Berkeley 2011 applicants Forum

[Flips88]

on a slightly lighter note. hitler as 2L at boalt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN49TFUz ... r_embedded

I lol'd at the Stanford jokes

[aacharya]

Thought today was supposed to be the bloodbath... no movement at all?

[jrose5]

Hm, so I guess something worth mentioning is... don't underestimate the importance of the PS for Berkeley. Having one that is too short and/or not tailored to Berkeley appears to hurt your chances.

[Flips88]

Hm, so I guess something worth mentioning is... don't underestimate the importance of the PS for Berkeley. Having one that is too short and/or not tailored to Berkeley appears to hurt your chances.

Hope my 4 page Berkeley specific PS pushes me over the threshold.

[jrose5]

Hm, so I guess something worth mentioning is... don't underestimate the importance of the PS for Berkeley. Having one that is too short and/or not tailored to Berkeley appears to hurt your chances.

Hope my 4 page Berkeley specific PS pushes me over the threshold.

Best of luck to you, I'm sure they'll like that.

I got flat out rejected with a median and a 75th percentile stat. Now, I know those aren't stellar numbers... but I was thinking it was at least decent for committee review, though. Turns out other people who wrote 2 page statements like I did, with much higher numbers, also got flat out rejected.

[luda]

Accepted with 163/3.9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Flips88]

Accepted with 163/3.9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Non-urm?

[helloperson]

Hm, so I guess something worth mentioning is... don't underestimate the importance of the PS for Berkeley. Having one that is too short and/or not tailored to Berkeley appears to hurt your chances.

Dinged today. UR 1-18. Non CR. Did not have Berkeley specific ps; however, my ps was tailored to emphasize my technical background which I thought would help me considering the strength of berkeleys IP program and the lack of technically qualified applicants.

Good luck to the rest of you; I sincerely hope you outperform me in law school admissions!

[jrose5]

Hm, so I guess something worth mentioning is... don't underestimate the importance of the PS for Berkeley. Having one that is too short and/or not tailored to Berkeley appears to hurt your chances.

Dinged today. UR 1-18. Non CR. Did not have Berkeley specific ps; however, my ps was tailored to emphasize my technical background which I thought would help me considering the strength of berkeleys IP program and the lack of technically qualified applicants.

Good luck to the rest of you; I sincerely hope you outperform me in law school admissions!

Same situation, same strategy... entirely. Also a non-CR reject from a week ago. I suppose they really care about length statements and/or Berkeley-tailored ones.

[luda]

Accepted with 163/3.9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Non-urm?

Born and raised in Ukraine, BA from UMass Boston

[Flips88]

Accepted with 163/3.9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Non-urm?

Born and raised in Ukraine, BA from UMass Boston

I'm like 1/16th Ukrainian. close enough. Congrats!

[mikstew]

Hm, so I guess something worth mentioning is... don't underestimate the importance of the PS for Berkeley. Having one that is too short and/or not tailored to Berkeley appears to hurt your chances.

Dinged today. UR 1-18. Non CR. Did not have Berkeley specific ps; however, my ps was tailored to emphasize my technical background which I thought would help me considering the strength of berkeleys IP program and the lack of technically qualified applicants.

Good luck to the rest of you; I sincerely hope you outperform me in law school admissions!

uh oh the engineer gets the dingaling.. am I next? we shall see..

[expat17]

WL here (CR1).

Can anyone who got in share the date that you need to respond to the acceptance by?

From what I understand, confirming that you accept requires no deposit, which may mean people on the waitlist will be active until the very last minute since there is no check to write, and people aren't really forced to make their decisions earlier ....

Thanks.

[jplwine]

Dinged yesterday via e-mail (my first of the cycle). UR since 1/18. Not a shocker given my numbers, but the first one always hurts. Good luck to all.

[april3141]

Dinged yesterday via e-mail (my first of the cycle). UR since 1/18. Not a shocker given my numbers, but the first one always hurts. Good luck to all.

Same here in every respect

[Gaby]

rejection ...
w/ 3.9/170

Good luck to everyone else in the next CR!

[bilbobaggins]

I think they want good PSs. I'm not sure how much it matters if you use all 4 pages or mention Berkeley a bunch. It didn't seem to matter for me.

[shnoop]

Is it me or does it feel as if everyone who didnt go to CR2 and went under review on the same day has the same fate at the same time. For example many UR 1/18's got rejected yesterday via email. before that UR 1/11's had similar fates all on the same day. I'm a UR 1/25 that didnt go to CR so my rejection is coming up . I really thought i was at lease worth a CR. I guess getting into ucla and usc 3 weeks after going complete made me too overconfident....

[CCG925]

Just a ray of hope for all you 2011 applicants: My friend applied to Boalt in 2009 with a 4.0/ 163 (college: liberal arts) and got in with a $16k scholarship. He told them that he would not be able to attend b/c of a family emergency. They encouraged him to apply again this past year and he got in again. So don't obsess over numbers too much for Boalt.

[Knock]

Just a ray of hope for all you 2011 applicants: My friend applied to Boalt in 2009 with a 4.0/ 163 (college: liberal arts) and got in with a $16k scholarship. He told them that he would not be able to attend b/c of a family emergency. They encouraged him to apply again this past year and he got in again. So don't obsess over numbers too much for Boalt.

Why couldn't he just defer?

[kia_sportage]

Anyone here UR in the first two weeks of Feb?

[absolut86]

Admitted on Thursday!! Saw email literally right before taking off to China, gasped loudly on the plane freaking out some other passengers. First acceptance since October, so I'm pretty thrilled to say the least. Congratulations to the other admitted students!! FYI my personal statement wasn't that long either, so there's hope to those of you who didn't write a long Cal specific personal statement. HYP URM here with 25th percentile numbers and strong softs. Pretty shocked since Cal doesn't admit many candidates from my college for some reason.

[kia_sportage]

Congratulations absolut86 !!

[gymboree]

Anyone have a good theory to explain why some of us didn't get CR1 or CR2, applied before people who have been dinged, waitlisted, and accepted, as well as beforefolks submitted to CR, and haven't heard anything?

Applied 12/6 and nothing.

I'm UR 12/6 too. Haven't heard a thing

My guess? They're waiting to see if you're going to withdraw...
If your scores are on the high side, then this might make sense. But, again, just a guess.

Congrats to the new admits! Rotor's right... come to the ASW - it's really fun, you'll meet great people, and it will showcase how Berkeley's different (short answer: happy, fun law students).

[kia_sportage]

Anyone have a good theory to explain why some of us didn't get CR1 or CR2, applied before people who have been dinged, waitlisted, and accepted, as well as beforefolks submitted to CR, and haven't heard anything?

Applied 12/6 and nothing.

I'm UR 12/6 too. Haven't heard a thing

My guess? They're waiting to see if you're going to withdraw...
If your scores are on the high side, then this might make sense. But, again, just a guess.

Congrats to the new admits! Rotor's right... come to the ASW - it's really fun, you'll meet great people, and it will showcase how Berkeley's different (short answer: happy, fun law students).

What are the benefits of withdrawing? Im assuming it may help if one intends to apply in a future cycle?