*** Official UCLA Class of 2018 RD Results ONLY ***

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Single sitting: 1950 (Superscored) 1930 (Single Sitting)
SAT II: Literature: 710 Math 2: 740
ACT: 33
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calc AB (4) [School does not offer AP’s]</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
Piano (9 years)
Junior Class Representative (1 year)
Current Issues Club (3 years)
Tutoring Elementary School Students (4 years)
Job/Work Experience: Tutoring K-8 students (2 years)
Volunteer/Community service: Over 120 hours of various projects. Commitment to mentoring at school and working with elderly students.
Summer Activities: Working/Volunteering
Essays: Written about my passion for science and observing discrimination that my mother faces daily
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
State (if domestic applicant): OR
School Type: Private. Approx. 300 students.
Ethnicity: Half-Vietnamese, Half-Jewish Ameircan
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 150K+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Women interested in STEM field and First Generation College Student
Strengths: High GPA+decent test scores+well-written essays
Weaknesses: Low SAT II Tests
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Strong GPA (Out-of-State Student)
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Northeastern, University of Oregon, Boston University, UCI, and waitlisted at Washington University in St. Louis. Denied at Duke (ED)
General Comments:
I’m really surprised that I was accepted to UCLA just due to the nature of what the college process is. With such a low acceptance rate, I was not expecting this! I’m super excited about UCLA, but I am waiting to hear from a couple other reaches next week and that will make my final decision then! Congratulations to everyone who was accepted and to everyone who was not don’t worry! I was denied from my–originally thought–dream school and it’s turning out for the best for me! </p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to social science undeclared!</p>

<p>Objective:
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):710 W, 690 cr, 640 M (ouch! im asian)
[</em>] SAT II: Bio: 700, Chem:700
[<em>] ACT:didnt take
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:full ib diploma. 39/45 predicted ib points</p>

<p>[/list]Subjective:
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):business club, entrepreneur, writer of a food blog, locally recognized musician
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:worked at sears
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:homework tutor for disabled kids
[</em>] Summer Activities:2 uni level courses at upenn, A in both
[ <em>] Essays: honestly two of my best essays in all of my college app essays. My topics were quite wild and creative (I wrote my second essay on dumplings…). Readers of my essays said that it really brought my personality out, and was quite enjoyable.
[/list]Other
[li] State (if domestic applicant):[/li][</em>] Country (if international applicant):CANADA
[<em>] Ethnicity:asian–chinese
[</em>] Gender:F</p>

<p>Reflection
[<em>] Strengths:full ib, extracurriculars, good essay, summer program at Penn, my ability to show them who i am in the essays.
[</em>] Weaknesses:sat score definitely, my IB predicted could have been better. Being an international student, and being chinese.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:Since grade 11, UCLA has been my goal, and guided me to become better in my endeavours. I guess that the admissions people saw beyond my not so perfect sat scores, and really looked at the whole package. I was quite scared about UCLA’s results, because my sat math was so low and devastating for me, a student whose peers all have 800s on their sat math section. To students who are reading this-- never feel defeated, never lose confidence in yourself. I believed that i can attend my dream school, and I will :).
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:accepted by UBC, Mcgill, UIUC, UWO
Rejected by CMC
**General Comments:[/b
Thank you, UCLA</p>

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<p>[size=10]Decision: Accepted[/size=10]</p>

<p>School & Major: College of Letters & Science - Biochemistry</p>

<p>Objective:

  • [<em>] SAT I: 1820 (CR 570 M 620 W 650 E 10)
    [</em>] ACT: 26 (E 26 M 27 S 27 R 22 E 09)
    [<em>] SAT II: N/A
    [</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
    [<em>] UC GPA: 4.31
    [</em>] Rank: 7/73 (Top 10%)
    [li] AP:[/li]- [10] AP European History (3)
    - [11] AP English Language & Composition (3)
    - [11] AP Environmental Science (2)
    - [11] AP US History (4)
    - [12] AP English Literature & Composition
    - [12] AP Calculus AB
    - [12] AP Biology
    - [12] AP Government & Politics: US
    [li] Senior Year Course Load:[/li]- AP Calculus AB
    - AP Biology
    - AP English Literature & Composition
    - AP Government & Politics: US
    - Honors Spanish IV
    - Dramatic Arts/Film/Video/Television
    - Visual Arts & Comprehensive Imagery
    - JROTC IV
    - Church History & Comparative Religion
    - Economics/Business
    [li] Awards:[/li]- AP Scholar Award
    - The American Legion Military Excellence Medal
    - 2013 Saint Michael’s College Book Award: Academic Achievement with a Social Conscience
    - Awards of Excellence
    - Dr. Joseph Bator Memorial Scholarship

