<p>I got rejected but I honestly expected that I would get rejected.</p>
<p>I am going to appeal for the hell of it. I know that I am not qualified statistically to attend UCLA but I want to go there badly and if this appeal thing does not work (it rarely, rarely ever does) then I will devote two years of my life (hopefully one with all the AP credit that I have) at a community college and then just transfer to UCLA. I'll send a letter with new personal information, a letter of recommendation from my decathlon coach, and a second letter that will be a conjunction of a message of several UCLA alumni and it will include a small petition at the end.</p>
<p>My love for Retro Joe Bruin is just too strong for me to stop living.</p>
<p>Yeah I was thinking about appealing also. I'm concerned because I hear the appeal statistics are unbelievably low. I'm also wondering how good my "new found information" is. It definitely looks good and objectively speaking I would consider myself competetive. But I've been reading some of the UCLA applicant stats on this forum and they are UNBELIEVABLY competetive and yet they were rejected. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any tips as to what to put in your appeal?? Most of my new information is things like work/internship related things. I'm applying as a business economics major and I'm wondering how impressive it will look if I worked for a financial company (maybe a letter of rec from my boss?) and am interning at Morgan Stanley this summer. Also if I show them how I attended a community college for my senior year and took many bus/econ classes and got A's in all of them. </p>
<p>These are all great things, but I'm worried they'll read it and think "This guy has some pretty good things going for him" and then throw out my appeal when they see my SAT scores (SAT I: 1950, SATII:680, 600) or my 2 C's I got in Sophomore year. </p>
<p>And throughout the whole letter, I'll have to refain from stabbing the paper, writing, "What the hell was going on in your admissions process??? I can't believe I was rejected from my fallback school."</p>
<p>Let's all pray Berkeley's admissions process will be more understanding. =/</p>
<p>syneria, I agree with you. Except for the fact that the existence of an appeals process proves the "facts" can be reversed. But yeah, you're right. I totally can't admit I've been rejected by LA.</p>
<p>Well, I'm not saying that appeals are bad, per se. If you really really want to go to UCLA, then shoot for it.</p>
<p>But the vibe I got from the OP was that it was just a "meh" situation, and he wants to appeal "for the hell of it." Appeals aren't worth it then. If you'll die if you go to any other school, do it. If you'll live if you go to another school, save it.</p>
<p>well I'm officially out of ideas because it says on the UCLA appeals website you can't put down current advances in your academics (new information has to be corrections of errors on your application or missing information that was done at the time or before submission of the app). So that basically steals everything I have to work with. haha. any ideas?</p>
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<p>I disagree. I knew a few people who got in on appeal, and they were more than equipped to succeed at UCLA. Sometimes, admissions just flat out fails. If you're a victim of that sort of failure, fix it.</p>
<p>maintainyourvelocity, what did your friend put on the Berkeley appeal? Does anyone know that actual stats or percentage rate or admitted appeals?</p>
<p>my friend got the support of her principal for her appeal and subsequently got into UCLA. </p>
<p>if you dont think you're statistically qualified, you can do one of two things:
1. go to CC and transfer, where the transfer process isn't as tough
2. go to another school and discover that you'll actually like it there</p>
<p>I think I'm statistically competitive with those that got in.</p>
<p>I'm from California, I had a 4.1, 2200, 800 on math II, 710 chemistry, 9 AP classes and a whole bunch of honors, and was a member of various clubs + played a lot of soccer</p>
<p>I'm thinking about appealing, but the I don't exactly have any "new information." Hopefully I'll get into Berkeley.</p>
<p>UCLA has a website. It says you need to write them a letter and mail it to them. However, the definiton is very open eneded and I have no idea how long or short it's supposed to be or what kind of format would be most appropriate.</p>