Ucsb Chancellor's Reception Invitee= Uc Berkeley Admission?

<p>Pretty much the title. If I got the Chancellor invite from Ucsb, is that an accurate indicator of at least getting in as a spring admit to Berkeley? Thanks :D</p>

<p>No. Why would it be? Some people get admissions into ucsb before applying (I forget what the award thing was called but it was based on being in the top percentile gpa in your district) and still don’t get into cal. </p>

<p>I thought that being a “top” applicant for Ucsb would translate to an average accepted candidate for Cal. Guess not lol. Time will tell.</p>

<p>UCSB “top” applicant is open to interpretations. Even if there might be a slight correlation, correlation does not mean causation.</p>

<p>I’ve seen some of the stats of UCB Chancellor invitees and I wonder if they are truly top candidates. </p>

<p>@2018dad they are top candidates, but some are top as diversity or other non-hard-stat candidates. UCSD telephones URM acceptees to get higher enrollment, each has a different way of addressing that. @akpl4485 I have a son wondering the same thing, but from looking at past threads here, there is no real telling whether it would work out that way. I think it would make it more likely, but UCSB gives more weight to ECs than most of the campuses, it is sort of their identity.</p>

<p>I believe the 2 schools use different methods to score their applications: Berkeley uses “holistic” means, while Santa Barbara still uses “comprehensive review” by scoring in 14 different academic and non-academic areas.</p>

<p>Anyway, I would take the UCSB Chancellor’s invite as a general positive sign, but don’t think you can extrapolate anything to B.</p>

<p>OK, lets take the question a step further. </p>

<p>Would UCSB Regents = = Uc Berkeley Admission?</p>

<p>^No, like I said, there are people who were/are given early admission without application to ucsb who still did not get into cal.</p>

<p>I know you guys must be very anxious but keep calm, you’ll know soon enough!</p>

<p>@dina4119 I don’t actually think UCSB participates in what you are thinking of, any more. In any event, the Chancellor reception is not a direct admission pathway, it is an invitation sent to top applicants (historically invited to the honors college at UCSB.) Regents is the highest subset of that group.</p>

<p>Ya, I wasn’t sure if they did. I know they did when I was in hs 3 years ago, the point still stands though. </p>

<p>It would be interesting to see how many Regents scholars from UCSB get into Cal and UCLA. of course, I have a vested interest in knowing!</p>

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<p>Most of them, probably.</p>

<p>I’ll let you know, @SoCalDad2! Here’s hoping!</p>

<p>Admissions are very unpredictable, you could get into UCB regents, and get rejected from other UCs. There’s no way to tell if one admission is “equal” to another.</p>

<p>My son has also received the chancellor letter for top applicants from UCSB. However when he went to rsvp, all slots were full in LA and Irvine area. He has received an email from UCB to apply for leadership scholarship. Did others receive that too? What does that signal if anything?</p>

<p>@CAprof seems the the Leadership Award app from Cal means nothing – there’s a discussion thread on it in the Cal section. Congrats on UCSB! </p>

<p>My D got the UCSB Regents Scholarship two years ago, got the UC Irvine Honors program but not Regents, and got into Cal and was waitlisted to UCLA. She was eventually accepted to UCLA, but she had already accepted Cal, so she turned UCLA down. She is now at Cal and just got accepted to Haas. So that should tell you every school is different. You just can’t tell.</p>

<p>She also did receive the Leadership Award notice and was told to apply. She did so, and has received the award two years in a row. So you should apply for it. Its a great award. She has gotten $2000 each year. I don’t think it means you will get in, though. In her case, it was an indicator, though.</p>

<p>Got Chancellor’s for UCSB. Not Honors Program or Regents but admitted at Berkeley.</p>