@michiebb … yes, you can be accepted in all UCs, my DS didn’t apply for all but already received the regents and honors college for UCSB, UCI and just now UCSC (for this one we don’t know it will be regents or honors college)
Read through few pages of this thread regarding the alumni scholarship and regents. It is my understanding from people who have gone thru this process over the last 3 years that the invite for the alumni scholarship goes out to approx 4-5k applications.
In that regard, whomever stated that top 20% get alumni scholarship invite might be mistaken. Lets put it this way, if 20K kids did actually apply for the scholarship, there is no way the committee would have time to properly read and assess the applicants merits. It is my understanding that 4-5k students get the alumni schol invite and about 2/3 of the kids actually submit the application. The alumni scholarship committee has to review about 3k application in less than a month to narrow down the applicant pool.
For those who got the alumni invite, it is a good indicator that your application was well received. For those who did not get the invite, you are still in the running for about 13k - 14k remaining admission invites. (This is based on assumption that about 17k applicants are admitted overall). Your chances of getting into UCLA has not diminished by too much.
Regent scholarship invite is a whole different category. If you are invited for regents (approx 1.75k) then you can relax and enjoy the remaining 3+ months of your senior year.
@southswell Thanks!
I wish UCLA would do early admission like Berkeley to attract top candidates. My son got Regents for both (EECS and CSE. He decided to attend Berkeley) last year. I tried to dig into old emails to figure out when the alumni and regents invites came. I know Berkeley sent out early admission 2/10 for sure, but for UCLA, no exact dates. But by 2/3 he received alumni invite and regents by 2/6. This year is already late. Also, he didn’t get alumni scholarship.
@sdhotmama You are right that UCLA is running behind previous years to release alumni and regent invites. They lost about 10 days of work in December 2017 due to a local fire and have been trying to catch up. Almost there though.
Yes, I am sorry for sounding a bit rude, I was just extremely frustrated at the moment that the results didn’t come, even though I shouldn’t be cuz I’m most probably just going to UCB anyways. But dude thank you for giving at least some insight, and sorry for that comment once again 
So one question: how sure are you that only 4-5k applications get the Alumni Invite Email?
This seems extremely low for 110’000 applications!!
So a lot of people seem to believe that Alumni is 20% while Regents is like 4% or something, are those numbers just wrong? Where did they come from then??
Also, if we do get into that 4-5k, shouldn’t that mean that we are basically at the very top of the applicant pool and will be admitted with like a 95% certainty??
@southswell You’re numbers make a lot more sense to me. The 20% of applicants always seemed too high.
But look at A2C on reddit there were like SOOO many people who got the invite!!
There were only like 10 people who mentioned getting a Berkeley invite a couple weeks ago, but sooo many people said that they got the Alumni email yesterday on A2C reddit (I can’t post a link to this comment).
Also, the number 20% was circulated for a long time, so it must’ve come from somewhere at least…right?
@grundeis I don’t understand if you already got into UCB and you are planning to go there, then why you are worried about the numbers about UCLA Alumini Invites.
I agreed with you @southswell . My neighbor son has very high status of 1540 SAT and 4.75 GPA, but he didn’t get alumni email. He got regents in both UCSB and UCI, Therefore, I believe UCLA alumni invitation is holistic, that means no computerize select candidates and 5% makes a lot of sense.
Cuz lol I don’t really want to go to UCB, it’s mostly my parents who want me to go there cuz my dad works at UCB, so yeah, I am worried abt UCLA that’s why…
For whoever is interested: UCLA Regents invite came out 2/3 Friday around 4 pm last year, a day after alumni invite. The letter says :
Dear XXX
We would like to encourage you to apply for the UCLA Regents Scholarship for the 2017-18 academic year.
The UCLA Regents Scholarship represents one of the highest honors awarded to entering students at the University of California.(snipped) Scholars who have additional financial need, based upon a review of their FAFSA, are awarded up to their demonstrated need with additional scholarships and grants.
Please note that this invitation to apply for the Regents Scholarship does not constitute an offer of admission. （snipped） Admission decisions will be released and scholars will be notified of their acceptance and prize in late March.
If you wish to be considered for the UCLA Regents Scholarship, please submit the application along with a letter of recommendation, from a teacher or counselor, by February 16, 2017 (11:59 p.m.).
He later received an invitation for Discovery UCLA engineering which is for school of engineering only, on March 10, also a Friday after 4 pm. Although this letter says “Please note that admission decisions have not been finalized”, this invitation almost a guarantee for admission.
I know this time is stressful and I wish good luck to all of you!
So if I may ask when you say " this invitation almost a guarantee for admission", does that mean you never heard of any stories of people not getting in after getting UCLA Regents?
So it is basically a very strong guarantee as strong as a yale/Conrell/etc likely letter right?
Not the Regents invite, but the Discover UCLA engineering. I will not say “never”, that’s why I said ALMOST a guarantee
We all just have to keep ourselves busy and enjoy our senior year instead of worrying too much. We will get in if its in our luck and there is nothing we can do about it so why not have fun.
I totally agree with @Tangledfan!
People… we’re thinking too much. DD with top of the class stats and impressive EA’s gets nothing from UCLA, and she’s a legacy! But I stopped worrying.
You will get in if you get in.
CC is so interesting, people can post whatever they think, logical or nonsense. For those whose think only 4-5k applications invited for alumni scholarships, have you ever read the instructions and selection processes?
In addition, because the UC application deadline was before EA/ED date, almost every CA student were forced to apply to UC. Majority of 4-5k UCLA top applicants will end up in HYPSM, other ivies, Caltech, Duke, JHU, top LACs, etc, that either have bigger name or can offer better FA packages. UCLA knows this.
I thought it was 20%? What percent do you think it is?
The 4-5k comment is outdated because that was 20% of the applicants from years ago when there were only 80k freshman apps. Regents is always top 1-2 percent of the pool and the alumni one is 20%. Most students do not submit an alumni scholarship app due to the following: its sheer competitiveness, you only get the money if you get in and attend Ucla, it does nothing to raise your chances, and the application is somewhat lengthy.