>is it bad that I got a C+ this semester?
4 A, 1 B, 1 C+, 4.13 weighted</p>
<p>I received the supplemental questionnaire yesterday as well. I’ve done some research but I could not find official stats on the acceptance rate for those who are chosen to complete the supplement; do any of you have an idea? Also, I received the 14 question questionnaire about high school providing adequate resources, does anyone know what they are specifically looking for? I feel terribly paranoid.</p>
<p>^ I dont think 1 C+ is bad just make sure u dont get any Ds or Fs and u will be fine</p>
<p>I am another applicant who got the email. im also low income (less than 15k), 1st gen, single mother. I got the illness supplement lol</p>
<p>quick stats 29 act, 3.9 uc gpa, the letter of recommendation will be from a teacher who taught me for 3 yrs 10-12th will be pretty good</p>
<p>So does anyone have any tips in answering these questions? Should they be short answers, paragraph answers, or essay length? These are the questions:</p>
<p>1.Please provide a brief description of the functional limitations of your disability. Include date of onset.
2.What impact, if any, did your physical or mental difference, or medical condition have on your academic performance?
3.How do you approach learning a subject in which you are having difficulty? Please provide an example identifying a specific subject (English, math, history, etc.).
4.What type of disability-related support or accommodations, if any, have you received?
5.What impact, if any, did your physical or mental difference, or medical condition have on your participation in extracurricular activities?
6.Do you have a severe physical disability which affects your daily activities, such as personal care? If yes, please describe.
7.Fall Grades and Spring Classes:
First list all of your fall classes and grades. Then list all of your spring classes.</p>
<p>how to approach these questions?</p>
<p>i also got one yesterday…im not sure if i should be happy or sad…because my stats is no where near what these poeple had from the previous post, i honestly only applied because i thought why not…it wouldnt hurt me…but no where did i think i would have gone so far</p>
<p>my stats are:
income is 24k, first generation to attend college, 4.13 uc GPA, 1650 SAT, 22 ACT, good essay,and volunteering abroad in vietnam
wait, do you think that when you provide ur senior grades, would they avergage it with ur GPA from 10th and 11th grade, when considering ur application?</p>
<p>i think i got the questions about socialeconomy/ low income…
what are the chances of the poeple who got these supllementary questoins and got accepted?</p>
<p>is there a word limit on these questions…if not, would that mean that for every answer you provide, it has to have an explaination</p>
<p>I think there is no word limit and that our chances are pretty good 50/50 if they asked for more information. They already took our bait and we are on the hook. Now we must reel it in by answering these questions seriously. But the problem is my questions are pretty straightforward and they can be answered in like a paragraph or two. I’ve seen past applicants talk about how they wrote essays on their supplement and drafted a few times so i am worried.</p>
<p>did they see view our application already? It seems kind of early. Does anyone know whether the invitation to do the supplement is based on our personal statements? I have SAT scores within 1600-1800 and below a 4.0 UC gpa. I do not believe I am borderline.</p>
<p>^I guess they saw something in your personal statements, information, or ECs that might make them want to admit you. So yes, they have seen your application. And technically no, you are not borderline since those stats are well below average. You could very well be admitted if they like your supplement though. Good luck!</p>
<p>If this supplemental application really is for “borderline” applicants, does it mean that they’ve already sorted out definite accepts and definite rejects? </p>
<p>I didn’t receive one, and I’m not sure whether I should be worried. I skimmed through the posts of some people here who got the supplement in the past, and it seems a lot of them had SATs around the 1900-2100 range. I have a 2320 single-sitting (2350 superscored – not that UCB cares), and a pretty high average which would probably convert to a 4.0/4.0 unweighted on a US scale. It should be noted that I’m an international applicant from Canada.</p>
<p>Should I be worried that I didn’t receive this form? Or should I take it as a good sign?</p>
<p>Last year there were three types of supplemental questionnaires: borderline (13 questions), talent (5 questions), and disability (8 questions). Sounds like Berkeley is using the same three types this year.</p>
<p>There were some very old stats for the supplemental questionnaire admit rates from back in 2005 that said around 23% of the supplemental questionnaire recipients are accepted: <a href=“http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_houtreport.pdf[/url]”>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_houtreport.pdf</a>, page 56.</p>
<p>Information submitted in the Supplemental Questionnaire becomes a part of your application packet at Berkeley and will be factored into admission decisions.</p>
<p>@asdf098: Not many people get the supplement. Based on your stats, I would feel confident saying you were “accepted” so I don’t think you should worry. CC consists of a small group of students with very high test scores and grades so I wouldn’t take the CC average for the people who received the supplement too strongly. I am definitely not your average CC student; my stats are FARRRRR below UCB averages and got the borderline supplement.</p>
<p>I recently got a supplemental freshman questionnaire from UCB, and from just reading the thread, i feel like i should write in depth, but is there such thing as writing too much?</p>
<p>Are they sending out questionnaires to international students?</p>
<p>Here’s an excerpt of the questionnaire statistics </p>
<p>About 6.3% of applications were referred to augmented review (AR). Engineering applicants were least likely (2.9%) and L&S applicants most likely (7.2%) to be referred (with the other three colleges in between). Of these 23% were admitted via AR, 10% were admitted by other channels (most notably athletics), and 67% were denied admission. In this section I will consider both who gets referred to AR and who gets admitted via AR.
