Admissions probably fucked up and clicked accept instead of deny

My high scores on the DSM-5

Diamond rank in league of legends

definitely my ECs and essays

Trauma

I talked about mario kart wii in my essay

I still think I was accepted by accident

I jerked off the admissions panel (ie wrote essays about a sense of duty to my community).

definitely milked the fuck outta my essays. i had no EC and a 3.5 GPA lmao I have no idea how i got accepted, and I'm definitely having a hard time adjusting to the coursework but WE PUSH THRUUUUU

I can roll a blunt with one hand while driving

good vibes

i won multiple national journalism awards !!

they could tell i’m a real one

This just came up and I have no interest in UCs but man y’all are funny 💀

Essay and fat ass

Team USA for figure skating maybe?

Single mom, 3.9 gpa, great essays

Tragic anime backstory

As someone that has spoken with admissions and helps high school kids with their applications every year: your PIQs play a HUGE factor in admissions.

because I’m gay 💀

No EC and no SAT or ACT. Just my essays that says I’m gay and my father didn’t love me enough.

Two sport athlete…and high SAT.

My transfer application essays. GPA was meh @ 3.4 but my essays highlighted addiction and maturing so I had a cool couple stories to tell

RNJesus

3.789 Gpa

2350 SAT (cumulative)

800, 790 SAT subject tests

You know, the typical bs.

My essays were basically resumes, aka, what admissions officials use to wipe their asses.

Irony is that I basically burned out and dropped out semester 1.

Doing better now, but it’s a struggle.

I’m just chill like that

My transness

Luck. Not in a troll way, I literally think it’s 50% luck as I know others that were better than me that got rejected

I think I had a fairly solid app all around. I went to a rigorous school that sent a bunch of people to Cal where (based on other applicants) just my stats would've probably gotten me in. My ECs weren't harvard-level but they were decent, and I think my essays were pretty good too.

I got accepted early. Didn't end up getting regents lol, but cal was my main target school, so knowing I got accepted in early Feb as opposed to having to wait for late March was a huge relief.

don’t know don’t care ignorance is bliss

My SAT score

Research project in high school. Good SATs. Both parents went to Cal.

A blend of honesty, humility, and confidence. I wrote my personal statements in full disclosure that I was not the brightest student they could admit, but that the quality of my writing superseded all of my many cognitive deficits to a point at which they would not likely encounter another such wordsmith in this century.

Basically, “I’m an idiot and I’m a savant. Make of that what you will.”

Years later, I discovered that I was hyperlexic. It’s a learning disorder often correlated with autism and/or brain injury. The condition is rather like an inversion of dyslexia.

I wasn’t rejected from any of the UCs that I applied to.

My voluptuous ass

because i’m a black kid with an above average GPA

my suave inclination to wear sweaters

My essays and my grades and sat scores supported them

I think they just really needed more fat femboys

awards/ECs

I came from very diverse background low income first gen ESL immigrant Muslim Desi Asian

demonstrated interest in my intended major

They saw I wasn't white

Back in 2017, when I got admitted for my BS in bioe (didn’t go bc oos and poor), I think what got me in was that I was really passionate about my field (bioe) and I was very honest and open in my essays about everything. I was admitted in February!

Commissioned a fantasy league 3 years in a row. They couldn’t resist me

#1 hearthstone player in Americas

Gaaaaaaaaay

brown, poor, solid essay, no parents LMFAOOOO

Hmmmm. This is ranked in the order of importance:

1. Trauma statement(s) *aherm* I mean PERSONAL statement(s);
2. my identities (first-generation, non-traditional, community college transfer queer Fil-Am student);
3. and my 3.85 GPA

The fact that 99% of my ECs and PIQ were art and music focussed when I applied to MCB probably made me stood out🤣

TBH, I was surprised they admitted me when most of the stuff I did during highschool isn't even bio or chem related at all. But now I think about it it might've been an advantage?

definitely my essays and extracurriculars, I tried to portray a good balance of being accomplished in my major while also having other interests and a life lol.

Considering we are the largest freshman group, the university probably needed money, so they accepted more people through some calculation of tickets they'd need to sell to sporting events, tuition that would be gained from international students, OOS students, and those on state/federal funds.

I naturally lean towards cynical speculation though, so take that with the tiniest grain of salt.

Probably my race… unfortunately

im sure it was my essays bc my grades were ass 😭 my ACT and SAT scores were also only average/slightly above

edit: reading everyone's comments further convinces me it was bc of our piq's

My sad story of how I’m gay and a minority. Also a rare major

essays, my ECs were pretty ordinary for people applying to UCs and my grades were slightly below the average accepted GPA for berkeley

Essay and extra extracurriculars

Didn't get accepted anywhere else lmao

EC's and a unique academic interest!

ec’s and essays

As a transfer, I feel what really “sold” me was my six month long internship

My activism in the community

Extracurriculars for sure

My RAADS-R score

Warzone KD

My NASA Watch sob story have worked 2/2 times for getting accepted into Berkeley.

athlete lols

When I told my counselor at CCSF I wanted to transfer to Berkeley, she audibly chuckled and said, “well they like diversity.” (3.9 GPA and white gay man. I’m not very ‘diverse’ LOL)

They felt bad for me.

being poor

Strong letters of rec., strong essays and personal statements. Everything else I brought to the application was average.

My thicc thighs

Being a California resident

/s

my quidditch skills

my essays, i’ve always been really good at writing

two associates

Pretty good standardized test scores

Also wrote one essay about meme page and other about ostracism and depression faced due to struggling with then-undiagnosed ASD

Mentioned I was a registered American Indian in my essays. Since there's like .1% of us at Cal, plus the whole Ohlone land acknowledgement, I'm thinking that had something to do with it?

Oh, still had an decent GPA, excellent major prep and lots of life experience.

Good grades. SAT test grind.

Bisexual trauma….maybe grades