Subjective:

  • Extracurriculars:</p>
    <ul>
    <li><p>[9, 10, 11, 12] **JROTC<a href=“11%20%7C%20Cadet%20Master%20Sergeant%20-%20Brigade%20S-3:%20Training%20Assistant%20NCO;%2012%20%7C%20Cadet%20Lieutenant%20Colonel%20-%20Brigade%20S-2:%20Information%20&%20Current%20Affairs%20Officer,%20Brigade%20S-3:%20Training%20Assistant%20Officer”>/b</a>: 222 Hours
    My school’s JROTC program has been around since 1902, and I am the first to hold the Brigade S-2 position. I am commissioned to the second-to-the-highest rank in a brigade of 300+ cadets. This makes me 5th in command. I have also revamped and redesign the school’s old newsletter (last published in 1991) under this new position.</p></li>
    <li><p>[10, 11, 12] Spanish Club: 45 Hours
    Our Spanish Club involves many activities that include an annual trip down to St. Augustine, salsa dancing lessons, a traveling art show, planning International Day, and helping out an orphanage down in Mexico.</p></li>
    <li><p>[11, 12] **Benedictine Knights of the Leo Club<a href=“11%20%7C%20Co-Founder%20&%20Vice%20President;%2012%20%7C%20Board%20of%20Directors”>/b</a>: 112 Hours
    I co-founded this club along with a friend in hopes of finding community service opportunities for our friends to do, and to have fun doing them together. Our school requires 70 hours of community service to graduate. </p></li>
    <li><p>[11, 12] **Yearbook “Sabre” Staff<a href=“12%20%7C%20Editor-in-Chief”>/b</a>: 116 Hours
    I have completely redesign the entire yearbook this year by myself versus reusing all of the templates from my predecessors.</p></li>
    <li><p>[12] **Math Team<a href=“12%20%7C%20Founder”>/b</a>: 31 Hours
    Reviving an old, happy, middle school memory, I started a Math Team. </p></li>
    </ul>
  • Job/Work Experience: N/A</p>
  • Volunteer/Community service:</p>
    <ul>
    <li><p>[10, 11, 12] National Honor Society: 96 Hours
    I developed a tutoring program and work the blood drive.</p></li>
    <li><p>[11, 12] STEM Club: 20 Hours
    I founded this club and is also the Environmental Division Head. I established a recycling program for the school under this club.</p></li>
    <li><p>[11] Lions’ Club International: 7 Hours
    An annual event where my friends and I unload hundreds of Christmas trees, and help sell them to raise money to purchase eyeglasses for those in need of them.</p></li>
    <li><p>[11] Tara Feis: 4 Hours
    An annual Irish festival, in which I help by managing rides, cleanup after folks, and serving food. It’s completely ran by high school students.</p></li>
    </ul>

    <p>[li] Summer Activities:[/li]- LeadAmerica Conference on Business Innovation at Stanford University
    - National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine at the University of California-Berkeley</p>

    <p>[<em>] Essays:
    - Personal Statement #1: I wrote about growing up in the back of nail salon that was located in a bad neighborhood, and how that caused my young, innocent self to realize the evils of the world earlier than most children. I also mentioned being an Asian kid, of immigrant parents who speak broken English, growing up in the Deep South and on the East Coast. I played a lot on my identity as an Asian versus an Asian American.
    - Personal Statement #2: I wrote about taking care of my young brother while my parents work 24/7. I emphasized on playing the parent role and how I taught my brother various things that all kids learn from their parents ranging from riding a bike to being potty-trained. Also, I said that my younger brother has also become my own model, teaching me how to dream and to never completely grow up.

