Hi, anyone of you going to write appeal letters? I am going to but i am curious and have some questions i would want to ask and hopefully someone will help me.
When is the deadlines for UC appeal letters?
What do we need to provide in these letters?
Does anyone have any websites regarding appeal letters and how it is process?
I’m going to write appeal letters to UCR, UCSC, UCSB, and UCI…Any info is thankful.
<p>All ive heard is that you must have significant new evidence on why they should accept you. A high senior gpa or a high score on a newer SAT does not count as significant new evidence. I think theyre looking for outstanding awards/achievements that you may have receieved after submitting your app (like getting a national ap scholar award or qualifying for the US physics team or something)</p>
<p>The "I'm improving, accept me!" doesn't typically work. I agree with djdooey's advice</p>
<p>Hm, i wonder how long the essay should be...anyone acknowleged?</p>
<p>Well, i forgot to tell them on the essay that i was hospitalized for a month when i was in 9th grade and that was why it led me to bad grades. I didn't think a D would affect so much but somehow it did. Do i need to show them anything to prove that i was in the hospital? Or do we just write it down? Because i really was in the hospital although i'm not sure if they'll believe me.</p>
<p>a D in ninth grade will not affect it so much. It had to be something else or a lot of little things. UCs hardly take freshman year into consideration, the grades aren't even calculated in your GPA. I had a D and an F in different classes in ninth grade just because the year was 'stressful'. (subsequent years were much better) But I got into UCSC and am waiting to hear from others. Look at your app overall again, is there something else off, or did you forget to mention some other things?</p>
<p>Maria i would reccomend you looking into the community colege route, i got into UCR and UCSC so far and if i get rejected by all the other UC's i applied ot then i am going the CC to UC route. Most if not all california community colleges have some aggrement with the UC's for gauranteed acceptence if u maintain lets say a 3.0+ gpa, UCSB for instance addmited all UC eligible CC students that ment if u had above a 2.4 gpa u were accepted to UCSB!!!, the lady from UCSD said that that college accepted everyone who had above a 3.0 from last year (note only into the college of letters and science) so i would highly reccomend this route for you as i may also go this route, but good luck on the appeals process but do keep in mind that it probably wont happen cause they usually only grant appeals if say They messed up with ur application or something) anyhow good luck remember to keep a open mind and not everyone who goes the JC route is stupid or dumb some if not most can be quite smart. :-) not me though cause i cant spell tosave my life.</p>
<p>UCI_Hopefull-why did you apply to UCR and UCSC if you would rather go to a cc than either of these schools?</p>
<p>i applied in case i changed my mind, i wasnt sure and my conselour told me to apply just in case i changed my mind so i did.</p>
<p>I have a friend who appealed to ucla last year because he had great senior year grades. The weird thing is that he never heard back from them about the appeal...i wonder if they just threw the appeal letter away.</p>
<p>they probably don't reply to appeals unless they're favorable. I can imagine all the applicants who do it</p>
<p>maybe it got lost in the mail???</p>
<p>Hm, thanks guys.</p>
<p>Well, i don't know about the UCs not taking freshmen year into consideration since they asked for it when i applied online. They asked classes that were on the E-G requirements and i took like 4 E-G req during my freshmen year. Maybe that's why.</p>
<p>I know someone who appealed to UCLA last year and got in. He basically stated in the letter that he had always wanted to go to UCLA and how he could only imagine himself there rather than anywhere else (He got into Cal). It was basically the standard cliche stuff that people tell you will never work, so I was actually pretty surprised when it worked for him. And then he went to Cal anyway and seems to be pretty happy there, so whatever.</p>
<p>Should i send along my official transcripts? Or is it not required? I think i should since my grades have improved alot and i know this won't work since they already claimed it but it will give me a chance. at least. </p>
<p>I think i better start working on my essay. Hope this works.</p>
<p>how do u know that you got rejected by all of those schools already?</p>
<p>I am assuming UCSB, UCI and UCSC are gonna reject me because Riverside rejected me....you know what i mean lol..</p>
<p>thats too bad</p>
<p>i think ur best shot would be appealing to UCR</p>
<p>Here's a page that could help:</p>
<p>I am planning to appeal to UC Davis if I am not initially accepted. I have talked to a few people who have successfully and unsuccessfully appealed to UCs in prior years and, generally, the ones who had a more convincing reason why they "needed" to attend the UC seemed to get in(such as financial hardships or a need of specific resources or a specific program only available at the particular UC) over those who didn't have such a need but had similar stats, though there are certainly exceptions. However, that's not to say that how close you were to being accepted initially isn't absolutely critical as well.</p>