@scarletwitchx What if someone gets into Davis with Regents? Is that for those who are super overqualified that UC Davis might take a shot at grabbing with a $30,000 scholarship?
@trapszn I don’t think Regents is just for hyper-overqualified students. I think it’s just for students who would do well at UCD cause some people I saw were rejected with better stats than me, yet I got accepted with a very good scholarship offer.
@angelkitty247 I see. So if anything, Regents is probably the most holistic review and getting Regents at UC Davis or any other UC provides a decent chance, but definitely not guaranteed chance of acceptance at the others?
@trapszn Yep, because each UC is different (especially when comparing say Cal to Merced for instance). I believe that I got Regents for UCSD and UCD for different reasons. Each offered a different amount of scholarship money as well because I qualify differently for each school.
@Gumbymom Haha! That applicant was me!
As for the VPA requirement (if anyone is curious), I have been accepted into UCSB and UCSD without it. So they do indeed take school curriculum into account. However, I’m not sure what to tell you guys if your school DID offer VPA classes.
I applied to UCLA with the following credentials:
Out of State
Private, Catholic High School
1440 SAT (New)
4.62/4.5 GPA
1 EC was Nursing Home Volunteerism
I have been accepted into UCSB and UCSD. Good luck to all! I hope to be classmates with you at one of the greatest universities on the west coast!
@Metanyanya: Congratulations on your acceptance at UCSD and best of luck with UCLA. I do understand that meeting all the a-g course requirements is difficult for many applicants that do not have access to these type of classes, but I really think there is no excuse for not knowing the application requirements and if the classes are readily available.
I bookmarked your post since so many OOS applicants post the “f” requirement question.
additional info wrt engineering likely letter:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/1750784-engineering-likely-letter-class-of-2019-p3.html
" 03-15-2015 at 10:31 am edited March 2015
Likely letters only sent to 25% engineering admits. Engineering only (which includes CS). Getting one means you are in. They are holistic, so it isn’t top 25%, it means you have something they like, not necessarily the top scores. The essay may have caught their attention. That is what admissions said at open house. There are still many that will get in that did not receive the letter. They just try to get the attention of some applicants before the other UCs come out. The letters were later than usual, typically they come out two full weeks before decisions. Have been through this before and now, this is how it works.
Letters come out at all at once, they are done. Decisions the 20th as stated on the UCLA portal. "
No letters, no invitations, nothing… lol can’t relate
This worries me now with all these people with both…
@nduclaunc Finally someone I can relate to
Does receiving an email regarding the alumni scholarship(UCLA) hold any type of meaning in terms of a higher chance of admittance?
@Devinmedina24 I’ve heard people say you have higher chances but not 100%
I applied CS for UCLA and never got the likely email that a lot of people were talking about. Should I be worried?
Unweighted gpa: 3.91
Weighted caped: 4.3
Weighted Uncapped - 4.35
I lived in india for the first year and a half of hs, so thats why my weighted uncapped is kinda low.
Yes @Devinmedina24 it’s a positive correlation but not definitive
@Srujan99 Only the top 25% of applicants got the email. The rest of us have to wait.
Does anyone know how UCLA handles second-choice majors? Is it like Cal Poly, where first-choice applicants have priority and second-choice applicants are considered only if there’s space remaining? Or are second-choice applicants on an equal footing with first-choice applicants if they don’t get into their first choice major? My D put down CS as first choice and Linguistics+CS as second choice. In retrospect, Linguistics+CS is actually a better fit, both interest-wise and qualifications-wise, but her logic was, might as well try for CS, as it would be easier to change from CS to Ling+CS than the other way around, once there. We probably should have done more research, but she added UCLA last-minute as a “why not try?” impulse addition. She got the alumni scholarship email, so I guess she’s not out of the running - curious if others have insight into how the alternate-major thing works.
@aquapt: According to this link UCLA does not consider alternate majors:
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/freshman-admission-matrix.pdf
Thanks, @Gumbymom - I am pretty perplexed, though, as to why UCLA would give applicants the option to select an alternate major if they weren’t going to consider it!
@aquapt: Not sure either.
@aquapt if your 1st choice major is CS, the alternative major can only be another major within the College of Engineering, such as, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, etc.