<p>I was initially denied at UCLA Econ despite my great ECs and GPA, so I called them to ask why. As an answer, they said I was missing the critical thinking prerequisite. But they themselves recognized that one of my courses actually transfered as such and recommended me to appeal. I went there personally to get more information and they concluded that it was becouse they gave priority to courses in the english department (mine was taught by the phillosophy one despite being equivalent), what for me sounded like an excuse for a bad mistake they made. I was very polite but kept asking quetions so when I appealed I would know exactly what to say. Well, it turned out I got accepted at Berkeley so I saw no need to proceed. But Thursday I got an email saying I was accepted at UCLA! I didn't even appeal, I think they got ahead of themselves and did that for me already. Has that happened to any of you? This is why it is always a good idea to cal them. Oh well, i wished I could still consider UCLA but now I already SIRed Berkeley which was was my first choice anyways.</p>
<p>That’s public schools for ya! But honestly, they have been effin stuff up lately.</p>
<p>hey, that is Great news. congratulations! our critical thinking class taught in the philosophy department does not fulfill our critical thinking IGETC requirement, at our school. so i think you are very lucky. how great that listened to you and accepted you. toot toot.</p>
<p>my critical thinking req was a philo course and I was accepted. So it might just be a isolated mistake that ucla made.</p>
<p>@Enjolras I had a similar experience with yours. I’m a one-year transfer so I can see how complicated my application may have been to the evaluators. After I found out on Apr. 20 that I wasn’t accepted to UCLA, I called on Monday the next week to ask why. They said I was “deficient in units.” However, I was not. I had 47 units from my CC and ~13.3 units from my AP exams. Add the two, and you get 60 semester units. The first lady who I first talked to was not very helpful when I asked how I didn’t have enough units. She referred to my AP Calculus and Math 1 as duplication so I was deficient in units. I knew that Math 1 and AP Calc was a duplication, but still, if you counted all my units including Math 1, but excluding AP Calc, I would have enough units.</p>
<p>I kept calling because I knew they were wrong. I told the next people I talked to what the first lady told me. I even asked my counselor if she could give them a call. What they told my counselor was that because Math 1 was 4 units at UCLA, I got 4 units for Math 1 and not the 5 units awarded from my CC. Thus, I was “deficient in units.” Then again, THAT explanation didn’t make sense either because if that was how they counted units, then they should have awarded me 4 units for my Intro to Psychology class instead of the 3 units awarded from my CC because UCLA’s Psych 10 is 4 units. The people who told my counselor that were dumbstruck and couldn’t argue back. So, they told my counselor that some other person would get back to her.</p>
<p>The last lady that talked to my counselor said that the reason why I was deficient in units was because they looked at AP credit first, then they add the units from my CC. I guess THAT’s how they count the units. Do I even have to say how stupid this explanation is? Shouldn’t they give you the higher amount of units instead of the least (i.e. shouldn’t they have given me 5 units from Math 1 instead of 4 units from AP Calc). OBVIOUSLY they made a mistake and were making excuses after excuses. They finally admitted to their mistake when they changed my admission decision from a rejection letter to an acceptance letter this Thursday, May 3.</p>
<p>congratulations. and don’t forget UCLA received over 80 thousands applications. more than any other college. gotta have some patience. i know for a fact that the critical thinking courses in our philosophy department do not transfer as critical thinking for the english department IGETC.</p>
<p>wow… I feel like I should have called and asked about it too! I’m afraid it’d be too late by now though, because I already emailed saying that I was going to appeal, and appeals are already starting to be accepted 
I’m still in the process of writing it though, maybe it wouldn’t hurt?</p>
<p>^Nope, it would definitely not hurt to call.</p>
<p>@northbeach Thank you. But when I got rejected I must say it was a major blow to me, since I started to put in question whether Cal would accept me despite. I do understand they have been dealing with budget cuts and that probably affected their admissions dept. but it definitely sucks for those kids who didn’t call and will never end up knowing. </p>
<p>@ayymeer wow, in your case it got tense. I am actually considering telling my phillophy professor about what happened to me so he can warn his students that that might happen. I think UCLA was trying to find reasons to toss applications away so they wouldn’t need to go over them. I really doubt that they even read my application after giving me the appeal themselves. I think they just thought “we really screwed up, let’s just offer him admission so he won’t go to court for that.” Or perhaps they already knew Berkeley would accept me anyway? </p>
<p>@clee39 are you kidding me? Call them ASAP! How can you appeal if you don’t even know why they rejected you? Good luck!</p>