Does getting a Regents invite at Berkeley somehow correlate with HYPSM acceptances?

Ynotgo
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:16:49 +0000

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.