<p>How nice to come to a thread where the majority of excellent students on this board are accepted. It seems that there were few negative surprises in the SD admissions. How refreshing!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you who got in. :)</p>
<p>Yea, how bout me getting rejected.</p>
<p>1440 SAT
3.9 UC GPA
4 years Varsity Tennis
160 hours Volunteering at UCLA Medical Center</p>
<p>Does that make a lot of sense?</p>
<p>**** UCSD.</p>
<p>No, not really. sorry you were one of the <em>few</em> - </p>
<p>What major did you put on your app? Are you sure your gpa is figured exactly as they would do it?</p>
<p>I honestly don't care anymore. **** these *<strong><em>ty colleges behaving as if they had ivy league admissions statistics. If they wouldnt take me, a bright, hopeful, promising student with all the intent to learn and explore that university, then *</em></strong> them and let them take all the "under-privilged," "first year college student," "english isnt first language" fobs they want.</p>
<p>Theres a point where it shouldnt matter how underprivileged you are, but when your capacity to learn and how much you can contribute to a college should negate that stupid trivial criteria.</p>
<p>Oh well, what can you do, I don't care anymore that they probably chose a low-income, *<strong><em>ty scoring, immigrant over me just because he/she was *</em></strong>ing underprivileged.</p>
<p>I can see why you would be mad but don't take shots at other people. There are all types of underprivileged people out there who would gladly switch places with you. Think about it, would you rather have both parents and a family, or go to UCSD? I know which one I would choose...</p>
<p>megathunder has a good point but your looking at it all wrong. nobody chose how they were born. nobody chooses to be a fob, nobody chooses to be ****ing poor. you need to have more compassion for people who aren't as priveledged as you...</p>
<p>i like megathunder, i want to be friends! Dont worry there is still berkeley and private schools. Im sure ull get in somewhere better than UCSD. Cheer up kiddo!</p>
<p>some people with low incomes.. dont really have low incomes. money isnt in the States..money is abroad. one parent works offshore and is freakin rich offshore. so thier EFC comes out 0 and it shows a single parent family.. that ****es me off... when tey get fin aid and an admission advantage.. but who says life is fair.</p>
<p>Yeah... but I ultimately agree that UCSD decisions do make sense (INFINITELY more than UCLA, at least).</p>
<p>Dru, I never said anything against under-privileged people, my beef is with colleges like UCSD and the other UC's that make that characteristic one of the main criteria for selection. What else do you think that bull**** point system does? All it does is give a huge advantage to those people I mentioned in my previous posts, and to me, that is ****ing wrong on every single level.</p>
<p>It shouldnt ****ing hurt ME that I'm not a crippled immigrant with one parent and a low income who just jumped the fence across the border. Heck, my parents came legally 17 years ago and worked their ass off to get to where they are now to financially provide me a good education. </p>
<p>What <strong><em>es me off is when I get 0 points toward my cumulative selection score because I don't satisfy those *</em></strong>ing bull*** characteristics and some underqualified fob does, and eventually gets accepted because of **** like that.</p>
<p>THAT boils my blood. Anyway, I could care less anymore, all I have to say is **** UCSD.</p>
<p>Your not getting the point are you(pun intended?)? You can go ahead and trade one of your parents for some extra points in selection score.</p>
<p>OP: Makes sense? Relative to what? It makes sense just because you got in? I got rejected to UCSD.</p>
<p>1410 SAT? 4.71 GPA? Extra curricular activities including piano, tennis, track and field, CSF? 200+ hours volunteering? ****ing waste of my time.</p>
<p>It all doesn't matter anymore. I don't care. The only thing I regret now is trying so hard.</p>
<p>yea ... ppl with a lot lower stats made it into UCSD ... due to personal reasons</p>
<p>they take that in account over academia</p>
<p>but u have to have decent grades at least</p>
<p>mwang.. ur ec's arent strong.. 10000 other ppl have about same or above ur SAT score... ur gpa is probably high enough but... did you show ur passion on something? like me..for instance..</p>
<p>i've done a lot of computer stuffs.. starting with designing..website coding... to programming (robotics).. and i went to engineering competition and qualified for the national competition.. </p>
<p>this showed my passion for computer engineering and i clearly stated on my personal statements. college doesnt want 1000000 ppl with high SAT scores and mediocre ec's that 120492304928 other ppl do.</p>
<p>hey
i got in and i didn't even think about doing EC"s or volunteering untill my junior year second semester
GPA: 4.12
SAT: 1360
SATII: 710/670/760
Rank: 28/290
Volunteering: 0 hours</p>
<p>but for extra curriculars, i joined journalism 2nd semester junior year and now im an editor and im in jazz band now. but besdies for that... i can't think of muuhc more. i just made it seem like i was very passionate about music outside of school, which is true. i think they like that becuae it stands out, as opposed to volunteering like a machine at a hospital. im taking 5 ap tests this year too. also, i guess my essays must have kicked ass because i also got into ucla. sorry if i sound cocky but im ****ing psyched.</p>
<p>uhh wangy, not possible to have 4.7 uc gpa buddy.<br>
CSF counts for nothing, it's incredibly easy to get it. 200+ hours of volunteering isn't hard either...
