<p>when reporting the grades of ur senior year, do you have to input the (-) or (+) for if its A- or B+?</p>
<p>@LostPuppy1993
I put in only my grade A+ or A- = A, B+ or B- = B.</p>
<p>Are they sending out these supplemental questionnaires to international students?</p>
<p>I got the talent one with</p>
<p>4.2 uc gpa and 31 Act/2080 Sat </p>
<p>740 Math 2 700 Physics</p>
<p>Do you think it’s cause I’m boarderline?</p>
<p>UC GPA is really only for eligibilty. What’s your weighted/UW GPA cpatridge?</p>
<p>EDIT: I found your chance thread. Nice UW!</p>
<p>I think your test scores make you borderline, but I also believe you have a good chance with that UW GPA. If you read that one pdf document analyzing admissions several years ago, 4.0 UW generally had much higher admission rates than 3.95-3.99.</p>
<p>Ok ,
I hope my SATs are normed with the other disabled applicants in some way. Everyone I talk to says that a 2100 is strong in the disabled applicant pool for Augmented review. I have high SAT 2 scores as well. Good rec, nicely put supplement. </p>
<p>I will check back with you guys for the most part in 8 weeks to find out my results and I will post my results, stats, etc. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>@cpatridge
Do you have strong ECs?</p>
<p>Are international students getting these supplements?</p>
<p>@Chromey</p>
<p>I’m student body president, I’ve done community service stuff, and I’m nationally ranked in my sport.</p>
<p>They were asking for more about my sport, at least that’s what I assumed. </p>
<p>I’m national merit commended if that makes any difference?</p>
<p>national merit, or any other achievement for which there are hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands, isn’t going to do it. The national ranking is probably the reason for the supplemental request. Everything else is fairly common (among Cal admittees). </p>
<p>Exclusivity and significance is what they are looking for. Make sure they have the information they need to understand what kind of achievement and how few or many hit similar levels.</p>
<p>@rider ok, thanks</p>
<p>Do you think the fact that I didn’t get one of these from UCLA/UCSD means I’m flat out rejected, or I’m comfortably in there? or is it too hard to tell?</p>
<p>@cpatridge My son got the talent supplemental questionnaire last year. He did not get one from UCLA or UCSD. He got into all three. He was nationally ranked in his sport also. Hope this makes you feel better. Good luck.</p>
<p>I got the disability supplement as well. Does this mean I am not a borderline applicant since all disability students get it?? I’m curious if its really worth doing this for disability students.</p>
<p>my stats:
GPA:3.5
ACT: 31
really great essays (College assistant said they were some the best she has seen)
low income
1/2 Native American</p>
<p>IMO, it is REALLY worth filling this out because it demonstrates interest on top of giving you an advantage, allow you to sell yourself in a way that more than 95% of applicants can’t. </p>
<p>If for some reason you are in the pile of ‘maybe’ applicants and the admissions staff are trying to pick which of them should get a space here, the fact that you submitted responses and took the time to do a good job has to look better than another applicant that didn’t bother to respond at all. Since you don’t know which pile you are in, the only safe assumption regardless of your stats is to assume that your answers will really matter. Take it seriously. That is, if Cal is a school that you really believe you would want to attend.</p>
<p>I just got the questionnaire too, idk if i should be happy or not.
My stats were:
2150 SAT
4.0 unweighted GPA
ranked in top 200 nationally for athletics</p>
<p>does this mean that im borderline?</p>
<p>I got the questionnaire yesterday. I’m not exactly sure why though; I thought Cal was a bit of a reach for me even though my teachers told me that I wrote some awesome personal statements. My first major is Political Science (which is really hard to get into, from what I’ve heard) and my alternate major is English. My stats are</p>
<p>UC/CSU A-G Weighted GPA: 3.83 (with one D in an AP class)
Unweighted GPA: 3.33
SAT Reasoning: 1850
SAT Subjects: 700 Lit, 620 USH
ACT Composite: 27
ACT English/Writing 26 (perfect score in Usage/Mechanics); Math 24; Reading 31; Science 25
AP Tests: 3’s on Biology, European History (not offered at my school), English Language (not offered at my school), USH
Extracurriculars: former member of Forensics speech and debate, officer in community service club, Editor-in-Chief of school newspaper, freelance writer for local newspaper, attended a journalism camp
Special circumstances: dad in the military</p>
<p>I would understand if I got a special talent supplement, but I think I got the borderline one because I got questions such as:</p>
<p>“Does your high school provide adequate educational resources (such as teachers, counselors, assistance with course selection and college admission planning, books, facilities, size and location)? If not, please explain.”</p>
<p>Any insight as to why exactly they sent me a supplement? Is it because I’m not as far off from acceptance as I thought, or is it because they thought I was disadvantaged? It’s making me really nervous.</p>
<p>Basically don’t over think this too much. It doesn’t really matter why you got the supplement and there is no point in worrying about it. What matters is that you got another chance to highlight information about yourself and your individual situation. The majority of the applicants don’t get the opportunity to fill out these questionnaires so be grateful you received one. Take your time filling out the supplement. Do your best. Then submit it and forget about it. What will happen will happen and it is wasted energy worrying about something in which you have no control. Hang in there and good luck.</p>
<p>there could be so many reasons. It may be that past admissions from your high school have done very well at Cal and thus they would treat someone with your stats as effectively the same as a much higher set earned at other schools. It may be something in your personal statements that hinted you had the potential to have much higher grades but that something occured, either personally or due to conditions at your school, which made your stats unrepresentative. Finally, the holistic admissions at Cal includes desires for achieving a certain profile and mix for the incoming class including factors like geographic diversity. It may be that there are too few applicants from your area, or your school, or some group to which you belong, and the review will allow them to pick the best among the applicants that match even if they didn’t get put into a ‘definite yes’ pile.</p>
<p>What if the forms appear on the myBerkeleyApp, but I never received any emails??? because i checked my myberkeleyapp account yesterday because i recieved a supplement email from ucla and i decided to double check and alas i had a supplement waiting for me on myberkeleyapp as well. the problem is that because uc berkeley never notified me i didn’t even know i had to do it and it’s due tomorrow so im kinda screwed. has anyone ever heard of this happening?</p>
<p>happened to others. Do it as fast as you can. sometimes they don’t look right away on the deadline, but if it were me, I would do whatever I needed to submit it by tomorrow, everything but the reference which could be a few days later.</p>
<p>Hi! I also got an email about this supplement; my topic is on disability and medical condition.</p>
<p>BUT, I’m not disabled. My application does not mention anything of that sort either 
So, I really do not know how to fill this supplement in, as much as I want to.
Do you guys have any ideas?</p>
<p>Where on myBerkeleyApp was the supplemental questionnaire?</p>