<p>Don't be fooled by the title. Any little story counts. </p>
<p>Did you get into your dream transfer school? How did you react when you got the letter?</p>
<p>When you got there, did anything embarrasing happen to you? Anything awesome? What do you think got you accepted?</p>
<p>Maybe you got into your safety school and later found out it was the school you always wanted to be in. Or you got into your dream school and ended up not liking it at much.</p>
<p>Whatever it is, share it here!</p>
<p>Check out the college acceptance videos on YouTube if you haven’t already. Basically, people video themselves viewing their admissions decision. Crying, screaming, and excited phone calls are common. </p>
<p>They’re actually quite inspiring, haha. You can sense the joy.</p>
<p>I saw a few and I found them entertaining, but what I’m looking for are the other stories, the funny community service stories, the real challanges people had to face to get accepted. I cant seem to find them on youtube or anywhere.</p>
<p>Did you get into your dream transfer school?
I did. For the past two years I have been practically dragging myself through community college. I wasn’t a stupid high school kid, I took honors courses/AP courses, had a good GPA and could have applied to any college I wanted (not necessarily got in though). But I didn’t know what I wanted to do. So I waited. And it sucked. But everything worked out. I got into UCLA and into my chosen major, film.</p>
<p>How did you react when you got the letter?
My first “letter” came when I found out I had gotten through to the interview process for TFT. That was pretty awesome. I was shocked and confused and eventually, pretty stoked. When I got the acceptance email it was kind of brief (literally only a few sentences) so at first I didn’t really take it in. But when I understood what was going on I started crying. It was fun</p>
<p>What do you think got you accepted?
I think it was mainly because of my essays and of course my interview responses. I didn’t hold back, I expressed how I felt for my intended major and I used a lot of heart. And I think that’s really the one thing they wanted most.</p>
<p>You know what? My dream school was UCLA… Somehow I ended up at Berkeley. I was at work on April 21 (Wednesday) when I saw that I got a text from one friend & a missed call from another. The text said “UCLA DECISIONS ARE OUT!!” and I got superduper excited and rushed home by 9:30, 3 hours later. I looked, I CRIED; my mom cried too and gave me a hug. I got into my first-choice major of Sociology with a transferrable GPA of 3.62 (TAP certified). As for Berkeley, that was the longest week’s wait of my life… I checked at 3:02PM and I screamed. (I was home alone.)</p>
<p>Nothing embarrassing… Well I visited once after I got admitted and went to Moffitt Library in Berkeley. I asked the receptionist guy if the statue was of Einstein but there was a sign right next to it saying it was Mark Twain. </p>
<p>I got accepted because of my awesome essays and my genuine zeal for sociology, and my language abilities. </p>
<p>I’m glad about my decision. I am taking summer classes, and I can’t wait to start the new year!!! 2 weeks, baby!!! :)</p>
<p>Did you get into your dream transfer school?
I did! And, boy, am I glad I did because the only UCs I applied to were LA and Berkeley.</p>
<p>How did you react when you got the letter?
For both schools I put off logging in for at least an hour after the decisions were out. I was too nervous. For UCLA I went on a three mile run first try to get the jitters out, but they were still there when I sat in front of the computer. One of my friends and my mom were right next to me when I screamed and then eventually cried. I was still really surprised I had gotten in even though on paper I looked like a sure admit. The day UC Berkeley came out I was actually at UCLA for a STOMP Transfer day. The decisions came out when I was still on campus so I knew I had to wait a few hours before I would know what was up. When I got home I was waiting on two friends to join me before I would log in, so I passed time watching game six of Lakers VS Oklahoma City. I took every time the Lakers were behind as a sign that I didn’t get into Berkeley, and kind of felt that Kevin Durant was taunting me. Eventually at 8:30 P.M., my friends arrived, but I forgot the myBerkeley log in, so it was an additional five minutes of creating new passwords and just generally being confused. I cracked a joke that the page would say “You were admitted, but since you couldn’t figure this out, your acceptance was taken away.” But the page didn’t say that. It said congratulations. There was no screaming or crying, just a general sense of relief that I got in everywhere I applied. </p>
<p>When you got there, did anything embarrasing happen to you? Anything awesome?
Does this mean to the campus? Well, I never ended up visiting Berkeley after I was accepted because after a few days I knew that I probably wouldn’t end up there for a number of reasons. Nothing embarrassing happened to me when I visited UCLA other than almost accidentally walking onto the set of Greek.</p>
<p>What do you think got you accepted?
My school offered all the prereqs for Political Science, so I think I had a big advantage being able to complete Political Theory and Stats before transferring. I had an internship that looked better on paper than it did in real life, so I think my essay had something to do with it too.</p>
<p>How did you react when you got the letter?
