<p>Cal releases on its local time zone - Pacific - and it tends to be mid to late afternoon, perhaps so that they are safely out of the admissions office when the majority of applicants read the decisions and might be calling with questions. </p>
<p>Unlike UCSD which admits on a strict numeric formula (although encompassing many factors beyond stats), Cal has a more holistic admissions methodology. UCSD can tell you the score you ‘earned’ and the cutoff value, plus let you know how many points they assigned in the categories, so that if you are close to the cutoff and have a credible case for re-evaluating one or more categories to make up the gap, they will counsel you on how to file the appeal. Cal does not have such a deterministic formula nor strict cutoff, thus there is not much they can tell you other than to repeat the decision you already read online.</p>
<p>Hi I just saw this board and well I really don’t want to read a bazillion posts haha. So summary: is this list still available and when are decisions going to be released? I got into every UC but Cal so far, so I want to make it a perfect record. Haha. What about you guys? Is CAL your number one?</p>
<p>I just looked up my name and it wasn’t on there
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I’m still hopeful though because when I clicked on about directory i saw this:
The CalNet Directory Service is a centralized service for obtaining authoritative information about the members of the UC Berkeley campus community. It is based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and it serves as a universally available, online source of “white pages” directory information about all faculty, staff, registered students and affiliates at the UC Berkeley campus.</p>
<p>It only says registered students not admitted. Maybe those with the scholarship are appearing on there because it’s not really up in the air about your decision. I hope so at least…</p>
<p>I personally think that its quite impractical to suggest that Berkeley would add every admitted student to the list as they cannot expect every admitted student to accept admittance - to go back and remove each student that declines his/her spot would be silly.</p>
<p>^Well, Berkeley has clearly stated that’s how it does admissions. So, impractical or not, if your name was on that list, it seems to fall under Berkeley’s category of “admitted but not accepted offer”.</p>
<p>Ive seen alot of good arguments for/against the list. I wonder what they do with Spring Admits. I know that students offered admission for Spring semester can choose to go to the FPF program or whatever it is, which is Berkeley Extension if im not mistaken. If that’s true, then they probably do not put spring admits on that list because im a Berkeley extension student right now and have been for the past 3 months… and I never saw my name on the original list before they discovered us. </p>
<p>That’s my only hope now, assuming the list was for real (and there’s some strong evidence that it is)</p>
<p>fl1p, Maybe I read your post wrong, but what does a regent contacting your friend have to do with the list? I’m not saying the list is wrong, just that I don’t see the connection between the list and your friend’s call.</p>