@geekychic97 Can you point me to a person who has high stats, and has posted that they got a letter request? (With post# in this thread if you can)
Has anyone heard directly from admissions about the glitch in the portal? I got an email saying NOT to send letters, but if I try both of these links, I am allowed to upload: https://apply.berkeley.edu/account/login https://apply.berkeley.edu/apply/ref Is this a glitch?
If you send in recs after they specifically told you not to, I would imagine that they might not like it.
Thank you to the person who started this thread because I checked today and found out I had a LOR. Wow!
Out of state resident:LA
ACT:29
APs: 8
3.92 GPA (weighted)
I also have 22 hours of college credit (rom local colleges) and I skipped 2 grades. This makes me so happy because now I’m thinking about this instead of my ACT scores (which still haven’t been reported).
Honestly, it seems like it is random. Very high stats 35+/2300+ are getting the requests. Mid range/borderline stats are getting it 31-34/2050-2250. And so are the lower stats <30/<2000.
I called Admissions and they said they were requesting LOR from people they wanted to “know more about.” That’s all they said.
Has anyone taken a look at this http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/committees/aepe/freshman_policy_revised_approved.pdf yet? Do you guys know what it means? Are the people who were asked for LOR the"Possible" Recommendation?
@parsi7 One of my friends who is a multiple international olympiad attendee for our country and has perfect scores on all his tests received the request too. I dont think it’s possible for him to fall in anything other than the ‘Yes’ category. So I’d say that people who get the LOR request fall in the ‘Yes’ category (oh, well, that is what I’m hoping for since a lot of highly qualified friends got a similar request, and I got one too :-p )
@anotherdude that means anyone who got it will definitely get accepted.
Not necessarily, no. But I would like to believe that :-p
Hmmm I’m curious though. How many students fell into each category? That would really help contextualize those percentages.
Also, if originally Berkeley stated about 20% of applicant would receive LOR request and as per the updated admissions fact sheet above, those without LOR requests are not considered qualified, that must mean all those who received a request are the top 20% of the application pool.
I’m pretty sure that, by “recommendation,” they mean that there are three different categories that you can fall into regarding admission. These “recommendations” seem to refer to the decisions of application readers upon reviewing your app, NOT letters of rec, though I could be wrong.
Do you think Cal will be giving out supplemental requests this year or no because of the LOR thing? I got a LOR request from Cal back in December and I just recently got the supplemental request from UCLA.
I agree with @meanjean. I am interpreting the “recommendations” as the recommendations from people who are reading your application and not the person who wrote your recommendation letter.
And now we can say that LOR has nothing to do with admission to UCB. At least not this year. DD was never asked for LOR and got in today.
@Ballerina016 I’m speculating that if the applicant was a clear “yes”, then they didn’t get asked for a LOR. A clear “yes” based on the combination of 4.0 unweighted, very rigorous courses, and top test scores – only those having all 3 probably cleared the bar. And perhaps only for in-state. I don’t know how they might weight OOS and INTL differently.
Also UCB allots “overcoming hardship” points. So perhaps if a candidate had less than stellar stats, but had a lot of “hardship” points, they might also have risen to the top to clear the bar.
My son didn’t get asked for a LOR either and he also got in today and invited to interview for Regents.
I was asked for a LOR and was accepted today
And this adds to the theory that LOR were sent randomly.
Really? My ACT was not a 35.