As noted above, AR begins with a recommendation from one of the original readers. To be granted AR, an applicant must be close to being competitive for admission but lacking essential information or particularly challenging because of unique circumstances. If a supervisor approves the AR, then the OUA contacts the applicant and asks her or him to fill out a detailed questionnaire known as a Pre-Admission Questionnaire or PAQ (disabled students get one form of the questionnaire; applicants getting AR for some other reason get another form). AR also offers applicants the opportunity to submit seventh-semester grades and letters of recommendations from high school teachers or outreach program counselors familiar with the applicants work. When these materials are returned, they are reviewed by senior admissions readers in a process similar to the regular reading process: two readers review each file and each assigns a unitary score, scores that differ by one point are averaged, and files that receive scores more than one point apart are sent to a third reader. Depending on the size of the AR pool and the distribution of scores, AR candidates may be subject to a tie-breaking process similar to that of the regular reading process.
Table 11 shows the regression results for both AR referral and AR read scores.31 Models for both outcomes include the most important variables from the analysis of the original read scores plus the original read scores themselves. Applicants eligible for AR referral include anyone who was not admitted via regular fall admission or fall tie-break. The process includes disabled applicants, all of whom were referred to AR, but my analysis excludes them because the
31 AR referral is a binary outcome so it the statistical model is basic logistic regression. The AR read score is an ordered outcome just like the original read score, so the OLR is, once again, the appropriate model.</p>
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<p>I am an engineering applicant who got the disabled questionnaire, but it says that 2.9% of engineering get it. I am a disabled applicant and I think it says all disabled applicants get the augmented review.
I hope that doesn’t mean I am screwed. I applied to Nuclear Engineering and it says in the admission that Nuclear , Civil, and Mechanical engineering can get a score of a 3 and have a high chance of getting admitted. 3 is a lower score by the way. ((Page 28)))</p>
<p>Let me know what my circumstances look like based on the documentation. I am just a little unaware of how I got the questionnaire. 3.95 UC gpa, 2100 SAT
Thanks!</p>
<p>Jeremy IR - what’s the source for that excerpt? (Thanks for posting). And when did you get the questionnaire? I’m trying to figure out if my theory that they’re sent out in waves is correct…</p>
<p>Sorry, forgot to say, Jeremy IR, that your stats look great and as you say that all disabled (?) applicants get it and you’re a disabled applicant, then that’s obviously why you got i t… Berkeley seems to be one of the best universities in so far as accommodations is concerned so (speakiing from a totally uninformed perspective), I think you look in good shape.</p>
<p>I received mine Friday January 21st. If you look at the very beginning of this forum, you can deduce the waves as well. I think someone posted a few years ago saying they got it January 20th and then someone said they got one in February. </p>
<p>My only concern is that if all the disabled applicants get one then I really didn’t get picked for a special reason. I don’t think I am borderline. I applied for nuclear engineering. I think maybe if they like my supplement out of the other 3000 who received one then maybe I have a chance. Or maybe I am going against the small fraction of Engineering students who received the questionnaire. I honestly do not know. </p>
<p>I agree that Berkeley is a very accommodating institution. Luckily my conditions are not severe and that the limitations do not exceed what they offer. My recommendation was really good, so I just have to see where I stand with that. </p>
<p>At least I am pretty sure I was already reviewed and they requested me to the higher degree of judgement. I know my grades and test scores are good. </p>
<p>Is there anyone who received the disabled supplement on here? I just don’t know if the ones who got the supplement for another reason have a better chance than those who received the disability one. Maybe we all have the same initial chance in augmented review. </p>
<p>Anyone have any ideas?</p>