I know a way to get into UCLA

Applying to College
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<p>Here's my rejection letter minus my name:
Dear ______:</p>

<p>After careful review of your application for admission, we sincerely regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission for the Fall Quarter 2005. Let me assure you that we understand and share your disappointment.</p>

<p>UCLA continues to receive more applications for admission than we can accommodate in our freshman class. For fall 2005, we received more than 42,000 applications for about 4,300 available spaces for freshmen.</p>

<p>Each application is unique, and each student presents wonderful attributes and potential. Our work is extraordinarily difficult: Admission officers thoroughly review each application and carefully balance grades, coursework, test scores, honors, awards, community service, leadership, and work experience. Admission officers also consider the opportunities and challenges students face while achieving so much in their schools and communities. Ultimately, no single attribute or achievement guarantees admission -- there are simply too many well-qualified, accomplished, and capable applicants for the number of freshman spaces available at UCLA.</p>

<p>Undoubtedly, your accomplishments assure you a place at another outstanding college or university. Although I realize our decision might be disappointing for you, we are sure you will have many opportunities to achieve your educational goals.</p>

<p>If attending the University of California remains your ambition, you should know that there are other opportunities for admission. Qualified California residents who are not admitted by any of the campuses to which they have applied may be offered freshman admission by another UC campus. UCLA also accepts applications from junior-level transfer students. To learn more about transferring to UCLA and how to optimize the transfer experience, please visit <a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/transfer%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.admissions.ucla.edu/transfer&lt;/a> or <a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/tap%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.admissions.ucla.edu/tap&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

<p>Again, I wish you every success in achieving your educational goals.</p>

<p>Sincerely,
Dr. Vu T. Tran
Director </p>

<p>Over 42,000 applicants for 4,300 spots... given, they accept a little more than that assuming kids will go to other better schools, but that seems kinda close to 10% to me ;)</p>

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<p>UCLA accepts about 10,000 and they only expect to have 4,300 enrolled. plus, the admssions counselors can't see your ethnicity when they're making their decisions. your friends didn't get rejected because they were hispanic.</p>

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<p>I don't think being Hispanic is a disadvantage. If anything it's an advantage because UCLA clearly has backdoor affirmative action. And they can still tell your race by your essay if you mention it.</p>

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<p>meh, oh well. All the same, it cracks me up when they say "your accomplishments assure you a place at another outstanding college or university", as if they've talked another better college into accepting you...</p>

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<p>You know, a lot of times your school's API Score may make a difference in your admission. If there's a student from, I dunno.... Bob High School, that had a 4.2 GPA and a 1450 SAT Score, while there's someone from Blaker High School with the same applicant profile, they're going to take the school's rep. into account. Sure ec's make a difference, and everything else you tried to do to make yourself stand out, but many colleges look to see how your school scores, and if it scores low, many assume that the teachers aren't doing their job, and that the grades you earned at one low scoring school may not be comprable to those at a higher ranking school.</p>

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<p>There has been a continuing trend at my school: people are generally gravitating away from UCLA (even though we're in LA county area) for UCSD(biology), and Cal(for engineering).</p>

<p>i find it very interesting how most of my close friends get the LA letter and don't seem to care at all.</p>

<p>come to think of it, UCLA is one of those perfectly well rounded schools with no obtuse angles that make a specific major really stick out.</p>

<p>If you didn't get into UCLA, don't worry. Cal or SD is the way to go</p>

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<p>Purposeful1 ..u gotta be kidding. 10%?!!! NAH man. dats WAYYY too low. they cant go from 25 % down to 10% in one year.</p>

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<p>blind1595, we can't tell if any school really discriminates based on the high school one went to... we could take a guess but we could never draw a concrete answer. </p>

<p>HOWEVER, UCSD is an exception to that. on their point system, i believe 300 points are given to the applicant if he/she comes from a disadvantaged high school.</p>

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<p>kfc4u,</p>

<p>I'm not saying that they use API Scores throughout the entire admission process... I'm just saying that they use that as a basis between two equally qualified students. They have to make the cut-off somehow, essays with everything else (ec's, work, etc.) can help make a difference, but i'm pretty sure they have a select applicant pool from specific high schools they prefer. Just like affirmative action is technically no longer in use but most likely still integrated somehow in admissions as "disadvantaged" students or whatever colleges call it. I mean, the state exams basically do rank schools in comparison to others. Check it out for yourself if you're from a CA school. <a href="http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Purposeful1 - i might have missed it, but what was your class rank?
Were you in the top 4%?</p>

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<p>It's only a matter of time until UCLA's admit rate drops below 20%.</p>

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<p>my school doesn't rank students, so i don't know whether or not i'm in top 4%, although my school is quite high-ranking.</p>

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<p>thanks for clarifying blind1595. </p>

<p>i re-read your previous post, and it would really suck for a student who comes from a school with a lower API score. my high school for one, was like a dichotomy. half the school were over-achieving honors students, but the other half were slackers who were going to enter the workforce, military, or community college. because my high school came in above average on the API after averaging all the scores, it would suck to think that someone from an above average high school isn't as good as someone from a top high school, even though that student couldn't do anything about half the school scoring poor on the state exams. </p>

<p>=(</p>