All of my college acceptance letters come online through a portal sometime during the span between March 20th and March 29th, UCLA is March 20th this year. I am definitely different from most people who log onto the portal 30 minutes before hand and refresh and refresh at each college until it’s there. Instead, I want to wait until all 10 of my college acceptances come through and then I will check them all at once. This essentially means that some of my application portals will be sitting their unchecked for a few days and in the case of UCLA 9 days.
Of course, this would all be ruined if UCLA sends a snail mail a few days after March 20th and I see either a small white envelope vs. a big manilla one.
So does anyone know if they do?
No rejection letters are sent. You get your rejection on the UCLA web portal.
@gumbymom are acceptance letters sent?
Yes and along with it an invitation to Bruin Day
The UCLA acceptance packages are gorgeous and very well done btw.
@CADREAMIN how soon after portal notification do they send the packagees?
Here’s the relative dates (I still have this stuff even though this S went elsewhere):
Engineering likely letter 3/11
Acceptance in portal 3/22 (I have the screen shot of it)
Acceptance package letter also dated 3/22 arrived within a day or two of portal.
@CADREAMIN is it pretty much over if you don’t get the likely letter?
@CADREAMIN
What is the engineering likely letter?
@StevenToCollege it’s a letter sent out by the UCLA engineering school that invites a select amount of applicants to attend some sort of event after admissions. This is typically sent to 1-2 weeks before the scheduled admission notification date.
It’s not officially called a likely letter but it gets that name because if you get it, you have almost certainly been accepted. If you don’t get it, it’s not indicative of rejection.
Please note only the engineering school does this.
There are a few other colleges that have similar things as this, lehigh pops to my mind, but it is certainly not done by the majority of colleges.
The likely letter is just giving the top admits to engineering a sneak peek/strong hint at their acceptance, in effort to get their attention before all the other admission letters come out from various schools.It tells you they will see you Bruin Day, the special day for admits. If you get it you are in, if you don’t it does not mean that you won’t get accepted. It’s like the Regent invite, there are plenty of people that get in that don’t get the invite, same with likely letter. And again, just engineering. Who knows if they change up the game plan this year, but they have done these last few years. With 112K applications to deal with, they may be too busy to do them 
@CADREAMIN
@engineeringfashionista
Thanks for the info.
Since you mentioned Regents Scholarship, I thought I bring this up again.
My son was actually invited to apply for UCLA Regents Scholarship last week.
I have been seeing people on this site saying that it’s practically an acceptance.
However, the invitation e-mail indicated the following:
“Please note that this invitation to apply for the Regents Scholarship does not constitute an offer of admission.”
Should I be optimistic?
I would be optimistic for sure, that is a very good sign, but it is not for sure, but about as close as anyone can get at this point in time.There is nothing like getting the acceptance, however and that’s what I told my S about these applications that are coming out now. Not to be discouraging, but I do know people asked to apply at UCB and then did not get in, but I truly think the majority do. The engineering only LL’s however seem to be 100% in (but they are just coming slightly ahead of acceptances anyway, about 10 days). When they come out you will see a zillion posts on here with people wondering what they mean, you’ll see - but you will be ahead of the curve and know what they are Good luck, it’s exciting and painful at the same time to wait for decisions!