PeterL Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hi. Does anyone have information on whether Berkeley is done admitting students? I didn't get an acceptance, so I assume I'll get a rejection, but I want to buy an international plane ticket soon and I would stay two more days in the US if I had a positive chance at Berkeley. It looks like last year they waited eight days before sending rejections, but I want to buy a ticket sooner than that in case prices increase. Do you think my interviewer would be annoyed if I asked about my status? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandy Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 I don't know if all admits have been sent, but the admission email I received was from the committee chair. I'm not sure if Berkeley has a waitlist. You could definitely contact your interviewer. If you explain your situation politely, I'm sure you'll get a response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curvature Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Today, I contacted the prof who interviewed me at Berkeley and I asked him the same thing. He quickly and politely responded that I got rejected. I sincerely wish you all the best and I hope you have better luck at Berkeley than I did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASDen Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 the professor i contacted told me that they finished their admission decisions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 I don't know if all admits have been sent, but the admission email I received was from the committee chair. I'm not sure if Berkeley has a waitlist. You could definitely contact your interviewer. If you explain your situation politely, I'm sure you'll get a response. Did you had an interview with them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandy Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Did you had an interview with them? Yes, I had two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychopath@100 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Yes, I had two. Was there a website to check the status or you got a plain email stating you are accepted. From the past rejections, I see that they were asked to open a website. Not sure what the link is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandy Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 It was an email from the graduate admissions chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplesmoke Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 If I haven't heard for an interview is all hope lost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandy Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 If I haven't heard for an interview is all hope lost? Well, I hate to say this, but seems like they are done admitting. I've heard that they have a small waitlist, but I'm not sure how it works (MIT also has one, but apparently only a couple from ~60 gets picked). If you are in it, there might still be hope. From what I heard from a source, this year the competition was extremely intense - they had ~3200 applications and admitted approximately 4%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestor Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 sigh, I'm still also waiting to hear from Berkeley. It's not very convenient because I don't know what my departure date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Shewchuk Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Well, I hate to say this, but seems like they are done admitting. I've heard that they have a small waitlist No, we don't have a waitlist. It's not impossible that we might delay an acceptance, but don't plan for it. Jonathan Shewchuk Associate Professor CS Division UC Berkeley repatriate, Bukharan and woolfie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat_five Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 No, we don't have a waitlist. It's not impossible that we might delay an acceptance, but don't plan for it. Jonathan Shewchuk Associate Professor CS Division UC Berkeley Why does Berkeley wait to send out the rejection letters? For those of us who have not been contacted, waiting on the rejection notification is like the slow removal of a band-aid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Shewchuk Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Why does Berkeley wait to send out the rejection letters? I don't know. Taking an educated guess...probably to give us time to double-check everything and correct mistakes. It would suck to accidentally send a rejection letter to someone we meant to accept. Jonathan Shewchuk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplesmoke Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Do you know when letters will be sent out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckethead Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 No, we don't have a waitlist. It's not impossible that we might delay an acceptance, but don't plan for it. Jonathan Shewchuk Associate Professor CS Division UC Berkeley I am still waiting to hear something from Berkeley. Already got accepted in Stanford but I was really looking forward to visiting Berkeley during the Stanford's visit weekend on 10-13th March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlorianZ Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 What a bummer. I applied for the Master's program in Computer Science and Berkeley was my top choice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASDen Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 any news ? anybody called them ? , maybe this year also they are taking the UIUC trend and sending decisions late (mid-end march) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychopath@100 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I called them this Thursday and asked specifically if there any more acceptances remaining that haven't been notified yet? The reply was don't have high expectations. They will inform all of us by this month end or March first week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplesmoke Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Is this just for CS, or EECS as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychopath@100 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I called EECS and told them I applied for CS. I believe his answer was for every one. When I called Sam Rifkin (CS Grad Office), he is telling me since January that all the results will be up in next two weeks... Is this just for CS, or EECS as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplesmoke Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Bummer. I had applied EECS and still had a sliver of hope. Why can't they just tell us already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASDen Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 don't have high expectations well, at least they didn't told you to cut hopes we can be positive and say that would mean a very small number of additional acceptances, maybe some waitlisted, but this would raise the question, why they take a 3-4 weeks to send rejections this year instead of the usual single week period, strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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