<p>It's whatever you get given over the course of four years. So if you receive 4,000, that's 1,000 a year. =]</p>
<p>I got a call this morning about the Alumni scholarship even though I never received a postcard nor email from UCLA about it. What's going on?</p>
<p>They call everyone on the alumni scholarship list, according to the admis office</p>
<p>We got a call today about it....I don't know anything else.</p>
<p>i got a phone call too-- doesn't this mean we got into UCLA? Why would they call all the 50,000 applicants to apply for a scholarship?</p>
<p>What puts someone on the "alumni scholarship list"?</p>
<p>Admissions and the scholarship are COMPLETELY separate. And don't worry about not being on the call list. Everybody who is eligible has a fighting chance. =]</p>
<p>Alumother: People who have a certain GPA are notified for it. I believe it's about the top 30% of the applicant pool, though as hermione stated, it does NOT in any way guarantee, or discourage, admission.</p>
<p>Thanks vc08. Much appreciated.</p>
<p>No problem, best of luck!</p>
<p>Oh dear. I got an email but I didn't get a call. Sheesh. What is up with this?</p>
<p>I got a call last weekend, inviting me to apply. I just got off the phone with the Alumni Office, and got more information about the process. Once application deadline has passed, applications are forwarded to local alumni volunteers who read the submissions and rate them. They hold those selected applications until they know which ones have been accepted to UCLA; then start calling those candidates for interviews in mid-March.</p>
<p>The application deadline you're referring to is the deadline for UC or the deadline for the scholarship application?</p>
<p>wait WAIT! hold on for just for one dam minute...
garyslick are you saying that they select who they like for the application AND THEN after seeing the ones UCLA accepts then they follow up with calls for interviews?
ERGO those who get calls for interviews are in???
but that means none of us got that call cause we are all talking about the call inviting for us to apply right???</p>
<p>The deadline I am referring to is the scholarship application, which is Feb 20.</p>
<p>Nbui - I think that anyone who wants to can fill out the application - I filled out the application and sent it in before I got the call asking me to apply (apparently they didn't cross reference lists!). And yes, its my understanding that they review all of the applications and select a "pool" which they hold on to until they find out who's gotten in.</p>
<p>If I were you - I'd just go ahead and apply! If you look on the financial aid site there isn't anything that says its by invitation only. I think the call was just some kind of filter.</p>
<p>Again, they notify the top % of the applicant pool, to ensure that they apply. It is filtered by GPA. Those who do not get a call can still apply, but the people they personally contact probably have the best chance, since they went through the original "filter" so to speak.</p>
<p>gary is saying that they call you to apply, then once you are accepted, they call you again for an interview, if they liked your scholarship app. correct, gary?</p>
<p>That's what I was trying to say</p>
<p>weird, I got the email but not the call.. am I "semi-qualified"? ;)</p>
<p>dt_ - I'm in the same situation :) I don't know what it means, but I'm hoping we're still qualified to a certain degree. Haha.</p>
<p>all it means is that in the massive amounts of people who need to be contacted, logistically speaking it's hard to coordinate calls and emails to every single person ;)</p>