UC Berkeley

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Berkeley last year from DCPS in the early admission program which we didn’t know was a thing (top 2% of those accepted) but was waitlisted at UCLA. Although she liked Berkeley, she found it to be too big, too far away and housing uncertain. She got into some ivies but decided to take a full ride at another great state flagship. Maybe she will go to UCB for grad school which I would encourage.

Not likely if she turned them down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Berkeley last year from DCPS in the early admission program which we didn’t know was a thing (top 2% of those accepted) but was waitlisted at UCLA. Although she liked Berkeley, she found it to be too big, too far away and housing uncertain. She got into some ivies but decided to take a full ride at another great state flagship. Maybe she will go to UCB for grad school which I would encourage.

Not likely if she turned them down.

Because grad admissions are connected to undergrad right? What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Berkeley last year from DCPS in the early admission program which we didn’t know was a thing (top 2% of those accepted) but was waitlisted at UCLA. Although she liked Berkeley, she found it to be too big, too far away and housing uncertain. She got into some ivies but decided to take a full ride at another great state flagship. Maybe she will go to UCB for grad school which I would encourage.

Not likely if she turned them down.

Because grad admissions are connected to undergrad right? What a joke.

oh yes, hilarious not a reality at all - admissions officers segregate and never have data bases or share information. God forbid.

[Anonymous]

UC Berkeley alumnus Gary Ruvkun shares 2024 Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA.

UC Berkeley alumnus Gary Ruvkun has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Ruvkun, a 1973 graduate with a B.A. in biophysics, shares the prize with Victor Ambros, a professor at the UMass Chan Medical School, for their discovery of microRNA and and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. MicroRNA are tiny pieces of genetic information that play critical roles in helping cells regulate gene expression and control what types of proteins they produce.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-berkeley-alumnus-gary-ruvkun-shares-2024-nobel-prize-discovering-microrna

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Berkeley last year from DCPS in the early admission program which we didn’t know was a thing (top 2% of those accepted) but was waitlisted at UCLA. Although she liked Berkeley, she found it to be too big, too far away and housing uncertain. She got into some ivies but decided to take a full ride at another great state flagship. Maybe she will go to UCB for grad school which I would encourage.

What is the early admission program and when did she find out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Berkeley last year from DCPS in the early admission program which we didn’t know was a thing (top 2% of those accepted) but was waitlisted at UCLA. Although she liked Berkeley, she found it to be too big, too far away and housing uncertain. She got into some ivies but decided to take a full ride at another great state flagship. Maybe she will go to UCB for grad school which I would encourage.

Not likely if she turned them down.

Because grad admissions are connected to undergrad right? What a joke.

oh yes, hilarious not a reality at all - admissions officers segregate and never have data bases or share information. God forbid.

Surely they understand that choosing undergrad and grad are based on very different factors. Grad school acceptance is mostly about getting a faculty advisor to accept you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Berkeley last year from DCPS in the early admission program which we didn’t know was a thing (top 2% of those accepted) but was waitlisted at UCLA. Although she liked Berkeley, she found it to be too big, too far away and housing uncertain. She got into some ivies but decided to take a full ride at another great state flagship. Maybe she will go to UCB for grad school which I would encourage.

What is the early admission program and when did she find out?

NP. From other websites, it looks like some very small group of applicants are notified of acceptance, for UC Berkeley only, in February.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Berkeley last year from DCPS in the early admission program which we didn’t know was a thing (top 2% of those accepted) but was waitlisted at UCLA. Although she liked Berkeley, she found it to be too big, too far away and housing uncertain. She got into some ivies but decided to take a full ride at another great state flagship. Maybe she will go to UCB for grad school which I would encourage.

What is the early admission program and when did she find out?

NP. From other websites, it looks like some very small group of applicants are notified of acceptance, for UC Berkeley only, in February.

Are these the same select applicants that are asked for teacher recommendations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Berkeley last year from DCPS in the early admission program which we didn’t know was a thing (top 2% of those accepted) but was waitlisted at UCLA. Although she liked Berkeley, she found it to be too big, too far away and housing uncertain. She got into some ivies but decided to take a full ride at another great state flagship. Maybe she will go to UCB for grad school which I would encourage.

Not likely if she turned them down.

Because grad admissions are connected to undergrad right? What a joke.

oh yes, hilarious not a reality at all - admissions officers segregate and never have data bases or share information. God forbid.

Graduate admissions is handled by departments not AOs. I’m pretty sure this is at all universities but definitely at public universities.