Other

  • [</em>] State (if domestic applicant): GA
    [<em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
    [</em>] School Type: Small, Private, Religious, All-Boys, Military
    [<em>] Ethnicity: Asian - Vietnamese
    [</em>] Gender: Male
    [<em>] Income Bracket: < $60,000
    [</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Generation College Student

Reflection

  • [li] Strengths: GPA, Extracurriculars, Personal Statements[/li][li] Weaknesses: Test Scores, Community Service[/li][li] Why you think you were accepted?[/li]I think I was accepted because of my personal statements and GPA. My personal statements were just that, personal. In fact, I bawled my eyes out when I was writing my second one about my younger brother. I felt like I was relieving a huge weight on my shoulders, being able to be honest and to tell my life’s story. As far as my GPA goes, I think it being a perfect 4.0, it compliments well with my class rigor when you consider that my school only offers 10 AP classes and 19 Honors classes. My extracurriculars are honestly all over the place, but they do show a lot of innovation. Instead of seizing opportunities, I created opportunities for myself, as well as for others. I spent a lot of time trying my best to make a change at my school, and I believe that it’s another form of leadership in itself.
    [li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li](As of 03/24/14)
    Accepted:
    - University of California: Riverside
    - University of California: Merced
    - University of California: Irvine
    - University of California: Davis
    - University of California: Santa Cruz
    - University of California: Santa Barbara
    - University of California: Los Angeles
    - Pepperdine University
    - University of Georgia</p>

    <p>Waitlisted:
    - University of California: San Diego</p>

    <p>Rejected:
    - University of Notre Dame
    - Rice University

General Comments:
I honestly don’t know what to say. A lot of people had their doubts about me being accepted into UCLA, and I did too. So… Being accepted into a great school such as UCLA has been an honor, but my number one choice is UC Berkeley. But for those high school students that are planning on applying to UCLA and are worried, especially about your test scores, don’t. Your test scores do not define who you are, but it’s what you do and decide to do that makes you who you are. If you don’t like something that you’re doing then improve yourself and get better. Not to mention, I’m an out-of-state applicant too, so it’s supposed to be more difficult for me, but I did it anyways! Also, my personal statements were planned two to three weeks ahead of time, so that’s very important. And if anything, take this advice that I didn’t follow, never lose sight of a dream and have hope! FIAT LUX!</p>

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<p>School & Major: Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences undecided</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>SAT I 2200: Math 710, Reading 730, Writing 760
SAT II: Math I 720, Literature 720 </p>

<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9 (weighted 4.8)
Rank: 3
AP: AP Psychology (5), AP English Language (5), AP Government (5), AP Calculus (5)
Major Awards: National Merit semifinalist</p>

<p>State: Connecticut
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: high income</p>

<p>Strengths: I host a cable-access TV show
Weaknesses: subject tests</p>

<p>Accepted:

  • McGill
  • University of Connecticut - Honors
  • UCLA</p>

<p>Deferred:

  • Yale</p>

<p>Waitlisted:

  • University of Chicago</p>

<p>Rejected: none</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (M/W/CR): 2270 (800/800/670) and 2180 (710/710/760)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 740 Bio, 800 Math II, 760 US History
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] APs: APUSH 5, AP Calc BC 5, AP Bio 4, AP Chinese 5
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP English Lit, AP Music Theory, AP Physics B, Spanish 4, Gov/econ
[</em>] IBs:
[<em>] GPA (UW, W): 3.875
[</em>] Rank:
[li] Other stats: National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Honors, Various Scholastic Art & Writing awards in photography</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:

[list]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Singing in choir for 12 years, piano lessons for 10 years (Advanced level CM), around 400 service hours performing at senior centers with a community service organization, Treasurer of school photography club
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: formed and leading a choir with music related community service organization (I’m paid for leading the rehearsals)
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses, and what you think of them):
[</em>] Teacher Recs?:
[<em>] Counselor Rec?:
[</em>] How did you apply (ED? RD?): RD
[<em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type: Really competitive public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: This decision was quiteee disheartening. Even more so after scrolling through pages and pages of acceptances on college confidential. </p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>School & Major: Letters and Science; Psychology</p>

<p>Objective:

[list]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t Submit
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT II: Didn’t Submit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.878
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.041
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 24/273 (Top 9%)
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): European History (3), Language (4)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Bio, AP Gov</p>

