Is your son, instate? Which school has he committed to?
Yes
ok i called just now and this is what i got:
- to begin with, they neither over admitted nor under admit students this year. it was about the same as last year.
- they expect a class size of a little over 6000 and as of right now, they are on track to meet that number (idk what âon trackâ means)
- as of how things are looking, it might be the first time where no one is taken off the waitlist because they have over enrolled. theyâve been over enrolling for the past few years so its hard for them to take people off the waitlist since its hard to compensate the overflow from past years
- they will wait until july, but rn, it seems like the WL is basically closed⊠its just they havenât officially sent out the email yet
- if thereâs any movement at all, it could be as early as sometime this week though (so thatâs reassuring). but if we donât see any, he said itâs safe to assume no one or VERY VERY little will be taken off
good luck yall
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Yeah I can confirm this as well. Called today morning.
What I heard is that they donât have any plans of taking anyone off the waitlist and if they do, it will be very very little (smaller than last yearâs) and those whoâll be taken off the waitlist will hear back by August 1st.
I think itâs safe to say this school is a lost cause for 99.99% of us. Pathetic that they waitlist so many to give false hope and drop this news after months of waiting. Best to move on and not think about the waitlist. Good luck if you guys are waitlisted at other schools.
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Wow; they really must have over accepted given their 50% or less yield and the melt as well.
they couldâve just rejected most of us to begin with⊠itâs worse to wait for so long without a response than getting outright rejected to begin with. super baffled to see even movement from ivies with higher yield rates than berkeley but not from a public school.
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letâs hope something happens this week!! 
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very very unlikeley tbh⊠my other friends called and they have 0 plans of taking ppl of the wl. basically, they need hundreds more to commit elsewhere for the wl to be even looked at since they over enrolled this year (higher yield than previous years). good luck to wherever you are committed rn.
but yeah, iâll hope something positive happens this week
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oh yea i get that. they said the same thing in 2022 and only like 20-40 people got off, so im not expecting much, but i do think maybe a trickle of people might get in off the waitlist
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lets hope for the best reallyâŠ
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they really need to stop waitlisting so many people when the movement has been so low for years. false hope for no reason at all
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Correct.
In every cycle since 2018, Berkeley has admitted at least a handful of students off the waitlist⊠so Iâm a bit skeptical that no one will be admitted for any major/school. Nonetheless, I do believe it will be around 50 students or even lessâŠ
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This is disappointed⊠I was optimistic last month as I heard 5 out of 7 of my S25âs classmates who were accepted by UCB committed to other schools: 3 chose other T20 and 2 went to UCSD with scholarships. We donât know how much UCB admit for this yearâs freshman but historical data show in past years the yield rate is below 45% so I would be surprised to see their yield rate jumped to much higher for this year.
According to the link below, here is UC Berkeleyâs freshman class yield rate in recent years:
Class entering Fall 2022: 46.3%
Class entering Fall 2023: 45.2%
Class entering Fall 2024: 46.0%
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admissions-residency-and-ethnicity
Guys, probably not what you want to hear but it is best to move on, both for our own peace of mind and future. The current school we are committed to has many factors that are much better than what Berkeley can offer and we should fall in love with those things. In the grand scheme of things, weâll be just as successful, if not more, as Berkeley or Ivy grads, given we put in dedicated effort towards achieving bigger goals than getting into Berkeley. In the end, all of us who were waitlisted technically possess the qualities that would get us admitted if a school had more space, so we are no less than those who were admitted by mere luck to these top universities. Worst case, if you really REALLY want to attend Berkeley, you always have multiple shots in the future: as a transfer, or a masters/phD candidate.
Trust me, Iâve held out hope for long times on multiple occasions and in the end, I didnât get what I wanted and it hurt a lot at the end. Iâve learned to leave things behind when they seem improbable. Nothing wrong with hoping or coping, but clearly, it seems like the WL is unlikely to move.
I personally found a lot of great things about my school that Berkeley canât offer and falls behind at. You guys should probably do the same. Good luck to everyone with their current schools!
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S25 along with 3 other classmates committed to UCLA over UCB, so there is definitely melt. However, Berkeley received the lowest number of applications this cycle but maybe admitted the same or more compared to past years; which maybe the reason that they are still ok with their target enrollment, despite the melt.
Not sure what you mean, but I believe UCB had an increase in applications this year. UCLA and UCSC were the two that decreased.
Curious what you mean about UC Berkeley receiving the lowest number of applications this cycle. Relative to what? Other UC schools? Year over year, Berkeleyâs freshman applicant count increased slightly vs. the class that applied last year.
I guess colleges would normally rather under-admit than over-admit freshman students considering housing and other over-enrollment risks, thatâs how WL works. With being said, this year is kind of special as some ivy league colleges even admit more students from WL than they usually do in the past. So itâs hard to believe for UCB such a large public college, they donât even need to use their WL to meet the enrollment goal. Their whole admission process is mysterious to public.
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