I called UCLA a few days ago and they said regents invites were coming after admittance notices. Since @HumbleTeen heard the date april 20, I assume decisions are 17th with regents the 20th.
I have also heard that decisions will be coming out on the 17th.
Does anyone know the requirements? Or how exactly they pick regent scholars from the pool of applicants?
They say the top 1.5% or top 1% of applicants are chosen. GPA is presumed to be the primary factor, but ECs and essays are said to be considered also somehow.
The UCLA scholarship coordinator told me that historically 4.0 GPA students get the invitation from UCLA to apply for the Regents. She mentioned that she has never seen sub 4.0’s get invitations in her last 20 years at UCLA:)
So, who knows. Let us see if someone with below 4.0 gets the invite this year.
I don’t know if 4.0 is major GPA or UC GPA.
Lindy??
My daughter was 4.0 and did not get an invite last year. And I saw ppl get it who were 3.9 and even high 3.8. So there’s more to it. (Although those lower GPAs might have been Berkeley, I can’t remember. She didn’t get it there, either.)
ITS ANNOYING! just sayin’ 
Good luck everyone!
I got rejected, guys! Good luck to all that will be invited to compete for the Regents!
Actually, last year I was accepted to Regents with a 3.9 transfer GPA. I had a laundry list of circulars and working experience with administrators on campus though. The reason my GPA was lower: two B’s in Mandarin Chinese.
@HumbleTeen That coordinator may have not seen my application or was just lying. People with less than 4.0 do get Regents, but it is very rare. You have to have a lot of experience on your resume to offset a lower gpa, quite like real life. UCLA invites the top 1% of admissions applicants to join regents based on admissions decisions, they have a database for that. It is very conceivable that people including myself with less than 4.0 gpa’s make it into that 1%.
In regards to the criteria the readers looked for last year when they reviewed scholarship applications, of great importance was finding writers who expressed clear narratives on their life experiences, how they became who they are, their college experiences, and their future plans.
@nskadsen did you have to apply for it? or did they just announce that you got regents?
They choose finalists based on application and invite you to write some essays. Supposedly the invite is coming out on national weed day.
The regency scholarship offers “a $2000 honorarium, provided ex gratia as well as an amount of financial aid sufficient to meet the needs of the scholar”. Does that mean that they’ll cover room and board and so on?
I believe you can do with it as you wish. If you fulfill unmet need it might subtract from other stuff, though.
I just received an email from UCLA and I thought it was for Regents, but it was inviting me to apply for the Alumni Scholarship instead. Has anyone received an email invitation to apply for Regents?
I received the alumni invitation too. I didn’t hear from regents yet however.
@gdkane same! My heart skipped a beat because “scholarship” was the first word I saw and I thought it was for Regents (doesn’t help that Regents invites are supposed to be coming out today). I haven’t heard from regents yet either, but I’m guessing if one person posts that they received the invitation then it’s safe to say I/others won’t be getting it (I’m assuming that they send out the invites all at once). Another mini-waiting process X_X
I got the invite for the Alumni Scholarship too, however, I do not have any extracurriculars/volunteer work/awards/etc to put on my application so should I even bother applying?
i think everybody who got admitted got the alumni scholarship email
Only those with ~3.75 GPA and over.
Still no regents email and genuinely confused, I assumed anyone with a 4.0 GPA/well-rounded app would get the email for sure.
Yeah, I was admitted with a 3.58 and haven’t received an Alumni Scholarship email, so I think it’s just for certain GPAs and above.