<p>Subjective:

[list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS VP, 2 year varsity basketball captain
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: First student in school district to be offered job working with students with special needs during their sport
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at community center in lower socio-economic area
[</em>] Summer Activities: Had job working with students with special needs
[<em>] Essays: Wrote about how working with kids with special needs has made me want to study the mind.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Decent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Solid. She wrote about an independent study I conducted for her regarding how depression is treated.
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CO
[<em>] School Type: Competitive public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White as sour cream
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>]Income Bracket: About $160,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): My extracurriculars related directly to my academic areas of interest.</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection

[list]
[<em>] Strengths: Extracurriculars and essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: Test scores and too few AP classes
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: ACT score wasn’t high enough, I didn’t submit SAT subject tests, and I took too few AP classes.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: UCSD, UCSB, Boston University, University of Rochester, University of Richmond, Tulane
Rejected: Cornell, Vanderbilt, Rice
Waiting to hear back from: Penn, Brown, Berkeley, Wake Forest, USC, NYU, Lehigh, Tufts</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>School & Major: Letters & Science; Pre-International Development</p>

<p>Objective:

  • [<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740 CR, 710 Math, 740 Writing; 2190 Composite
    [</em>] ACT: 33
    [<em>] SAT II: 780 Math II, 780 Language, 700 US History
    [</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.82, Weighted 4.62
    [<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank
    [</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Psych (4), USH (4), Foreign Language (5)
    [<em>] Senior Year Course Load: Gov/Econ, Statistics, Literature, Biology, Calc AB; all APs
    [</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar

Subjective:

  • [<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): MUN (extensive involvement, almost 20 awards), Mock Trial (attorney, treasurer), FBLA (secretary), a bunch of honor societies (President of one of them)
    [</em>] Job/Work Experience: intern for a debate/international relations company
    [<em>] Volunteer/Community service: founded a microfinancing branch in my area, fundraised and volunteered for several NGOs, TA at local Saturday school that teaches foreign languages to kids
    [</em>] Summer Activities: International business college course, debate-related summer camp
    [<em>] Essays: super gr8

Other

  • [</em>] State (if domestic applicant): California, but citizen of another country
    [<em>] School Type: large competitive public
    [</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
    [<em>] Gender: Female
    [</em>]Income Bracket: ~100k
    [<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I have the opposite of a hook

Reflection

[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: ECs, essays, test scores maybe
[<em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Holistic admissions for sure. UCLA was a high match for me and my top choice. I think I got in b/c of a combination of pure luck and some merit. Haha
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at all UCs (still waiting on Berkeley); Rejected at Northwestern, Claremont McKenna, UPenn; Waitlisted at Boston College, Notre Dame; Waiting for UMich, NYU, Dartmouth[/li][/ul]General Comments: YAYYYYY I got into my top choice! I’ve been dreaming about UCLA since middle school. Even though I’ve applied to ‘more prestigious’ schools, I’d turn them down for UCLA. </p>

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<p>Decision: ACCEPTED :)</p>

<p>STATS:</p>

<p>HIGH SCHOOL</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2100 (720 Writing, 710 Math, 670 Reading)
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Test in one sitting.
ACT (breakdown): NONE
ACT superscore (breakdown): NONE
SAT II (subject, score): 780 MATH II, 760 MATH I, 690 CHEMISTRY
Unweighted/Weighted GPA: 3.86 UW & 4.34 W
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10% (school doesn’t rank)
AP/IB (place score in parentheses): AP Calculus (5), AP Chinese (4), AP English (4), AP Chemistry (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Economics, AP Biology, AP English 12, AP Calculus BC, AP Psychology, Entrepreneurship, Psychology, Gym</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Finalist in Coca Cola Scholars Program, Semifinalist in Coca-Cola Scholars Program, Silver Key and Honorable Mention (2) in Scholastic Writing Awards, Trib Total Media Outstanding Citizen Award (Top 50), Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week Scholarship recipient, Discus Awards Honorable Mention, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America Essay Contest Winner, Ralph Munn Creative Writing Contest Winner, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh Scholarship Recipient, GirlGov Seminar, CMU SUCCEED Program scholarship recipient</p>

