<p>k so i've gotten into uci, ucd, and ucr on elc's already, and my friend told me she got in to ucsd with elc too... i was really surprised b/c it's pretty competitive!
idk if it's true or not!</p>
<p>also... what kinds of descriptions of my "world" should i put in my personal statement? i already wrote one but my parents kinda shot it down and now want me to stuff it with everything i've accomplished, ever, and i'm not sure how i'm gonna weave it in!</p>
<p>please help!</p>
<p>I can't find if UCSD is under ELC or not but I'd highly doubt it because, like you said, it is a very competitive school now. Perhaps you misheard or she misread and was actually accepted ELC to UCSC. </p>
<p>For your essay, I'm not an expert but I've heard that you don't want to put too many of your accomplishments in your essays otherwise you might come off as obnoxious/boastful. If your essay is directly related to how you achieved one of your accomplishments, of course that is fine, just don't try and pack your essay with your entire EC resume. That's what the EC part of the app is for. Remember, "world" can be defined as anything. It could be your bedroom, your school, your job, your car, anything.</p>
<p>no, ucsd is not an auto-accept for elc. But, SD routinely accepts ~90% of 'em, so pretty close to a guarantee.</p>
<p>Santa Barbara didn't send out letters, but did post on thier website that they will be accepting all elc'ers.</p>
<p>agree with noob. write a focused essay, don't rehash the list of ECs/honors/awards that are listed elsewhere.</p>
<p>Last year, my friend got ELC and got multiple invitations to apply to UCSD, which is sort of like a guarantee in. (These weren't regular college spam mail invitations.)</p>
<p>UCSD doesn't guarantee acceptance, but they sent a letter to me to apply to their honors program.</p>
<p>Bluebayou: I received an automatic acceptance letter from Santa Barbara last week.</p>
<p>^^ooops, my bad.</p>
<p>dlia13, are you an exact twin of me? I just got my UCD UCI AND UCR ELC letters, and one of my friends said she got a UCSD ELC letter, but i was like yeah right, because she said she didnt even open the envelope and threw it away before she read it...</p>
<p>i was ELC and I got into UCSD with 4.3 1940 450/600</p>
<p>I got UCD, UCI, and UCR letters. I also got a UCSD letter which didn't state I've been accepted, but encourages me to apply under ELC. :) And yeah, UCSD accepted around ~90% of ELC students last year.</p>
<p>arctic, you got a 450 on a subject test? or am i reading ur stats wrong =P</p>
<p>i got a 450 on lit and 600 on math2 lol thats right</p>
<p>wow, thats so paradoxical, ELC and 450 / 600 (nothing personal just surprised) =]</p>
<p>yeah. i also got accepted to all the mentioned schools through ELC. UCD, UCI but i didn't get a letter from UCR.
i also got a letter from UCSD encouraging me to apply with ELC status but no guarantee. I think some of your friends might have misinterpreted that "invitation to apply letter" as ELC guaranteed acceptance. i'm not sure though. but i know that my counselor said that UCLA, UCB and UCSD is not part of the program.</p>
<p>agree with Kiiki. </p>
<p>ELC student, PGA 4.3, Bio 800, Math 2c 770, SAT 1 close to 2100. Got in bio major this Sep.</p>