Regent Scholar

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Do you know how these are decided by UCB?</p>

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<p>top 1% of applicants based on SAT/SAT II and GPA</p>

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<p>Wow that’s tough! thanks.
I wonder if the’re going to cap gpa to 8 honors courses.</p>

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<p>“top 1% of applicants based on SAT/SAT II and GPA”</p>

<p>I don’t think so.</p>

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<p>ok…prove it</p>

<p>(might have to adjust my definition to include instate apps, they get the extra boost)</p>

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<li><p>For one, my SAT I + II (x3) composite is in the 3900s range, and I didn’t get Regents.</p></li>
<li><p>There are at least two Regents Scholars living on my floor and they said that the essay and interview counted a lot.</p></li>
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<p>Um, no, it’s DEFINITELY not top 1% based on SATs and GPA. I got Regents at every UC I applied to except Cal, and I was really surprised. When I looked at the people posting who had gotten regents app invitations, their statistics were not all especially amazing.</p>

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<p>Oh yeah? </p>

<p>Well the single Regent Scholar on MY floor said his interview sucked and for his essay he wrote a short story that was entirely unrelated to him. His scores were perfect and he’s the one who told me about the 1% thing. He had perfect scores and lots and lots of community college classes.</p>

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<p>Regent’s Selection varies by campus. </p>

<p>At places like Santa Barbara and Irvine, the selection of Regents is done based largely on grades, test scores, and GPA–all straight out of your application. You will be sent a letter notifying you that you have been selected for Regents and that’s basicly it. </p>

<p>At Cal, a similar set of criteria is used (though the bar is generally higher). That said, your essays play a vital role in this step here at Berkeley and can introduce people with less than stellar statistics into the Regent’s process. A few hundred applicants to Berkeley will be invited to interview for Regents. You must “pass” the interview to be offered the Scholarship. Last year, a little less than half of those that interviewed were offerred Regents Scholarships.</p>

<p>Hopefully this clarifies things a bit.</p>

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<p>How does out-of-state factor into all this? How many OOSers get offered regents?</p>

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<p>finemeal: explain to me why I didn’t get even an invitation to apply for regents then</p>

<p>1600/800/800/780/9 AP classes/president of 3 clubs/executive editor of high school newspaper/community service/good application essays/4.36 at one of the hardest schools in the country</p>

<p><em>I’m not trying to sound like a </em>** here, I just want to point out that I personally feel like Cal’s Regents thing is very unpredictable and baffling</p>

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<p>Here’s what the school says.

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<p><a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/scholarships/RCSselct.html[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/scholarships/RCSselct.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The website also talks about the final review process, which varies depending on where you’re coming from (instate high school, CC transfer, out of state high school).</p>

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<p>This is the process for transfers, which I ascertained from the scholarship coordinator once I recieved the Regent’s Scholarship this year:</p>

<p>First, only 4.0 students are considered, the rest are filtered out. There were about 400 of these for those who would matriculate in 2005 fall. Then, the essays and e/c stuff was taken into account to choose the final 20 Regents scholars. The applicatin review is less rigorous for freshman admits.</p>

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<p>Being regent isn’t that special.</p>

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<p>It’s better than nothing…</p>

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<p>anything is better than nothing.</p>

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<p>exactly…I’m glad we see it the same way</p>

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<p>Definitely not top 1% by grades, SAT…
I got Regent (and I was VERY surprised), and that’s my stat.
1450 best combined SAT I
800/800/730
now…that can’t be top 1%…
btw, the only EC I had ever done in HS is 300 hours of tutoring. hahaha
and my interview? um…It was like a dead-air 5 minute long ‘chat’ with a professor.
Then on April 4, 2005 on my admission website: “Congrats! You’ve been awarded the…”
lol. w t f?
maybe my essay rocks, but who knows?</p>

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<p>“anything is better than nothing”…well, that’s not saying much.</p>

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<p>Is the Regent’s Scholarship a full ride scholarship? If so, then it’s DEFINITELY something and I’d really like to get it! lol</p>