<p>It seems that quite a few students are getting in through appeals. I THINK (my theory) UCLA may have set aside a few more appeal spots this year seeing how 55k applied and alot of those applicants who were accepted were very qualified and possibly got into a top private/cal etc just as a safety blanket for themsleves..</p>
<p>Yay, you give me hope ;). I can't believe how long they're taking for decisions though... I am hoping that if a lot of people didn't submit their SIR they'll allow a few more appeals to be granted, maybe that's why they're waiting so long (after May 1st, when most say they'll get back to you before then)?</p>
<p>me too, yes, it seems on here that a lot of people are turning down UCLA and they used it as a safety school, i hope that even though over 50k did apply, this will backfire on them and not a lot of people will actually end up going to ucla, example- 2 kids i know from my school are turning down ucla</p>
<p>i wish you guys the best of luck</p>
<p>Meza007,</p>
<p>Using this site as a sample of the average college student population is like using Beverly Hills as a sample for the United States-- e.g. not very accurate.</p>
<p>hey man i was just giving an example, these kids were extremely smart and them turning down ucla was shocking to me</p>
<p>Yeah, but I wouldn't put much stock into any examples here. The upper upper echelon posters on this site are very rare people.</p>
<p>about 20 kids at my school was accepted into UCLA but only 2 are going because the rest got accepted into CAL and is going there.</p>
<p>contrary to most years, most people at my school (and neighboring schools) are going to ucla. we had 27 acceptances and 17 people are going to LA. 4 are going to CAL. the other 6 are going to stanford and mit. i turned cal down for la.</p>
<p>in the past few years, we usually have 15+ going to cal and only about 8 go to la every year. this year the tables turned.. :</p>