<p>Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar with Honor, High Honor Student, National Honors Society</p>

<p>COMMUNITY COLLEGE</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0/4.0 (56 credits thus far) I’ll have over 60 credits by the time I graduate with an associate’s degree in math and science.</p>

<p>Major Awards: Nu Delta Alpha National Dance Honors Society, Coca Cola Community College Academic Team Bronze Scholar, Nominated to All-USA Academic Team, 2013 All-PA Academic Team, Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar, Phi Theta Kappa National Honors Society, Dean’s List (around 3 times)</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>HIGH SCHOOL
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Dance Team (founder and president, 11), Yearbook (Head Clubs and Activities editor, 10, 11, 12), SADD Club (president, 9-12), Multicultural Club (treasurer, 12), Student Ambassador (10-12), Marching Band (Keyboard Player, 10-11), Keystones Math Tutor (11), Fox Shop (Booth Manager, 11-12)
Job/Work Experience: KUMON (started at end of 11th grade)
Volunteer/Community Service: Chinese Dance Instructor (11-12), Volunteers of America (Tutor/mentor, 10-12), Beechwood Farms (led a hike, 11), Community Library Assistant (10-11), Camp Allegheny (Counselor, 10-11)</p>

<p>COMMUNITY COLLEGE:
Extracurriculars: Phi Theta Kappa Chapter (Vice President of Scholarship, 10-12), Student Ambassador (11-12), Dance Club (11-12), Nu Delta Alpha (12), Newspaper (11-12)</p>

<p>Other:</p>

<p>City: Pittsburgh, PA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: Over $100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athlete, development):</p>

<p>**Accepted to Brandeis University, Wesleyan University, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Pittsburgh (still waiting on 13 more schools)</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Major: Biomedical Engineering</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT: 34 (34M, 36S, 33R, 33R)
SAT II: Math II: 720, BioM: 730, USHistory: 740
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
UC GPA: 4.6
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/121
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP US History (5), AP Psychology Lit (5), AP European History (4), AP Language and Composition (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus BC, AP Biology, AP Literature, AP Microeconomics, AP US Government, AP Statistics</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
Boy Scouts (Eagle Scout), Cross-Country (4 years on varsity, 2 years as team captain), Soccer (4 years, 2 years on varsity), Track and Field (3 years on varsity, 2 years as team captain), ASB (high school’s publicity/communications commissioner), Tutoring international students, NHS, Head student ambassador (I go to a private school and lead campus tours and visit days), Altar serving, HOBY International Ambassador
Job/Work Experience: Worked as lifeguard and merit badge counselor at Boy Scout summer
Volunteer/Community service: Over 300 recorded hours (Eagle Project, Catholic Charities, various service to the poor and marginalized)
Summer Activities: Worked as lifeguard and merit badge counselor at Boy Scout summer
Essays: I live in a farm town in California’s Central Valley but commute an hour to and from school everyday. I wrote about my daily experience of riding a yellow school bus through farm land for 2 hours everyday and how use that time to think and reflect.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: Private (Catholic). Around 600 students.
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Enough
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): LOL
Strengths: High GPA, rigorous course load, ECs
Weaknesses: Moderate test scores for competitive engineering programs
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: The UCs are accepting more out of state applicants while maintaing quotas, screwing over the Californians that fund their institutions
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Cal Poly (SLO), Santa Clara, UCI, UCSD, UCD, Stevens Institute of Technology Waitlisted: UPenn, Berkeley, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon Rejected: UCLA
Comments: I hate to be bitter about this but I am. Engineering is just so competitive! Props to those who got in and got luck.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT: 32 composite, 36 maths, 33 science, 29 English and reading ( English learner)
SAT II: Maths level II 800, Chem 750, Chinese 790 (native language, sent for A-G language credit)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97+
UC GPA: 4.23+
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 9% of 792
ELC?: yes
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB 5, Chem 4, Physics B 3
IB (place score in parenthesis): None.
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Env. Sci, regular English, government and econ, global art (good at art and won two prizes)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, excellent student at school/ region
Subjective:

  • Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
  • Clubs member and Vice President (2 years)
  • Track and field team member (only 1 year)
  • CSF member
    Job/Work Experience: baby sitter and warehouse keeper
    Volunteer/Community service: elementary school (3 years), private school summer camp leader (one summer), CSF events (20 hours)
    Personal Statement: I wrote about my father and our first days in this country three years ago. I indicated interest in chemistry under the influence of my dad, and how I strived toward my goals.
    Other
    Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope
    Intended Major: Undeclared physical science, chemistry maybe
    State (if domestic applicant): California
    Country (if international applicant): home country- PRC
    School Type: changing from a charter school in PRC, to a private Christian school (500+), and to a really really big Public school (3000+)
    Ethnicity: Asian
    Gender: Female
    Income Bracket: 10k+
    Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): nothing
    Strengths: GPA, personal statement’s about creative topic
    Weaknesses: ECs, no enough leaderships
    Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my grade and test scores are above average, good personal statements.
    General Comments: Got rejected by Berkeley and other selective schools yesterday (disaster!), so UCLA I’m coming!!!</p>
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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>School & Major:</p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take
[</em>] ACT: 35 (35 E, 36 M, 33 R, 36 S)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Music Theory (5), APUSH (5), AP Micro (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP Stats (4), AP Lang (4), AP CS (5), AP Comp Gov (5), AP Chem (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calc, AP Lit, AP Bio, Spanish 5, AP Physics, AP Gov, AP Macro, Psychology
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar[/ul]
Subjective:

[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years on the boys’ high school swim and dive team, senior year NHS
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Kumon over the last summer, recreational soccer referee since freshman year
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at local library since sophomore year
[<em>] Summer Activities: Swimming and programming
[</em>] Essays: Smash Bros + CS goals (world you come from, 7/10), Experience in first-grade that led me to like math and experience in eighth-grade that led me to pursue CS (8/10)
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I knew one of my recommending teachers since sophomore year and met the other at the end of junior year. Haven’t seen the rec letters.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Haven’t seen counselor rec
[<em>] Additional Rec: None
[</em>] Interview:[/ul]
Other

[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MN
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public school that graduates about 800 per year
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>]Income Bracket: ~200K
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None[/ul]
Reflection

[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Objective stats, Essays
[<em>] Weaknesses: Lack of leadership positions
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I dunno, but I’m pretty happy.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to U Minnesota, U Wisconsin, U Illinois, USC; Waitlisted at CMU (SCS); Rejected from Duke, Harvard, MIT (deferred EA), Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, UChicago (deferred EA), UPenn[/li][/ul]
General Comments: Sadly, I most likely won’t be able to attend UCLA due to no merit aid. (Perhaps I’ll receive the alumni scholarship… Perhaps…) :frowning: If I were only in-state… Oh well, congrats to everyone! </p>

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<p>** Decision: Accepted **</p>

<p>School & Major: Computer Science Engineering </p>

<p>Objective:

  • [<em>] SAT I (by section): 2350 (800/800/750 CR)
    [</em>] SAT IIs: 780, 780, 800
    [<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.68, 3.98
    [</em>] Rank: top 9%
    [<em>] ACT: n/a
    [</em>] APs (including this year’s): 5’s on 6 tests, 5 more tests this year
    [<em>] IBs (including this year’s: n/a
    [</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: 5 ap’s
    [<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): national merit finalist

Subjective:

  • [</em>] ECs listed on app: lots of debate, tennis, volunteering, some other stuff
    [<em>] Job/Work Experience: debate stuff
    [</em>] Essays (subject and responses): english teacher said they were the best she’d seen
    [<em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): none

Other:

[list]
[</em>] State or Country: CA (socal)
[<em>] Classified in-state? yea
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): middle sized
[<em>] Ethnicity: indian (US citizen though)
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 150k+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): too many antihooks
[<em>] Strengths: grades, essays, dedication for ECs
[</em>] Weaknesses: indian male with no cs research/interships applying to EECS
[*] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: i guess i got pretty lucky, it pisses me off that people like @jwen556 who are clearly qualified get rejected while some (much) less qualified get accepted. engineering is getting way too competitive (CSE had a 13.9% acceptance rate last year, and I’m sure that it must have dropped to ~12% this year), and its ridiculous how many qualified applicants are getting rejected. Although I got rejected from CS/CSE/EECS at every college better than UCLA, UCLA is by itself pretty awesome, so I guess Ima be a bruin soon!</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective: Mechanical Engineering (Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)</p>

