<p>So yesterday i was in a movie and got a call from a 310 area code. I listened to the voicemail this morning and it was a student from UCLA who was informed me that i should apply for merit based alumni scholarships (my mom attended UCLA). I was wondering if this was a good sign about admission or just standard proceedure because of my mom.</p>
<p>same thing happened. i went out to eat and when i came back, they left a message</p>
<p>Yeah, my parents got the call while i was out. The lady told them to apply for the merit alumni scholarship. Is this a good sign of getting in ( because i did have a 4.3 uc gpa and 2120) or is it just a random thing?</p>
<p>I also got this call yesterday. Several weeks back, I was sent a letter asking me to apply for the UCLA Regents Scholarship (which I did), and my UC GPA is 4.5 w/ a 2280 SATI and 1600 SATII. I would speculate that you may have been accepted. Congratulations!</p>
<p>bucks06:</p>
<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCLA: Match</p>
<p>redsnake:</p>
<p>UCLA: Safe Match</p>
<p>no, this does not mean anything. i am part of the group who calls freshmen, we know nothing about your admissions - two totally different things.</p>
<p>Ha I Got It Tooo...i Thought It Was Weird... So Yeah Both Cal And La Are Confusing Me ! This Is Not A Good Feeling</p>
<p>who supplies the list to telephone the students?... it wouldn't be in the best interest of time for you guys to phone students aren't qualified to get into UCLA right.</p>
<p>My parents are both UCLA life alumni and I didn't get a call or a card or an email, lol. Not that UCLA would know this -- no legacies, darn.</p>
<p>If you applied for one of the UCLA scholarships (forgot which one) and they call you after that for an interview(mid-late March), you have a very high chance.</p>
<p>My D got this same call. She took the opportunity to ask specific questions she had about UCLA-treated it like an Alum interview. IMO...given that UCLA had over 50,000 applications, it is more likely that UCLA admissions has culled a list of likely candidtates they plan to accept, and then has UCLA students make these calls--to get the prospective students interests raised. As a parent looking at the reality of college expenses, I was also encouraged!</p>
<p>My son received a similar call last year at this time, and yes, we later learned he was accepted to UCLA.</p>
<p>several years back a relative was active in the alumni organization, and at that time they were contacting the top applicants supplied to them by the admission office with invitations to apply for the alumni scholarships. It was one of the ways they were trying to raise the yield of their best applicants. So getting contacted was an indirect sign you were going to be accepted.</p>
<p>But I don't know if that's still the motivation of the program ...</p>
<p>Makes sense, mikemac.
Yermama, do you know anything about how the list you were calling from was generated? Did the operation look like it was trying to make 50,000 calls? Not that we're eager for UC decisions or anything...</p>
<p>Mikemac, when you say "contact," do you mean calling or also for emailing?</p>
<p>anybody?
bump thanks</p>
<p>its calling only in this case. I think everyone gets the email.</p>
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Mikemac, when you say "contact," do you mean calling or also for emailing?
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It was a phone call. But it wasn't done by students at that time; the alums taking part in the program got a list of kids to call.</p>