@Bakasworld … you are totally missing the point and get it reversed. Say, your son is at a very top school. Their top 20% is comparing to the top 10% of most other schools. So you son competing within his own school will be so much harder to get in the top 10%. If you still not getting the idea, never mind.
@mamimami - For what it’s worth, my D got in RD while 3 other kids (all with above 4.0) at her school didn’t get in, nor even waitlisted! Their school doesn’t rank either. I believe schools that don’t rank (like ours) send the colleges a school profile which has statistics of grades from past years. (At least that’s what our school does.) I would check with your DS college counselor and ask what they send. With over 100k applications, many well qualified and deserving students did not get accepted. The whole process seem a bit random, like winning the lottery.
@mamimami Unfortunately, the college admissions process does not work the way you think it works. If UCLA believes a student is qualified to attend UCLA, then they will accept the student. Colleges are not stupid. They consider the socioeconomical aspect of each school. If the school your child attends is a very well-respected, vigorous school that you say it is, UCLA will not have any problem with accepting 20-25 amazing students at your child’s school. However, if students that attend a very poorly funded, low income type of school that has many students “easily” acquiring A’s, UCLA will only accept 5-10 of the best students at that school. In my area, a high school that is STEM focused, is located on a community college, and has students graduating with associates degrees consistently has 15-20 students every year being accepted to UCLA and Berkeley. However, my low income school only has about 20-25% of its students attending college and about 10% of its students are VERY competitive with each other. My school consistenly has 5-8 students every year being accepted to UCLA. The reason why is because although it is “easy” for the top students at my high school to have an A in certain classes as opposed to the other school in my region, UCLA recognizes the high GPA amongst the applicants in my high school and accept only the best of those students because not all of the students at my high school with high GPA’s are not equally qualified as the top students in my class. Thus, you can not blame grade inflation to have an effect on your child’s admittance to UCLA. If he chose to attend a very rigorous school and wants to attend UCLA, then he should expect himself to work hard to be one of the top students in his or her class just like every other student who works really hard in their respective schools to attend UCLA no matter if grade inflation is existent in his or her school. I worked my butt off and I became one of the eight students at my school to be accepted at UCLA. You should not undermine students who have grade inflation at their schools because everything ends up being balanced out.
@mamimami Its getting more and more competitive every year. UCLA will compare your student with those from previous years from your school as a baseline. This way it normalizes GPA to some extent. So it is definitely possible to be outside the top 10% and still get in in one school or be inside the top 10% at another school and get denied. California publics do not look at race but those who are first gen or from disadvantaged backgrounds get bonus points if they thrived in spite of their upbringing. Theoretically a wealthy private school admit should be higher performing than the equivalent inner city student. Despite that, almost all students attending UCLA are very well qualified and deserve to attend.
Wow…ladies and gentlemen, I don’t mean to be offensive and never meant to undermine anyone or doubt the qualifications on the accepted students. I straightly stated my points of view. You can feel the current admitting policy is very well defined. I have all the right to feel that there is room for improvement. Like ‘gratefulmama’ said, I feel the whole process seems a bit randorn.
You young people , make use of your valuable college experience and learn to accept and respect others’ points by view.
@mamimami No one thought you were offensive. We were just explaining how admissions officers review applicants.
@mamimami I was just explaining the process…
@Bakasworld , you didn’t feel I am offensive but thought i undermine students… that’s a bit contradicting.
You were not the admission officers and how could you explain the review process they used. Again, I was just expressing my points of view. Obviously I can’t make everybody agree with me or intend to make them to. Let’s put an end on this…
Have a nice evening everyone!
@10s4life … thanks for explaining… and sure I guess some of the facts right. Good nite
@mamimami I do my research before saying things. I simply reiterated whatever an UCLA admissions officer said. Here are one of the videos you can use to help your child.
Sheer not shear.
@bakasworld… thank you for the link and I don’t need to worry about college application anymore . Thank goodness that i only have one child and he is a national merit scholar that admitted to Texas a&m with full tuition scholarship…
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@Bakasworld … thank you for the link and I don’t need to worry about college application anymore . Thank goodness that i only have one child and he is a national merit scholar that admitted to Texas a&m with full tuition scholarship…… sure glad there are lots more better colleges out there that value our kids … that UCs have overlooked.
So im guessing the wait is over tomorrow? Thats when we’ll all recieve our rejections? Haha
@Senioritisisme That will probably not be the case. For the past few years, the University has stated that all waitlist decisions should be up by June 1, however this has never been the case. Also, a tweet from the UCLA Admissions office has confirmed that the wait can continue well in to Summer, possibly till July.
Does anyone else have red text in their portal that says that waitlist decisions are not finished?
Yeah I got that too. It says decisions will be posted through May which is confusing
i noticed the red text as well. it’s almost as if there’s a little hope.
Why would there be conflicting messages on applicants portals?
Did anyone get rejected from the waitlist ?