UCLA CLASS OF 2021 APPLICANT THREAD

I got the Alumni Scholarship application invitation today at 8:30 PST. Do any of you guys know when the Regent Interview invitations will come out? In previous years, they came out at the very end of January(Jan 30th-Feb 2nd) but no one seems to have gotten theirs yet. Did anyone get an email?

I got the alumni scholarship email today. I wanted to know what the email for the invite said because in the email i got they never specifically said “you have been invited to…” It just says “Apply for UCLA alumni scholarship.”

@Foodlover228579 yeah that’s the e-mail people got.

@mafi4rmy Regents should probably come out tomorrow, maybe next week.

@nduclaunc apply anyway. People get in and get the scholarship even without the invitation. And lots of people who do get the invite to apply end up not getting into the school.

Take the email invite to the alumni scholarship with a grain of salt.
That email is automated and sent out based purely on sat/act and gpa stats. So it means your stats are competitive but remember ucla practices a holistic approach so if the rest of your app is lacking you may not get in.

Last year’s thread in my opinion showed an equal amount of people who got in and those who did not after having received the alumni scholarship email

@Ynotgo only 150 alumni scholars will be selected.

Side note: they won’t start reading the scholarship apps until after decisions come out (but you must submit before by the deadline) and those who do not get in (which is a lot this is ucla after all) will automatically be discarded and not even read.

@Mom22DDs unlike the Berkeley alumni scholarships that is sent to everyone, the ucla one is only sent to the applicants with the top act/sat and gpa combinations. It’s automated done by computer.

BUT anyone can apply to it even if you didn’t get the email invitation.

@LindsayHarvard yes! Many cases actually. Looking through last year’s thread there were so many angry kids who were rejected and felt shocked because they thought the alumni scholarship meant they had a good chance.

It’s important to be realistic as to not give yourself a false sense of security only to be deeply devastated when the admissions results come out.

This is ucla people who got the email have and will be rejected. And then those who don’t get rejected by the school will still be rejected from being in this prestigious exclusive alumni scholar club. Those are just the facts and numbers. Just being a realist here. Of 100,000 + qualified applicants the school is aiming for a freshman class of 6,000 and of those 6,000 Only 150 will get the scholarship.

Please do apply just be realistic and don’t build up these false hopes.

@USUG21 yes they are all sent in one batch.

@UCLAstan do they use UC gpa or unweighted gpa?

@JuicyMango Unweighted

@UCLAstan How about for Regents? UC gpa?

@VenomBuds unfortunately I do not know anything about regents so I can’t provide any insight there.

Is it really based on stats? I have a 4.54 and a 35 and one of my friends has a 2300 and 4.54 and we both didn’t get invited. Now I’m feeling really bummed that we’re not part of the top applicants lol. Also a little frightened…how high are those GPAs of the people who got invited???

I wonder if they take into account how many APs you’re allowed to take. My school restricts a lot in sophomore year, and I know some schools just don’t have a variety APs in general.

Yeah it doesn’t really make sense because some people with higher GPA and SAT than me didn’t get invited but I did…

@sadsenior mine is 4.67, SAT = 1570.

The alumni scholarship email was really impersonal it just said apply for the alumni scholarship, had information about the scholarship, and two drawings on it. Did everyone that received the alumni scholarship invite receive that specific email?

Yes @coffee1999. That is the only one they sent out.

Non only stats. Also leadership.

@VenomBuds @sadsenior invitation is based on stats, GPA and Test scores are not given equal weight so often you will see lower sat scores with higher GPA’s get the invite. Also its based off the unweighted GPA so I’ve seen people with 2 Ap’s and a 4.0 get it and those with 12 AP’s (high weighted gpa) but maybe a 3.7 due to a couple B’s in some AP’s not get it.

In the end the scholarship is open to everyone who applied to ucla so just do it its not even that long. and if you got the email or not is not indicative of anything. Many Many people have been denied with the email and just as many gotten in without it.

They send out 4,000 email invites for the scholarship, but UCLA accepts around 16,000 ( hoping for a yield of 5,500-6,000 enrolled). So the majority of the people who get in will not have gotten the email invite so relax if you didn’t get it. don’t read too much into it and apply to the scholarship anyway if you want it. and those who did get it chill the f-out cause it means nothing, so many who got it get rejected and are crushed because they gave themselves a heightened false hope, just look at threads from previous years. those kids end up angrier because they falsely believe they should have been let in due to an impersonal email. IT IS NOT A LIKELY LETTER everyone chill

Source: I know someone who is on the alumni scholar committee who is involved in selecting the students who ultimately receive the scholarship.

It is very strange.
My D got the mail, but her GPA is very low with 2280 SAT1 and 3, 800 SAT2.
If the mails are sent automatically by computerized formula, it is not likely that my D gets it.

Concerned Mom

@maria8639 I wasn’t clear when, sorry. I mean to say the weight isn’t 50/50 so you don’t have to have a stellar gpa and a stellar sat/act score. If one is really high (like your daughters) it becomes the more heavily weighted and makes up for the other so the system will categorize her as a top applicant.

but really don’t read too much into getting or not getting the email. that process is completely separate from the admissions review process. whether you got it or not you can still get denied or accepted. no way to tell, highly depends on your admissions readers.