<p>Gogauchos, I'm sooo happy for you!! I so empathize because I thought I'd only get into UCSB and that would be fine with me as well, but I've always wanted to go to UCLA for many reasons. It's amazing, I know how you are all feeling because when some people originally found out for sure when they received an e-mail from Financial Aid, yet the admissions site said that we were still pending....and then little by little, it stated that we were in...and then, finally, we could go to URSA and do the pin and challenge question.</p>
<p>I'm so happy for you all.....see? That wasn't so bad now was it? At least it wasn't June, my gosh.....can you imagine? lol I'm so glad it all worked out, so now it's all a matter of passing all of your classes and we're all set!</p>
<p>haha thanks bruinmichelle, i seriously wanted to go to UCLA sooooooo badly. My mom and my grandpa went there (and i didn't say that in my app because i wanted to be judged on my own achievement) so i'm really excited about it. Plus, i'm a huge sports fan, and i can't wait to cheer the bruins on AS A BRUIN hahaa. this is one of the greatest days i've ever had. congrats to sabrina and fmstyle for getting accepted too. oh man this is awesome.</p>
<p>Fmstyle (despite your harsh words which really showed no class) and Sabrina, congratulations as well!</p>
<p>Gogauchos...I know exactly what you mean about rooting for a team, etc.....see you all at the games, in the quad and around! Now, I guess we just wait for the eFan's and pray that we get the Financial Aid we need. lol....</p>
<p>Fmstyle, surely you jest? Congratulations anyway......I believe you referred to a higher power to dammn them? lol maybe that was someone else? ;-)</p>
<p>Lol...I can't tell if someone is joking or not on a forum unless they make it really obvious lol. But yah...I'm not the kind of guy that would ask a higher power to damn them XD.</p>
<p>I'm still pending, I'm guessing partly because I've already turned in my SIR to Cal. They probably looked at my file two weeks ago, saw that I was already headed to Cal, and decided to put my file low on the priority list because I already said yes to Berkeley. Which I'm perfectly fine with, because this means that they can focus on other students who haven't committed to other campuses yet. </p>
<p>But how can making their decisions possibly take <em>this</em> long, is what I'm wondering. If all the other campuses can finish everything by April 29th (some of the other campuses started releasing their decisions waaaay earlier than April 29), why couldn't LA and SD? To have them wait until the middle of May! Instead of focusing on finals and such, these students instead stress on why they're still pending and if they're going to be accepted. It's just a tad unfair to the applicants whose first choice is either one of those two schools. Sigh.. oh well.</p>
<p>Congrats to those that finally heard from LA and have gotten in!</p>
<p>Irvine's still working through transfer applications. My girlfriend is applying to transfer to UCI and still has not yet heard; in her case, this is good, because the school to which she wants to transfer (ICS) had a reception for transfer students a few days ago and it gave her the opportunity to get some faculty in the department speaking up for her with the admissions department, which definitely can help at any UC, particularly in a borderline case.</p>
<p>Of course, there are things that could be slowing down her situation: she's got an unusual college record that includes a year at a top private school doing math and science, four years at art school working toward a BFA in fine arts, and a year back at community college completing all the remaining lower-division CS stuff. Grades are solid all the way through, so that's not an issue. Even so, the admissions folks have a lot to chew on, particularly because she hasn't been at the CC long enough to be an official "community college transfer student," which means that she goes to the back of the line.</p>
<p>I'd love to know what the story is with how they're evaluating all that, but for better or worse we'll probably never really know.</p>
<p>Back on topic: if someone's still waiting on UCLA, and if they really want to go there, I'd strongly recommend finding a sympathetic professor in the department to which you want to transfer, talk with them about your record, and get them to offer their (positive) thoughts to the relevant associate director of admissions. If you're right on the edge, it can be the thing that makes the difference. In some cases, faculty advocacy can be the entire game, but for that I believe you really have to start a lot earlier.</p>
<p>Azotic, thanks for the info. I didn't know that UCI hasn't finished releasing all their decisions. That being said, if it was just one or two special cases for Irvine, then I suppose that that's understandable. But in the case of LA and SD, it's been almost two weeks after the May 1st deadline before a significant number of people finally heard from them. That's just not right, IMO.</p>