Just really poor. Very badly organized.
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Yes, if they sent it to everyone who applied to COE, we can expect that more than 90% of the people who received the email will be rejected or waitlisted. That feels sad… especially since there will no doubt be people who do not check reddit or this thread, and will simply think that receiving the email means they are admitted.
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Can we register after March 26th? the day they release decisions?
sorry looks like we have to submit by 25th. We are OOS (east coast). not sure how to commit to this with having an admission.
Based on all the Reddit posts, the email might be for the early COE admits in February and was accidentally sent to all COE applicants. That is the current theory.
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Just to clarify: do only engineering applicants receive this and no other majors? Thanks in advance.
Ok, my son (TBP member) looked into this. Apparently, the email was in fact intended to go out to all engineering applicants. It sounds like the reason they did this was that TBP does not have access to the list of admitted students, but they could get a list of engineering applicants.
I think the email and PDF should have been worded differently to make this more clear, though!
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Thank you for the clarification about the email. It helps to have insider contacts. 
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Yeah, sounds like maybe the original intent was to be for admitted students, then something didn’t work out with the scheduling or for some other reason, so it was changed to all applicants, but the communications weren’t all updated to reflect this clearly.
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yes, just COE
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They intended to invite all engineering applicants?! That seems very unlikely all applicants would be invited to this event. Also the deadline for the RSVP is prior to decision date so the entire thing doesn’t add up.
It seems like they wanted to invite just the admitted engineering students in the Bay Area… but then they couldn’t limit the invite to just admitted students because they couldn’t get that info from admissions. And I guess it turned out they couldn’t limit it to just Bay Area students either?
Somebody on reddit posted the text of a clarification email that was sent out, here is an excerpt:
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was just scrolling past your profile. Congrats on Berkeley as well as your MIT acceptance! Might be an obvious question but will you consider any other colleges besides MIT like Berkeley MET or others to name a few
We got one too; it appears to have been mistakenly sent to their full email list of applicants. It was meant for Bay Area applicants to learn more about the school. What a roller coaster ride of emotions that caused.
I agree with Radmom7 
Looking forward to having closure on this whole process when Berkeley drops.
Good luck to everyone.
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UC Berkeley to offer housing for two years starting this fall.
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Long overdue but huge news nonetheless. Yay!
edit: wrong thread sorry!
edit: wrong thread sorry! reposted on the portal astro thread