Nothing on my end!
maybe tomorrow?
come on, ucla! they got too many applications…
anyone know what the acceptance rate for the alumni scholarship is?
@musicalitty It’s really low. It’s close to the regents scholarship rate.
If the alumni scholarship is due on feb 19, how do they expect us to do it by then if they havent sent?
@collegehopefull12345678 Because it’s open to everyone right now. The invite is just for top applicants.
The invite alumni scholarship should be for top 5%. Here is the post from couple years ago. Good luck everyone!
02-10-2013 at 6:11 pm
Hello,
I am a former Alumni Scholar (truly a life-changing program for me), and currently review applications and interview candidates for the scholarship.
The office of admissions will refer promising candidates to us and we in-turn send invitations to those students in the hopes that they will apply. This is NOT a guarantee of admission, and in past years we have had some candidates that we would really love to put on this scholarship not be admitted to the university. However, most students are referred to us because, by virtue of an initial round of application review, an admissions representative has found that candidate worthy of consideration for a highly prestigious merit scholarship (others on occasion find them less so, which is why not everyone who is invited will be admitted). To put it this way (parents love numbers, I’m told):
~70,000+ freshman applicants to UCLA
~4,000 invited to apply for scholarship (notably, however, students can also apply without being invited)
~1,500-2,500 complete scholarship application (frankly, you’d be stupid not to, but that’s my $.02)
~100-120 offered a scholarship after application review and up to three rounds of panel interviews. Scholarship amounts have in past years ranged from $4,000-$20,000 and are based solely on merit (though students can apply for additional need-based grants through the program once they’ve enrolled). All incoming Alumni Scholars are also offered honors college advising, alumni and peer mentors, and access to a variety of Alumni Association activities, dinners, service events, etc. It’s a great family.
I was told by a reputable source a few years ago that ~70-80% of those invited to apply are admitted to UCLA, but because the scholarship review process runs parallel to, and does not intersect with, the admissions process (except when students are initially referred), I’m not certain how accurate this is (though I’d imagine at the very least the odds are >50%)
This scholarship is exceptionally competitive, and typically many of those awarded it are on par with top admits to Ivy League institutions. The program has produced a majority of the university’s Rhodes, Marshall and Gates winners in recent years, and a somewhat absurd amount have gone onto top-10 graduate/medical/law schools. In short, the program churns out leaders of character and high intelligence like a well-oiled machine.
So there’s my input (and elevator pitch!). Good luck to you and yours; I look forward to reading the applications.
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I recall this was the old procedure on how they treated alumni scholarships… someone mentioned that since there’s a huge increase in application figures that now a computational program decides who receives invitations. @gocali
Can you guys please please chance me!! UCLA is one of my top options!!
SAT: 1410 (780 math, 630 reading, writing 18)
SAT II: 770 Math 2, 760 Chemistry
Unweighted GPA: 3.96 Weighted: 4.39 on a 4 scale
Class rank: 34/523
Major: civil Engineering
Extracurriculars: UCSD COSMOS, CSUB REVS UP, Mock trial (4 years), Band (4 years), Band section leader, Spanish honor society (executive chair member), national honor society, varsity tennis, link crew, HOSA (2nd place at state), 7th place at mock trial state finals, top scholar athlete, link crew sophomore commissioner, math club.
Please chance me! I’d really appreciate it! 
“~4,000 invited to apply for scholarship (notably, however, students can also apply without being invited)”
Does this mean that we can apply for the scholarship even if we do not have the best grades if we have an exceptional story or great successes? I would love to have a chance for an interview to discuss my history as I think it would help me… Is this just academic merit based or overall merit?
Regardless, why not give admissions more information? Should I apply for the scholarship despite not being invited just so I can provide more insight to the admissions officers?
Question that’s only slightly off-topic: do the other UC campuses also extend Regent’s invitations and, if so, does anyone know when each campus typically does so? Thanks, and sorry.
@YoungOne4 UCSB and UCI should be out any day now. OOS are already receiving snail mail invites to Regents receptions for UCSB
Thank you
@cocoonutty The deadline is fast approaching so you should submit an Alumni Scholarship application before then. I’m not sure if it’s only merit based but it cant hurt to try. There won’t be any boost to your application with UCLA as they are on separate tracks. From what I’ve read they try and coordinate timing but that’s about it. And from this years record applications I think the timing is thrown all out of whack…hence all our angst.
I’ve come up with a new theory: UCLA will never release regents
@coolguy985 - haha - I was just thinking the same
https://alumni.ucla.edu/scholarships/prospective-students/
This should be it, right?
Do you need to get invitation for the alumni scholarship application? or anyone can apply?
Anyone can apply