Awaiting formal admission from Berkeley Graduate Office

[berkeley2049345]

I received an admissions recommendation to the UC Berkeley Graduate School. However, I still haven't received a formal notice from the Graduate School. is this normal? How long is the wait and is anyone ever rejected by the Graduate School?

[virionoftomorrow]

Most of the time, the only reason you would be rejected by the graduate school is if you didn't meet some minimum requirement of theirs, and the minimum requirements are usually much less stringent than the selection criteria used during the application process. I know its not the same school, but after hearing from my department at UCSD it took about a week for me to hear from the graduate school, and they said I was rejected. After I contacted the department again to clarify, they told me my rejection was an error and about a week and a half after that I finally got an acceptance from them. So. Very unlikely to get rejected by the graduate school at this point, and furthermore, even if you are you probably aren't really rejected.