I didn’t really care because I had this “entitlement attitude.”
Wanted to go to Berkeley but I’m attending UCLA for cost reasons. (see below)</p>
<p>What do you think got you accepted?
For UCSD and UCSB, TAG. For UCLA and Berkeley - 4.0 GPA, all prereqs done and applying to an easy major to get into (Math/Econ)</p>
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<p>I’m entering with 121 units, took 17 this summer at UCLA, and so will graduate with my Bachelors in 10 months. I will find (and choose) that my duration at UCLA will simply be commuting to the school, going to class, then going home.</p>
<p>I don’t get any financial aid so I needed to minimize costs. I only have to pay 1 year tuition, this summer session, and gas, rather than rent and 2 years tuition for Berkeley.</p>
<p>My whole Bachelors degree will be under $20,000, with UCLA on my resume. Thank you, CCC, for being so cheap.</p>
<p>@Jyi90 Im so glad to finally see a Sociology transfer to UCLA. It gives me hope :)</p>
<p>Good luck, UCLAudia. 
Dazzle them with your personal statement, just show your genuine interest for sociology. that’s what I did.</p>
<p>Did you get into your dream transfer school?
My dream school since i was in the 7th grade was Berkeley. When i was little i always said i wanted to go to UCLA but as i grew up i slowly came to learn of Berkeley and all of its glory. I applied to Berkeley, Sacramento State University, UCLA, and UCR and ranked them in that order (sac state was higher than ucla because im a poly sci major and thats like internship central)</p>
<p>How did you react when you got the letter?
I heard from Sac State and UCR first in March and it was pretty great when i got in because I knew that by getting into Sac State i wasnt going to have to settle for UCR and i was gonna at least have a choice. So then in late april life was really hard and school was wearing me down. I remember the day UCLA came out i hadnt slept in 3 days and i got home and just crashed on my brother’s bed. I woke up like at 7 pm and i got a text from a friend saying that UCLA had posted decisions… i freaked out ran to my room and this happened [YouTube</a> - Nadia gets into UCLA](<a href=“Nadia gets into UCLA - YouTube”>Nadia gets into UCLA - YouTube) even though UCLA was my 3rd choice i knew it was gonna be damn near impossible to get in even though i had worked really hard… ucla suddenly became my second choice O_o
fast forward to the last day in april and I was at the Student Senate for California Community Colleges General Assembly. It was a friday… we had been running around all day doing work for the conference and even though i did have some down time during the day i made a pact with the same guy who called me in the UCLA video that we wouldnt check our admissions until 11 pm once everything was done and we could just either drink to celebrate or drink to drown out pain. So at like 10 pm we were back in the hotel after exploring the city the afternoon and i get a call from my friend and he told me that his brother (the president of the school) had gotten rejected and that the student trustee had also gotten rejected. Either way everyone was waiting till 11 pm because he and I were going to check and we were the ones who wanted it more than ne thing else. Naturally i freaked out… I didnt wanna go into the room because i was afraid since rejection became more of a possibility… I walked into the room and we all waited till 11 pm, my friend checked his decision and he too got rejected (crap). then this happened [YouTube</a> - Nadia Gets into Berkeley](<a href=“Nadia Gets into Berkeley - YouTube”>Nadia Gets into Berkeley - YouTube) it was probably the happiest and saddest night of my life because i felt bad that no one else could share in my glory. Needless to say we went on to get trashed that night… i cried till about 3 am </p>
<p>in the morning it hit me, UCLA was offering more money than CAL and UCLA was 2 hours away from home so i could still see my friends and family at a moments notice. It was such a hard decision and i dragged it out for a while because my heart was telling me one thing and then my mind was telling me something else… sigh</p>
<p>i followed my heart and mind at the end and chose CAL because deep down inside I knew thats where i needed to be. </p>
<p>What do you think got you accepted?
I think it was my personal statements and my story. I talked about how motivated i was and how i didnt ever want to settle for less than i knew i was capable of. I also wrote about all the bumps along the road and how i just used them as a reason to take a heavier load each semester and still finish with near perfect grades. For UCLA i was missing one prereq but i had all of them for Cal </p>
<p>It was just meant to be i think, i cant wait to start at cal in the spring :D</p>
<p>@Nadiavar</p>
<p>that was you?!? </p>
<p>I actually saw that video a couple of days ago. Wow, what are the chances? :)</p>
<p>I sure as hell hope I get into UCLA</p>
<p>thanks for the insight</p>
<p>hahaahahahahahahahaaha</p>
<p>yes, that was me haha</p>
<p>good luck!!!</p>