<p>Thank you… 
Did you apply UCLA?</p>
<p>Yes, I did. I also applied to Cal, SD, and Davis. So far, I’ve gotten into all of the colleges I’ve heard from, so Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO, UCSD, UCD, Drexel, RPI, NYU-Poly, Portland State, and Willamette (an LAC in OR). :)</p>
<p>@chocolatechipsss I was accepted by RPI too. But rejected from UCSD and UCD. What’s your stats and major man?</p>
<p>Just to interject, RPI is a great school. You’ll have a lot of opportunity if you go there. Troy can get a little cold in the winter though. ;)</p>
<p>UCLA also rejected… I don’t even know what has happened… :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(</p>
<p>UCLA rejected too. So far rejection from UCSD, UCLA. Waitlisted at UC Davis… Waiting for UC Berkeley. I AM SURE I WILL BE 100% REJECTED. IF ACCEPTED, I MUST BE DREAMING!!! LOL</p>
<p>@Mars I’m sure it’s a great school and I wanted to go OOS for the longest time, but it’s really expensive and CA has some great engineering colleges. Probably grad school. LOL.<br>
@MOO I took this from the UCD acceptance thread, which I took from the SLO acceptance thread. Hahaha.
NOTE: REJECTED FROM UCLA (my first rejection)
Major: ChemE (first choice)
From: Orange, CA
Graduate: HS
CSU/UC GPA: 4.0
HS GPA: 4.14
SAT: 2090/1400 (710 CR+740 W+640 M)
ACT: 30
AP: 10th (Euro-4), 11th (Art History-4, US-4), 12th (CS, Physics B, Gov, English Lit)
ECs: 4 year Key Clubber, 3 year Decathlete (captain my senior year)
Race/Gender: Asian female (FEMALE ENGINEERS WOOT WOOT!)
High school: Private Catholic (I wouldn’t say it’s competitive, but there’s really no middle ground. You’re either part of the really smart minority or not.)
Other college acceptances: Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO, Wilamette, Portland State, Drexel, RPI, UCSD, NYU-Poly
What got me in: Hands down, my personal statements. For my main one, I wrote about learning how to ride a bike at 17. My secondary one was about how my grandparents (who had a hard life) inspire me to pursue higher education. I’m sure being qualified, but not overly qualified helps.<br>
Colleges I still need to hear from: Cal, Vanderbilt, NYU, Columbia, and Dartmouth, but I’m really only considering SLO (as a GenEng major) and UCD. The decision is just too hard. :/</p>
<p>I think you are even better than me. I think I will probably end up with community college becasue the only college RPI is too expensive for me. I don’t know how to do now. I just feel too bad… :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
I did not receive supplement from UCLA or UCB. I think as UCLA rejected me, UC Berkeley also rejects me. That means I can not be accepted by at least one UC :(:(:( What can I do… I don’t know.</p>
<p>There are some state schools that are still accepting applications and even some schools in CA. You never know about UCB. Next Friday! ^_^</p>
<p>I think you are good. If I were accepted by Davis, I believe I will probably go there. My intended major is physics, but when I saw every thread in UCLA, UCSD andUC Davis. Nobody’s major is physics…</p>
<p>MYOMOO: I think community college is an awesome path to take in California. You can get a fabulous 2 years of education very cheaply and then transfer into a top UC. I had friends who went the community college route and then transferred to Cal, UCLA or UCSD and did quite well. One did his final two years at Cal and is now at a top ten graduate school in his field. I expect to be hearing similar good news from another at UCLA shortly.</p>
<p>One downside is that if you’re ready to get into a research lab right away, you most likely need to be at a UC to do that. (Though I’ve been at conferences where CC students also gave presentations, so you never know!) However, if it was unlikely you were going to do that until you got your basics out of the way or if you’re not interested in being in a lab at all, it doesn’t matter so much. Another downside is you miss out on two years of the ‘college experience’ of living on campus–but community colleges have activities to get involved in too, so you’re not entirely missing out and when you transfer, you’ll have that experience for sure.</p>
<p>In high school I thought community colleges were for the unprepared, but now I’ve met so many people who made the most of their local community college and went on to do well at their transfer school that I think ‘wow, if only I was smart enough to have chosen that route when I was in high school.’ There are some really strong community colleges in the Bay and LA areas (and probably elsewhere too, I’m just not as familiar). Work with advisors there to find all the opportunities most students miss and prepare a stellar transfer application.</p>
<p>I feel for you not getting into your dream schools, but I want to encourage you to make the most of your situation, know that it’s not as bad as it seems, and hopefully end up at one of those dream schools in 2 years time.</p>
<p>@evencycle I mention that I want to do particle physics research, join large experimental projects and become a scientist on nuclear fusion… I DID WANT TO WORK IN LAB ALL DAY. I LOVE KNOWLEDGE RATHER THAN A DEGREE. THAT IS ALSO WHY I COME FROM CHINA TO USA. See what now… IT REALLY SUCKS… :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(</p>
<p>MYOMOO: You’ll still get knowledge If you have AP classes, you might be able to cut down your time at a community college. If you’re nearby at UC, you can still look into volunteering at a lab there. It’s possible there may be programs to fund community college students to try to even things up. </p>
<p>Also, look into research experience for undergraduates (REU) programs over the summer. With those you can be funded to go to another university for the summer and spend all the time in the lab.</p>
<p>Some professors will want you to have your basic classes out of the way or some pre-requisite classes before they take you into their lab anyway, so you might not even be missing much. This is also a way that they can have some assurance that you’ve adapted to college well and are responsible enough to work with. (A friend of mine asked a famous professor to do research pretty much first thing freshman year… he told her to come back once she had taken a series of classes.)</p>
<p>The opportunities are out there. This isn’t your ideal image of how things are going to go, but we’ll all run into things like this. Now you can show how quick you pick yourself up and find slightly different road to your dream. If you have focus and industry, that persistent effort will lead to undeniable strength and you’ll get to being in that lab all day.</p>
<p>@evencycle Thank you. I think you are right, but I still feel very depressed… :(:(:(:(:( At first I assume that USA is a good place to continue my scientific research so I chose to immigrate instead of attending to a very prestigious college in China: Sun Yat-sen University… Ranked NO.10, where I can have opportunities to conduct many scientific researches. Now the result is too BAD. I somewhat regreted my initial choice… :(:(:(:(:(</p>
<p>Today, another rejection comes. Boston University rejected me, too. Lol. I think I will be rejected by all colleges I applied, even community college.</p>
<p>LOL. I got the option to waitlist at Boston College. Yeah, right.</p>
<p>To elaborate further about what evencycle has said:</p>
<p>In a CCC, forming relationships with your professors is a great opportunity. If you let them know about your interests and participate a lot then they will help you in your endeavors. For instance, the teachers at my school suck at teaching AP Calculus AB, so I choose to take Calculus I in my local CC. It didn’t help me much in college admissions, but I don’t regret it. I was pretty lucky, I was at the bottom of the waitlist yet I was the last person to get in because everyone else who wanted to get in seem to have disappeared. I worked hard, talked to the professor occasionally (not as much as I would have liked, I am introvert), whom I liked, and got an A. Now I’m almost done with self-studying for the AP Calculus BC exam.</p>
<p>My point is to not give up hope. Everyone of us has the power to begin something exciting. You have already taken the first step by immigrating to the United States to go to college. This is one of many obstacles for you (and all of us), but know this. Whatever you do, whether in big or small proportions, it will be the catalyst of great change.</p>
<p>But right now I feel really bad though…</p>
<p>Boston College also rejected… :(:(:(</p>