Berkeley 2011 applicants Forum

[timmna]

was not ready for this!

edit: still under review, for the time being

+1 - hope that's good

+1. Please stay that way. I know now I was wrong to be so impatient.

[ThreeYears]

Dinged.

[FutureInLaw]

Damn TomTom trying to update my maps! Nearly gave me a heart attack! So, we're NOT hoping for an email today then??

Sorry for those who got dinged

[daisyduke]

Yikes! I almost just had a panic attack. I'm so sorry guys. Are you early applicants?

Still UR 10/18... happy to stay that way for now.

[gov]

Damn TomTom trying to update my maps! Nearly gave me a heart attack! So, we're NOT hoping for an email today then??

Sorry for those who got dinged

I assume so. Hopefully, they were sent in a batch and have all been delivered.

[lakerfanimal]

Yikes! I almost just had a panic attack. I'm so sorry guys. Are you early applicants?

Still UR 10/18... happy to stay that way for now.

+1 exact same date. Dear Dean Tom (and faculty), please admit me and DaisyDuke soon. Gracias!

[r6_philly]

Dinged.

Sorry I Hope your PhD isn't from Berkeley.

[hipstermafia]

Yikes! I almost just had a panic attack. I'm so sorry guys. Are you early applicants?

Still UR 10/18... happy to stay that way for now.

+1 exact same date. Dear Dean Tom (and faculty), please admit me, DaisyDuke, hipstermafia, and habit soon. Gracias!

FTF habit and i

[r6_philly]

Yikes! I almost just had a panic attack. I'm so sorry guys. Are you early applicants?

Still UR 10/18... happy to stay that way for now.

+1 exact same date. Dear Dean Tom (and faculty), please admit me, DaisyDuke, hipstermafia, and habit soon. Gracias!

FTF habit and i

All 4 of you please!

[Weirdlog]

I'm still UR 11/15... although I'm seriously considering withdrawing at this point.

[mss455]

Yikes! I almost just had a panic attack. I'm so sorry guys. Are you early applicants?

Still UR 10/18... happy to stay that way for now.

+1 exact same date. Dear Dean Tom (and faculty), please admit me, DaisyDuke, hipstermafia, and habit soon. Gracias!

FTF habit and i

All 4 of you please!

Freaked me out out ... But still UR since 11/15/2010 here (for the time being at least). Ouchhh ... I'm stuck at my desk at work on TLS today, Michgan email first now these ...

[sgtgrumbles]

I'm still UR 11/15... although I'm seriously considering withdrawing at this point.

I wish I could email them and say, "Listen, we both know my GPA is too low for you. Can I just have my $75 back and you don't have to bother reading my personal statement?"

[Knock]

Yikes! I almost just had a panic attack. I'm so sorry guys. Are you early applicants?

Still UR 10/18... happy to stay that way for now.

+1 exact same date. Dear Dean Tom (and faculty), please admit me, DaisyDuke, hipstermafia, and habit soon. Gracias!

FTF habit and i

Yes, c'mon Boalt!!

[Excellence = a Habit]

Yikes! I almost just had a panic attack. I'm so sorry guys. Are you early applicants?

Still UR 10/18... happy to stay that way for now.

+1 exact same date. Dear Dean Tom (and faculty), please admit me, DaisyDuke, hipstermafia, and habit soon. Gracias!

FTF habit and i

<3 Hipster

[emhellmer]

So much for me getting anything done at work today. This whole "on-line status check" and e-mail notification is nonsense. I almost long for the old days of checking the mail box ONCE a day and thinking "well, not going to know anything until tomorow at least." Now a am a neurotic page-refresher.

Oh Berkeley, have mercy! I thought that I would be in the first round of rejections for sure! If you are going to reject me, please do it quickly so that I can stop holding out foolish hope and pull my head out of the clouds!

[Aggiegrad2011]

Thankfully I am still UR 11/01...

Sorry to all the dings out there. I have no doubt I'll be joining you in due course.

[jman77]

Second straight time they've rejected me. I guess they really just don't like me there. Maybe I'm not cool/hip enough?

[Aggiegrad2011]

Second straight time they've rejected me. I guess they really just don't like me there. Maybe I'm not cool/hip enough?

Your stats are jaw-dropping. How can they not? Maybe it's just the LSDAS GPA thing that bugs them? Still.....

[jman77]

Second straight time they've rejected me. I guess they really just don't like me there. Maybe I'm not cool/hip enough?

Your stats are jaw-dropping. How can they not? Maybe it's just the LSDAS GPA thing that bugs them? Still.....

I really don't know why...I. wish. I. could. understand. Hehe. Anyway, I'm not too bothered by it, aside from the fact that rejection is always bothersome in any way, shape or form.

I'm just hoping it doesn't mean rejections at H/S/C/N are coming as well. Berkeley seems to be a good bellwether for those schools, but I hope that's not the case here.

[Knock]

Second straight time they've rejected me. I guess they really just don't like me there. Maybe I'm not cool/hip enough?

Your stats are jaw-dropping. How can they not? Maybe it's just the LSDAS GPA thing that bugs them? Still.....

I've noticed that having an international GPA has created some weird waitlists/dings. But I know one person who has your numbers exactly (including international GPA) and he got Boalt, so who knows .

[r6_philly]

Second straight time they've rejected me. I guess they really just don't like me there. Maybe I'm not cool/hip enough?

did you change up your app? new PS and LOR?

[emhellmer]

Second straight time they've rejected me. I guess they really just don't like me there. Maybe I'm not cool/hip enough?

Your stats are jaw-dropping. How can they not? Maybe it's just the LSDAS GPA thing that bugs them? Still.....

Berkeley seems to have little rhyme or reason to its admissions decisions. They reject and accept people from all number classes. So yes, I think it does come down to being "cool." I'd almost rather be rejected by Harvard and left to console myself with "hey, what was I thinking even applying with my LSAT score? They can have all the 175+ super nerds they want!" than "Wow, they just don't like me "

This is all great fodder for a screed on the "Ding" thread, of course.

[jman77]

Second straight time they've rejected me. I guess they really just don't like me there. Maybe I'm not cool/hip enough?

did you change up your app? new PS and LOR?

Yup, new LSAT score, new PS, 2 new LOR, new addenda. I thought I did all I could to give myself a chance this year. But then, I didn't integrate a Why Berkeley in my PS, so that may have been it?

Or again, maybe I'm just not cool enough

[hipstermafia]

Berkeley seems to have little rhyme or reason to its admissions decisions. They reject and accept people from all number classes. So yes, I think it does come down to being "cool." I'd almost rather be rejected by Harvard and left to console myself with "hey, what was I thinking even applying with my LSAT score? They can have all the 175+ super nerds they want!" than "Wow, they just don't like me "

I believe Berkeley does have a method to their admissions madness, we just aren't privileged enough to know what that method is

[r6_philly]

Second straight time they've rejected me. I guess they really just don't like me there. Maybe I'm not cool/hip enough?

did you change up your app? new PS and LOR?

Yup, new LSAT score, new PS, 2 new LOR, new addenda. I thought I did all I could to give myself a chance this year. But then, I didn't integrate a Why Berkeley in my PS, so that may have been it?

Or again, maybe I'm just not cool enough

Maybe they don't like your WE (since you've been out for a while). I remember reading for us non-trads they have to like what we have chosen and done and how it could relate to the study of law. I did such a great job at linking my previous and future career I think I wrote myself out of many other schools (I am starting to get evidence of this). So maybe not a function of coolness but rather what they like to see in a person's career progression.