Really weird immediate respond request email from UC

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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Here is the email I got:

Dear …,

We have received your University of California Undergraduate Application for Admission and Scholarships.
Thank you for your interest in our campus.

We are in the process of reviewing your application. Before we can complete our review and reach an
admission decision, we need the following information from you:

In which country did you complete 9th grade and what was the primary language of instruction?

We must receive this information within two days of this message date, or processing of your application
may be delayed or canceled.

To respond to this message please use our online response form by clicking the following link:
…
DO NOT reply to this email as it will not be delivered.

Sincerely,

University of California

Please note: This communication and your response may be shared and reviewed by the following
campuses to which you may have applied: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, Santa
Barbara, San Diego and Santa Cruz.

The email is from admissions-review@ucop.edu
This is really weirding me out because I’m not an international student and nothing on my application indicates that I might be so I have no idea why they are asking this. And why wouldn’t they be able to come to a decision without THIS random weird information? Does anyone know why they might have sent ) this and if it’s bad or suspicious or what? And isn’t it a bit late to be asking for info like this? I already got accepted to one UC (today) but this says it’s from UC in general not a specific school so does this have anything to do with my acceptance?

2

You should simply respond - that you attended school in California (or other) and that your courses were all taught in English.

Perhaps you neglected this part on your application. I believe there’s a question that asks if you attended HS here and asks you to indicate what years you attended…Perhaps you wrote the dates incorrectly.

3

Got the exact same email, word for word. Just answer the question and you should be fine

4

Also got the same question a few months back.

5

you know, before you reply to that email. you should review what you submit in the UC application where they asked about high school? check the timeline of high school and anything that you had written.

Then answer their questions in the email.

6

You may want to check if any applicable foreign language requirement for admission or IGETC is checked off properly. UC does use completion of middle/high school grades in schools where the language of instruction is not English as possible ways to fulfill foreign language requirements.

http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/transfer/advising/igetc/index.html