@10s4life my daughter took pre calculus at community college over Summer but for her senior year she is not taking math , do you think this could effect her acceptance? She did take AP Stat for her junior year and currently she has three AP and one honor class
@10s4life for all of the categories or at least one?
A lot of people on twitter are saying UCSD tomorrow, UCI rolling through 17th-21st, and UCLA the 23rd. Not sure where they got this info. What do you all think?
@kawakuri My bad, I didn’t mean literally if you’re at the 75th percentile of all admit stats that you’ll get in I’m just saying that’s a comfortable margin to be at. You can still very well be denied. Honestly the best bet is to just sit and wait for the decision.
@Coopy1 Rigor of secondary schedule is important but excelling in advanced math is something that is more for engineering as we do our own admissions seperate from L&S which does not take major choice into account. However at this point it’s too late to ponder as everything is ending soon. Buyers remorse is the worse thing to have with regards to college apps
@10s4life she is applying for Bio
@10s4life Hi! It seems you know a lot of info about different majors at UCLA. I applied to the World Arts and Cultures major from the College of Arts and Architecture. I was wondering if you know anything about the competitivity regarding this specific major? I know that the college as a whole is extremely competitive. But, my friend transfered to UCLA into this major by randomly picking it and completing the supplemental portfolio for the major/ giving letters of recs and she got in. I’m not a transfer applicant but just wanted to know if you know anything about it. I wrote a long supplemental essay for it and writing is my strong suit. I got an 11 on my ACT essay each time. There’s hardly any reserach on the major so I don’t know its competitivity.
Shout out to @10s4life for being the MVP of this thread
@10s4life is applying for Pre-Business Economics and a backup of Pre-Economics competitive/very impacted at UCLA?
@Soccergirl2232 It is the least competitive major within Arts and Architecture due to the fact that it is more humanities based than the other arts majors. One pro is if that isn’t your thing you can always transfer to L&S easily. I have a friend that was in that and is now biz econ. Im not as knowledgeable about arts and architecture portfolio reviews though. Hope that helps!
@DonGately16 Haha thanks! I appreciate the comment. Hopefully I have been helpful thus far.
What did you receive on your act?
@10s4life Do you know about the Political Science program?
I’m checking this site because UCLA is a favorite for my child. Based on what I am reading, I would like to weigh in for those who want to be “chanced.”
If you have data available at your high school, look at the data. It tends to reveal what you can expect to hear from UCLA. If you look at a scattergram for UCLA on Naviance, do your stats fall within the area of the red Xs or the green check marks? Because there are 100k (??) students applying to UCLA, grades and scores are a big driver and this is generally how it will play out. If your school does not have Naviance (I don’t know how many do and don’t), look around. You probably know where you fit into the class. Are you at the very top? Generally, that is who gets in: top grades and scores.
Think of this as getting invited to a party where they’ll have dancing. Your grades and scores get you invited to the party. All of the other stuff — the broader holistic view, including your activities, your essays, etc. — get you asked to dance (ie, get you into UCLA). A smaller group of people get to go to the party even though they don’t quite have the same grades and test scores. These tend to be what are referred to on CC as URMs (Underrepresented Minorities, think it is). Are you in that group? If you are not, then wonderful activities in which you partake — which truly ARE amazing, and yes you ARE great — won’t pull you up far enough to get in.
You are being judged relative to your peers at YOUR PARTICULAR HIGH SCHOOL as well as the curriculum available at your high school. How many kids have been accepted to UCLA from your high school in the past two years? One? Six? Twelve? Again this year, they will take something in that range. Let’s say you are ELC: top 9%. If you have 400 kids in your class, that is 36 kids who are ELC. Let’s say UCLA traditionally accepts 12 from you school. The top 12, more or less, will get in and the other 24 who are ELC would be denied, if they all applied. If some underrepresented kids get pulled up, then even fewer than 12 at the top get in. ELC just means you get a UC. Getting into Merced and UCLA are two totally different things.
Generally, the data don’t lie.
Same goes for Valedictorian. Are you “The” Valedictorian or Salutatorian? Or one of many? If there are 25 Valedictorians at your school and UCLA doesn’t typically accept 25, then many of the Valedictorians will not get in. This is not to diminish these distinctions you have earned … only to point out that they may not get you in.
If you are an underrepresented minority, there is more room in those grades and scores to be lower. Re: Subject Tests, do you come from a lower income area where nobody takes Subject Tests …… you guys really don’t even know about them? Then maybe you’ll get some wiggle room on that. Or, are you in the heart of Silicon Valley and all of your classmates took the tests? If so, then you may be in trouble. Your local admissions officer — the Yay or Nay person from UCLA — knows the level of counseling that kids get at your school. They know the types of kids that attend the school and their circumstances. They know the curriculum. Again, they are reading applications by high school.
If you have applied to Henry Samueli College of Engineering, there is even LESS room for low grades and scores. They pick kids who will be successful in one of the nation’s top engineering program – test scores at top engineering programs are really high. Note that the top candidate in a given high school class could apply to COE and get turned down, while a student with lower grades and scores from that school could get into L&S. Some of the colleges like the College Of Engineering set higher bars because …. they can! Their graduates get high paying jobs.
Here’s anther example of where holistic review comes into play. Let’s say you have very high grades and scores in high school. You apply to COE. You never do a single activity, nor have you ever expressed interest in STEM outside of the classroom. You just sit there and eat pizza and play video games after school. Will you get into UCLA? Maybe (hopefully) not. UCLA students are awesome both in- and outside of the classroom. Holistic goes two ways: it can help you get you in and it can keep you from getting in. Right? There are plenty of kids applying with high stats who also have impressive extracurriculars.
I know some of this because as an alumna, I have represented one of the top UCs at college fairs (not UCLA). I have never been behind the scenes in admission – so, some of it is anecdotal. But, if you watch the stats that kids post on CC when they get in, you can pretty easily piece it together. I watched how it all came together with our daughter two years ago (she’s at Cal).
Now is the time to take stock in the schools where you’ve already been admitted or are likely to be admitted. You will do just fine at these schools. Many` of the colleges that this group is mentioning are highly desirable (Univ Of Washington, for example). Academically, they’re way out of reach for many (most?) high school students. If you cry on Friday or whatever day UCLA announces because you don’t get in, that’s ok ……but then get out there in the sweatshirt of your second choice school and hold your head up high. If you don’t get into UCLA, you are not the problem. The problem is that they don’t have enough room to take all of the really great kids. That’s not hyperbole. It’s the truth. I hope my child gets into UCLA but there are plenty of other great places to go to college.
@Soccergirl2232 Was your friend very artistic? Also do you have any art extracurriculars?
So, I just looked here: http://www.admission.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/Frosh_Prof17.htm
as many recommend to compare your scores with 75% Percentile of UCLA admitted students. The numbers are just shocking:
For IS admitted: UW GPA is 4.0, W GPA is 4.6 ACT 34
WOW - just WOW!
Can anyone else who applied for Pre-Econ share their stats?
I have-
1440 sat
40/45 IB predicted points
780 on math 2 sat
Plus a ton of volunteer work and other extracurricular activities
And to make matters worse: 25th Percentile - UW GPA 3.88, W GPA 4.33 
@PoochBell she isn’t artistic at all. But, like me, she did journalism. She emphasized writing in her application.
Crazy to think the 75th percentile has a 4.0 UW.