<p>So disappointed.... My oldest daughter with ACT 32 and 4.42 GPA (unweighted 3.97) got into UCLA last year. My second daughter with same ACT score and GPA is rejected. They both ranked #1 or #2 out of 590 students.</p>
<p>Wow really…rejected with UW 3.97 and ACT 32? She must have had no extra curricular activities? Or wrote a really bad personal statement? Only things I can think of.</p>
<p>I had UW 4.0 and UC 4.5, with a 31 ACT and I was rejected. I had tons and tons of Extracurriculars and amazing (according to two teachers) essays.
I was still flat-out rejected, UCLA is really selective. :(</p>
<p>wow. im still surprised how im accepted, i had around 1500 on my SAT and my gpa uw was around 3.6
i guess it’s not all about the numbers.</p>
<p>4.4 GPA and 29 ACTs, constant extracurriculars, and I was told I had some of the most unique personal statements, and rejected…</p>
<p>get this… 3.32 unweighted GPA 3.69 weighted… 19 on the ACT… now tell me how I got accepted??.. I almost fainted… I had to call ucla to confirm, and evidently they said I was accepted and the decision online was right… Still not going tho, it can go to someone who really wants its.</p>
<p>Okay. Where are you from? A while back before applications started, there was a story on the local news channel mentioning that NorCal students had the slightest chance of getting into UCLA while SoCal students could forever dream of getting into Berkeley. Even a teacher of mine told me the same story when I told her I was applying to UCLA.
When I found out I was rejected last Friday, it stood true.
And seeing how two people on this same forum got in with really low scores, I can almost guarantee you they are both from SoCal.</p>
<p>We are from NorCal and my son was accepted to UCLA, but he does have good stats.</p>
<p>Only two students from my graduating class got in.
One the Valedictorian, the other Salutatorian with both low scores but extremely high ECs.</p>
<p>UCLA accepted only four of us in a class of 700. One was accepted early to Stanford, one to Cal Tech. The third has good grades but not in the top classes, and mediocre test scores so we are puzzled about that one. My stats are posted on this site. We have two Valedictorians and neither got in. So there seems to be some arbitrariness to this.</p>
<p>Although my second daughter’s activities are not as strong as my oldest daughter. Her activities are very close to my oldest one. She has 9 years of piano lesson and level 7 certificate (she did not take the exam this year, otherwise; she should be level 8). She also have 10 years of Chinese study. She is vice president of Asian club, Capitan of Relay for Life, and memers of several clubs which include key club and she is in mock trial. She also swims. We found several of her friends with lower GPA and test score got accepted. Therefore, the only reason I could think of is becuase she was applying Civil Engineering major and my ordest daughter applied non engineering major. Her friends are probably all applying undeclare major. BTW, we are from Northern California.</p>
<p>it has a lot to do with what school you go to. a strong ranking school means that more students will be accepted. my norcal school has received over 20 some acceptances and had over 57 last year for UCLA.</p>
<p>This year saw the largest high school graduating class in U.S. history. Your second daughter was competing against a much larger pool of applicants than your oldest.</p>
<p>Trying to get into the engineering school by applying undeclared to L&S would not have been a great idea anyway. Had your daughter done that and gotten accepted, she would still have to reapply to change schools to HSSEAS (Engineering), which is a competitive process just like applying there in the first place.</p>
<p>Anyhow, I wish your daughter the best of luck, I’m sure she’ll find happiness somewhere else, our state alone is filled with fantastic colleges of all sorts.</p>
<p>Best,
CP</p>
<p>My daughter called the school and they said there is no difference if she changes major. Therefore, she needs to provide more activities. However, I am not sure if we can submit another essay.</p>
<p>Hmm… it sounds from these posts like they are biased about ACT scores since ppl with high ACT scores are getting rejected. Chen, was there a reason why your daughter took ACT and not SAT? My sis got accepted with 1390 SAT but we’re under the impression that she had a 90%+ of getting accepted. I did not think UCLA was this hard.</p>
<p>I imagine the only other thing which makes it hard is to be out-of-state, but this is not your case.</p>
<p>To be honest, I think UCLA is a whollistic process. Meaning they look at the big picture. I know for a fact that SAT/ACT GPA isn’t the whole thing. I remember I didn’t pay for anything in SAT classes or ACt or help in my school courses. But I tried really hard and I spend about 150 hours on my essay. I shared my personal story and how I wasn’t from around here and about social implications. But furthermore, I wrote about how I overcame them and how I wanted to perceive my world and my life. However, you need to understand that EC and Awards are a big part of the UCLA process. It’s really the big picture. I believe that most of the concentrated weight is about the essay, not the numbers or the EC or Awards. It’s more like this…</p>
<p>Essay
EC/Awards
AP/GPA
SAT/ACT</p>
<p>Nox</p>
<p>SAT sucked
ACT sucked even more
GPA was average
AP was average
Essay was the most work I did in my life.</p>
<p>I was shocked to find out that 20-30 people from my school were accepted (we are in SoCal, and they were all really strong applicants). I wasn’t expecting an acceptance, nor did I get one. I’m not particularly heartbroken about it. I’m just a bit miffed since most of my friends did end up getting in.</p>
<p>A good 15-20 people from my school were accepted this year and we’re located in NorCal so I’m not sure how much location matters to them.</p>
<p>I live in Georgia and was accepted. Not being offered any financial aid. Is it possible that the reason you got accepted was because of you being from in-state? Someone else from my class (who I feel is extremely unqualified for UCLA) also was accepted. It will be very, very interesting to see the admission statistics whenever they are released.</p>