<p>yea im getting pretty ****ed now…ahhhhh but still…go bears…none of my ivies can tempt me</p>
<p>still waiting…</p>
<p>me too!!! hopefully today</p>
<p>I checked with my resource- apparently some regions alumni had many more interviews to complete than in the past. The alumni dept changed the program to allow more people to make it to the interview phases, meaning if your app was okay, but would not have been chosen, this year you had the chance to show how great you are again in the interview.</p>
<p>the problem is that some areas are so big and the alumni do have lives & jobs, so they just did not all get all the interviews done.</p>
<p>My understanding is that it is a regional thing- anywhere they have the results in, they are telling people; anywhere that is not yet done, they are simply not yet done.</p>
<p>It is annoying for you to have to wait, but if you are the person who would not have gotten an interview under the old system, you may feel grateful to have had the opportunity.</p>
<p>Good luck to you all.</p>
<p>strange that they would notify some people within a region, but not others. as i said before, people in my region have been accepted, rejected, and waitlisted, yet many more are still in the dark :(</p>
<p>oh well.</p>
<p>this is full of s h i t</p>
<p>@somemom - thanks for the update. My comments below are not directed to you, but the general Cal Alum population.</p>
<p>All I can say is the Cal Alumni have to look at how committed the “legacy” is in private colleges. The private Alum also have “lives and jobs”, but they do conduct interviews on a regional basis (for the admit phase) in a timely manner with 1000s of applicants. They also pour a lot of money into endowments to get the best kids. If the Cal Alum are interested in recruiting the “best”, they have do this in a timely manner and then sway the kid with such gifts. Commitment by the students, faculty and Alum is what defines how great a school is. Even if one of these three do a half job, it will reflect on the school. I am not doubting the networking that the Cal Alum. offer, but this whole process with the Alum. Scholarship leaves a bad taste. Yes, it’s a public institution, but it has room for improvement to get the best students into Cal. It somehow feels that this process is disorganized and not managed well. We can learn a lot from the way private alum funnels their funds into “merit” grants and help sway student’s decision towards their school. I can’t imagine a private saying “sorry, your grant letter will come in the next week to 10 days after you have filed your SIR”</p>
<p>i wish we could tell the cal alum people this…i agree with “leaves a bad taste”</p>
<p>I feel bad about the experiences you have with this scholarship. My son’s experience was just the opposite of yours. Yesterday he got a E-Mail from one of the interviewers telling my son how much he enjoyed the interview. I think that was the first time an interviewer sent a post interview thank you to my son.</p>
<p>I’m sorry to read so much angst and negative banter about a non-need scholarship that is still in existence at a public institution! This is a priviledge to be picked to be interviewed for this award. The reason you were chosen is for your leadership potential. Some of the comments on this thread do not reflect leadership. Please think of this opportunity to participate in this process as a gift, if you win it’s a bonus. Just getting in to Cal was an accomplishment in itself. Many did not. Enjoy your Freshman year!</p>
<p>It is true that the process was overwhelmed by a marge larger cohort of interviews this year. They offered interviews to a larger number of people than in the past and this did overwhelm the alumni, it is a change in the system. Though it won’t help you this year, I am sure they will learn from this and make adjustments next year.</p>
<p>By assigning more interviews to to the alumni, they are trying to make the process more consistent and fair across the board, having the semi-finalists be chosen by the larger group and the regional alumni interviewing more kids.</p>
<p>I am sorry this delay is happening to you. It is probably helpful you have posted as I am forwarding a synopsis to the alumni office so they can use it to improve the system</p>
<p>@somemom - thanks for forwarding our comments to the Alum. office.
Don’t get me wrong - it’s great that they have this “merit” scholarship and I am sure several Alum. are spending their evening and weekends on executing the selection. All they have to do is tweak the timing and manage the process better. Then Cal will rise to the level of the privates in the eyes of the prospective applicants. Go Bears!</p>
<p>To re-iterate my point about Alum’s role in the admission process, here is a quote from a dad in the Princeton forum today:</p>
<p>“S was teetering between Dartmouth and Princeton. He chose P. He says he would have more regrets turning down P than he would turning down D. I have read a lot about the two schools and had a chance to visit D but not P. Dartmouth’s allure is more transparent to me especially as to school spirit and sense of community. That being said however, the local Princeton alumnae were very persuasive and active. S was contacted by at least three and was invited to a social function for prospective students in the area. He did not hear a peep from the local Dartmouth alumnae, which may speak to their relative enthusiasm for their alma mater.”</p>
<p>Enthusiasm of the Alum does sway kids in favor of picking one school over another…</p>
<p>thanks a lot “somemom”
@Snappy1 - okay, we (those who were interviewed) have earned this opportunity by working hard and thus deserve to be notified of our status regarding the scholarship in a timely manner, or at least by the date that was promised…its only decency…im sure decency exists even in public schools. what if i was to decide between Cal and other schools and getting the alumni scholarship was a big factor? shouldn’t they realize the possibility of such students and therefore do all that they can to send notifications at least before May 1? i mean, thats just being smart…im sure being smart exists at a public school…</p>
<p>go bears</p>
<p>It appears that Cal Alumni pay no attention to those who had already submitted the SIR to Cal. My D submitted her SIR to Cal before the interview. She was counting on Cal Alumni scholarship but didn’t get the Cal alumni scholarship. She would have been a great contributer to Cal Alumni Society. </p>
<p>She turned down a lot of dollars (regents plus State Level Alumni scholarship) from UCLA for Cal.</p>
<p>@ijmom - I am not sure if the Cal. Alum Assn. can access the data whether one submitted the SIR. I would think that may be a violation of the privacy policy, as the Alum association is an independent organization. As far as I know they only have access to the application, as I remember agreeing to something along those lines during submit of the application.
Maybe somemom will jump in and clarify this for us.</p>
<p>@Ijmom</p>
<p>It’s usually not a good idea to count on getting one of the most competitive scholarships the university offers.</p>
<p>may 1st, come and gone, still no word :(</p>
<p>For bay area at least, will be late in May.</p>
<p>how do you know?</p>