<p>i know for certain they knew more than i did and still do even to this day. at this point i've only been accepted to 1 school, i have 3 pending and applied to 7 total. she said i was accepted to 2 schools (at least). so at this point i'm waiting on some mystery accept.</p>
<p>Exilio, thank you very much......glad someone actually gets that I'm not trying to be a jerk.</p>
<p>I agree that you all have the right to complain and discuss and talk freely, but yesterday was very exciting for some of us. </p>
<p>Furthermore, there WERE a l ot of people yesterday going into other threads and bemoaning UCLA for not getting in. The old "sour grapes" syndrome. And yes, I am quite sorry if I offend anyone, that wasn't my intent. Just sounded like people were giving up when they really should be fighting. Had no idea that UCLA was a lot of people's first choice school.
Let me, however, emphasize that today is another day and that the excitement of yesterday is a bit diminished. So with the some sobriety, I will say that I am sorry that some very worth candidates didn't get in, but I was doing a lot of research etc,and spoke to some friends who got in to some veryt impacted majors and this is what I came away with. All of them: took advantage of extensive EC's, community involvement and the Honors program at my school and took an overload of units and still got a 4.0 in the midst of being the first in their family to go to college, overcoming an illness; or had some other extenuating circumstanes that were beyond their control...etc. (ever see the movie Homeless to Harvard? situations like those that are always on the homepage of UCLA's website....I'm sure you all have seen them).</p>
<p>Take into account, I'm just giving a for instance.....knowing that not every school has an Honors program with a Science or Humanities track, and also knowing that a lot of you had jobs, etc. Basically, everyone's situation is different. Perhaps they were trying to go beyond the numbers......</p>
<p>Oh I see..so if you feel bad and didn't get in..it's cool to be a jerk? Wow...novel concept. Don't make excuses for bad behavior. For the most part people have been really cool. But now people are tasting sour grapes and they are lashing out like little babies throwing a tantrum.</p>
<p>Be mature about what happened and move on...don't make excuses.</p>
<p>I just hope everyone understand that there is a random elements in UC admission and they do communicate intercampus.</p>
<p>In fact I know a score of ppl who got into UCD, but not in UCSD, and vise versa.</p>
<p>According to a Frontline special on the process of evaluating UC candidates for admission, the process is not random, but selective, highly selective. Unfortunately, it is true that many well qualified candidates don't make it into schools they deserve. </p>
<p>If you have evidence to the contrary other than idle speculation, I would love to see it.</p>
<p>^ yea but underqualified sure do...yea that's selective...highly selective indeed...</p>
<p>fei,</p>
<p>I see, and you are an expert on such matters how?</p>
<p>I just think that different UC's have different priorities. Period. No matter how much we want to believe that it's all about GPA, its NOT all about GPA. So far:
-Some UC's reject due to excessive units, some don't.
-Some reject due to missing major requirements, some don't.
-Some accept students with compelling essays, some don't bother to read the essays.
We've all learned a lesson: Call the individual school because not all UC's are identical, in fact, they are not even all that similar.</p>
<p>well, couple of things.</p>
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<li><p>UC claim to give priority to CC students, but a 3.1 Chem major from UCI got into UCLA.</p></li>
<li><p>i think UC don't go by GPA alone. So, i agree w/ exillo on maybe if someone has 3.7 and does not get in and the other has a 3.6 and does get in, maybe it's other factors such as EC, Work, granted all the classes are the same.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>If anything they are consistently random and maybe that's due to the applicant pool. Who knows? only they do since they read our apps. For those who got rejected definately appeal. Every year the number of applicants increases and one can only guess that so do expectations, requirements, etc. so stats that got in last year might not necessarily make the cut the next. Look at UCLA they put a lot of majors on the impacted list that weren't on there before. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next couple of years all of their majors become impacted due to the sheer number of qualified applicants and the small capacity to accommodate them all. Again good luck to you all. A reason admitted people read threads is to see if there's any way we can offer advice or say how we got in. In no way are we here to bash you guys that would be f'd up.</p>
<p>I even remember that, in my college, a girl with 3.2 GPA, Psychology major got admitted by UCLA last year - just because she is a Latino student?!</p>
<p>LOL i thought there was no affirmative action anymore.</p>
<p>danzz, did she check latino on the ethnicity box maybe she didn't report and got in based on her own merit. btw affirmative action ended years ago, sadly but lets not get into that.</p>
<p>You don't need to check a box to get it across you are a minority. There are three essay questions that provide ample opportunity to state your ethnicity. Affirmative Action is dead in name alone but alive and well in the pressure applied to UC's.</p>
<p>Therefore, there will be reason to question when a minority student gets into a school with a 3.2 and another non-minority student get passed over with a 3.7.</p>
<p>This is the real world folks, and UC's are under pressure to bring in minorities. And that is just one of the reasons why the numbers won't always get a student in.</p>
<p>So if the campuses do notify the other campuses of their decisions, how does that affect us? For example, I don't see how UCD could reject those who got into UCSD just because they assumed that that's where the student actually wanted to go. I guess it kind of makes sense that they could reject "overqualified" students, but what happens if somebody's first choice was davis and not sd?</p>
<p>I got rejected fromt the music department, and I went there for an explanation to my rejection...They were SOSOSO MEAN! They told me nothing wrong with my piano skill but my interview didn't show the passion! Oh well, since the faculty were mean, now I have no regrets whatsoever.</p>
<p>I just have a 'very uncertain' answer here:
If you get some perfect GPA like 3.8, 3.9 or 4.0, and you are living pretty far from that campus, let's say you are living in LA and applying for UCD, probably they will not admit you just because they think UCSD and UCSB will admit you also and the chance is much bigger for you to pick up a campus which is relatively close to your current location.</p>
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didn't show the passion
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damn, what a ridiculous reason!!!</p>
<p>I think for UCLA the emphasis is more on completion of requirements for your major, and also the essay. If you look at UCLA's site, they devote a huge section describing how a student should go about writing the personal statement. GPA matters of course, but it probably counts a lot more for students applying in very highly selective majors such as econ and computer science. With majors not receiveing as many applicants, gpa is probably not as important.</p>
<p>How would you determine a "good" essay, cause I have no clue if my essays are "good"... Theyre just essays that I wrote on a certain subject...</p>