How are folks holding up? @shayhello17’s info is regarding the essay was really helpful but it’s tough to write this essay. Where are you folks SIR’ing to in the meantime?
I am constantly checking this thread, but it seems not many people are here.
I SIR to UCD, because I only applied UCB and UCD. UCB rep will come to my campus tomorrow. I will ask her some questions. If you have any questions regarding wait list. You can tell me here
@weilan The percent of students who got off the waitlist last year, is there a waitlist ranking system and did they accept more people on the waitlist this year compared to last year. Also, does she have any idea of the number of percent who they will accept this year.
And same. I am on this thread 24/7.
@Weilan do they do a rolling basis for accepted waitlist students or do they notify accepted and rejected students all at one time.
Waitlisted to the Global Studies major! Anyone else?? It’s a new major this year so I’m assuming there weren’t as many applicants. Don’t know if that’s good or bad for me being on the waitlist haha
GPA: 3.78
IGETC: I think complete
Accepted: UCSB, UCI
Rejected: UCLA
Pending: USC
~4 year uni transfer from CA
I was disappointed but I’m thankful I wasn’t flat-out rejected!
**have any of you guys come across some good sample waitlist essays that you can link? 
stressing pretty hard about the essay. good luck to everyone! write a bomb ass essay so we can all be bears next year hahaha
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The rep has no idea about any “percent” question.
About the ranking system, he mentions there is some probability thing and they also try to choose the most qualified one ( this is pretty vague answer)
They notify people all at one time.
@weilan Did the rep mention anything else? Or was that the gist of the conversation?
Thanks for asking our questions!
I shared some of my ideas on essay to rep. It’s just some personal stuff.
Another tiny info is if you are offered Spring admission, you can take more courses in CC. Oops, I forget to ask is the unit considered as the 70 transferable units.
since waitlist for transfer starts last year. There is really little info we can know about waitlist for transfer in Berkeley.
hey guys, I’m a waitlisted freshman at Cal.
I called undergrad admissions and the undergrad admissions office is closed from 11 AM to 1 PM. This is sorta weird, because their timings are from 9 AM to 12 PM and and 1 PM to 4 PM.
I wonder what’s going on…
Freshman were notified today hopefully that happens on the first friday of june for us :-S
@xaul95 That would definitely be ideal! The first Friday of June is just a day after the June 1 SIR deadline, so maybe…
Maybe the second…
anyone submit their waitlist opt-in already? still working on the essay 
I will submit it on this Saturday or Sunday…
Anyone know how many people are on the waitlist?
I have submitted my essay. My problem is the essay is automatically condensed to one paragraph. Does it happen to everybody?