<p>In your appeal, tell them what you can do to benefit UCLA, and you can contribute to their success. My friend won an appeal by conceding 10 volunteer hours per week and take on leadership roles in community outreach programs for the first 2 years. </p>
<p>EX: leadership or community service within the LA area.</p>
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<p>Basically, I switched my major from Design to undeclared and wrote the appeal letter.</p>
<p>Design was an impacted major and nearly impossible to get into. So if you have declared a major that is difficult to get into and got rejected, try switching to undeclared and hope to switch later. (I eventually got into the Design major, btw.)
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<p>I was just rejected from engineering. I really couldn't believe it. I go a top public school here in Sacramento, 3.8 uw, 4.3 w, 4 ap's (bio, calc, studio art, envi sci), all honors math classes, 1790 SAT 1, 750 Math 2, 700 Biology. Yea my sat1 score is low but I have a learning disability and that was the best I could do.</p>
<p>I have overcome so many challenges and I'm very motivated (I have two disabilities, one is a learning disability and the other a physical one). I volunteer to help disabled children every summer, and I have some good ECs related to engineering (robotics competition). I wrote about all this and I thought I had a good essay.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me what went wrong? I knew before applying that applying to engineering would be a lot harder than going undeclared, but it turns out they are don't care about anything except numbers despite what I've been through.</p>
<p>So sorry onfire. </p>
<p>They do have to look at numbers, esp. when people with higher SAT scores make it in and still drop out. It is very competitive. </p>
<p>This is not the end for you though. You should try the appeal. </p>
<p>It may be, however, that you need to take a year at a community college taking some difficult science and math classes to show you can handle the work. It's only one year, and then you can apply again and you would still have 4 years at UCLA. </p>
<p>Have you talked to anyone in the engineering department? </p>
<p>If you appeal, and don't get in, I think it would help to talk to someone in the engineering department to get some direction and feedback. </p>
<p>Also, how set are you on UCLA? There are other engineering schools in CA that are possibly better?!?! (Personally for engineering, my advice is another school in CA, but I realize the sting of rejection may make it hard to hear.....that's how I felt when I was in your shoes so I understand.)</p>
<p>I got all A's except 3 B's (3 during my freshman year geometry honors, and 1 B during my junior year Pre-calc honors) all my honors math classes...1 B for all my honors sciences and the rest A's. Math and science is pretty easy for me so I don't know where you got the suggestion of taking "difficult math and science classes".</p>
<p>I was very set on UCLA.
Got into irvine, sd, davis, sb.
Got a questionaire from Berkeley (but majoring in engineering is too hard, or so I've heard).</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I want to appeal even though I badly wanted to go there...it seems like a lot of work to appeal and I'm am so discouraged right now...they just flat out rejected me...appealing would look pretty dumb to them wouldn't it...</p>
<p>Okay so I just found out that my previous colorguard instructor from high school knows the UCLA colorguard instructor. Do you think it would be more effective to have him try and recommend me to the appeals board, or the Band Director (which is obviously a higher position..)?</p>
<p>Hi! I'm considering to appeal too but i'm not sure how i should state what major i would like to take? i'm somewhat interested in linguistics but should i just go undeclared?</p>
<p>You guys should wait a week for your other colleges (including Berkeley) to respond before you rush to appealing.</p>
<p>lol ucla was my last school. i got into all of my backups except ucla so i'm doing my appeal asap</p>
<p>^ I'm not appealing for the sake of appealing just because I got rejected.
I've had my heart set on UCLA for years. I know a lot of people here say that, but really. I'm having a hard time choosing where to go now that I don't have LA. :/</p>
<p>Rejection sucks so much.
But if I got accepted after appealing, I would probably cry from happiness and be crazily happy/excited/not able to calm down. haha</p>
<p>think of it this way. it's not yet over til the appealing process is over. but don't keep ur hopes up though. my psych teacher said something like... keep your expectations low but your goals high. :)</p>
<p>^ Sigh. I inadvertently got my hopes for LA up too high after I got into SD (which I thought I wouldn't get into either). -_-</p>
<p>Sorry to ask again, but for the appeals letter, does anybody know of a preferred format? Or is it okay as long as it's got our name, birthday, ID#, etc. somewhere on there.</p>
<p>i hate how they don't give like exact formats on the website...</p>
<p>i think i'm going to go for undeclared</p>
<p>Yeah is it supposed to be a really formal/business type letter? Do we start with Dear UCLA, or To whom it may concern.... ?</p>
<p>I hear that "to whom it may concern" is kinda rude</p>
<p>i'd go for "Dear Sir or Madam:"</p>
<p>That's what I'm probably going to use, but that basically means that the rest of the letter should follow in a business letter format, right?</p>
<p>city, I totally feel the same. I have ucsd and davis so far and am waiting for berkeley, but la was my first choice and I really don't know where to go if my appeal doesn't work out.
I was just so disappointed when I got rejected from what most people considered to be a match school for me.</p>
<p>@ bananachips, do you mean that you are appealing BECAUse you want to change the major, or do we still have to state a major in our appeal letter even if that's not our main argument (mine will probably be blablah excellent addition to the Band)? Sorry, I'm a bit unclear about that.</p>
<p>My counsellor told me the chances of appeal are really slim. Unless there is a hardship (like I have to be in LA area due to family hardships), it is difficult. In any case, I want to move on and rather spend energy on the schools I have been admitted to and select the right one there as opposed to waste more time thinking about my dream school ucla. I have also sent my request for membership to "everything-happens-for-a-reason" club.</p>
<p>How long/short should the appeals letter be?</p>