<p>Well i’m just saying, don’t just say someone got lucky or something just because they got admitted with a lower gpa. That might be the case for some people, but admissions officers go through a lot of training to basically have the same gauge as everyone else when reading an application. I’m saying this as someone who got in to three schools so far (riverside, santa cruz, davis) with a 2.8 GPA. I was going through some personal stuff my first year of college, but once those issues were resolved i started working harder, getting better grades, getting more involved, and i wrote a personal statement explaining that. I am working incredibly hard to redeem myself, and i do believe that i deserve my admission just as much as people who got accepted with much higher GPAs than mine.</p>
<p>Oh im not saying that haha if i get in ill be incredibly lucky everyone that already heard really deserved it</p>
<p>@ krackalacka</p>
<p>I agree with you 100% I’m 36 and barely graduated high school. I couldn’t even write very well, my husband TAUGHT me! I was kicked out of my first CCC for BAD grades, I went to another, and didn’t do that much better. When I went to my third-- and last CCC, it was a sister school to the one that threw me out. They were NOT going to let me enroll, because of my academic dismissal 7 years prior! I had to petition the Dean to clear me. Even the Dean said that a bankruptcy didn’t last as long…</p>
<p>I worked my as# off, I have academic renewal at my first and second CCC’s. To see other people say that they are frustrated that those with lower GPA’s got in when they didn’t…well, it just breaks my heart. CCC were designed for a reason, and its sad when people forget that.</p>
<p>man I hope they werent worried that i wouldnt get enough units since I only had like 26 units completed by the time i applied this semester adds another 19 and AP credit gives me 15+</p>
<p>just wondering, what date is the program updated for you guys website? Mine says 04/15/13.</p>
<p>Mine is also 4/15</p>
<p>haha nice. there will be a batch either today or tomorrow right? from now on every time i log into the website my hands keep shaking…LOL</p>
<p>@UCdrone wow, that’s a lot of stuff to go through, but look where you are now 
despite how stressful this process is, we’re all here, waiting to get to the next step after everything, and it’s so exciting. I know about all the lengths my parents went to to get our family in this country to have the opportunity to even apply to schools like this, and even just having the opportunity to apply is such a big deal for me. I’m only 19 years old and haven’t had to go through any of the things you had to, but for a couple of years of my life, including my first year of cc, i was dealing with major depression and attempted suicide a couple of times. I didn’t think i would make it to the second year of college, i didn’t think i would ever get the opportunity to apply to UCs, let alone get accepted by any. But im working harder than i ever have before to turn my life around and get my grades up (slowly but surely) and i’m so honored to be accepted by these awesome schools.</p>
<p>You and i are just two examples of that. Everyone has things going on in their lives that no one knows about and its completely unfair for people to think they are more deserving of something just because of GPA. That attitude of entitlement definitely says something about their character. We all applied, we all want to get a great education… let the admissions officers do their jobs and decide who THEY want now.</p>
<p>I think they’ll have one today or tomorrow!</p>
<p>@ krackalacka</p>
<p>Wow, just wow! I am so glad that we didn’t lose you to depression and met you here: on College Confidential. Life is hard, and we don’t all say what we’ve been through. My parents struggled to get here back in the early 70s, and I know exactly what you mean by being humbled at each acceptance. Well, I take that back. Not UCI, because I TAGGED and they HAD to take me :)</p>
<p>If you ever need to vent, or talk PM when you make your UC decision and I’ll friend you on Facebook. Sometimes, its easy to talk to somebody who doesn’t know you very well, because they will listen and not judge.</p>
<p>@Krackalacka wow thats really crazy, glad you are still here man!
I don’t really have any crazy family things other than my father being born in puerto rico and working for the marine core for 20 years so the first few years of my life he was stationed overseas (you know they will assign female marines to come help take care of a baby? well maybe we were special because I’m a triplet) neither of my parents went to college. My mom went to a trade school and my dad just went back and got a bachelors a year or two ago. other than that ive got nothing, well I do have ADHD i guess thats something.</p>
<p>@krackalacka
When I graduated from high school which was many years ago, I couldn’t get into any UCs at all because my SAT score was 950 I am not kidding. First year of community college, I was barely passing my classes. So, I quit the following yea and went to work for a few years. Then, 2 years ago, I went back to school because I was sick of my dead end job. I worked hard to get a 3.5 GPA. No one in family believe in me as I was being told as being the dumb one in the family. My older sister already had a BA degree from Yale and my little brother is on track to get his BA from Berkeley this year.</p>
<p>@ rickyseg</p>
<p>Wow, a triplet? I hope you put that in your Personal Statement, and ADHD? Your poor mom, LOL Do you have other siblings…I mean aside from the value pack you came in?</p>
<p>@UC Drone, I’m pretty sure I did I’ll check but mine kinda sucked, I had nothing to write about as i had only been in community college for like 6 months. As for the ADHD I didn’t mention it my freshman application but i might have mentioned how I’ve always had it on the additional comments. I kind of felt like I shouldn’t mention the ADHD because I feel like my ability is not any less than someone who doesn’t and It doesn’t do justice to use it as a crux when there are people out there with far worse.
She had twins before us which unfortunately didn’t make it. I believe we were in vitro and by some luck ended up as triplets but Its a mystery as I have never really asked, it didn’t really matter though as all that does is that I was born.</p>
<p>@ucdrone @rickyseg thanks you guys haha. I’m 100% better and loving life and excited for all the things i have yet to experience ricky thats not nothing, it’s hard to keep a family together under those circumstances, especially when one of your parents isn’t around for one reason or another. When my dad went back to school to get his masters degree when i was little, i basically didnt have a dad for two years… he was always at school, and if he was at home we couldnt even talk to him because he was studying… but families overcome stuff like that together and keep on going :)</p>
<p>@lbtocth i’m considered the dumb one in the family too 
but at the end of the day, we’re working our butts off to get a degree for OURSELVES, not our parents. If you believe you can do it, you’ll make it happen for yourself, and that’s all that matters :)</p>
<p>@ rickyseg</p>
<p>I’m so sorry to hear about your mom and those twins. I’m glad you all made it though. If you made it to triplets, are you all identical triplets, or just two of you? ADHD is not a crutch, it’s a disability and its tough! I have a relative that has it, and I’ve met people with ADHD. It is absolutely something to discuss, because it’s too easy to give up on your studies with something like that interfering.</p>
<p>@ krackalacka</p>
<p>Your dad got his master’s? Wow, your family is very extraordinary, especially since they emigrated to this country. Don’t worry, you’re not in the least bit the dumb one. You just sound like a late bloomer :)</p>
<p>@ucdrone I can show you my personal statement if you like haha. I believe were are all fraternal since we all look different two of us are similar height but look different and one is tall. Idk i prolly should have talked about it more though. I didnt feel like it was right though.</p>
<p>@krackalacka
I agree, I am only doing it for myself not anyone else.</p>
<p>@ rickyseg</p>
<p>Those are the kind of things they want to hear about: Who you are, and what makes you a strong candidate for school. What will you get out of attending, and why and how hard you had to work to get the stats you have…</p>