Does UCLA have an idea about this?

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<p>Hi, so I've had a question for a while that I've kinda wondered. So While schools that use the common app have an idea of what school you go to because of the submitted school reports and everything, when applying to UCLA that doesn't have you send one in, can they see any of that? </p>

<p>The reason I'm asking is that I go to a small rural school in Nebraska, and the school does not offer any Honors, IB, or AP courses, and in the school I've definitely taken the most challenging courses available to me, but I don't know if from the application they know what type of school I went to or what was offered and what not.</p>

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<p>When your HS sent your transcripts in to UCLA, they also filled out a “school profile” which contains the info you’re referencing.</p>

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<p>When does that happen though? Do they contact your counselor during their review of your application to get that information? Because I thought that for the UCLA system they don’t want any transcripts until after you are accepted.</p>

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<p>Your understanding is correct – official transcripts are required only after you are accepted and you choose to attend. The transcripts serve only to verify the course and grade data that you entered on your application.</p>

<p>In practice it is unlikely that admissions knows very much about your rural school in Nebraska, and whether the nature of the school is a significant factor in the decision process.</p>

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<p>My old school that I attended for 9th and 10th grade didn’t offer any of those classes either…I just put down on my application in the part where it said I could put down any other information they should know, that my school during the time of my 9th and 10th grade years did not offer any AP/Honors/IB classes during the time I attended</p>

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<p>I would second the notion of putting that your school does not offer AP/IB classes in any “additional information” box. I’m not sure if the UCs get to see school reports/profile during admission consideration, but if the schools receive multiple student applications from the same school, I believe they compare students from the same school. So they might be able to see that nobody else from your school has taken AP/IB classes.</p>