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Poor woodwinds.....you can barely hear them in the fight song....Hopefully I'll break the trend......
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<p>Heh, solid gold sound =/= clarinet</p>
<p>Locke19....oh so you mean next tuesday(March 31st)....ok then....I'll take over until April 7th then haha lol....gosh you and your ego.....why do you do this to us??? Ironically....I'm best friends with a trumpet but he's nicer than you....:P</p>
<p>^ What? 10 char</p>
<p>^ What's 10 char????</p>
<p>^ My post would have been simply "What?," but each post needs a minimum of 10 characters to be posted. Therefore one includes some variation on "10 characters" in the post to increase it to the necessary total.</p>
<p>Now, to repeat my original statement: What?</p>
<p>Locke19.....you said this a few posts ago: "We brass will out-play you from here to 'next Tuesday'"...Umm next tuesday is march 31st....aren't you referring to the Tuesday after that(April 7th) which is the deadline to submit the band appeals for priority consideration??? That's why I said "I'll take over until April 7th" since you and the rest of the brass would be already finished "out-playing" us a week even before the deadline....Or did you intentionally say that to mean that you and the brass would submit your appeals a week in advanced???</p>
<p>Anywayz, Locke19.....I don't want to argument and fight anymore...So....just a question: other than the scales you have to play, you're just playing your part for your school band's march????? is that enough???</p>
<p>It was just a joke. I was saying that brass players are better than woodwinds, and just picked a random day/date for comdedic effect. It obviously wasn't very funny, given that I've had to explain it.</p>
<p>Yes, I am considering playing the sousaphone part of my school's march. I don't know if that is acceptable, but if it is, that's probably what I'll do.</p>
<p>O ok haha.....yeah it was not very comic....btw what's the title of your school's march???</p>
<p>Does anyone know if we have to submit a letter of appeal to Admissions too, or does Henderson 's office take care of that?</p>
<p>I don't wanna be mean, but all of those who were rejected should just get over it... honestly, come on, how low can you go, trying to get into via the band? If you couldn't get in (or recruited for band - do they even do that?), then face the facts that you didn't get in. Getting into UCLA or any college does not make or break you as a person and it is not a measure of one's self - worth.</p>
<p>To quote one of my AP teachers last year...
"If a college rejects you, **** 'EM, just **** 'EM. You were too good for them anyways!"</p>
<p>^ Umm... how about mind what you're doing and not telling others not to even try and appeal? How is this low? You know that term band-nerd? Yeah...some people actually like being in the band, and some actually planned on joining if they got in LA anyways. And yes, they do even do that, hence the e-mail we got from the Director himself along with a special form. You think we are doing this for our ego? I get that some people appeal just to be accepted, but UCLA was a dream school for a lot of people, and it can't hurt to try, so why is does this affect you, binks? Get off this thread..</p>
<p>How low can I go??? How long can you go??? Most of the people that are appealing via band are what bruinj said: "band-nerds". Most of us will probably have joined the band if we were accepted anyways, but it's an opportunity we are able to take advantage of not only to get into the school but be part of what we love doing in high school-- being band geeks. And there's nothing wrong with not giving up. Some people had their eyes on UCLA since they were born and is it wrong that they continue to pursue their dreams of being a Bruin????</p>
<p>tptshorty.....I'm not sure but I'm sending a separate one to the appeals committee office just in case with the "new and compelling" information they want to see which is not band related....And it might just be too confusing and more work for Gordon to handle non-band related information. But if it is band related, go ahead and attach it to the video or recording and the form...</p>
<p>BTW, what instrument do you play????</p>
<p>"^ Umm... how about mind what you're doing and not telling others not to even try and appeal? How is this low? You know that term band-nerd? Yeah...some people actually like being in the band, and some actually planned on joining if they got in LA anyways. And yes, they do even do that, hence the e-mail we got from the Director himself along with a special form. You think we are doing this for our ego? I get that some people appeal just to be accepted, but UCLA was a dream school for a lot of people, and it can't hurt to try, so why is does this affect you, binks? Get off this thread.. "</p>
<p>Seriously, no offense, but if you were good enough (for the band or the school), you would've got in in the first place. I'm not trying to be an ass, although I am, I'm just trying to tell you that not getting into UCLA is not the end of the world. Honestly, there are many colleges as good if not better that UCLA. Like I said before, getting rejected/accepted from UCLA (or any college) does not prove your self worth nor your intellectual ability... I guarantee you someone from UCLA will eventually be homeless and someone from Cal State LA will be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company... Honestly, UCLA appeals are based on one of two things... impovement or additional info that was not available at the initial time of applying. FYI, the UC average appeal success rate is around 2-3%, so don't hold your breath.</p>
<p>^Actually appeals through the band has a success rate of just under 50%(according to Mr. Henderson)....appealing normally is that 2-3% you're talking about. Yes it's not the end of the world but it proves one's persistency, and that's a good thing. It's worth a try so why not??? And you can be one of the best musicians or the smartest applying and that doesn't mean you'll get in to begin with. My friend got in and he's really not that smart and only has KEY club and NHS(in which he rarely participates in)....The UC admission system is very diverse and they accept anyone they want....pretty shady to me...like UCI and UCSD(my friend didn't get into these but he got into UCLA and UCB...lol)</p>
<p>^I totally agree.... I had some less than UCLA stellar stats but got in... I'm just saying that there is a fine line between persistence and desperation with college admissions</p>
<p>^That's the thing....the people who are appealing are probably the people who were qualified and deserving to be admitted into UCLA but then they got rejected. And the fact that a lot of people who are not at the high UCLA standard do get in, the people who meet that standard and don't get in are just frustrated and still desperate to get in because they know they are more deserving....</p>
<p>Yeah...you're contradicting yourself left and right, binks. And so there is a fine line between persistence and desperation; what makes us desperate and not persistent? And for the millionth time, we are NOT letting it get to our self worth/intelligence/whatever. Maybe you're the one with problems, getting irked by other people simply trying to appeal...You don't know the first thing about these band appeals, you have not contacted Gordon, so maybe you should just stop trying to prove your ineffectual points here.</p>
<p>Lol whatever. Marcimar, let's just get our band appeals successful and kick ass at UCLA next year. :]</p>
<p>what makes you desperate is the fact that you are appealing... I'm sorry, but persistence would have been to have nearly "ensured" your acceptance through "band recruitment", appealing after the fact is like trying to find a saving grace for the damned. I am irked by individuals who appeal through such desperate means, but that is my own opinion.</p>