<p>Just read this on Ms. Sun's blog -- here is the link she included in her post -- <a href="http://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/Notices/2014/2014-2-20-1.html">http://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/Notices/2014/2014-2-20-1.html</a></p>
<p>Good luck everyone!!</p>
<p>what is that for??</p>
<p>^ Top applicants from underrepresented groups will get an early notification of admission.</p>
<p>by phone?</p>
<p>^ Yes!</p>
<p>UCSD is reaching out to traditionally under-represented groups to give them a personal early notification of admission. Regular notice will be posted “mid-March” so not getting a call does not mean you were not accepted, just that you weren’t a part of the group that was chosen for early notice</p>
<p>^ Yeah, forgot about that part.</p>
<p>can i apply for it or no??</p>
<p>I’m not sure I understand your question. If you have already applied to UCSD for fall 2014, were accepted, and are considered a historically under-represented applicant, you may get a phone call as part of this program. You don’t apply to this program-- it is a notification effort to help encourage students to accept their offers of enrollment. How many admitted students are notified during this week depends on how many faculty, students and alumni signed up to help make calls. </p>
<p>So do I have to be black or something to sign up for this? I’m a white male what’s the deal for me</p>
<p>You don’t sign up for it – The link was to a notice for current UCSD students, faculty and alumni to sign up to be the people making the calls to admitted students. Basically prospective students who have applied just have to wait and see if they get a call, or until the decisions are posted on the portal. Since you are a white male, it is unlikely you will be called during this phone notification, because they are unlikely to consider you to be from an under-represented population. My daughter is also unlikely to be called, as a white female, since women are no longer under-represented.</p>
<p>Hmm different treatment of applicants due to the color of their skin? Hmm let me think about that real quick…say… Isn’t that racism? This is bullsht applicants should be treated equally not differently because of the color of their skin. I’m sick of race playing a role in college admissions, this counter racist bs has got to go. Gimme a break </p>
<p>Welcome to the real world - and it works both ways, so sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And this is just a notification situation, not a decision situation, nor is it limited to skin color. If you read the notice, you will see that it is “historically under-represented groups” so that could mean women, low-income, first generation, etc. </p>
<p>UCSD does not use race in the admissions process. They aren’t legally allowed too. They are certainly allowed to later pull out the already admitted students who happen to qualify as URM and give them special encouragement to attend their school over another.</p>
<p>You application to UCSD is treated equally and it you don’t end up getting in, it’s no fault of an URM. </p>
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<p>This definition of racism from the World English Dictionary:</p>
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<li> the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others</li>
<li> abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief </li>
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<p>In other words, racism is when one race abuses another in the belief that the abused is inferior to the abuser. I don’t think that is happening here, is it?</p>
<p>I am going to add to my earlier comment – in hindsight it looks like I think racism is playing a part, but I don’t actually think that. I was somewhat taken aback by the other post, and was trying to hold in my full feelings about it. Exactly as Turtletime and SoCalDad2 have stated, this is not about unfair treatment of anyone. This is about a recognition that some people, based on all sorts of life situations (be it income, race, class, etc) are less likely to enroll, and UCSD is reaching out to those groups in an effort to support them. </p>
<p>And yes, sometimes situations in life arise as a result of one’s skin color. It might be racial profiling in a negative context, such as certain races are more likely to be pulled over by authorities, or on the flip side, those same race issues might come into play as a part of AA in some states enabling positive outcomes. It’s a hot topic, not encouraged here on CC I believe, so I will leave it at that. But as I said earlier, in the real world there are good and bad situations which we all have to deal with to the best of our abilities. This particular situation is a good situation – a university is reaching out to students who may need a little extra mental/emotional support wherein a personal phone call could really benefit them. It harms no one, and treats no one with disrespect. I think anyone planning on entering college should be mature enough to handle waiting an extra week or so for notification.</p>
<p>Has anyone received the call yet?</p>
<p>Based off of previous years they seem to start coming at after 5 pm</p>
<p>@PetraElise, turtletime & SoCalDad2: very well said. Thank you.</p>
<p>P.S. Love the very last comment from PetraElise. You are absolutely correct!!!</p>
<p>Whatever it’s still classic liberal crap but ok</p>
<p>Yoloswag</p>