UCB - any early Berkeley admits?

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Anonymous wrote:Long time Californian here. Call it Cal. No one says UCB.

I thought only people from Frisco called it Cal?

I am from California, not San Francisco, and we call it Cal or Berkeley. Interchangeable really. No one says UCB.

And noone says Frisco!!!!

I know, right?! Everyone I know says San Fran!

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Someone at our school, they will be attending. OOS.

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Anonymous wrote:Also this- DC can go in early March for scholarship interviews…
… a small number of students will receive notification of their decision in February. Most of these students will be nominees for Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarships, a process that has traditionally been initiated during this time of year … majority of first-year applicants still will receive their decisions at the end of March, via the MAP@Berkeley portal.

Yes. My kid had the interview and received the " Regents' scholarship " few years ago as an OOS VA student.

Admissions director told me that only about 19 OOS/international students receive the scholarship each year after the early admission and the interview.

My recollection is that about 250 in total receive the scholarship so about 9% for OOS/internationals.

As a Californian, mixed feelings about OOS kids getting a Regents, but my guess is that most will stay in California permanently, so it’s a net gain for the state.

OOS kids pay 3 times the tuitions and partially subsidize in-state students and OOS kid receiving one of these could have gone to any university in the country and chose to attend Berkeley so there is that as well.

I think you’re missing the point. The UC system exists to provide a public benefit to Californians, not to maximize its own prestige.

They have dozens of Cal States in addition to UCs for that.

And for comparison purposes:

Berkeley's overall OOS% is about 18-19%,
Michigan's OOS% is about 40%,
UVA's OOS% is about 34%.

Great, glad to see California knows what its *public* institutions funded by California taxpayers are for. For producing educated Californians.

Ok then. Stop complaining about OOS Regents scholarships.

So as a Cal grad who was an in-state student, the caliber of the average out-of-state student was an order of magnitude above the equivalent in-state student. The handful of out-of-state Regent scholars that I knew were genius-level brilliant. One of them became a founder of a startup that generated California state tax revenue many, many times what a full-ride Regent scholarship is worth. A Regent scholarship is actually still need-based, so this particular person probably paid full freight, other than the honorary stipend. While I don't know what overall OOS% is appropriate, I think that attracting top-notch talent from out-of-state greatly benefits both Cal and the State of California.

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Anonymous wrote:Also this- DC can go in early March for scholarship interviews…
… a small number of students will receive notification of their decision in February. Most of these students will be nominees for Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarships, a process that has traditionally been initiated during this time of year … majority of first-year applicants still will receive their decisions at the end of March, via the MAP@Berkeley portal.

Yes. My kid had the interview and received the " Regents' scholarship " few years ago as an OOS VA student.

Admissions director told me that only about 19 OOS/international students receive the scholarship each year after the early admission and the interview.

My recollection is that about 250 in total receive the scholarship so about 9% for OOS/internationals.

As a Californian, mixed feelings about OOS kids getting a Regents, but my guess is that most will stay in California permanently, so it’s a net gain for the state.

OOS kids pay 3 times the tuitions and partially subsidize in-state students and OOS kid receiving one of these could have gone to any university in the country and chose to attend Berkeley so there is that as well.

I think you’re missing the point. The UC system exists to provide a public benefit to Californians, not to maximize its own prestige.

They have dozens of Cal States in addition to UCs for that.

And for comparison purposes:

Berkeley's overall OOS% is about 18-19%,
Michigan's OOS% is about 40%,
UVA's OOS% is about 34%.

Great, glad to see California knows what its *public* institutions funded by California taxpayers are for. For producing educated Californians.

Ok then. Stop complaining about OOS Regents scholarships.

So as a Cal grad who was an in-state student, the caliber of the average out-of-state student was an order of magnitude above the equivalent in-state student. The handful of out-of-state Regent scholars that I knew were genius-level brilliant. One of them became a founder of a startup that generated California state tax revenue many, many times what a full-ride Regent scholarship is worth. A Regent scholarship is actually still need-based, so this particular person probably paid full freight, other than the honorary stipend. While I don't know what overall OOS% is appropriate, I think that attracting top-notch talent from out-of-state greatly benefits both Cal and the State of California.

