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Look, I’m not trying to say it’s similar to Regents, because they’re two totally different scholarships. Regents is more numbers-based, while ASC looks for overall extracurricular and academic excellence. Also, you’re quite misinformed in that ASC applicants must also be invited to apply. They are screened for GPA, SAT and leadership potential, and then invited to apply; if admitted, that pool is then screened again, through the essay portion of the application. If the essay, GPA, SAT and leadership potential match what they’re looking for, they’re interviewed up to 3 times, culminating in an intense weekend of competition at state finals, in which they compete in essay contests, team leadership exercises, etc., in front of a ROOM full (literally) of alums and faculty, and are awarded from $6-17,500 based on their assessment from those alums and faculty. Now, with no disrespect to Regents (and I AM a Regents Scholar, fyi), the ASC scholarship is equally intense, and in many ways more competitive, than Regents, at least once you reach the state finals level. Out of over 55,000 applicants this year, there were just 2,800 ASC applications, and about 200-250 will be offered scholarships. Around 150 will accept those scholarships and attend UCLA. So as a fellow RSS member, I’d advise you to watch your tongue, for you know not what you speak ;)</p>
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Let’s go over this again. In the past 3 years, they have dropped priority housing, priority parking and priority registration. Only a fool wouldn’t see that UCLA is obviously not holding up their end of the deal. ASC is basically full of people who turned down the most prestigious universities in the country including Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Notre Dame, Virginia, Columbia, etc. to come here, largely because of the perks they would receive through ASC. I think you’d agree that taking away another perk every year will not increase the level of interest among that group.</p>