<p>I hate the fact that the supplement made me hope for getting in but now everything is gone with the wind!</p>
<p>Rejected and totally crushed…</p>
<p>SAT 2020 (one sitting), ACT 31 (one sitting), 3.71 UW, 4.22 Weighted but only 4.09 UCW,
6 AP classes, honors and APs throughout HS, 2 college classes during HS (A’s in both), many EC’s including sports, charity, school, good essays (I thought), 2 years work experience, top 2% of my class.</p>
<p>Accepted to UCD, UCI & UCSD but UCD too far, UCI does not have my major and UCSD accepted as Undeclared and did not give me the major I wanted (and also they gave me my 5th ranked college), and all are too far and we are very poor so we cannot afford the housing (financial aid packets worse than expected.)</p>
<p>UCLA is close and I wanted to commute and have Blue & Gold help me out. Now it looks like community college at best. I worked so hard in HS and did everything I was told, and this is my reward. I should have never taken all the Honors classes in 10th grade - they counted against me because UC does not give them weight, but my HS graded those classes so hard. I am in the top 10 out of 500 students in my HS class (my school does not rank but posts GPA’s in Honor Roll.)</p>
<p>The worst part is ALL my friends got in - most with lower SAT’s and much less EC’s. My friend got in who only took 1 AP class and hardly any honors with only 1 EC. His UW GPA was higher than mine, but not his HS weighted nor his UCW. He got 1940 SAT and did not take ACT. Another friend got in who had 1960 SAT and 27 ACT, GPA just slightly above mine, with only 2 EC’s.</p>
<p>I see many of your stats are much higher than mine, and I know the GPA probably was the killer, but no one at my HS has a good GPA. They do not believe in giving out A’s. And I don’t know how so many of you got ACT 34 - 35, and SAT 2200 - 2300, but I really thought my 31 and 2020 were good enough, or else I would have taken them again.</p>
<p>Sorry to rant, but I am so disappointed and don’t know what to do. I wasn’t even waitlisted! I did not get the supplement package, so I guess they didn’t want me from the start. It is over 4 me. I just don’t understand how all my friends got in and I didn’t.</p>
<p>Congrats to all those who got accepted.</p>
<p>I found out that i got accepted to UCLA on their website, but I didn’t receive an email from UCLA admission.
Eventhough i didn’t receive an email from UCLA, it isn’t really matter right?</p>
<p>Here’s some food for thought for all you fellow rejectees, I was rejected to UCLA but accepted into Cornell and UChicago, strange but true.</p>
<p>ucmadness, as a parent I feel badly for you. Maybe you could do community college for two years and then apply to UCLA as a transfer student? You’d save a lot that way. Or is it possible to appeal with the support of your guidance counselor, using the grounds that you cannot afford housing at the other campuses and were hoping to get into UCLA so you could commute? I know it’s difficult, but try not to be discouraged. You can be proud of your hard work and accomplishments. Best of luck wherever you land.</p>
<p>any idea how people get 4.3 UC GPA? i though UC GPA scale was 4.0 only. many students state “4.3 UC GPA” and i thought that was via high schools only when they used 5.0 or bonus gpa scales. i have a 4.0 and no B grades from a CCC. thanks.</p>
<p>congratulations to all those admitted! i am a transfer, waiting waiting.</p>
<p>@northbeach</p>
<p>UC GPA is summer after 9th to summer after 11th grade A-G courses with up to 8 semester bonus points for UC approved AP/honors courses.</p>
<p>EX for me
sophomore 1st sem - 4,4,4,4,3
soph 2nd sem - 4,4,4,4,4
jr 1st sem - 5,5,5,5,4,4
jr 2nd sem projected (I’m only a junior)- 5,5,5,5,4,4</p>
<p>= 4.32 UC GPA</p>
<p>@cdmn, thanks for the kind words. I may try to appeal, but being that I didn’t even get the supplement I feel they are sure they don’t want me. CC is an option but I really didn’t think I would have to go that route - until now. On top of everything, it is so embarrassing for me to have all my friends ask “Did you get in” and posting their acceptance on Facebook and Twitter. I have always been known as the “smart one” in my circle of friends, and to see them all beat me into UCLA is just super hard to handle. As far as the cost of UCSD, UCI and UCD, I guess I can just take all the loans the colleges want me to, and end up in enormous debt once I get out of college like many other people do. My parents can’t pay it (laid off, illness) - they might even lose the house this year, so the loans are really the only way. Or CC. But that’s a crap shoot, too. A few years ago, my cousin got rejected by UCLA and went the CC route. She ended up with some teachers that didn’t like her (she said) and others that were not very good, and so she got a few bad grades. She was not accepted as a transfer into UCLA and as result, she just dropped out of college completely. She was so smart in High School. Now she works at the mall. I don’t want that to happen to me. So, I still don’t know what I’m going to do. But thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>I got in, somehow. Surprised considered I got waitlisted at Rice…thought it would be the other way around. </p>
<p>2340 SAT (800 CR, 800 Math, 740 Writing, one sitting)
6 AP classes by junior year, 11 by senior year
5 on all APs except Euro, where I got a 4
4.78 South Carolina Weighted (3.8 unweighted or something like that), don’t really know what my UC weighted is
ECs:
Track (sophomore to senior)
Cross country (junior and senior)
Wrestling (junior, quit midway)
Volunteering (90 hours by the end of the year)
Debate (Freshman)</p>