Email from UCB admissions about Mar 27 decions? - Page 34

stephnieme · 03-25-2008, 12:54 AM

Yessum.

I do.

flutterfly_28 · 03-25-2008, 12:55 AM

yup #3 .

kittycat123 · 03-25-2008, 12:58 AM

my good friend's mother works at ucsb, and she tells me that admissions really are not that random. as i understand it, some of the ucs use a point base system. sorry if this offends anyone, but stating that less qualified students were admitted over more qualified students is really quite rude and demeaning to those who have worked hard to gain acceptance into these establishments. nobody really knows what is on a student's application other than the student and the adcomm. what one person might consider under-qualified due to lesser sats and gpas, may quite possibly be kicking butt in other areas. we all know that the ucs put less importance on sats than gpas and would rather see a student who is going to contribute positively to the campus and student life, in lieu of a braniac that has committed his/her life to studying and lacks social skills.

Chairman Meow · 03-25-2008, 12:59 AM

I use Yahoo and got it

dmission · 03-25-2008, 01:00 AM

UCB doesn't use the point system, although they don't put as much emphasis on grades. They went "holistic," whatever that means.

yayitsjane · 03-25-2008, 01:10 AM

Can anybody think of other logical reasons as to why some people didn't receive an email???????????? I don't think the technical glitch reasoning makes sense cause there were too many people, I think, who didn't get the email for it to be an accidental thing.......*sigh*.....someone relieve me please so that I can finish my homework...

kittycat123 · 03-25-2008, 01:10 AM

dmission: if you re-read my post, you will see that i said some, not all. having said that, i was specifically told that ucb used the point system for their regents, as did the other uc's and if you will view their stats, 99% of their students are top 10% of their graduating class. if that isn't playing a numbers game, then what is? grades are indeed "very important" with sats being "important". if i noticed any trend this year with acceptances, it is that the expectations for admissions rose, not declined. students that i expected to get in to many of the campuses were rejected. i have only heard of one case of a surprise acceptance and this guy had stellar ecs and decent grades, just not top 10%, yet still a worthy candidate for ucla. i come from a VERY competative high school. making top 10% is almost impossible for most students. bottom of the top 10% has a 4.45 gpa.

stephnieme · 03-25-2008, 01:11 AM

No, I'm saying that people with good grades and have an equal amount of EC's to balance it out still got rejected from UC's.

drsarah · 03-25-2008, 01:13 AM

yayitsjane. i think you should be happy with UCLA. frankly, many of us didn't get in, and our last hope is berkeley. please be satisfied with what you have. thanks.

hwama22 · 03-25-2008, 01:26 AM

agreed with drsarah. berkeley is my last hope. i didn't make it to UCLA, which was unexpected to me

kaiwin · 03-25-2008, 01:28 AM

Maybe Scooby Doo can help us solve this mystery....

stephnieme · 03-25-2008, 01:35 AM

Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? Maybe Sherlock Holmes can help us too.

kittycat123 · 03-25-2008, 01:48 AM

when all is said and done, i am still not convinced this email has any hidden meaning. wish it did, just don't believe it. thursday is just around the corner though.

vienna · 03-25-2008, 02:14 AM

I agree with kittycat123. Personally, I think it has something to do with surnames. The system could send the emails out alphabetically.

Narsil · 03-25-2008, 02:20 AM

Even if that is true, everyone should have received it by now. It doesn't take 3-4 days to send those emails.