<p>Just saw this on AskMaSun blog: Ms</a>. Sun's UC Admissions Blog</p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>All this means is that UCSC is trying to save money.</p>
<p>Cliffs of the article…</p>
<p>-UCLA, UCB, and UCSC all use the same general holistic approach to admission (ie, they give your application a score on a similar platform across UCLA/UCB/UCSC)
-In an effort to save time, if UCSC applicants also aplied to UCLA or UCB, they will use the score that those schools scored the applicant at for their own admissions review so that they do not have to score the application themselves</p>
<p>What about this part: “UCSC readers will read all applications which will NOT be read at UCB or UCLA…” So UCB/UCLA do not read ALL applications?</p>
<p>Of course not! Why would UCLA read an application for someone that didn’t apply to UCLA?</p>
<p>This is what I understood from it:
This only applies if you applied to either UCLA or UCB AND to UCSC
1)UCLA/UCB will give you a score
2) UCSC will use that score to decide your admissions
3) UCSC will ONLY read apps that did NOT have a UCLA/UCB score (meaning you did not apply to these two)
4) Therefore, it makes sense that some people were not admitted to UCSC (despite competitive scores) b/ UCLA/UCB scores harsher that the other UC’s.</p>
<p>I got in UCSC so IMO, UCLA/UCB gave me a relatively good/okay score</p>
<p>UCSC is doing this to save time and money. It will not re-read an app that has already been scored by UCLA/UCB. Instead, it will simply transfer those scores and admit/reject based them. </p>
<p>make sense?</p>
<p>So if u got into santa cruz. You will get into ucla?</p>
<p>Ermmm… I would not say that…
But based on what Ms. Sun posted, that means you received a good enough score from UCLA to get into UCSC. However, that score may still not suffice UCLA’s expectations or whatever.</p>
<p>Oh 
so it doesn’t help???</p>
<p>What if you applied to different majors at these 2 schools?</p>
<p>What if you applied the same mahor to both schools? Sorry im just anxious!!</p>
<p>Beats me lol</p>
<p>Ah i hope i get into ucla. So stressed</p>
<p>Focus on the schools that you have been accepted to.</p>
<p>Ucla comes out on friday. My top choice haha. Isn’t it yours too??</p>
<p>Yeah
But if I don’t get in, then I won’t get in lol
I hope I do but I won’t allow myself to get depressed. No, no, no. aha</p>
<p>my parents daid if i dont get accepted to ucla, i HAVE to go to irvine becasue its “close”. AHHH when will my life begin?</p>
<p>WAIT, so UCSC basically mooched off UCLA and UCB’s admissions officers and used THEIR scores to figure out whether or not to let them get accepted into UCSC?! Cuz tons of my friends were REJECTED/waitlisted to UCSC even though they had WAY higher scores than me… does this mean that I have more of an advantage at getting into UCLA/UCB than they do?! </p>
<p>HOPEEEEEEEEEEE…</p>
<p>“As we consider each individual application - and rest assured, we do consider each one - we look beyond grades and test scores.”
[URL= <a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/freshman/how-applications-reviewed/index.html]SOURCE[/URL”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/freshman/how-applications-reviewed/index.html]SOURCE[/URL</a>]</p>
<p>So…UCSC took the application fee for tens of thousands of applicants…and recycled the scores from more competitive campuses?</p>
<p>I’m calling shenanigans.</p>
<p>Also, this just reinforces my hunch that essays mean squat to all of the UCs save for Cal and LA. Jeeez.</p>