Shots fired on California students.

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Anonymous wrote:Also this- DC can go in early March for scholarship interviews…
… a small number of students will receive notification of their decision in February. Most of these students will be nominees for Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarships, a process that has traditionally been initiated during this time of year … majority of first-year applicants still will receive their decisions at the end of March, via the MAP@Berkeley portal.

Yes. My kid had the interview and received the " Regents' scholarship " few years ago as an OOS VA student.

Admissions director told me that only about 19 OOS/international students receive the scholarship each year after the early admission and the interview.

My recollection is that about 250 in total receive the scholarship so about 9% for OOS/internationals.

As a Californian, mixed feelings about OOS kids getting a Regents, but my guess is that most will stay in California permanently, so it’s a net gain for the state.

OOS kids pay 3 times the tuitions and partially subsidize in-state students and OOS kid receiving one of these could have gone to any university in the country and chose to attend Berkeley so there is that as well.

I think you’re missing the point. The UC system exists to provide a public benefit to Californians, not to maximize its own prestige.

They have dozens of Cal States in addition to UCs for that.

And for comparison purposes:

Berkeley's overall OOS% is about 18-19%,
Michigan's OOS% is about 40%,
UVA's OOS% is about 34%.

Great, glad to see California knows what its *public* institutions funded by California taxpayers are for. For producing educated Californians.

Ok then. Stop complaining about OOS Regents scholarships.

So as a Cal grad who was an in-state student, the caliber of the average out-of-state student was an order of magnitude above the equivalent in-state student. The handful of out-of-state Regent scholars that I knew were genius-level brilliant. One of them became a founder of a startup that generated California state tax revenue many, many times what a full-ride Regent scholarship is worth. A Regent scholarship is actually still need-based, so this particular person probably paid full freight, other than the honorary stipend. While I don't know what overall OOS% is appropriate, I think that attracting top-notch talent from out-of-state greatly benefits both Cal and the State of California.

Nowadays that is not the case. You basically need a 4.0 UW plus multiple AP courses with As to get into Cal from in-state. 20-30 years ago it was different

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also this- DC can go in early March for scholarship interviews…
… a small number of students will receive notification of their decision in February. Most of these students will be nominees for Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarships, a process that has traditionally been initiated during this time of year … majority of first-year applicants still will receive their decisions at the end of March, via the MAP@Berkeley portal.

Yes. My kid had the interview and received the " Regents' scholarship " few years ago as an OOS VA student.

Admissions director told me that only about 19 OOS/international students receive the scholarship each year after the early admission and the interview.

My recollection is that about 250 in total receive the scholarship so about 9% for OOS/internationals.

As a Californian, mixed feelings about OOS kids getting a Regents, but my guess is that most will stay in California permanently, so it’s a net gain for the state.

OOS kids pay 3 times the tuitions and partially subsidize in-state students and OOS kid receiving one of these could have gone to any university in the country and chose to attend Berkeley so there is that as well.

I think you’re missing the point. The UC system exists to provide a public benefit to Californians, not to maximize its own prestige.

They have dozens of Cal States in addition to UCs for that.

And for comparison purposes:

Berkeley's overall OOS% is about 18-19%,
Michigan's OOS% is about 40%,
UVA's OOS% is about 34%.

Great, glad to see California knows what its *public* institutions funded by California taxpayers are for. For producing educated Californians.

Ok then. Stop complaining about OOS Regents scholarships.

So as a Cal grad who was an in-state student, the caliber of the average out-of-state student was an order of magnitude above the equivalent in-state student. The handful of out-of-state Regent scholars that I knew were genius-level brilliant. One of them became a founder of a startup that generated California state tax revenue many, many times what a full-ride Regent scholarship is worth. A Regent scholarship is actually still need-based, so this particular person probably paid full freight, other than the honorary stipend. While I don't know what overall OOS% is appropriate, I think that attracting top-notch talent from out-of-state greatly benefits both Cal and the State of California.

Nowadays that is not the case. You basically need a 4.0 UW plus multiple AP courses with As to get into Cal from in-state. 20-30 years ago it was different

+1 This. And even with those stats, entry is not guaranteed.