Is this for real? or is this a joke?

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<p>Hmm, thanks for figuring that out.
I’m going to call the FinAid office just to be 100% sure.</p>

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<p>Well, it is April Fools day. With that said it seems legit, and the Dream Fund really exists.</p>

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<p>Have a lot of people on this site been receiving this e-mail?</p>

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<p>I received one! :)</p>

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<p>The e-mail is from fao.ucla.edu , but I don’t know if the only official e-mail address they use to send scholarship/financial aid info is <a href=“mailto:finaid@saonet.ucla.edu”>finaid@saonet.ucla.edu</a> .</p>

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<p>Oh, man. This better not be a joke. Can anyone else confirm?</p>

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<p>Do call on Monday, but the Dream Fund is legit, whether or not the email is.</p>

<p>[UCLA</a> receives $200 million gift to create unique philanthropic fund / UCLA Newsroom](<a href=“http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-and-private-foundation-partner-192057.aspx]UCLA”>Newsroom | UCLA)</p>

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<p>^ Is the dream fund supposed to be used toward scholarships though?</p>

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<p>I didn’t get it and I was accepted to UCLA. I hope its real for you guys though it was sent on april fools. Good luck :)</p>

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<p>This is Ronald Johnson, Director of Financial Aid at UCLA, and I want to congratulate, again, the students who received this letter on Friday evening (April Fools Day) and affirm the veracity of the letters that were sent to less than a thousand highly selective students with financial need . A follow-up e-mail from our office, with a revised electronic Provisional Award Letter, will be sent to recipients of the scholarship later this week.<br>
The Financial Aid Office will reopen on Monday, April 4.
Our contact information is:
E-mail: <a href=“mailto:finaid@saonet.ucla.edu”>finaid@saonet.ucla.edu</a>
Phone: (310) 206-0400</p>

<p>Go Bruins!</p>

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<p>Haha. Really now.</p>

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<p>^ Obviously a vain attempt to legitimize a rather poor hoax.</p>

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<p>so this is definitely fake?? O.o</p>

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<p>@JustinR: Do you really think this is still a “hoax”? I mean, it was all verified in this post that it was real:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12328285-post19.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12328285-post19.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>i REALLY hope not… im worried too because usually the correspondence is more…personal?</p>

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<p>common guys…where can I sign up for this magic free tuition :)</p>

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<p>Wow mazdarx7 just PMed me pretending to be someone from the financial aid office. Get a life.</p>

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<p>^ Same here.</p>

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<p>I didn’t get the PM. :[ </p>

<p>Haha. If it isn’t real, I’m really quite confused why someone would go through the effort to make a fake e-mail and get hold of future UCLA student’s addresses. Receiving scholarships would certainly be exciting, but it’s not as good [or terrible] a prank as a fake admissions letter.</p>

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<p>It was sent through UCLA’s mail server and was sent by fao.ucla.edu. One way this would be fake is if someone hacked it and sent this out to a few people. I don’t think that’s the case so it’s highly likely that this is valid. The other way would be UCLA making an April Fool’s joke, but once again I don’t think they’d do something like that intentionally. The last option would be they accidentally sent the email out, but this doesn’t seem like the case either as only a few received it. </p>

<p>So it seems valid.</p>