<p>Yes im already ahead of the game. im working on my letter and i cant think of much however, i am very convinced two teachers i have will write me kick ass letters of reccomendations. they are both department heads, my bay area public HS has over 4000 students. however i need some new and compelling evidence blah blah.</p>
<p>all i can think of for this is that i recently became a eBay power seller (im a business major)
and i recently became the president of CSF ( a club with other 500 members at my school)</p>
<p>i think i need to think of some more stuff, any ideas? any opinions will be greatly appreciated. </p>
<p>THIS IS NOT A THREAD FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO TELL ME HOW SLIM AND ABYSMAL/NONEXISTANT MY CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE ARE.</p>
<p>ebay power seller is really good, talk about how you want to go to ucla to further advance ur goals etc, yea GL</p>
<p>4000 students? Is this Independence High? If it is, I don't recall 500 students when I was there last year.</p>
<p>nah this is james logan high school in union city. we are at like.. 4300 right now</p>
<p>As a recently rejected UCLA applicant, I was wondering how successful are the appeals. Is it a waste of my time or should I go ahead with it? </p>
<p>I am just so bitter that I didn't get in. Anyone else feeling down?</p>
<p>they arent very successful, however stuff like this rarely fazes me. I cant accept not trying it scares me to death thinking of what could have been. Suck it up and just do it. Who cares if the real statistics are like 0.001%. Could you live with yourself with that "what if" in your head?</p>
<p>It's natural feel down; I remember reading my first rejection letter and I shedded a few tears. Being rejected is not an indication of your academic achievement, but rather the caliber of the application pool.</p>
<p>An appeal is a final chance to convince the university that you should be accepted. It is not a question of whether it will be a waste of your time, but rather a question of rather you have any compelling argument that the university should know so they will change its decision.</p>
<p>But to the point, if a student has below SAT scores and low GPA, the student better have some compelling argument, and not some sort of beg to be accepted.</p>
<p>Madkapitolist, I admire your tenacity. I have no advice, but I just told my good friend who was rejected (rank 7/771, 2000 SAT, GREAT ECs) to appeal.</p>
<p>Hats off to you, and I wish you THE BEST OF LUCK. :)</p>
<p>^ that doesn't mean anything, as each applicant has one component that makes him different from everyone else. As I said before, people underestimate the power of the personal statement.</p>
<p>im a busness major on the open ended i wrote about how i have been business minded since i was like 11 and selling stuff to my classmates and how i gradually moved to an online market. and now (this happened between the time i submitted my app and now) i am ultimatly an ebay power seller. why arent they impressed? i dont know many highschool kids that are ebay power sellers, doesnt that demonstarate any business knowledge to them?</p>