<p>•SAT I: 2370 (Reading: 800, Writing: 800, Math: 770)
•ACT: 35
•SAT II: Physics 800, Math L2 800, and Latin 780
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
•UC GPA: 4.6
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 11/162
•AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Physics B (5), AP English Lang. (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP Biology (4), & AP Chemistry (5)
•IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
•Senior Year Course Load: AP Spanish, AP Physics C, AP Literature, AP Economics/Gov, World Views and Ethics.
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Advanced Student Award (won twice)
Subjective:
•Extracurriculars:
International Student mentor and tutor
Leader of Mechanical Engineering design team for NASA ISS E. Coli Program
Lead American Representative of Asian/American Alliance
•Job/Work Experience: None
•Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours: Leader of teams at two charitable food banks, leader at vacation bible school at church, Organizer at Homeless Walk Charity, Supplies Consultant at Hospital
•Summer Activities: none
•Essays: Wrote about my experience in NASA Space Program and Being a “bridge” for International students at my school
Other •Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
•Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
•State (if domestic applicant): CA
•School Type: Christian: Around 600 students combined.
•Ethnicity: Hispanic
•Gender: Male
•Income Bracket: Upper-middle class
•Hooks: First to go to college
Reflection •Strengths: High GPA, high test scores, and unique essays
•Weaknesses: Weak ECs and volunteering
•Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not well rounded and quit playing sports when entering high school
•Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected from every UC I applied to. Only accepted to CSU Fullerton.</p>

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<p>^^^ Ya, not buying that one. </p>

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<p>@silas6070‌ you said in previous posts that you were also applying to riverside… being a hispanic male with excellent academics and substantial community involvement, how exactly could you have been rejected from even Riverside (it would seem as if you would be more qualified than many of the white and asian applicants that get in to even UCB/UCLA) </p>

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<p>And first generation to college…lol. That bio would run all the Ivies like Kwasi :slight_smile: </p>

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<p>silas6070 should have been Regents at most UC’s with those stats. Maybe he did not meet some UC requirement.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>School & Major: College of Arts and Sciences, Linguistics</p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): didn’t send
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: USH 740, Bio-E 690
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/520
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): European History (5), Art History (4), Calculus AB (5), Psychology (5), US HIstory (5), English Language (4), Biology (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Human Geography, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus BC, AP Environmental Science, AP Micro/Macro economics, AP English Literature
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul]Subjective:

[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Speech and Debate (President), Interact (Treasurer), Piano, Obscure Film Analysis Society (Cofounder/President), Coexist (President), Model UN (Cofounder), Key Club, National Honor Society, Drama, Musical Theater
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Aeropostale (11,12), Help with family business (9,10,11,12) and tutoring (10,11,12)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Not much, just through Interact Club, Key Club, and National Honor Society
[<em>] Summer Activities: College courses (five total)
[</em>] Essays: One great, one good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One teacher loves me, the others like me
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good
[li] Additional Rec:[/li][/ul]Other

[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>]Income Bracket: 60-70K
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): sexual orientation if that counts[/ul]Reflection

[list]</p>

<p>[<em>] Strengths: extracurriculars, GPA
[</em>] Weaknesses: community service
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: diversity and extracurriculars
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[
NYU - accepted
Berkeley - accepted
UPenn - accepted
San Diego State University - accepted
Northeastern - accepted
Columbia - rejected
Cornell - rejected
Northwestern - rejected/list]</p>

<p>General Comments: Attending UCLA due to distance, weather and full ride! Very hard decision between UCLA and UPenn but I ultimately chose uhk-lah. </p>

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<p>CADREAMIN: I didn’t apply top any private universities due to the tuition and other prices.
OutOfBoundsError: I wasn’t accepted to Berkeley, LA, San Diego, Irvine, Santa Barbara, Davis, and Riverside because not only is my major very impacted at the UCs, but something I noticed about the kids from my school that got into Berkeley and LA and other UCs was they played sports whereas I quit all the sports I used to engage in so that I could focus on academics and clubs. Therefore I want competitive enough</p>

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<p>SoCalDad2: what is Regents?</p>