Current HS Freshman looking for advice to get into T20 school (polisci/humanities)

[ucbalumnus]

Supposedly, getting onto the Daily Bruin at UCLA is competitive, according to this post:

Competitive admission college clubs other than those prepping for investment banking or management consulting

My daughter is at UCLA and looking for her niche in their literary and journalism offerings. The Daily Bruin is quite competitive and their application is intense. The radio station is similar. She’s attending a literary magazine meeting today and that seems less competitive, and just discovered a journal called FEM that is interesting. It requires an application but she hasn’t looked into how challenging it is yet.

As large as the Daily Bruin staff is, UCLA is a very large school, so it is likely that there are far more interested students than it needs.