FYI, the two essay questions on the alumni scholarship application are:
As recently as 5 years ago 4k-5k was used as the number of invites. That would be nowhere near 20% then, more like 6-7% at that time:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/15465717/#Comment_15465717
Thats awesome! Why do you think you got in?
Is regents coming today?
@coolguy985 No one knows when it will come out. So asking won’t really help. People will start posting or you’ll get an email but no one will know until it happens. Hang in there
If I already started an application for the Alumni Scholarship before the invites were sent, would I still receive an invite to apply?
@chrys1 yes, I started the application weeks ago and still got the invitation so
I’m gonna summarize some of the stuff in the last couple of pages I found to be helpful.
At everyone saying it’s top 20% it never was top 20% receiving the application. For many years they’ve always been inviting 4-5k students which is not even close to 20% of the applicants. So I agree personally think we are closer to the top 5% and regents is top 1% as its 1.5-2k students that are invited. This would also mean that the rate for acceptance of the alumni invitees would be higher (around 80-90%) and seeing how many people with even higher stats than mine did not get invited, it’s probably holistic in its process and more similar to the actual admissions process. They do accept around 16-17k students and the rest 13k would be normal applicants.
Don’t be too worried if you didn’t get an invite there are many spots left. Also don’t be worried if you did get an invite you will probably get accepted.
@Mordowin The 80-90% figure is wrong. The acceptances for that was never that high.
Explain how random people in my school got alumni scholarship emails but the valedictorian and #3 in my school with perfect SAT scores got nothing. How is it based on stats?
@10s4life @GoVaqueros in the past it was never that high because they based everything solely on stats, but this year would be higher because it’s holistic which is why those random people got the invites
COULD it possibly be that the alumni invites were just sent out to random people?
How do we even know that alumni invites are sent to certain people that are “better”? who said that fact?
How high were the acceptances for Alumni invitees before?
Also, is it true that if you get the Regents invite, you are pretty much getting in 99.9% (like a likely letter from Yale or something).??
@grundeis someone who is actually on the alumni committee said so in a thread a couple years ago
How high were the acceptances for Alumni invitees before?
Also, is it true that if you get the Regents invite, you are pretty much getting in 99.9% (like a likely letter from Yale or something).??
@grundeis here is what they said
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.
UCLA should send out the Regents ASAP to stop the speculation. LOL.
So one question: If we got the Alumni invite but now we ignore the scholarship altogether and just not apply to it, could that possibly pass onto the admission office as like “not caring about UCLA” and lead to a denial?
Is that even possible?
I mean bro this “ASAP” could be March 29 or whatever day they release all apps.
This is why everyone is so worried lmaooo.
@grundeis , My friend’s D received Alumni invite last year, didn’t like to spend time to write the essays. She still got admitted. DI know the waiting period is quite nerve-racking, let’s don’t over interpret.