<p>I just think it's pretty lame for people to sit up here complain, especially since complaning isn't going to change anything. First of all, if you really don't care about being rejected from UCLA you wouldn't sit up here ranting about how whack the admissions procees is. Second of all, you wouldnt have even bothered sending in an application and paying the application fee to even be considered by the same admissions process you criticize. They obviously accepted the people they did for a reason. Not meaning people weren't qualified, but evidently UCLA didn't see ALL of the qualities in the people they rejected that they were looking for.</p>
<p>I'm sure there are many accepted people deserved it, I meant no offense.
Anyway, I'm sorry for being rude. It's just a little hard for me to accept the truth.</p>
<p>Understandable to be upset. But truly, you can say to yourself so what if i didn't get in. If it wasn't your top choice, you are going to be OK. When I got into my top choice, it was over. I did not care anymore. But i guess i'll never know b/c i got into all of mine. But really, it only matters what school you end up at.</p>
<p>steaky, i beg to differ with you on one point. you mentioned that you were sorry, but affirmative action sort of plays a role at UCLA. It doesn't sort of play a role, it ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, UNFAIRLY AND ADVERSLY AFFECTS ADMISSIONS. This is true of all the UC's for that matter. it is so political. the powers that be at the UC's have NEVER gotten over the fact that affirmative action was done away with. i'm from so cal and hardly anyone wants to go to UCLA any more. it has become a JOKE.</p>
<p>the vast majority of UCLA students do NOT participate in x-tra curricular, unless you are including greeks??</p>
<p>not true, since i know of people accepted to harvard and rejected from ucla</p>
<p>i think the admission decisions base somewhat on the major that you pick...some of my friends who picked undeclared got rejected to LA.....well in fact one got rejected to every UC except Riverside</p>
<p>babiblu - my counselor went to a UC conference in the fall and she told all of us we should apply undeclared...which would give us the best chances...i'm into UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis, don't know about Cal yet, and i was rejected from UCLA. i applied undeclared to all. someone got into UCLA for theatre (design) and rejected from UC Santa Barbara. go figure...</p>
<p>I guess the question still remains</p>
<p>"steaky, i beg to differ with you on one point. you mentioned that you were sorry, but affirmative action sort of plays a role at UCLA. It doesn't sort of play a role, it ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, UNFAIRLY AND ADVERSLY AFFECTS ADMISSIONS. This is true of all the UC's for that matter. it is so political. the powers that be at the UC's have NEVER gotten over the fact that affirmative action was done away with. i'm from so cal and hardly anyone wants to go to UCLA any more. it has become a JOKE,JOKE."</p>
<p>isnt anyone going to respond to this</p>
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<p>I got invited to this program. sorry to offend any Asians and white people, but i agree with UCLA on this issue. UCLA isn't accepting someone just because they're hispanic or black. They accept them because they're first generation, low income, and go to a crappy high school where there aren't many opportunities. Their stats aren't going to be as great as the stats of someone else that was more fortunate. Maybe the URM could actually excel at UCLA if only they had the support they lack. AAP gives students that support so that they can reach their full potential. The way I see it, UCLA isn't accepting URMs just so that they can increase diversity, UCLA is actually accepting URMs that will succeed. GPA and SAT scores aren't everything because not everyone had the same opportunities in high school.</p>
<p>picking undeclared doesn't affect your chances. my education professor, who had sat on the ucla admissions committee before, had told us this in education lecture, because he said its a common myth that applying undeclared will lower your chances. he then went on to explain that the average college student changes his/her major at least once, so your initial major shouldn't be a factor (unless its for a specialized school like engineering, etc.)</p>
<p>thats just mean, his girlfriend might exist who knows :confused:</p>
<p>ucla rejection isnt the end of your life</p>
<p>alright then. There are bound to people who will not get into UCLA; just because they are "overqualified", doesn't mean they won't get in. I think UCLA knows what they are doing. Did you ever consider that there are white adn asians that are also poor <em>gasp</em> and rich blacks and hispanics <em>screams</em>????? Base it on income, no more stereotyping. AND THE BIITTERNESS NEEDS TO END. CANT PPL JUST BE GRATEFUL THEY GOT IN OR ACCEPT THAT THEY WERE REJECTED.</p>
<p>Well, I didnt apply so I consider myself rather objective thank you very much!</p>
<p>No, really, my girlfriend got accepted to Harvard early decision, and she got rejected by UCLA.
I've heard many people in this forum saying that they saw similar cases.</p>
<p>UCLA rejected my son, who is black. My son has a 4.25 GPA, 1350 SAT, 4's and 5's on AP exams, lots of ECs: Class president, Student advisor to school district, Student Arbitration board-- I could go on and on... Frankly, I thought he would be a shoe-in, but they flat out rejected him. We are not sure about Berkeley.</p>
<p>newpswahine - so are you saying UCLA should accept a minority from a worse high school, than say, a Caucasian from a better high school if the minority has lower stats than the Caucasian (I am not saying that is always the case, because many, many times, minorities have higher stuff than Caucasians)? i do not understand how you could just make that blanket statement. it is not logical. first of all, how is it fair to a Caucasian who sacrificed and worked extremely hard all the way through school? many times, in the better schools, it is more competitive, and the students have to work lots harder, and there is a huge amount of pressure on them. And maybe they have other challenges you do not know about. you seem to be assuming that a Caucasian, from a better school, just breeeeeeeeeeeeeeezes through. Ha! That is such a gross generalization and actually quite bigoted. However, I believe I have just described the politically correct views of UCLA admissions. They are a JOKE.</p>
<p>buzzwick, affirmative action perhaps did play a role for your son, because Caucasians with 1400 + and all huge stats in every area are getting rejected from that place.</p>