I made a phone call today to talk with the rep. I asked three questions.
I asked if the school releases some decision today, but the rep answered no.
I asked when the date of releasing the next wave is then the rep answered the decisions will be made BY July 1st.
I asked if the first wave has already been released last week, but the rep answered that the school has not released any decisions YET.
Based on what I heard today, it does not make any sense to me because we know that some students got accepted off the waitlist, but the rep still argues any decision has not been released yet.
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Today, I heard one who is also waitlisted at UC Berkeley at my CC, and she already learned her decision as she got rejected from the school by sending a personal email to the admissions office. Her MAP@Berkeley portal still shows a letter what she received on April 28, but she received a reply back from the admissions office saying that unfortunately she got rejected. Her major is Economics.
@dragondo8 Thank you so much for asking and learning that information. The different info we share on this thread is what keeps me going.
That is really weird though. Like the person on the Facebook transfer group got admitted last Thursday. How would it make sense for the admissions officer to say nobody did. Confusing info, but much better than none. Thanks for sharing again!
To add onto @BlackDragon209, there are going to be people who screwed up second semester and will have their admissions rescinded this month too. Those will be a couple of possibly open spots too.
@Orangered123 true, i wish we knew how long they are giving students to submit their SIR. UCLA is giving their waitlisted students 3 days to SIR if they get accepted hopefully berkeley is doing the same just to roll out decisions quicker. but yet we got two weeks left…
Sorry, but it seems pretty scummy that you would get a direct answer by emailing the admissions office. Is it possible that decisions have been made already?
@xaul95 We do know that! On your waitlist FAQ page it says accepted waitlisted students get 7 days to say yes or they are rejected.
@studentzunite I think they probably gave her a reason because she might have had some sort of special circumstances. For most people they probably would have said to wait, but maybe she mentioned some specific reason, very important scholarship needed info/can’t afford to SIR to one school and then SIR to another one after getting of the waitlist/ect.
Anyone see a change in their Map portal? There is a section to upload materials that I believe is new. It says: “To submit documents that we have requested, please select the document type below and upload a Word document, PDF, or scanned image file. If we have not requested that you submit documents to us, you may disregard this”. Anyone get this?
Hey have been lurking on here for a while and I do not think I will personally get in because I was in a rush and did not do the optional opt-in essay. That being said, can anyone tell me specifically what is the email address that I should email to find out about the status of my application. Although some of you do not recommend this, I am willing to take the risk so that I can give UC Davis my undivided attention. so please do let me know which specific email i should email to.
One thing that’s been frustrating the hell out of me, is just how many of us have been waitlisted. Like there are AT LEAST about 20 different people who have commented on here. I personally know about a dozen other waitlisted students. Over here and amongst my friends, there are people study a number of different majors. NONE of us have received any information. Sure people on here and some of my friends know a few people who have heard back. (Acceptances and rejections.)
None of us personally have gotten any word though. Now if they were accepting only a few people off the waitlist, why are we all waitlisted? The waitlist is supposed to be a short list of students that they would consider taking off based on space. If they have so little space, they would have known that. Take my major for example. CogSci has four fellow waitlisted students on this thread only. None of us have seemed to hear back yet though. Why waitlist 4 students for a major that had only 8 people attend Cal as a transfer for it last year. With so few acceptances and people attending for this major it’d be surprising if there were more than four. My guess is that at least one of us should be accepted, but none of us heard back yet. Are they considering all of us to be taken off? They really didn’t refine their waitlist situation or something else is up. How many students are they willing to take off the waitlist?
On the whole though, it seems as if the waitlist acceptance rate, by my somewhat random guess, about 1-5%. Why do they have such a large waitlist when they seem to want to take so few students off of it? Seems counterproductive. I don’t think the other UC’s follow such a weird pattern.
My guess is that they overfilled their waitlists during regular application season to make it easier on themselves. (“Do I really want to reject this student? They seem so similar to this accepted. Why make a tough decision? Let’s toss them into the waitlist! Then I decide their situation in the future and not think about it now.”) Admissions officers are humans too and I wouldn’t be surprised if they used the waitlist as a procrastination tool of a sort. That would mean that it really is a 1-5% waitlist acceptance rate like we’ve been seeing. I don’t think this is common practice for UC waitlists. At least it’s extremely different than Berkeley’s freshmen waitlists where about half the students get accepted off of it every year.
The other option is that they will be accepting preparing to have a single huge waitlist acceptance day in the coming two weeks. I don’t think half of us will get in, but I would have expected at the very least 10 to 20 percent of us will receive good news. My guess/hope is this week we’ll start seeing a number of people posting that they were accepted.
Just my random ramblings/thoughts about all of this. (I know that College Confidential isn’t a great sample size to base my observations on, but both CC and my friends have the same situation going on so I’m reasonably confident in my analysis.)
Personally, at this point, I think you should all assume you didn’t get in and move on. Should you get in, consider it a happy surprise and proceed from there. I think the constant fretting and re-checking is no longer productive and overly stressful.
I’m pretty disappointed they would put so many transfer students on here an only accept a very few. It should be like freshman waitlisted students where half of them get in. If they are not willing to accept a lot of transfer waitlisted students they shouldn’t put a lot of people on the waitlist.
