UCLA admits, I NEED YOUR IMMEDIATE HELP!!!

<p>Sorry for the melodramatic thread title, but this is regarding UCLA's transfer events on Friday (specifically PILOT day) as I urgently need the help of a few people on this forum if I wish to attend. </p>

<p>I'm looking for anyone that RSVP'd to PILOT day or any other transfer yield event on Friday that is thinking unsure about attending or possible can't make it. If you don't plan on attending or just know someone that isn't going to please respond in this thread or direct message me. </p>

<p>Basically, my situation is that I didn't RSVP to one of the transfer yield events because I was specifically invited to only one of the "ethnic" transfer yield events for this Friday. As a person of mixed ethnicity I found it pretty offensive that UCLA would make the assumption as to which ethnic event I should attend, without being given the option to choose the more diverse PILOT day or as a multiethnic admit, the one where my personal cultural identity fit toward. Long story short, registration for these events has closed (despite no stated deadline) and the event is full. I've been in contact with a UCLA student that's in charge of the event to seek an alternative and voice my displeasure at having been characterized to a specific ethnic group. Basically, he's just apologized for the event being full. If you guys could help me out that would be great.</p>

<p>I had the same problem. I emailed the people in charge of PILOT ASAP and was able to RSVP that way.</p>

<p>edit: My advice: go anyway. You probably just won’t get breakfast/lunch or whatever. But you can still go and get some information and tour the campus.</p>

<p>EDIT again: I just remembered I RSVPd for my family of four but my brother isn’t going anymore. Idk if that helps?</p>

<p>^^You were able to get some sort of confirmation for PILOT day after emailing them?</p>

<p>I actually had proposed skipping the meals to the person I was in touch with, but he had said that there’s limited space for the workshops/tours available as well. I’m considering just showing up to see what would happen, perhaps they’ll let me in because there are a few people that are bound not to go. It would just be a pretty big waste of time/gas driving all the way down there (about 50 miles for me), just to find out that they won’t let me in.</p>

<p>They replied with:</p>

<p>"Thank you! We have you down in our list now.</p>

<p>See you on May 11th!</p>

<p>If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. "</p>

<p>Is PILOT day an official event? I didn’t get any email about it.</p>

<p>No it isn’t. It’s just some meeting where you meet new friends and have a jolly ole time</p>

<p>@AllFieldsAreReq
Hmmm, maybe I could pose as your brother just to get in? Lol</p>

<p>Seriously though, that’s actually good information to have and if you don’t mind, I’d like to mention that in an email to the Transfer Alliance Program president, who I’ve been speaking with to inform him that I know of someone that’s going to have a vacancy in their party. If you don’t mind, would you be ok sending an email to him after I figure out if I can RSVP or not if I need to confirm that there’ll be at least one person not attending?</p>

<p>@ayymeer
It’s not really an official UCLA event. It’s just an event run collaboratively by the separate UCLA student organizations, so it’s actually run and set up by current UCLA students. It’s UCLA’s only equivalent of a “transfer day”, which the other UCs have but are generally organized by actual faculty.</p>

<p>I don’t think that’ll be necessary. I didn’t say who specifically was going (i.e. mom, dad, brother). I just said that there will be four of us total.</p>

<p>^I was just joking about posing as your brother. But if it becomes necessary would you mind sending an email to confirm that someone in your party won’t be attending? If they won’t accept that I’m not sure what I’ll do.</p>

<p>Yeah I know, I was just pointing that out. </p>

<p>And of course I will.</p>

<p>@AllfieldsAreReq
I was contacted by Zedric, who’s the president of the Transfer Student Alliance the group that sets up PILOT day, and it doesn’t seem like they’ll accommodate me, despite explaining that I knew of someone whose guest wasn’t going to attend. Apparently, the services provided toward registered students are not the same as those provided toward the guests. So coming as a guest or in place of a guest isn’t really an option. It looks like I’ll have to find someone that RSVP’d that can’t go for whatever reason.</p>

<p>Here’s a portion of the email I received from him:
“We limit our students to bring 1-2 guest(s), usually parents only, due to limited capacity. If you are the attending guest of the student you stated, I just want to provide you a prior notice that we might not be able to provide the same resources as the registered students. Again, PILOT DAY is a program by a student club on campus; our funding is very limited. Please understand our situation. We are trying our very best to be as accommodating as possible.”</p>

<p>I see…well good luck dilapidated. I hope everything works out for you.</p>

<p>pilot day wasn’t an official event . Not every one we invited under the event tab on the admissions site. There was other events as well. I guess it was sent out randomly</p>

<p>@dilapidatedmind chill out, just go to the school and see if you can get in. If not, just walk around yourself and explore the campus. Hopefully you’re going with another person, so you can enjoy the day and find somewhere good to eat in LA. This should not be such a stressful dilemma for you.</p>

<p>I didn’t RSVP and I’m going anyway. There is still room to take regular campus tours tomorrow. I also emailed a few teachers and asked them if they wanted to chat with me and got positive responses.</p>

<p>I wasn’t invited under the events tab but I did get an invitation when I got the letter from AAP… emailed them to RSVP yesterday and they still haven’t replied. =/ I think I’m gonna go anyway and visit the campus, talk to people etc.</p>

<p>@repo11
I’ve actually already taken a tour of the campus. PILOT day just seems like a very valuable resource that’s much more than just a tour. There are going to be several workshops that cover everything from financial aid, to moving on to graduate school, to alternative housing, and more along with your typical tour. You also get a chance to interact with current students in a structured environment and have the opportunity to interact with thousands of other peers, not just a few in your tour group. Considering UCLA doesn’t hold an official transfer day, this is the closest thing that’s offered. And for someone that’s really struggling to choose between two schools, an event like this could actually make my decision. Maybe it seems overblown to you, but for me PILOT day could potentially be a life changing event.</p>

<p>Desperation bump. :(</p>