<p>@Avilb0y:
And yes, I do dislike people who use sob stories in their essays to get into college. I’m not dissing people who got into UCSD with a sob story, but just sob story essays in general. I could’ve written a sob story too but I chose not too, but I’ve held this opinion since september. Get in based on merit, not pity imho. </p>
<p>K so i called and the person i talked to said they cant tell me this year specifically what I was lacking. She did say that she didnt even have access to my extracurriculars, but that was what probably the case was because my numbers seemed fine (though im not sure about that because my extracurriculars do seem to be at UCSD level). She had no access to them, so im guessing this probably wasnt the case for me. Still stuck having no idea LOL. </p>
<p>AND FYI: POINT SYSTEM IS NO LONGER IN PLACE!!!
they now use the holistic system, meaning that major probably would take a role in it (even if it wasnt intended to be that way) </p>
<p>Thanks everyone for attempting to explain it :)</p>
<p>gotta admire your morals, but really, since college applications are a one-shot all-or-nothing deal, i would’ve done everything i could to increase my chances of acceptance. including not being too proud to hide my sob story. because the consequences of not giving it your all kind look something like what you’re going through right now. </p>
<p>sorry man, wish things could’ve turned out better. but you got into your super reach school and you can go there now, right? don’t be so caught up with your rejections – celebrate the end of senior year and start planning for the next four years at a school that’s actually welcoming you. :)</p>
<p>So someone who was diagnosed with cancer during finals week Junior year shouldn’t get in because their GPA dropped? You really need to get over the fact that other people got in with “sob stories”. An extremely small number of students are admitted based on a hardship, and it’s not the hardship alone that got them admitted, it’s because they still managed to keep up their grades and test scores to at least a proficient level throughout the ordeal.</p>
<p>gpa is really important to the uc schools and yours is kinda low
ucsd is looking for at least an average of 4.1 weighted because that was the average from last year and with the huge influx of applicants this year, the number is undoubtedly going to go up.
but honestly, don’t feel bad. a lot of people got rejected this year.</p>
<p>I agree with JeSuis and Aviboy, I get you are angry about your rejection but if you dont think there is a chance you can appeal and get in then just forget about it. By the way i think this thread is insulting to all the people who did get in, you are pretty much saying that no one who got accepted was qualified (something i think is BS), the admissions office isnt run by a group of monkeys, they knew what they were doing</p>
<p>^WHAT? I never said that. Sorry if it sounded that way but i ddint mean that at all! Even though a small fraction of people were unqualified, most of the people who got in really deserved it.</p>
<p>See Chocolatecricket, that’s where everyone is kind of getting mad. The fact that you’re even implying that some people shouldn’t have gotten in. The way I, and just about everyone else on the forums see it, is, who are you to decide who is qualified and who is not?</p>
<p>As for whether or not the point system is in place or not, I find it hard to believe they dropped the system that they used to determine whether or not people are admitted or not for the past 50 years just like that… but, thats my opinion. I don’t work in admissions so whatever. If they did or didnt… good for them.</p>
<p>And finally, I agree with Astrina, as usual (I’ve never actually disagreed with Astrina if my memory serves correctly). College admissions are all or nothing and you should use whatever you can to get in. Other than that, congrats on getting into your first choice school and I wish you the best of luck. And its almost the end of your senior year, so you should enjoy it as much as you can and just forget about colleges now.</p>
<p>“With little to no ECs i think they felt sorry for a lot of people and gave acceptances to mainly minority, low income, first generation kids”</p>
<p>And you have to be the “right minority”, whatever that happens to be. With the Holelistic (yeah, I’m spelling it the way I think of it) system, it’s all smoke and mirrors, rubber rulers, and social engineering.</p>
<p>I was accepted and have an average gpa. I don’t consider myself a minority because I am Asian. Unless asians are still considered minoritys in the UC system o_o… Maybe this year they decided to actually look at more then just GPA because they are raising the bar with TAG for transfers being at 3.5.</p>
<p>many schools practice some form of affirmative action. obviously they’re not going to say they do, but race/ethnicity are on the application for a reason.</p>
<p>I honestly think they do. If you look at the UCSD statfinder thing, the average ACT for whites was 30. For Hispanics it was around 24. Maybe it’s not as blatant as “you’re mexican, you’re in,” but they deliberately get around it.</p>
<p>I honestly do not think that they accepted people based on race, or other social aspects. The truth is, no person can determine whether or not he/she should have gotten. You’re not in admissions, and everyone at admissions is different - they judge everything a different way.
Going back to the original topic. I think that you’re lacking in leadership. I myself had several officer positions. I also had quite a few awards (state-wide & region wide). To be completely honest, I was extremely surprised to have gotten into SD due to my low GPA (3.5w because I failed a class). But Extracurricular wise, personal statement, volunteering, leadership, SAT I&II wise I had an extremely high “score.”
I never mentioned hardship or any family related problems.</p>
