<p>Judging from the scattergrams I have seen, there is no such thing as tufts syndrome for UCLA. Although they do reject some 2300 plus 3.9 W GPA students. Also it seems that the better the high school, the higher the stat is necessary to be accepted by UCLA.</p>
<p>I think UC only judge essay on content and not style. So a fancy essay is not supposed to help, talking about have to work to support you mom who is single mom with breast cancer may help.</p>
<p>Hmm Bomgeeded, I think you might be partially right. </p>
<p>My writing is horrible. My friends always makes fun of my for writing like a 7th grader. I didn't even attempt to make it sound really good. I simply answered the prompt and hoped for the best. My content was basically about me struggling to learn everything when I had to move from China to Japan then to US in a 3 year period. Second essay was about my ability to read, write and speak 3 languages. (this is for the UCs btw) My content was good but nothing else.</p>
<p>Ouch, that seems kind of unfair.</p>
<p>I have a 2400 SAT I, and I got in. However, I have a 3.3 unweighted and my only extracurricular is 4-year varsity sport. I also forgot to attach one of my essays and had to mail it to UC admissions.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone who believes the OP is lying. The OP has no credibility in terms of posts.</p>
<p>As it is run by the state of California, not privately, BY CALIFORNIA LAW the UC system must accept students if they are qualified, they can't just randomly turn someone away because they're Asian, or for some other trivial reason.</p>
<p>then again, ownagerisms, what constitutes 'qualified' in college admissions? people get rejected with high scores, people get accepted with low gpas. qualified is a variable term.</p>
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<p>You're definitely right. The UC system must accept qualified students; UCLA does not. The only UC campuses that are not selective of who they admit are UCR and UCM; at those, any applicant that meets UC standards is accepted. UCLA can rejected whomever it wants.</p>
<p>Considering that for at least the 3rd year in a row UCLA will have the most applicants, (over 50,000) it wouldn't surprise me that a few uber qualified applicants get the thumbs down for whatever reason.
I think without more info, it's premature to label the OP a troll.</p>
<p>Berkeley has rejected a 2400 before. I wouldn't be surprised if LA did the same. A full score does not guarantee admission.</p>
<p>liez...it may reject a 2400 with a **** essay and absolutely no display of other intellectual qualities...but not some1 with a 2400 and like decent GPA/ECs</p>
<p>Agreed. If the applicant only had a 2400 and a good GPA, there might be a reason to reject. However, according to the OP, this person had decent EC's, awards, AP scores, along with an excellent GPA and SAT. Why would UCLA reject someone like that? UCLA isn't stupid.</p>
<p>"seeing as how crazy UCLA admissions were this year, the admissions committee could have assumed that she would be going to a much higher level school, and just applied to UCLA as a safety.</p>
<p>but in reality, with all of our theories that we can come up with, we will never know the real answer" quoted from second post in thread</p>
<p>this is such a scary situation. imagine having to underachieve in order to get where you want. </p>
<p>anyway i know exactly where she went wrong. she was missing 20 points from her SAT I writing portion. poor kid.</p>
<p>UCLA has A-G requirements. You need to meet these requirements. Perhaps your friend did not take the cultural-studio art type of requirement class? I actually found out about the A-G requirements on the UCSD web site. Perhaps your friend was missing one of the A-G requirements.</p>
<p>she may not be a great writer at all...I have read "award" winning pieces in school publications that are tripe...no depth, not realness etc.</p>
<p>some people know how to write to get an A and not much else</p>
<p>and I know some amazing writers who get Bs in school in english</p>
<p>school paper writing is very different from essay writing</p>
<p>as well this something I like to call surface feeders- people who look like they are doing all this stuff, but in reality its trivial</p>
<p>Warning:</p>
<p>Not everything is always as it appears. There was a similar "Oh, My!" thread opened on PF -- different "gender," similar story in the usual boiler-plate complaint: The Picture of Perfection in "all the right" areas supposedly mysteriously rejected. The two things the posts had in common?</p>
<p>--novice "posters"
--"Asian identity"</p>
<p>I'm now not buying either one. Someone's making mischief merely to keep alive the supposedly 'discrimination against Asians' concept. It's an effort to bait. Don't bite.</p>
<p>i know of a girl who got rejected from ucla but accepted by stanford</p>