<p>The</a> Daily Bruin - Priority enrollment numbers to drop</p>
<p>Well, there goes the only thing honors was good for</p>
<p>i guess theres no point in applying for honors now?</p>
<p>OMG. this is the worse news… ever. how am i ever going to sign up for ls/bl classes? ugh.</p>
<p>Hell yeah this is good.</p>
<p>When 1/3rd of the student body has priority enrollment, you know something is wrong.</p>
<p>“Even students with priority were getting closed out of classes on their priority pass, she added. What appeared to be priority on the surface really wasn’t priority.”</p>
<p>Very true.</p>
<p>Thank god.</p>
<p>yeeee regents</p>
<p>It’s about time.</p>
<p>is priority for alumni scholars being taken away?</p>
<p>about time, it was gettin ridiculous.</p>
<p>Do you recommend doing the honors program still for incoming freshmen?</p>
<p>I second seniorrr - anyone know if alumni scholars will still have priority?</p>
<p>According to the article, only athletes, Regents Scholars, students with disabilities, and veterans.</p>
<p>Well, doing honors shouldn’t have depeneded on whether priority was available or not. It was never that beneficial anyways.</p>
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As of the article, yes, but I was in JWAC today, and some people who pull a lot of weight at UCLA were already working on getting it back in place. Since Regents wasn’t revoked, they didn’t seem too concerned about getting ASC’s priority back. In fact, they didn’t really seem worried about it at all.</p>
<p>As for honors, I think priority was a nice motivation for staying in it. But I think they should give priority to only juniors and seniors in honors, because obviously a ton of people drop it by their junior year, and by then if you’re still in it, you’ve proven you can stick it out.</p>
<p>Finaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally</p>
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<p>EXACTLY!!! Something is SERIOUSLY wrong when 1st years with priority sign up earlier than 4th years with priority, and that by the time some 4th year’s priority sign up time comes around, there’s nothing they can use it on.</p>
<p>Get rid of this nonsense where everybody and their grandma and cousins and uncles and step step step sister has priority enrollment here. </p>
<p>GoWorld, according to the article, Alumni are not in the group listed to retain priority, and Regents has it written into the Academic Senate’s guidelines that these students would be given priority enrollment. Unless the same can be said for Alumni scholars, I don’t see how Regents getting priority has any bearing or any positive influence on why Alumni scholars should get it too.</p>
<p>i didnt even know alumni scholars had priority.</p>
<p>wel ASC, is it written in like the senate code or watever. i think thats the only reason regents still gets priority (and the fact that we signed a contract that sed we wud get priority)</p>
<p>^^ASC also signs a contract promising scholars priority. What was stupid of the student senate though, was that they didn’t tell even the ASC advisors until it was reported in the Daily Bruin today, so all the newly awarded scholarship recipients interviewed and applied under the impression that priority was included in the deal. That was real classy, senate >.<</p>
<p>Thank god, maybe i’ll actually be able to get the classes I need now!</p>
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It is also written into the Alumni Scholars contract. The issue is that it is used as a recruiting mechanism for prospective students this year. Telling incoming students that they will be receiving priority enrollment through the first 2 phases of their interviews, and then revoking it right before State Finals I’m sure you will agree does not look good for the school, Academic Senate, or any scholarship organization on campus.</p>
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Actually, the scholarship process for ASC is in many ways equally if not more competitive than that of the Regents Scholarship, which is based more on strict academic standards. ASC recipients go through up to 3 interviews before being awarded money, with the emphasis placed on extracurricular involvement as well as superior academic achievement. No need to be bitter simply because you didn’t make the cut. And next time, I suggest you exercise more respect when speaking about your fellow peers; I’m sure your tone isn’t one RSS would like to lay claim to.</p>