hey guys sorry to be irrelevant but if accepted to one of these cali schools when is the final report due?
I’m curious as to whether the Chancellor’s and Regent’s scholarships are available to international applicants.Does anyone know?
The upload form has disappeared from my application portal.
From everyone’s I would guess. Probably was a mistake in the first place.
@khanam - I still have it?
mine disappeared
mine disappeared too
I really don’t think the upload option means anything… It showed up on mine at the same time it did for everyone else, and I still have it–and I was accepted on the 12th. My guess is that it’s probably there because of something they need from a few applicants, but added to everyone’s portals. Perhaps they are going through and removing it from the portals of students for whom it’s unnecessary…in sections at a time?
Either way, I think that it’s better not to look into these little signs, even if there’s something in them. I’m entirely guilty of it too, but I wish I hadn’t been on this thread during the whole ‘under review’ banner disappearing fiasco that happened before decisions were released on the 12th. It made the result just in the slightest bit anticlimactic–don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it made me any less happy, though!!! However, I’ve told myself that for these next few schools, I’m only checking my portal once (okay maybe twice) a day and not stalking CC all day at school on decisions release day. I think that this way I’ll be able to better enjoy the surprise of a positive outcome, and more importantly, remain happier and more sane in the hours leading up to the decision–no matter what the outcome is.
@yalebound2020 log out and back in again?
Still, it’s curious and a little exciting just to see little changes on application portals. But yeah, mine disappeared too so not sure what’s going on with your portal, @yalebound2020
Don’t panic guys, just got an answer from the office today regarding “Conditions Not met”
“Please disregard that email, if we need more documents from you, you will be contacted by an individual from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.”
I’m kind of annoyed Berkeley wasted my time with asking for recommendations. They were clearly being shady with the “we wanted to know more about that applicant”. Clearly lies. Like, if it’s a trial run then clearly say that… It’s not like teachers are going to write ones that aren’t reflective of the applicant anyway, especially because those same teachers already had recs written and uploaded to the common application.
After reading everything posted it’s so clear they randomly requested them and made it seem like it was going to affect admissions when clearly their readers aren’t even trained on how to dissect and pick them apart, as this is the first year they’re doing this. Idk how this helps berkeley at all. It creates more work for an already stretched admissions committee and annoys both the applicant and the teacher with this. Even though this is meant to help differentiate w/ a growing applicant pool, this year in particular, I just don’t see much coming out of this unfortunately.
In the end, however, I guess there really wasn’t a way for them to ask for these without being secretive about what they mean for admissions, as you can see here with people getting mad over not being asked to submit them.
Actually, I feel like the letter of Recs MIGHT actually get read. Like with the supplement material, they request letter of Recs as a supplement. And not everyone gets a supplement so even though they didn’t request everyone for a letter of recommendation, they might still read it, and therefore, might impact their decision.
@berkeleybetch there was a theory that they could help/hurt those who are on the borderline, because it shows a different perspective of the student.
Also, it doesn’t really work out as a pilot if they don’t actually read the recommendations and see how they affect admissions - otherwise it’s completely pointless for them to do it at all, because they’ll get no data from it.
It’s not a useless request, and it wasn’t a secret.
I think it would be unfair to those whose recommendations are just OK because the teachers didn’t put much effort into them. Do you think admissions will compare those who did get the LOR request with those that did not? I mean, how do they know what kind of LOR the applicants would have gotten if they were requested.
How many people on are the admissions staff? Anyone know?
In order to implement the LORs as a tool in admissions going forward, UCB had to conduct a real time pilot study. A viable realistic one so they could not have told those they asked for LORs that this was a pilot study - because no one would have submitted LORs thus defeating the purpose of the experiment. It would also make no sense for them to ask for recommendations only from some students if this wasn’t a pilot study because they would be accused of favoring applicants one way or another. In order to judge the effectiveness of LORs, they had to do a statistical analysis of the difference in adcom scores with and without LORs. They have to have read all the LORs to for that so the LORs were not wasted
That is the only logical conclusion.
What are your thoughts on my question about comparing students with LOR’s to those without?
Would a mediocre LOR put an applicant at a disadvantage when comparing them to an applicant that did not have to submit them at all?