UCB - The Achievement Award Program

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>I received this email yesterday. I wonder if this means I might get accepted =) I applied as an Anthropology major with a 3.4 GPA all pre-reqs done.</p>

<p>Did anyone else get it? What are your stats??</p>

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<p>Dear UC Berkeley Applicant:</p>

<p>The Cal Alumni Association invites you to apply for our undergraduate scholarship - The Achievement Award Program.</p>

<p>Funded through the generosity of Cal alumni and supporters, The Achievement Award Program provides incoming freshman and junior transfer students up to $6,500 each year and a new laptop computer.</p>

<p>Application Deadline: February 24 @ 5:00 p.m. PST</p>

<p>Please apply early to guarantee submittal of your application.</p>

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<p>Haha… read the fine print way at the bottom</p>

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<p>i got the same email…im pretty sure everyone gets it?</p>

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<p>Lol, yes I got it… and no it doesn’t mean you might get accepted. Read the section that you didn’t paste in this thread.</p>

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<p>xcaliberse LOL</p>

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<p>Everyone who applied to Berkeley got that email?</p>

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<p>Sorry, I wasn’t trying to be mean :). Well I don’t know if EVERYBODY who applied got the email because I didn’t send it out, but apparently that’s what it seems like. Anyways the point is that it has nothing to do with our admission status.</p>

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<p>I didn’t get that email and I applied to Berkeley.</p>

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<p>Perhaps they sent the email to applicants depending on the characteristics they checked on the UC App? The scholarship does focus on community involvement. </p>

<p>But since the information for the scholarship was available through the UCOP site before, it could have been a general email.</p>

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<p>@BostonCrmPie I agree</p>

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<p>Not sure, but I think I read somewhere on the website of the scholarship that illegal immigrants can have access to it as long as they went to high school in California. I am a US citizen and CA resident but I didn’t attend high school in CA, that might be why I didn’t get the email.</p>

<p>OR, it’s just that they already made a pre-selection based on your EC’s. In that case, it’s much more encouraging for the people that received the email</p>

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<p>Requirements for transfer students:</p>

<p>Minimum 3.0 unweighted GPA
Gross family income of $86,000 or less
California resident as defined by the AB 540 guidelines
Submit a UC Berkeley application for Fall 2011/Spring 2012 enrollment
Submit a Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) to UC Berkeley by June 1, 2011</p>

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<p>I am a not a CA resident according to the AB 540 guidelines, that’s what I was trying to explain. Thanks CaliforniaMatt</p>

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<p>Maybe they emailed the qualified applicants?</p>

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<p>^yeah that would seem to be the case. I dont meet the requirements because my parents combined income is ~90k, so that would explain why i didnt get the email.</p>