Well, I got an important letter from the University of California yesterday. Hoping for it to say that they had all the necessary materials (ACT score), I opened it immediately. I was dumbfounded when it said that they wanted verification of my grades—that I was one of the ‘‘lucky few’’ randomly chosen to have to send their transcripts. Its postmark-due-date is January 31st.
How rare is this “honor”? Anyone else in the same situation? My favorite part was the options: (1) I’m turning it in on time. (2) I’ll be late, here’s why. (3) I’m not sending it. I withdraw my applications.
<p>Just a random audit -- mail it in and await the fat envelope. Good luck.</p>
<p>btw: A couple of years ago in a reserach study, the Berkeley Hass School of Business randomly verified resumes/apps of kids who had been accepted into the MBA program. Long story-short, there were numerous job fabrications on the apps....resulting in numerous withdrawls of acceptances.</p>
<p>The UC's do these random audits for several things, including asking for verification of extracurriculars and work history. Shouldn't be a problem or cause you to panic...unless, of course, you haven't told the truth in the first place. :)</p>
<p>Do you remember the Simpsons episode where Principle Skinner begins to read a list of students who failed to the auditorium full of students. The first name he reads out is Ralph Wiggens, who immediately gets up and yells, "I won"</p>
<p>I'm not worried, just very surprised. Guess you can't just fill up your UC App with self-reported A's...</p>
<p>Not that I did.</p>
<p>They did not ask for award, sports, community service, employment, or art verification, just grades. (Though there are instructions for if they requested any of those).</p>
<p>[Paraphrasing]The letter was like, "As you know when you choose which campus to attend, they will check your transcripts to verify your grades. The University has selected a random sample of applicants to provide verification. [Next Paragraph] You have been selected as part of this sample of applicants. [A few paragraphs later] Failure to submit documentation by January 31, 2005 may result in cancellation of your application..."</p>
<p>Just curious to know how many this happened to. Just as the UC is taking a small sample to see how many lied in their applications, I'm taking a [not at all random] sample to see how many others have to do the same thing.</p>
<p>No, just that my "application will not be reviewed by any campus until satisfactory documentation verifying the highlighted information [academic record] is received."</p>