Please Help, Question on Cal Appeals / UCLA Acceptance

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>I was rejected as a Psychology Transfer yesterday by Cal, but I have been accepted everywhere else.</p>

<p>I live in Los Angeles, and UCLA has always been my dream school. Fortunately, I was accepted. </p>

<p>The thing is... over these past two months, I have really fallen in love with the idea of going to Cal, and was mildly crushed after being rejected from there yesterday! :(</p>

<p>What drew me to Cal included the change of environment compared to Los Angeles, the dorm-life I would experience, as well as the prestige and the fact that it's better for Psychology.</p>

<p>*Attending UCLA, I would probably seek out an apartment rather than a dorm since i've lived in Los Angeles all my life. Would this mean I wouldn't be able to experience the same college lifestyle I would have experienced living in a dorm at Cal?</p>

<p>Also, I may be accepted into a Paid Internship Scholarship Program at UC Berkeley for Neuroscience Lab Research this Summer, which is given to 1st Generation College Students.</p>

<p>*My question is - If I were to get accepted into this internship program would this be grounds for an Appeal to Cal? Since i'd be living there over summer and participating with their neuroscience researchers? I'd also be able to get a kick-ass letter of recommendation from my Physio-Psych professor at my CCC.</p>

<p>Any thoughts would be great!!! :)</p>

<p>GPA: ~3.75
Major: Psychology
Pre-Req's: Done
IGETC: Certified
Essays: 8/10.
E.C.: AGS, PTK, Honors Program, Deans List, President Scholars List, Academic Decathlon (in HS), Worked in HS, Volunteered A Bit, 1st Generation, Lots of AP's in HS, and most likely a Paid Internship Program at UC Berkeley this Summer in Neuroscience.</p>

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<p>If you grew up in LA then you must have all your friends there. You will not miss out on the “college life” by not doing the dorms. Since you’re a transfer you are already much older than MOST (not all of course) of the people that are at the dorms anyways. As long as you are social while at school and can make a few friends on campus (if you dont already have some) you should be fine. You have all of LA to explore! Not just the campus!</p>

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<p>Agreed paniikd, how about the grounds of appealing to Cal considering that neuroscience program I’m probably gonna be accepted to?</p>

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<p>pleaseeee help you guys! :)</p>

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<p>I dont know anything about appealing. Search these forums for some basic info, I know I’ve seen a few threads with almost this same situation mentioned in them. Check past years…other then that, sorry, im no help. The most obvious advice is to call up both schools and chat off the ear of the first person to give you good answers. Really, thats your only option!</p>