UC Berkeley Freshman Class of 2028 Waitlist/Appeal Discussion

No change on the portal, but my son said he got a rejection mail. Wonder if everybody got on update on their portal.

Be proud of yourself! You’re among the most intelligent and self-disciplined people.

I would trade two UCI graduates for one CMU graduate


Bright future ahead of you!

Exactly I wish people could just be honest in this day and age. UCI is full of some of the smartest people I have ever met. Even their high-demand majors like CS are still full of geniuses. What a good school.

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I interviewed lots of UC graduates, the top 10% UC graduates are very comparable to ivy graduates, but the mid range UC graduates are much worse than those graduates from the top 10 schools


What’s your major at UCLA?

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Environmental studies

rejected in state
anyone get in

An email or physical mail?

My portal status still hasn’t changed, but I got an email rejection titled “Update from UC Berkeley”

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My daughter got the alert that she had an email from Berkeley and was about to click on it when her high-school Gmail account deactivated itself :). Luckily I had seen this on CC and had checked it myself (she’s out of the country), because yeah, no portal update. Or maybe not lucky — I guess it’s nice to not have a rejection at all!

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Same, rejection email but no change to portal status


Daughter rejected (biology) while she was having the wonderful time at UCSB freshman orientation (including an overnight dorm experience). Felt more like confirmation and closure than disappointment. :cowboy_hat_face::blue_heart::yellow_heart:

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Hey, those of us who got email rejections from the waitlist
 who else didn’t have any updates in the admissions portal? Ours still says last update March 28.

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Same.

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