<p>Has anyone been rejected to Riverside?</p>
<p>no replies...says something</p>
<p>yea I have.....but it was b/c I talked alot of **** about the school on the application. I mentioned how UCR is the "dumpster" school of the UC system. It was fun tho even tho i had no intentions going to that low life school.</p>
<p>^funny but evil!!</p>
<p>there's a lesson to be learned from all this.</p>
<p>imagine he gets accepted .....lol</p>
<p>Isn't that a waste of $55 -- application fee ?</p>
<p>About a fourth of UCR applicants are rejected, and some really deserve to be, like mosharma134.</p>
<p>You're right.</p>
<p>Actually that whole 1/4 number is going up. Riverside is getting way more selective not only due to budget cuts but due to the number of people applying in general. More and more people are applying for college and there just isn't enough room anymore (unfortunately).</p>
<p>The UC system was originally designed to take anyone who qualified. The problem now lies with the number of people qualifying and more people understanding how valuable a UC education is. It was designed to have no tuition so that it was affordable to the public, thats why when you get your statements it says educational and registration (reg) FEES. You don't pay any sort of "tuition" at a UC. Granted the "fees" are getting, lets say, a bit over the top but that is something that students are fighting for on the inside.</p>
<p>Now...</p>
<p>What most people don't realize is that the UC system works together when they admit students. You may be qualified for several or all of them, but 0, 1 or 2 may accept you due to space or your interest. If you are interested in being a Creative Writing major and you apply to UCLA, Berkeley and UCR your more than likely going to get into UCR since its the only UC that has an established Creative Writing program.</p>
<p>UCR is no longer the "dumpster" (or "back up" school as I called it) that it used to be. What happend was that all of the so called rejects actually started doing something with themselves at this "low life" school and bumped it up in the rankings. All of the people who were placed at UCR intending to transfer started to like it and ended up staying for the full 4-5 years.</p>
<p>To be rejected from any college is tough to handle and the best thing to keep in mind is that college is college. If in fact you were not accepted anywhere, go to a CC and then transfer. The point is to never give up.</p>
<p>now that i look back on my post...i guess it doesn't make much sense.</p>
<p>mosharma was bragging about how he essentially trashed ucr in his essay. not exactly the brightest thing to do especially since that same essay goes to the other uc's he applied to. when he did that, he demonstrated his level of maturity to the other schools. so it was no big surprise when i saw him posting about how he was rejected from both ucla and cal.</p>
<p>he apparently got into both on appeal, but still...hope he learned his lesson. don't be a conceited and immature a**. sure, one might have good grades...but so do hundreds of other applicants.</p>
<p>true...i was being an a$$ when i applied during the november period. I do kinda regret it. All I mentioned was that I see UCR as "back up" school for most UC Applicants. The most trashing I probably wrote is that I see "low tier students" (i.e. students less than a 3.0 GPA ....plz don't take offense anyone who fall into this category....everyone has his/her own criteria) marticulating in either UCR. When I did get rejected by UCLA and CAL the 1st time around....i did kinda feel bad what I wrote since that is probably the only reason why I did get rejected. </p>
<p>Yet when I appealed, I knew I was going to get accepted because CAL and UCLA hardly reject any engineering student who has a 3.7 or above GPA and who has completed all lower division requirements and shows a geniune interest in engineering. Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>"What most people don't realize is that the UC system works together when they admit students. You may be qualified for several or all of them, but 0, 1 or 2 may accept you due to space or your interest. If you are interested in being a Creative Writing major and you apply to UCLA, Berkeley and UCR your more than likely going to get into UCR since its the only UC that has an established Creative Writing program."</p>
<p>For the undergraduate level, yes, but UCI's graduate writing program is supposed to be one of if not the best in the country.</p>
<p>There are low-tier students at UCR (and most other colleges save places like MIT), but there are A LOT of "good students" too. Some of the students I've met in orientation and classes, graduated HS with 3.8+ and 1200+ on their SATs.</p>
<p>Yes, DRab, that is exactly what I meant. My assumption was that the rejection conversation was on undergrad admission. UCI has an excellent writing program for its grad students. But UCR is trying improve on their grad programs. They have several new ones (mostly in humanities) including a new MFA program in Visual Arts (which im planning on applying to before the end of the year) and a new MA program in Creative writing and Writing for the performing arts. They also have a new one starting next Fall for Religious Studies. I think they are huge steps for a school that is so heavily focused on science and business.</p>