<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Anyone heard or know any UCLA appeal stories? </p>
<p>Also, when does UCLA usually decide for appeals? Through website or mail?</p>
<p>I know it said 3 weeks but I heard people hearing earlier and later..</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>my friend got accepted after appealing ( engineering fyi) in about 4 or 5 days. He had a really compelling case though: Top 15 in LAVC math competition, top score in AIME at his high school, and it turned out that they didn’t have the correct SAT II scores for him. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>At my high school, appeal rates are as follows (according to my AP economics teacher–very popular guy. He writes appeal letters for a lot of seniors).</p>
<p>Davis–high
Irvine–fairly high
UCSD–10%
Berkeley–10%
UCLA–0%</p>
<p>In all his years of teaching (30+), he has only had one student get into LA on an appeal. I don’t really know why. UCLA’s a popular school? More kids from my year got into Cal than LA. Of course, these stats are just from a single teacher at my high school, but…make sure you have a backup plan. Good luck.</p>
<p>hi! is it too late to appeal already? (sorry to be eating into your thread, rbk hoops!) i really wanted cal, but got rejected (as an international)- though everyone (at least on CC told me i had a pretty good chance). i have a realllly good recommendation sitting with me (i got to read it). if it’s not too late, what else should i send??
a CV (with more stuff than on my app)?
a cartoon? (yes, i have a diploma in cartooning and 2d animation)
another essay? (if that, saying what??)
a letter telling how much i love them??
anything else??</p>
<p>please do respond, guys! thanks in advance for the help! and hoops- sorry again for eating into your thread! :)</p>
<p>One of my friends on the floor got in through appeal (pre-comm std). So it’s not impossible. Don’t know anything about his appeal though.</p>
<p>Amazing: did they find out recently? they must have turned in their appeal early…
im turning mine in on Monday.</p>
<p>^I think Amazing is talking about a current UCLA student on his/her floor that was admitted through appeal, not a graduating senior who was just admitted this year.</p>
<p>Anyways, one of my friends was admitted through appeal. I think the most important thing in his appeal was that he showed how he had changed and grown since he submitted his UC app, which may be difficult for most people because they don’t really change over a span of four months. My friend became a lot more committed to Science Bowl and devoted a lot of his free time to studying/practicing for it, which I guess is somewhat unique since most seniors tend to slack off in their last year. Although, I don’t think he should have been rejected in the first place since he had pretty good stats.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks entran ^</p>
<p>anyone else know of any successful stories?</p>
<p>i wonder when they will send the decision of appeals…anyone know of 2008 appeal decision dates?</p>
<p>bump i have no idea! I sent my appeal in a while ago, does anyone know whether the decision comes out online or by mail?</p>
<p>i’m kind of unsure if i should appeal or not ( i know the postmark deadline is tomorrow)
but i’m not sure if i have a good case, basically i was going to try to focus my letter on the fact that i have a condition called palmar hyperhidrosis, which is excessive sweating of the hands, and how this has affected my life throughout highschool, and affected my participation in extracurricular activities, and being actively involved in my highschool and community. I have never really told anyone about this problem and try to avoid it as much as possible. I feel that this condition has definitely impacted, and inhibited me from truly being a better applicant to ucla. Social effects of hyperhydrosis are documented and I never mentioned anything about this on my uc application.
what do you guys think?
Is it “new and compelling”.
Please respond ASAP so i can get started on my letter and get it mailed by tomorrow.</p>
<p>There is a spot on the application that asks for any other information you would want them to know…the fact that you did not mention it then gives them very little incentive to consider it now at all.</p>
<p>I have a disability myself. I don’t like talking about it, but guess what, I didn’t hide it. Instead, I made it the focal point of both my essays, which is probably a large part of the reason I got in.</p>
<p>Give it a shot if you want, but in all likelihood you’re not going to have your rejection reversed.</p>
<p>how many appeals do you think UCLA will reverse this year?</p>
<p>also, do they come out in mail or email</p>
<p>thanks for the reply.
Well i dont feel as though i was hiding it, but i will give it a shot, the worst they can say is no. :/</p>
<p>go for it
theres nothing to lose</p>
<p>my status was recently changed</p>
<p>anyone know how early UCLA will decide the appeals? i know its 3 weeks but i heard some ppl hearing from 3 weeks to 6 weeks</p>
<p>what information do we need to provide and where do we place it. I have included my name and uc application id number at the top of my letter, is there any other info i need to provide?</p>
<p>Hi. I’ve never used this before, but I was thinking about appealing a rejection from UCLA because, well, I feel like maybe I’ve got a shot.
Here’s my stats:
GPA:3.9
AP TESTS: 13
SAT II Scores: USH 760, French 760
SAT: 2080
ACT: 33
Varsity Track/XC
Drama
Community Service
Summer Classes (not summer school, but extra school) every year
My GPA’s, from sophmore fall to junior spring are as follows: 3.3, 3.5, 4.2, 4.8
My senior fall (which I know they don’t really count but i figured it could help was a 4.7)
The reason why my sophmore year grades are so low, which i didn’t really explain on my application, is because i transfered from an east coast boarding school halfway through spring semester to a california high school. Therein, i was unable to be elidgble for elc or anything. and it really sucked, so i was kind of in a bad place. But obviously, as seen by both my test scores and my recent gpas, I’m a smart kid.
Is there any way I could have a chance?</p>
<p>don’t kid yourself. 3.3/3.5 weighted for your sophomore year is like what, a 2.5 unweighted gpa? there really should be no excuse for that kind of gpa. you are pretty much saying that you gave up in school because you weren’t eligible for elc? that’s a pretty childish excuse. personally, i didn’t even get elc but got in, and idiots like yourself who think getting elc is all that don’t deserve to come here.</p>
<p>you don’t have much activities or awards, so the only way you would have ever gotten in is if you have something close to 4.0 uw and 2200+ sat I. 2080 isn’t a ‘good’ sat score bro, it is average. you might be ‘smart,’ but you have to speak in relative terms. there are probably 50000 applicants that are smarter than you.</p>
<p>to answer your question: yes, you do have a chance of getting in. maybe like 1%. after all, we need students to get weeded out of our college by freshman year to make us look more prestigious.</p>
<p>^33 is equivalent to a 2190 or you can say 2200. so that is indeed competitive. I believe it was mainly your GPA and ECs.</p>
<p>I know a guy who successfully appealed his Berkeley decision without new information, and he’s a total idiot.</p>
<p>Of course, he’s failing now.</p>