News from Berkeley !

[ranji]

It's not good news I'm afraid. When I saw a mail from Berkeley in my inbox... my heart skipped a few beats... n in the lil time it took for the mail to download on my computer I almost passed out in anxiety ...


I regret to inform you that you have not been accepted for graduate
study in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of
California, Berkeley.

The Berkeley campus has a strict enrollment ceiling and thus each
department is limited in the number of new students it may admit each year.
Our department has the difficult task of selecting students with the
strongest overall records from a large pool of well-qualified applicants.
Unfortunately, this means we are not able to offer admission to many
applicants who are capable of excellent academic work.

I am sorry that we do not have a place for you and hope that you will
be able to make other arrangements to achieve your academic goals.

Sincerely,

Michael J. Franklin, Vice Chair
EECS Graduate Matters


I hope starting off with a reject isn't a bad omen. It's an early reject... Too bad... but there's still time n I'm trying to reassure myself !

All the other Berkeley hopefuls, if you haven't received a reject... I think u're on track

[omegaella4u]

Sorry about Berkley Ranji.Starting off with a reject isnt a bad omen so keep ur chin up and hope for the best in your other applications. .

All the best.

[gforce]

Oops...sorry to hear that ranji...
Don't worry mate...you have Stan, UTA and GaTech! G'luck mate...I'm gonna pray for you (and myself).
Btw, did you get any specific reason for the denial?

Hey JO, meraj, maltose & kamer:
Did you receive any admit/rejection letter from UCB?

[Meraj]

Hi

I did not apply to UCB. However, two of my friends got rejected from there today. I think it was the right decision for me not to apply there.

-Meraj

[kamer]

didnt apply to Berkeley....

[vogon]

hey ranji.....
thats tough ol man...but never mind....u r bound to srike gold somewhere...
good luck..

[mbakht]

One of the poor fellows that Meraj mentioned is me . And the other friend is the person who got a very good admit from Cornell for PhD with great finanical aid offer.

[gforce]

Meraj and kamer:
You guys were intelligent! Unfortunately, I took the plunge like mbakht did. I guess the rejection email will be sent to me as well...I still can't believe ranji was rejected.

Anyway, hoping for the best!
*a sombre* gforce.

[aivoges]

Can you post your profile ranji.

[markiv81]

Hey ranji,

I know its hard but ... forget it man!!!! Think it like this, that you have rejected them .. and someday they will think that their decision was a big mistake ...

Its pathetic to see some of the procedures that this big shots follow.. u know! to my shock I came to know that not all the documents and all the info that you are sending as a support to your application gets or reaches the professors.. in the traffic there are a lot of dumb nutshells who has no knowledge abt the great pain and anxiety we are having and they usually scraps our documents before it can reach the proffs. So its not that always your file and your info is properly conveyed to the proffs, again if you directly try to communicate with the proffs, they get irritated as well... so some times I do think that I have made a big mistake deciding to go for higher studies since its all a gambling... some one wins and some one fails ... hence its not always a fair deal but only 'probability of success or failure' ... so get rid of all your bad feelings and think that you have a lot to do and will do them by yourself ...