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<p>So tell us about the cat.</p>
<p>ya, people are getting in with a 3.01…with all of their prereqs finished…i would say get all of them done, GPA of course, and write a decent essay and you’re ok.</p>
<p>This prereqs thing . . . you all freaked me out and told me that UCLA is VERY strict about prereqs and few people get in without completing every one. I’m an English major. It’s impacted. I never looked at UCLA’s English major requirements because I focused on Berkeley’s. Now that I have, I can tell you that I’m missing one altogether, and two of them are completed through my AP tests, the scores of which UCLA doesn’t even have at this point. I’m also completing another two during this semester. So basically, I got and only truly completed one prereq the Fall semester before transferring. Maybe they’re far more strict about other majors or made an exception in my case, but I think most people’s opinions of prereqs are a little overrated.</p>
<p>I’m a future transfer. Does being a mom help?I remember returning school when my baby was only 4 month old. It was tough. Even though Im not a single mom, but I did most of the work. I have only one volunteer experience on my EC, in honor society, and nothing else special at all. But my GPA is 4.0. And I don’t even study much at all.</p>
<p>Gattacamz- I’m not a returning student but I did continue to go to school during and after my pregnancy. I think it might have helped me although I only briefly mentioned caring for my newborn while taking 15/16 units this semester and last semester. I’m also in Honors (but no TAP) and have a 4.0. My baby is 5 months old now and has a mommy that’s going to UCLA! Good luck, I hope you get in too!</p>
<p>Not really sure–I think TAP put me over the edge. Global Studies is surprisingly competitive as far as admits go, so I was happy.
I had a decent upward trend towards the end (until this spring)
Studying in Paris might have helped, just as my second essay about overcoming difficulties might have.</p>
<p>Who knows? I can’t stop smiling.</p>
<p>^—what was ur gpa?</p>
<p>I have no idea why I got accepted. I was rejected from almost everywhere else!
Major: cognitive science
GPA: 3.35
IGETC: will be completed this summer
Pre requs: half done
EC: volunteer work at a doctors office and a vet hospital
Essays: average
no TAP</p>
<p>weegotfish why are you allowed to complete igetc over the summer?</p>
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in regars to your post …
I am a 27 year old who got kicked out of 3 high schools and only got my diploma because the ged test gives you a few extra units towards ur degree. moved out on my own before my senior year of high school… worked several dead end jobs did lots of drugs till one day life got real bad…no home no money no car… so i joined the army served the country went to war… came back got a real estate licence decided it wasnt for me went to school
i now i have a 3.5 gpa with a major in Electrical Engineering. live on my own support my self and ucla didnt seem to think that was a good enough reason to come…soo your theory is flawed… u want diverse i have lived in 11 states and three countries saw men die to defend this country and people with lower gpas get in? BS! Its no surprise that this schools rankings are on the decline and ucsd’s are on the way up…
all my white friends didnt make it lol but all my asian friends did…they are racist towards whitey…</p>
<p>GPA: 3.21
MAJOR: Poli. Sci.
IGETC: Completed since Fall '08
Pre-reqs: took all available at my CC. The rest at UCLA.
EC:
- i was a youth leader at church for 3 years. part of my church’s band & choir.
- choir at my CC for two years.
- 3 clubs
- GSA - teach tolerance and acceptance for others.
- another group was reaching out to students (minorities/underrepresented students) and helping them with college. held fundraisers for scholarships and such, etc.
- SCholars club (invited to USC for a brunch thing & got counseling and all that stuff).
- first-generation, low-income student. parents didn’t finish high school.
- honors program (didn’t finish it, 2 classes short)
- 1 full-time job, 1 part-time, and going to school full-time.
- tutor for my sister and 4 cousins (which required A LOT of time, which i didn’t have, but it’s family!)</p>
<p>i don’t qualify for financial aid, so i had to pay for tuition, books, etc… EVERYTHING!</p>
<p>in high school i wasn’t really motivated because college seemed like such an abstract idea in my house. yeah, i got by with C’s freshman years, B’s and C’s sophomore year, but come junior and senior year… i got straight A’s & had AP classes 'cause i wanted to prove everyone wrong and show 'em i’d make it happen one day.
going to a university was not a possibility, so i went to my local CC.</p>
<p>and… here i am.</p>
<p>Here. Now. UCLA.</p>
<p>ok edward04 ill tell you what i wrote about my cat.
i wrote about how i came to love animals, how i learn to be more humble, how my cat taught me to care for others. basically, i wrote about how i was selfish and my cat changed that.</p>
<p>I think it’s a matter of Economics. When people specifically chase business econ/communication/engineering etc, its a matter of numers. MORE people are APPLYING than spaces available, which means competition. The person with the best resources(or in this case stats+) will win.</p>
<p>That’s why we see all these low gpas + pre reqs missing(like my situation)for some of the humanities. People assume one needs to major in X major to do X job. FOr example communications. Related majors that are not as competitive include English, Art History, etc.</p>
<p>^^ I seriously don’t think it’s your personal statement that got you into UCLA.</p>
<p>my personal statement is more compelling than my describing it on here. everyone i had read it, really liked it.</p>
<p>@ Blue & Gold…</p>
<p>3.73 at time of update, 3.75 now.</p>
<p>i think the personal statement about the cat was a great idea. it’s unusual, and it shows how your love for something changes you. do you really think people in admissions want to read another boring story about how you found your major and that it’s your calling and the only thing you want to do in life, or your experience at band camp?</p>
<p>I really didn’t think I’d get in because of WF’s I had on a transcript from another school like 8 years ago (I left the program I was in pretty early on and didn’t withdraw properly - very stupid, I know). I’m not sure how heavily UCLA considered those grades, but I am sure they would have mattered more had I applied for an impacted major.</p>
<p>But regardless, since being at a ccc I have also worked my ass off, which I tried to emphasize in my personal statements. I think I’ll have something like 74 units by the end of the semester, only 3 of which went toward a B in a class, did TAP, internships, worked, financially independent from my parents since I was 18, blah blah blah. I also don’t know if being 25 would have helped me, hurt me, or didn’t matter at all.</p>
<p>plus, who doesn’t love kitties? lol</p>
<p>uc!hopefully…
You got rejected because you applied as a EE, which requires you to finish every single agonizing prereq and get a 3.9 to even be considered. Those engineering majors are competitive as hell, and I don’t think the applicant reviewers at the engineering school care as much about life experience as the reviewers at L&S do. They just want prereqs and GPA. I’m a physics major, much less competitive, and in L&S. Hell, as far as I know, this is probably why I was accepted, they probably didn’t even read my essays. I didn’t do TAP, no honors, and will be missing 3 classes from my major prereqs at the end of this semester. I was just saying that I think UCLA looks to transfers to spice up their student body, because we bring a more diverse group of people than they get from freshman. My personal story, I think, is relatively typical of most community college transfers; a bunch of people who after a 2-5 year absence from education deciding to go back and give it another try. Yours obviously is a little more extraordinary, and I think L&S school would have appreciated it. But unfortunately if you didn’t have a 3.9 with all prereqs finished, I don’t think the engineering school is even going to care.</p>