@SamuelChurro how many ppl in ur school got it?
Is getting the FA email on sunday a good sign?
@Davidjcshen candidates have been sent but the actual recipients of the award haven’t yet
Hey, international student here and didn’t get much help with my apps from my GC’s. Is it fine that I didn’t apply for FA? or does everyone have to/should? i feel like a lot of students do and i don’t want it to weirdly somehow bring my point/ranking down that i didn’t apply for FA, thanks!
Are Regents decisions still coming? My son was accepted in February and his financial aid package only has a Berkeley scholarship. The aid package was not impressive but aim holding out hope for a Regents. (His major is CS and his SAT was 1570).
@kkpita1 Regents candidates were notified in Feb. we had to be interviewed and now are waiting to hear about the decisions. As I mentioned, I’m pretty sure that we should know tomorrow. Best of luck to all!
Yes, decisions will be released tomorrow. My guess is after 4 or 5pm. Most UC decisions so far (in my experience) have been after those times.
@DDHH2017 our school messed up and changed curriculum so we had to learn the math on the sat (geometry and algebra 1) in 7 days over summer and they teach us in a different way than the sat tests for. We will get a 1000 sat but then a 5 on the calc and Lang ap test
@bonjourthisisme Most UC’s haven’t sent emails when decisions came out. We were just checking portals…
A couple days after they send an email stating that application was updated.
According to last years thread, decisions came out around 3:30. I’m guessiing the same for this year.
I work from 330 to 645 tomorrow, this is going to be the longest shift ever.
@noel334 calculus involves a lot of algebra
@Galbanus yo what r u referring to?
Tomorrow we’ll find out if those that got the email on Sunday got accepted or not. All those that got the email are waiting for a second chance at UCB hoping for another yes.
Good luck to everyone!! :)>-
If you got that crazy email, please be sure to say so tomorrow!
@DDHH2017 well with calculus my teacher is teaching us the algebra that’s involved in the calculus problems we are doing, while on the sat we never had that set up for problem and don’t know how to recognize and do it. It’s a lot harder with a low income and in your words “easy” school because the teachers aren’t trained to know anything about how the sat is set up, we had to drive 40 mins away from our school to take the sat or act, the basic non ap teachers suck, and we have no funding for recourses. The things you take for granted in education we do not have and have to work harder to get these high GPA’s
what time is Cal coming out?
Probably 3:30 in accordance with last year @collegehopefull12345678
@noel334 No public school teaches people how to take standardized tests like the act and sat. Not to mention even if you go to a good school it is highly unlikely that the tests will be available. I had to drive 1 hour to get to my test site. The majority of us bought AP books, watched Khan academy and did practice tests repeatedly. While I don’t believe the SAT or ACt is particularly good at measuring intelligence, it’s degradinh to say our success on those tests is because our teachers were better. It was also rude to say that your school was easy. But the topics on the SAT usually only goes up to algebra 2 and is a fundamental requirement to take calc. Finding derivatives and integrals is easy, but the process of analyzing word problems and simplifying is the hard part. Additionally you say you didn’t know how the sat was set up but there are plenty of free resources and guides on how the SAT is set up and what questions tend to be on it.
And even if your teachers were terrible, it isn’t an excuse. I had terrible algebra teachers but I spent my own time learning how to fix my lack of knowledge and received a 1550 on the SAT.