We are in the greater Sacramento area and my kid’s (public) school sends a handful of kids each year to Cal. Of course most who apply get denied.
For the heavily recruited athletes (qualified to play D1 in college), I don’t see any reason why UCB would reject them if they meet the accademic requirements. The majority of high school athletes are not good enough to play D1 in college. The heavily recruited athletes must have been trained at sports club or academy for long time to reach that level.
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Depends on the sport. With limited schollys available in say baseball, softball, swimming, etc., they won’t take risks on kids that are carrying a 2.5 or so. Same kid but in football or men’s basketball? Different story.
I’m in So Cal and our HS has several handfuls of kids admitted to Cal each year.
Where does 2.5 GPA come from? The special admits including potential D1 atheletes still need to meet the minimum requirements, 3.0 GPA for in-state and 3.4 for out-of-state in A-G.
For the individual sports, UCB wants top national seeds, for team sports, they likely pick the seeds from state champions.
I didn’t mean to argue with you, we planned to get in ivy schools through this route, but realized the time and money invested may not be awarded, talents alone is not enough to be D1 player. For me, getting D1 athelete level is much more challenging than getting WGPA 4.65
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Just kids that I knew and heard their parents ask questions at a few of the recruting meetings for younger kids. I assume their parents were not underselling their grades, but I admittedly never saw a transcript. The only student-athletes who were pursued by Cal (meaning follow up emails, texts, etc.) were those who played football and men’s basketball. I know more kids who were invovled in baseball, softball, swimming, etc. than I do the other sports, and I do know a couple who signed with Cal. Good grades but not what it would take for any non-athlete to get in.
Those are the official minimum requirements, although apparently it’s possible for a few to be admitted under special rules. Admission by exception | UC Admissions
Each UC campus can offer admission to a few students who do not meet all of the A-G course requirements or minimum GPA requirements.
Looking at the Freshman Fall admissions summary there were 17 students admitted to Berkeley in 2023 with a weighted, capped GPA in the “0 to 2.99” range, and 29 students in the “3.0 to 3.29” range. Certainly not many in these categories, but not zero. I don’t think there is a way to determine from posted data if the students with <3.0 GPA were recruited athletes, or if they were students with other special circumstances as described under “admission by exception.”
There is a separate discussion thread for portal astrology.
https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/uc-berkeley-portal-astrology-discussion-2024/
how is harvey mudd engineering/cs compared to Berkeley?
They are both very good schools, but you will have a different experience as a student at each one, because you are comparing a huge public to a LAC.
You might start a new thread on this topic to discuss it in more depth, though?
It may attract more replies, and your question wouldn’t get lost in the shuffle… this thread is going to be very busy when decisions come out soon 
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Both great but Berkeley will offer greater depth and breadth in courses, clubs, research opportunities, recruiting etc. Mudd is a great school but its for a specific type of student - I would argue that the student for whom Mudd is a great fit is unlikely the student for whom Cal is an equally good fit.
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My student’s Bay Area school is somewhat the opposite - acceptance rate at Berkeley is way below average (but yield is high), UCLA and UCSD acceptance rates are pretty close to their overall acceptance rates. UCSD yield is consistently pretty high. I dunno…
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Does anyone know what time decisions are going to come out on thursday??
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Generally around 3:30 PST
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Is it possible that an applicant got rejected by UCLA but admitted by UCB? Thanks
Yes, absolutely. Each campus makes its own independent admission decisions.
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Of course.
Thousands of applicants get rejected by one and accepted by the other each year.
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According to my D24, there is a common notion at their school that UCLA admits students with close to perfect GPAs while UCB admits students with better ECs (leadership position, etc.)…
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