UCLA 2017 Freshman Appeals

@10s4life Hi, I was just wondering what kind of circumstance would warrant a decent appeal? I had medical problems this year and missed months of school, overall it was a hell of a struggle to catch up, etc. However, this mostly started right after junior year ended. I know that UCs don’t consider senior year, so I was wondering , even though my illness plagued me during senior year, would it still be a valid thing to bring up for an appeal? I mean I had to write my essays while I was sick, but I’m not sure if they would care.

I’m an OOS student (no financial aid ) btw. 35 ACT, 4.5 W GPA, mediocre ECs. Applied to LSA.

UCLA is the only rejection I’m considering appealing for because I really love it…

@jess27 if your medical problems came up now as a senior after you sent in the app then no because you are only judged on pre senior year and if that was unaffected then grounds for an appeal wouldn’t hold. It’s differnt if this illness showed up junior year, affected you and you didn’t mention it in the app. Hope you are doing better but I’m not seeing a solid appeal.

@10s4life New compelling information… as in… What would it be?
(ex. personal circumstances)

@cxprus It means information that was omitted during the application time. Like in junior year you had an undiagnosed learning disability that didn’t get caught until March now and didn’t recieve the right IEP help all throughout high school because of it and that is why the gpa is poor. Or a parent lost a job and you had to work 2 jobs to help pay the bills which explains why you didn’t have any ECs in your app. Stuff like that. So compelling needs to be actually compelling.

@cxprus I got the SR, so any valid circumstances. What advice would you give in writing this appeal? I feel that if you are given an opportunity to not give up on yourself then I guess you should take it.

@cxprus I don’t have much useful advice other than to present compelling evidence. I wouldn’t get hopes up as even with compelling evidence very few appeals are granted. The readers take a lot of factors into consideration when going through each app. I don’t have much experience with waitlists and appeals in general.