UC Berkeley - Mellon Mays Fellowship

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Anyone get the e-mail invitation? Who is considering it?</p>

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<p>Grey, when did you get the email for it? </p>

<p>I’m kinda worried because I haven’t received anything from Cal except the application upate. :/</p>

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<p>^^^ did you at least get the alumni scholarship emails?</p>

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<p>I didn’t receive any information on scholarships either.</p>

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<p>What are your majors? Mellon Mays is for particular majors.</p>

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<p>No, I didn’t get those emails either :/</p>

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<p>It says that it is specific to Arts & Humanities / Social Science applicants. Here is the quote:</p>

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<p>maybe u need a 4.0 or close to it…i have a 3.86 and i’m a sociology major but didn’t get any scholarship info.</p>

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<p>yeah I am in social science and iddn’t get an invite…probably not a good app. ><</p>

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<p>I’m not as competitive as you two (3.8, Rhetoric) so I’m sure you’ll get this in the next few days. Hang tight.</p>

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<p>I’m thinking if you didn’t fill out your ethnic/income info (which is optional), you probably wouldn’t get that letter. I didn’t fill out that stuff.</p>

<p>I remember when filling out the app, it stated they would hand out that data to alumni groups.</p>

<p>Who did or didn’t fill out those sections of the app?</p>

<p>“the Mellon Mays
Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program at UC Berkeley targets students
with exceptional academic promise and potential for faculty careers that
will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in the academy.”</p>

<p>We all know diversity is a codeword for race, among other things.</p>

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<p>Yeah you’re probably right - I filled in all that stuff. And I am Hispanic.</p>

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<p>I filled it in, but I’m white.</p>

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<p>well according to the scholarship website, minimum gpa is only 3.2 and the student must be of second semester sophomore standing. and you must be of a major in the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences</p>

<p>[The</a> Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at UC Berkeley](<a href=“Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | Arts & Humanities”>http://mellonmays.berkeley.edu/)</p>

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<p>I satisfy all those requirements, but I’ve gotten nothing on this.</p>

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<p>only grey got one?</p>

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<p>i got one as well… yesterday via email</p>

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<p>My major is Linguistics and I have well above a 3.2. How is it i got invited to the UCLA Regents and not the mays? Is filipino/caucasian not diverse enough?
Strangely, i’d like to believe race is the issue; just something out of my control.</p>

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<p>Rationalization is not strange at all. What’s your GPA?</p>

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<p>How does one become an underrepresented minority?</p>