<p>Lol, the UCs are so number based. After you pass that test, it's quite arbitrary.</p>
<p>i think people with high stats and got rejected shouldn't feel bad. i got in but really, i did my application with minimal effort...so i was really surprise when i got in. seeing people with high stats than me didn't get in kinda reduced my level of excitement since now i don't feel like i deserved it that much.
Kevin
my SAT is nowhere compared to yours, although i have like 9 APs behind and my GPA is 3.83 unweight and 4.13 weight.
i don't know what parts of the application appealed to them and right now trying really hard to figure it out....</p>
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I've always had this thought: Sure, the UCs cannot legally say they take race into account, but who's there to stop them from thinking that way? There's no way of being able to tell that.
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It seems as though there would be no way to prove it, though. I looked through a couple other acceptance threads and a lot of Asians are also being accepted. If you tried to pull a "Jian Li," you would have no case.</p>
<p>kevin--</p>
<p>sorry to hear it man. with that kind of transcript, it was most likely your essays that didn't make the cut. best of luck wherever.</p>
<p>UC takes those race data for admissions/student profile data only. They do not use it as a factor in deciding whether the applicant should be accepted or not. If they didn't take the data, we wouldn't know that about 40% of the UC students are Asians ;)</p>
<p>What exactly are they using the ethnicity for then?</p>
<p>I believe this data gets used alot, just AFTER admission.</p>
<p>^Edit; Didn't read #85 before I posted.</p>
<p>If that's the case, then they would certainly be discriminating against students of color, when schools like Berkeley only have a 2% black population.</p>
<p>^ As f last year Berkeley is 4%, UCSD is the lowest at 2%; Most are 3%.... not that I'm checking or anything....</p>
<p>It's still quite dismal. Even a Berkeley representative called the measly proportion of black students "really sad".</p>
<p>Tru dat, but most schools not at the "top" (or HBCU's) are 3% or less...</p>
<p>Every race has his own merits. Pursue your goals based on your own merits. I had a wish my son could have played in NBA or MLB, but he is an Asian. "He can't jump, can't run, can't sing, what else can he do?" Study!!! :) Not good at any sport. Can not earn big money like A-Rod.</p>
<p>What if one of your goals is to have a receptive pool of suitors? Wasn't easy for me 30 years ago; still not easy for my D. I know; not easy for anyone, but being a Black "high achieving" female seems to make it harder</p>
<p>"I wonder how many OOS kids got in this year. I'd bet close to none."</p>
<p>I'm OOS (Utah) and I got in. </p>
<p>My stats were average at best for UCLA</p>
<p>I’ve been dreaming of UCLA for about seven years now. That dream ended this week. My grades, scores, and resume are ten times those of kevin’s friend. Better luck for USC, let’s hope. Good luck to everyone else.</p>
<p>How many AP classes did kevin take? That data is even more important than gpa or sat. Also, because kevin had stellar scores, he might have dismissed the college essay as unimportant and did not put in a lot of time into it, which is important because the essay shows the individualistic, personal side to someone instead of just looking at objective scores such as sat. Analogously, employers take interviews of people to get the gist of that person’s character, so subjective impressions are important.</p>
<p>You should get in.</p>
<p>but UCLA does care about whether I am a student in CCC?</p>