So only 2000 people get a Regents invite at Berkeley…
Has this result been known to “kind of” roughly predict chances at Ivy Leagues/Stanford/MIT schools?
As I’ve heard, Berkeley readers selected Regents people based on extremely high-quality applications that truly stand out from the rest of the pool.
Has Regents been known to very roughly point to certain acceptances at the top-15 schools?
You should read nothing into it. Every admissions cycle, applicants have been known to get accepted to HY and rejected from PSM.
Correlation does not imply causation.
No. MY D did not get a regents invite, but was accepted to UCB. She did however, get into an Ivy. No correlation at all.
I also think there is no correlation. In fact, it may have negative correlation! If you read CC long enough you would come across thread like this:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1877295-accepted-to-only-2-out-of-17-schools-and-what-i-learned-p1.html
A friend of mine last year got into Berkeley early he told us in Feb. Defered from Harvard early and didnt get in anywhere Ivy RD.
Given how different berkeley admissions ( not as much emphasis on ECs, Essays, and Teacher Rec/ Counselor Rec) compared to Ivy where majority of applicants have near perfect SAT and 4.0 GPA.
If you have a perfect SAT/ 4.0 GPA, you are set for Berkeley. But a perfect SAT/ 4.0 GPA is a norm for Ivies.
Well dude actually I have a 3.8 GPA (19 ppl at my school have perfect 4.0 GPA’s and a buunch have just a little bit below that).
95 ppl from my school applied to UCB and only 4 me included got Regents.
So there is no way that it’s based mostly on stats, since that would mean they would take the people with 4.0’s over me :))
From what I heard and read last year, the selection process for Berkeley Regents is unlike that of most admissions processes in that the admissions group gives high stats applications to a group of faculty volunteers. The faculty read the admissions essays (and perhaps the rest of the applications looking for course rigor) and determine who to invite for Regents interviews. Then the faculty interviewers make the Regents decisions.
Faculty may have different priorities in what they are looking for than admissions. For example, faculty may value research and ECs in the academic field the student plans as a major. The people in admissions may value more general ECs or ECs that are of more value to the community.
There are few universities where the faculty are involved in admissions decisions. So Ivy admissions would not be expected to correlate especially well with Regents offers.
My S got Regents from UCB and UCLA but didn’t get in 2 Ivy’s that he applied, so, there’s no correlation.
A friend of his got perfect SAT and was rejected from Berkeley. I will say there’s nothing guarantees an admission to Berkeley, not even perfect SAT/ACT/GPA.
Yes, definitely. Regents implies top 1 - 2% of admitted students academically. I’ve been told that Regents Scholars can go virtually anywhere from here. My student who is a Regents got ivy acceptances, but the Regents deal was just too good to pass up.