<p>you can send housing independent of SIR, and not pay anything?</p>
<p>scratch that, i just did it for UCSD (apartment)</p>
<p>yeah, you don't have to pay anything when you apply for housing for UCSD but you have to pay $30 or something when you apply for housing for UCLA (the housing app for UCLA is a lot more involved)</p>
<p>For ppl who are going to choose UCSD, housing is not binding and it's free. So you should do that ASAP while waiting for berkeley appeal. And send in your SIR on probably may 1st if you don't hear back from berkeley by then. That's what I am planning to do.</p>
<p>sounds good vagan, looks like we are in the same boat. good luck to you</p>
<p>can the people who are appealing post their stats? pretty please with sugar on top</p>
<p>Took the SAT I once, 800 verbal, 720 Math, 710 writing: 2230
SAT IIs: Bio 760, US history 720, Math IIc 700 (ick)</p>
<p>11 APs, 5 this year, so my 6 scores so far:
Bio 5, Chem 5, US History 5, Calc AB 4, Euro. History 4, Latin Catullus/Ovid 3
taking physics, gov, econ, english lit, and stats this year</p>
<p>unweighted gpa around 3.6 (i know), weighted 4.1</p>
<p>I revived the newspaper at my school, started some clubs, did a lot of community service, etc.</p>
<p>my crown jewel is that for the last 4 years ive been part of a research effort at one of the large medical centers in los angeles. I have been published (<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22a+parisky%22+kar%5B/url%5D">http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22a+parisky%22+kar</a> it shows two) in a few journals and on some pending abstracts for it ahead of most of the doctors on the team. I helped run a couple FDA animal trials for in-heart devices that will eventually get into people. I feel like that kinda should make up for my somewhat lackluster gpa.</p>
<p>oh crap. if i'm competing with people like you for appeal slots, i don't have a chance at all.</p>
<p>thats not true at all, and the fact that i didnt get into any of my top east coast choices proves it. There is more to this than numbers and clubs and ****, i know all kinds of people who didnt get into places they should have and others who got into places they shouldn't have. if your letter was sincere and expressed a real desire to be at Cal more than anywhere else, youre on equal footing as me as far as I'm concerned.</p>
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Took the SAT I once, 800 verbal, 720 Math, 710 writing: 2230
SAT IIs: Bio 760, US history 720, Math IIc 700 (ick)</p>
<p>11 APs, 5 this year, so my 6 scores so far:
Bio 5, Chem 5, US History 5, Calc AB 4, Euro. History 4, Latin Catullus/Ovid 3
taking physics, gov, econ, english lit, and stats this year</p>
<p>unweighted gpa around 3.6 (i know), weighted 4.1</p>
<p>I revived the newspaper at my school, started some clubs, did a lot of community service, etc.</p>
<p>my crown jewel is that for the last 4 years ive been part of a research effort at one of the large medical centers in los angeles. I have been published (<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?h...+parisky%22+kar%5B/url%5D">http://scholar.google.com/scholar?h...+parisky%22+kar</a> it shows two) in a few journals and on some pending abstracts for it ahead of most of the doctors on the team. I helped run a couple FDA animal trials for in-heart devices that will eventually get into people. I feel like that kinda should make up for my somewhat lackluster gpa. </p>
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<p>What were your grounds for an appeal? I.E., what did you include that was NOT included in your online November UC app?</p>
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<p>I printed out my app. for my college counselor when we heard that I was rejected, because she felt something was wrong. She looked it over, and she felt that I didn't stress my research nearly enough (for instance, she said that the published papers should have been first in the "honors received" catagory, when I only mentioned them in passing in one of my essays). So I got some letters together from the physicians I worked with, she and I wrote letters explaining what a big deal the research was to me, and how much of my time it took, and threw in my seventh semester grades (4.7) to top it off.</p>
<p>grays: Can you give us details on your friends appeal to Cal and UCLA?</p>
<p>i still have no response =(
and there are only 6 days left</p>
<p>me either, its kind of unsettling. Ive been checking compulsively. Theres no promise it will be in the next 6 days, they just said they would try.</p>
<p>me too hombres, i guess we're in the grind together...i'm delaying shipping off my SIR until im 100% sure that they're negging my application. until then, i just have to wait.</p>
<p>no response for me either. i'm goina wait til friday or so before i submit my SD sir.</p>
<p>Scapermoya I can't believe you got rejected in the first place</p>
<p>yeah i haven't sent in my SIR either. i'm just hoping against hope right now for good news from cal</p>
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<p>cornell, columbia, mit, berkeley all didnt want me :(</p>
<p>you guys realize that if your appeal succeeds, you can still go to Cal after you send in your SIR to another school, right? you just have to forfeit the money that you pay when you send in your SIR. i mean, you have to call the college that you sent your SIR to in order to rescind it, but yeah. it's not the end of the world! :)</p>