UC Berkeley 2025 Portal Astrology Discussion

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
2593

happening at my school as well. know multiple olympiad qualifiers (usabo, usamo, usapho) with no id

2594

just not enough spots out there for people. especially in eecs. im applied to eecs and have fairly competitive stats and from an underprivileged area yet didnt get the id. most people i know donā€™t have it either. the only people i know are those accepted to ucla with me and an architecture major

2595

perhaps these kidsā€™ majors play a part

2596

Itā€™s crazy and questionable of who theyā€™re accepting since these kids are getting big tech schools like MIT, Princeton, UIUC, CMU but Berkeley ignoring

2597

Thank ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  god I got LA so I donā€™t need Berkeley

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2598

thereā€™s always one UC a year that has really strange results. i feel like irvine was that one a few years back but this year it seems like davis or berkeley

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2599

Zeemee kids will love this guy

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2600

I donā€™t think you understand the prestige of those competitions

2601

As of now the Berkeley ID Data form has proven 2 things:

  1. College Confidential is Incredibly Biased
  2. Of those on CC, the number of those who hold a GPA above UCBā€™s Median is Huge.

Effectively, this just encourages the idea that everyone here is incredibly overqualified. It also supports the Poll bias theory, so it does seem that the Portal Astrology is correct. (Or at least capable of picking out qualified applicants)

2602

are you upset kids that you didnt give respect to because of their gpa are succeeding?

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2603

Guy from my school got into Caltech, didnā€™t have ID for EECS. Everyone I asked who had the ID, however, was an extremely qualified applicant who I was sure would get in (none of them applied for EECS or CS, though). Berkeley decisions are just weird sometimes.

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2604

We never know any kidsā€™ full applications. It can be frustrating, but looks like thatā€™s how college admissions seem to work. Each college looks for their fit I guess. But, we also cannot undermine the efforts of kids who do get selected, irrespective of what college they get.

2605

id like to remind people that berkley doesnt care as much about your gpa as your course rigor and other factors. theyā€™re much more holistic.

2606

True, but coming from a Poll standpoint, GPA is always the most concrete number we have to compare

2607

Iā€™m not upset itā€™s just surprising since they didnā€™t have any STEM ECs or awards, just NHS, school clubs but got EECS

2608

you donā€™t know for sure. some kids who seem completely average have insane ECs or essays. theres also a luck factor

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2609

If you go to an uncompetitive california school, definitely possible

2610

what if instead of this we do a yes or no poll if you expected results to be like this for example if you could predict most of your friends outcomes and it correlates to the ID. Because we are mentioning edge cases but maybe we are seeing them since only the people with the edge cases will comment complaining about it

2611

When it comes to course rigor being an important factor, I feel like the opposite was true for the students I know with an ID from my school. One of them has good rigor, the other has fairly good rigor but not outstanding compared to other applicants and one has virtually zero rigor compared to the applicant pool from my school

2612

The ID means acceptance thereā€™s no arguing there