<p>I logged into the MyAdmissionsApplication website for UCI and was shocked to find a rejection.</p>
<p>"We appreciated your academic achievements and admired your extracurricular involvement. UCI's applicant pool was exceptionally qualified, and we regret that we do not have sufficient space to admit every applicant."</p>
<p>I'm sure I don't have to say how disappointed I am.
Anyway, I was just wondering what my options were. My friends encouraged me to try to appeal the decision.
I guess my question would be, how would I go about doing this? And what are my chances of admission?</p>
<p>I have a 4.3 weighted GPA
2050 SAT
750 Biology/710 Math lvl2 SAT II</p>
<p>I'm just baffled as to why I was rejected for space, when my stats are clearly above average. As conceited as I may sound right now (and I apologize) why couldn't they make room for someone like me?
Anyone else in the same boat?</p>
<p>But ask around, you will soon notice that UCI’s acceptance method is the most inconsistent out of all UCs. They accept some dumb people, some average people, yet i see super smart people getting rejected.</p>
<p>I don’t know what to say… but its a holistic admissions process. Appeals in your case will be a waste of time. You need new info, not just more ECs, but new info as in missing info about academics, etc…</p>
<p>OP – with your stats, there is always the possiblity that something was misplaced or miscalculated from your applications.</p>
<p>I would follow up with a call and email to UCI admissions… something like</p>
<p>Dear Admissions,</p>
<p>I’m writing to ask that you take a look at my file to make sure there was not an important piece of data (SAT, transcript) missing. My UC GPA of 4.3 and SAT of 2050 fall in the top 15% of accepted students from 2008. I am puzzled about my denial of admission.</p>
<p>es2642, I chose UCI because it is a good school and I live about 20 minutes away, saving me thousands of dollars for room and board. My second choice would’ve been UCLA, but alas I’m not good enough for them.</p>
<p>haikumarukuchan, I only applied to UCI, UCLA, UCSD, and UC Berkeley. Rejected from the first 3, and I anticipate Berkeley’s rejection on the 26th. Needless to say, I’m deeply regretting not applying to UCR or UCSB…</p>
<p>DunninLA, thanks, I’ll try that.</p>
<p>and Gryffon5147, I was hoping you wouldn’t say that…
So I have no case for an appeal?</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh, my UC GPA isn’t 4.3, my regular high school weighted GPA is 4.3 . How do I calculate my UC GPA?</p>
<p>UCR’s desperate alright,
but if you could avoid going there you probably should.
after all, my friend who was rescinded from UCSD had to go to UCR about four years ago.</p>
<p>but then again UC’s are quite good out of the nation for ANY of the UCs,
I think it’s just the cultural conditioning a lot of us go through that makes us feel bad =P</p>
<p>Oh I see.
In that case, my UC GPA is 3.81 (Though I find the 8 semester +1 limit annoying).
Is that still deserving of my outrage?</p>
<p>I’m sure it goes without saying, I’m more bitter about this than a triple-shot of espresso…
I’m willing to try anything.</p>
<p>My family is convinced that the fact that I marked myself as “White” on the application has SOMETHING to do with it. I marked that because it said it includes Middle Eastern.
They all think that changing it to “Asian” (because I’m Afghan, which technically is Central Asian, NOT Middle Eastern) is a good enough excuse to put in an appeal. Whether or not that ALONE will affect their decision is beyond me. But I was thinking, maybe this is a good enough excuse JUST to get my application looked over once again?</p>
<p>Would walking into the Admissions Office and speaking to someone face-to-face help at all? Should I do that in conjunction with the appeal? Should I hand in the appeal letter at that time? Would mentioning that I personally know of a couple acceptances with lower qualifications than me help? Am I chasing a lost cause?</p>
<p>Sorry for the excessive questioning, but at the moment my head is just spinning and I don’t know what I’m going to do…
Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>give it up dude. you seriously think marking down asian would help you at all? it actually helps to put in white. even then, i bet that wont make any difference because i am sure uci made no mistake looking over your application and UCs can’t use affirmative action. if you look at the uci rejects thread a lot of people over 2000 SAT got denied.</p>
<p>Give the dude a break, he’s obviously freaking out because he has pretty high stats and has been rejected to some schools. So i’d be worried too.</p>
<p>You have a 50/1000 chance of a successful appeal. So that’s 5 percent. Its not much BUT its something.</p>
<p>For an appeal you better have a good damn reason, such as your father as lost his job and its better for you to stay in the area. Or someone important died. None of that club activity stuff or your senior grades. It doesn’t matter at this point because they’ve already calculated it.</p>
<p>I don’t know about UCI’s terms of appeal but for ucsd you have to call an admission officer in order to get approval to write an appeal. But if its the same for UCI then i suggest you talk to the head manager of the admission office and talk to him/or her if you don’t get through.</p>
<p>You don’t have to call ahead of time to say you’re appealing, but I suggest that
you call anyways to chat with the admissions officer and see what’s what.</p>
<p>As for an appealing reason, is it okay for me to put down my grandfather’s death
in my sophomore year and one of my close church friends who lost his battle to cancer
during my junior year?..</p>
<p>People have been telling me “that’s really sad, but those are not good reasons to appeal.”… but the truth is that those hardships of mine struck me really hard while I was really trying to focus on studying for SATs during my critical years of high school…</p>
<p>I guess I’m just going to appeal anyways. any of the UCs know that people can make a small event and bs it into a big one, and i’m sure a lot of people will be doing that anyway.</p>
<p>Bottom line for me is, it never hurts you to appeal and just keep your chin up and never let anyone tell you otherwise…like my school’s secretary who asked me while i was filling out a request for an official transcript to be sent. she asked me what schools I already got into (only UCSC is the top one so far) and she asked me the reason (my grandfather’s passing, and two of my friends as well during my sophomore and junior year) then she went on to say “sorry, i know it’s really sad, but it’s going to be a waste of time for you if you appeal”</p>
<p>where’s the support? heh…</p>
<p>my only question left now is how i’m going to write this…
for Davis it’s a 350-word MAX explanation while Irvine just said to write a letter, however long or short doesn’t matter, and to send in stuff in an envelope with it that “you feel is supplemental to your appeal”.</p>
<p>thanks again Lawcha and everybody else</p>
<p>and good luck to all us appeal’ers out there</p>