Graduate School Admission Results

Eat my entire ass you stupid school

Thank you for applying for graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley. After a holistic and comprehensive review of all your application materials, we regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission at this time. The UC Berkeley campus has a strict enrollment ceiling, and we are thus very limited in the number of new students we may admit each year. The admissions committee in the program you applied to had the difficult task of selecting students with the strongest overall records from a large pool of well-qualified applicants. Unfortunately, this may result in not being able to accept many applicants who are capable or have the potential of excellent academic work. We are sorry we do not have a place for you in this year's class. We appreciate the interest you have shown in UC Berkeley and wish you every success in your future endeavors.

Got an email to check status.

Received an email to check the portal

Rejected from MS ECE program 3/11. 4.0 GPA + industry experience. No directly relevant publications.

Research-oriented masters

Email to check the portal. A gentle letter for generic rejection.

No interviews. Got the rejection letter from the school today.

6 years work ex, 2+ years climate-specific work ex, 5+ think tank reports, 3 solid recommendations

This one hurt; the PI I spoke with implied I would be accepted but then stop communicating with me at the start of March. I am very fortunate to have received other offers. Best of luck to everyone, and keep your chin up!

International applicant. Significant work-ex. No GRE.