btw the old GroupMe link that someone posted here (before decision date last Fri.) no longer works; is anyone interested in starting another GroupMe?
For anyone considering submitting an appeal, just know that last year there were >1,000 appeals submitted, and only 30 got their decisions reversed to an acceptance. (I got this from Ms Sun’s UC blog where she posted all the statistics) This pretty much makes the rejection decisions final. If you really want to go to UCLA, then the next best thing would be to transfer from a California Community College with a high college GPA. Honestly its not that hard to get a high community college GPA, and if you are intending to transfer into a non-impacted major, then your chances of getting in are very high.
@10s4life My son got in as a Religious Studies major. He interested in that, but might want to change to something else within L&S. I heard that some majors in L&S require that you are admitted into that major. Do you know if that’s true for Economics? And if it’s not, then is it easy to change your major?
@JuicyMango “That’s your opinion, but I’m appealing because I don’t think it’s fair that applicants clearly less qualified are getting in.”
Yikes.
If this delightful personality trait shown in your essays somehow, imho The UCLA officers made the right choice in not accepting you. How can you in good conscience claim that it isn’t " fair" that lesser stats got in? You do realize college admissions aren’t just surface level, right? Admissions are holistic for this very purpose. AO understand people aren’t just stats and scores. You seem to not be able to.
Maybe those “less qualified” acceptees had something else to offer.
No one likes a sore loser, be gracious & mature in this learning experience. I’ve gotten rejections back (JHU ect…) and they stung. But I understand AO have a rhyme and reason to how they are building their class.
Don’t be resentful and attempt to discredit excited UCLA accepted students whose application, personal appeal & story you know 0% of.
This elitism in college competition is a cancer.
@10s4life You’ve been a great source of info and a great ambassador for the school with all the help you provide and your enthusiasm for UCLA. Good luck on your finals this week.
@pac12bound That’s a big misconception with UCLA and Cal. For L&S students no one is admitted directly to the major. Everyone is a pre major and you can change right away. Only enginerring and nursing and other tft and art majors are admitted directly because they aren’t in L&S. So he can switch to pre Econ at orientation.
@youcee No problem! Happy to help future Bruins. Hopefully I’ve been able to help you all make an informed decision about UCLA. It’s an amazing school and I’m loving every minute of it. Feel free to send any other questions my way. I’m a bruin day and Engineering day volunteer as well so hope to see everyone there!
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@LAox98 Sorry, I never meant to disrespect those who were accepted into UCLA. This whole random college process has made me bitter, but I shouldn’t have put others down.
@JuicyMango Yeah it’s a rough time for all of us. Just know that wherever you end up, it’ll be at a school who values you.
@nervous17yearold Thanks man, definitely didn’t mean to put down others. And I’m obviously the less qualified one here or else I would have gotten in :p.
Congrats to everyone who got admitted, there’s a great school waiting for all of us.
Did anyone else get a call today from UCLA? I was in class when they called so I missed it and one of my classmates who also got in to UCLA got the call about an hour after me (she also missed it though). I called back but got no response, just the UCLA office recording. 
what does this mean?
@prineko we discussed this a few pages back and it was just from the UCLA calling center they want to get a feel on who will be accepting or denying their acceptance. It does not mean anything just for UCLA to get information for their yield. No worries if you missed the call, I answered and spoke to a sophomore at UCLA who just asked me a few questions nothing serious!
I got admitted to UCLA and I think I would probably go there. But I still want to wait to see the decision of UCB and UMich. So is it okay for me to not response to my UCLA admission right away? I want to wait until May.1
Would the admission be withdrawed if I do not take actions right away?
And as I am an international student I cannot go to the Campus days, will that be okay as well?