piano? tennis? track and field?
while all those definitely aren't something to be taken lightly, they don't exactly make you stick out.</p>
<p>stop being egotistical.</p>
<p>how come the people complaining that they didnt get into ucsd didnt post their sat ii scores?</p>
<p>Accepted into Winter Quarter, Warren College, undeclared major</p>
<p>GPA: 4.05
SAT I: 1300
SAT II: 750 IIc/740 chem/680 writing
Rank: 85/389 (I go to a prestigious public high school)
14 semesters of APs/honors
Very good essays, decent ECs</p>
<p>i got rejected from ucsd but i definitely had more than enough points to be accepted. i got a lot of those points that megathunder is complaining about, like first generation and enrichment programs. maybe, since it's not set in stone that you'll get in if you meet the point cut off, they don't really care about the extra point stuff if your GPA and SAT are too low to begin with. i dont think they admit unqualified applicants. but of course, they do reject qualified applicants.</p>
<p>Regarding UCSD and UCLA... (which both turned me down)</p>
<p>I think it's alright to award points for:</p>
<p>Traumatic events</p>
<p>Single Parent</p>
<p>Poor</p>
<p>I don't think it's okay to award points for:</p>
<p>First Generation College Student</p>
<p>Race (I know you do UCLA, don't try to hide it)</p>
<p>English not as first language (this is way too easy to BS, I spoke Taiwanese before I went to pre-school and learned English, so technically English is not my frist language)</p>
<p>Low-Tier school</p>
<p>I actually think they should discriminate against people who come from crappier schools. Obviously it's easier to get A's there since the cirriculum has to be dumbed down. Send me to any poorly-off school and see if my GPA would be so bad.</p>
<p>Stats: </p>
<p>3.5 W
1350
770 Writing, 740 Math IIC, 620 Physics</p>
<p>Varsity Tennis, School Website Administrator (currently Co-Webmaster)</p>
<p>My school is ultra competitive. People on this forum sneer at my GPA even though I've worked as hard, if not harder than those people with 4.0+ GPAs.</p>
<p>Most of the teachers are ultra bitter. They all graduated from decent schools, two of the science teachers are UCI alumni. Therefore they assume everyone enjoys having a difficult cirriculum. My statistics teacher is a Stanford graduate. He went there on a full ride. And now he's teaching high school. Guess how bitter he is? The average for the final last semester was a 61%. Remember, this is a school with highly smart and competitive students. It's also an AP class. He doesn't curve tests. So even though I scored the second highest grade on the final, at 76%, my grade drops to an 89.6%. No big deal, right? Oh wait, he then tells me he doesn't round grades! No curve, no rounding?!? Students get C's and D's on most of the tests and he doesn't curve?? Is this what a "good" school nets you? Teachers who make the cirriculum much more difficult than it should be?</p>
<p>I wish standardized tests counted more. I'm looking at people who've gotten into UCLA and UCSD and my scores are better. Yes I know, tests are taken once, GPA reflects your effort throughout the years. </p>
<p>But you have to look at the word "standardized". It makes everyone adhere to a standard. So people from different schools with different teachers and different course difficulties can be compared. But unfortunately SAT I and SAT II scores are way under-emphasized for admissions. </p>
<p>Oh yeah and the A-G courses. I hate how certain academic classes aren't counted in your UC GPA just because they're not college preparatory. For example, the Advanced Web Design ROP (Regional Occupational School) class at my school is clearly not a PE-type class, yet it gets no acknowledgement. Yet music counts as A-G. Great.</p>
<p>I appologize if I sound bitter, angry, and quite frankly like an ass-hole, but getting rejected is not fun. And there's so many problems in the system.</p>