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.

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Research-oriented masters

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

Applied to Thesis-based Masters in CS. International student from Bangladesh. Had 1 conference paper and 6 months of research experience in computer vision.

No GRE, graduated from top uni in a small country, 1 year of research experience in parallel computing

GPA is from grad. Two informal interviews. Non-CS background

No GRE, 8 years of workexperience as software engineer, non cs major.