Name of UCLA school you are applying to: Engineering
Major: CS
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA (capped): /
SAT I (breakdown):2340 (CR800,Math800,Writing740)
ACT (breakdown): /
SAT II:Math 780 Physics 740 Chemistry 680 (I knoow they were really low scores)
Rank: top 5%
AP Scores: /
IB Scores: /
Courses you are taking senior year:
Awards: /
Extracurriculars: nothing much related to Computer Science
Volunteering: a lot
Work Experience: A few (some related to CS)
Essays: not really outstanding but okay I think
Ethnicity: Asain
Gender: Male
State (if domestic):
Country (if international): China
Income Bracket: about 50,000
Are you applying for financial aid?: no
Hooks (first generation college, underrepresented minority, legacy): no
Okay thanks so much! I was concerned that I was getting rescinded or something 
glad that that’s most likely not the case @jcoc1093
@JuicyMango The way colleges supposedly select students (as I read in some article written by a Stanford Dean) is to build a class with a certain makeup they want. Don’t know if UCLA/UC Berkeley do the same but I assume so although their acceptance rate is around 18% while Stanford’s acceptance rate is around 4.7%. For example, the article said even if they have 5 awesome clarinet players, if they only have 3 spots for awesome clarinet players, they will accept just 3 even though the remaining 2 had awesome clarinet playing skills. Now, personally I couldn’t envision how this approach works in the real world because not every student has a specific unique skill; I mean, some do but most students are kind similar but no question they had a lot more applicants for every program than they had openings. Therefore, I believe it also has to do with how much AO liked or sympathized with what the applicant had to say through their essays. Now, instead of essays, if they met the actual applicants, I do believe their decisions would be different. Given the number of applications they had to review, their decisions are not going to be perfect or fair.
Having said this, I believe UC Berkeley has a more “holistic” review because when I went there on an official tour, they kept on emphasizing this fact several times.
But I think you and some others should appeal the decision and see what happens if you really wanted to attend UCLA because nothing to lose. Maybe they have a policy where another AO reviews your application and the other AO may feel differently.
Having said this, there is always a way that some applicant will appear “better” to the specific AO’s eyes than you. For example, they could say Applicant A had 4.0 gpa while you had “only” 3.9 gpa, or they liked someone from Hawaii who had similar stats as yourself, or they found someone with 3.8 gpa from a poor family more impressive than your 4.0 gpa from a well-to-do family, or they liked an applicant who participated in athletics etc. This sort of differentiation can go on and on. Heck, I have seen some “perfect” looking applicants get rejected from Stanford also, which made me wonder how the heck Stanford decided to admit my kid. But then I began to think maybe my kid appeared to them to be more genuine or they were looking for a student who spoke many languages or who showed they challenged themselves by pursuing academic endeavors outside high school etc, or the specific AO liked the fact that my kid’s teachers all said how genuine our kid was rather than just talk about his academic achievements. Heck, this can go on and on so that at the end, anyone seems to have a better point. It’s like LOVE is in the eye of beholder imo.
@JuicyMango Let me give you one more example because you might find it interesting. For example, I know this kid who got into UCLA (Student A) where as this Student B got denied for the same STEM major. Student A doesn’t have good personality (all imo) and is not respectful towards adults and comes off as a very uncaring person, where as Student B is always smiling and has great personality. In addition, Student B had slightly better stats and ECs. But the end result is Student B (a likable kid) got denied and Student A got accepted. But this kind of personality traits do not always come through in essays. In fact, Student A might have been a better writer and portrayed himself as the most lovable and quirky person on earth, whereas Student B failed to capture his genuineness or good character. You can bet your pants had I been the AO reviewing both of their applications, I would have accepted Student B over Student A. In other words, AOs tried to do their jobs, but in no way, should you take their decisions as the “best” decisions. I know several students who absolutely deserved to get into UCLA but they all got denied from UCLA last year and are kicking butts academically at UCSD Engineering, i.e., getting 4.0 gpa.
@websensation Thank you for the great info, I didn’t know that’s how they run the process. I guess you do learn something new everyday :).
Guess I just have to cross my fingers for Berkeley, and hope that I happen to fit their “mold” for this year.
Has anyone ever gotten 2 C’s and didn’t get rescinded before? Anyone have this experience? The semester isn’t over yet but I think there’s a fair chance I’m going to end up with 2. I’m freaking out…