UCB Alumni scholarship e-mail

AskMsSun
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:45:08 +0000

The alumni association obtains the contact information and general profile of applicants from the admissions office and sends out invitations based on criteria the alumni association determined to reflect the type of students it wants to apply for the scholarships. The process is separate from the admission evaluation as the alumni association is a different entity (typically a nonprofit attached to the university). Receiving an invitation has no bearing on your admission status.

I used to review alumni scholarship applications for Berkeley and UCLA. The application reading doesn’t occur until after the admission decisions have been made (the exception is TAAP). Typically about 50% of the scholarship applicants are not accepted to the campus.