<p>your parents, out of all the people, are the ones who are suppposed to be giving you encouragment!!!!!!! If my parents did not do that, I would've been lost a long time ago</p>
<p>My mom supports me. It's just my dad. UCLA is all I talk about to people and it would embarrass him if he believed in me and I didn't get in. It's okay, I never listen to my dad anyway so he will never change my mind about it! It still hurts, tho. I think he just enjoys being right all the time. Well, believe me, if I do get accepted I will smother that acceptance letter right in his face. And for once he will have to admit that he was wrong about something! :~P</p>
<p>Indie_boy- I go to West Valley College too.</p>
<p>collegebabe2005, nice to know that you go to WV also..I just love that campus. WV pride !</p>
<p>By the way, do you know WV offers TAP to UCLA? looking @ your honors classes, I am guessing that you are doing TAP. Am I right? </p>
<p>In any case, wish you good luck & I hope you get into UCLA.</p>
<p>collegebabe2005,</p>
<p>You do that and make sure you give him a taste of his own medicine in the future! Just kidding. Anyways, in an ironic way I think your dad is actually doing much more than meets the eye. For example, his lack of encouragement will make you work harder to prove him wrong. In the end, you are the winner and that is something he will be able to "hang on his wall of fame."</p>
<p>haha, let me tell you a story of mine. I went to a college admission advising agency during the summer, and I told the guy that I wanted to get into Stanford.</p>
<p>then he started lecture me about how should I consider another school, then he told me my HS GPA sucks (3.5), then I explained my GPA sucked because I was like a first year immigrant during my freshman year, and then he said "HOW DOES BEING A IMMIGRANT PERVENT U FROM DOING WELL"(did his girlfriend got stolen by an immigrant?), well, i told him, it would be pretty hard to do well when you can't read anything can't it?</p>
<p>anyway, after sit through all those insults, the dude finally told me that there is a 99 percent chance stanford reject me.</p>
<p>he didn't know i had the ball to get +4 and mostly 5s on all 7 AP exams i took. </p>
<p>he didn't know i had the ball to get 4.0 in college
he didn't know i had the ball to retake SAT and get 1500.</p>
<p>so my stat magically became very strong, all thanks to that dude's comment "You will never get into Stanford"</p>
<p>at this point, I feel reasonablly confident about my admission, so yeah, I am going to talk to this dude again if I get in, ask him "If they need a person to create a department dedicated to immigrant students like me"</p>
<p>you guys i have my story too</p>
<p>for the last 5 years i was suffering from anorexia nervosa. Because of this i lost all my concentration and memory but i still went to school because i couldn't let myself not do anything. i had to do something that kept me busy. with my self destructive behavior everybody was telling me "you will never get in". but guess because of their discouragements i cured myself, got my self esteem back, got my confidence became more healthy got my grades up and now i am waiting to get admitted so i can show all the losers out there that i can do it and i did it.</p>
<p>Blackdream and aebeys, inspirational stories :)</p>
<p>haha, thanks for the advice. And yes, I am in TAP. Because I wanted to get into UCLA so bad, I realized that I had to take huge risks. I had never taken a honors classes before and I was scared that I would fail but I did it anyway because I knew this is what I had to do!</p>
<p>I finally got my SB letter. </p>
<p>1 down, 3 to go. </p>
<p>yay for super-safeties.</p>
<p>congratulations on SB, <strong>allie</strong> !!</p>
<p>i haven't heard anything. boo. </p>
<p>hopefully soon.l</p>
<p>Congrats! I got excited when I heard you got in, but alas (always wanted to use that word in a sentence!) I'm still pending. It's been over a week since I got my last acceptence, I miss getting them, they made me feel good!</p>
<p>Haha thanks guys. </p>
<p>My friend, whose stats are almost identical to mine, applied to the same major and got her acceptance from SB last week so I was getting a little nervous. It definitely makes waiting for the other schools slightly easier.</p>
<p>Although, I have a new boy prospect and dont want to think about moving right now, even if its an hour away (at most), hence my brief absence from the boards. Yay for denial. </p>
<p>This is still fun though. yay. </p>
<p>Good Luck All.</p>
<p>...accepted to UCI this morning. yay!</p>
<p>also, I believe the original post asked for stats. like a lot of you, mine is posted somewhere out there, but here goes:</p>
<p>GPA 3.5
Major: applied as Sociology, changed to Art History (around January)
Attempting to minor in Law & Humanities and Religious Studies.
EC's: none
IGETC: yes
Lower-divs: no
Irvine Valley College</p>
<p>btw, congratulations allie!</p>
<p>
LOL, I know how you feel. I had to wait one day short of an entire month just to see another acceptance. Good luck!</p>
<p>UC_Hopeful,</p>
<p>Hey I went to IVC too for awhile. What is your name?</p>
<p>Congrats to whoever got accepted</p>
<p>I am still pending</p>
<p>YES ! Guys, I got in to UC Davis for Computer Science and Engineering. When I applied as a freshman I got rejected.</p>
<p>Congrats everyone who got in !! Good luck for everyone who is waiting.</p>
<p>congrats indie boy</p>
<p>I am still waiting to hear from Davis and SB</p>
<p>hello again guys...I have a small problem, help me out...</p>
<p>In the UC Davis admission condition it says that I need to finish all the courses I listed as "in-progress" and "planned". One of the course I ambitiously mentioned (Advanced C++) for summer quater is not offered in the summer. I just have to let Davis know that they are not offering that particular class rite? They will not revoke my admission right? It is absolutely not my fault...</p>