@hbee456 you can set up your login here: https://accounts.iam.ucla.edu/#/ if you need help with your provisional award letter I also recommend the tutorial video that walks you through you award letter. It is on the financial aid home page here: http://financialaid.ucla.edu/
Dies anyone know about the engineering waitlist??
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Congrats on getting in if you did!! I was wondering, I checked my PAL and did not receive any aid or scholarships and am expected to pay the full 62K a year. My EFC on FAFSA was 34K. I have gotten financial aid packages from other schools that have been able to meet that for my family. Do you think I will have success in appealing my aid package if I am able to show that other schools have provided me with money? UCLA has been a dream of mine and I would hate to give up on it without trying everything possible.
My financial aid at Berkeley was excessively generous. As for UCLA I would have to pay 9,000 a year.
@konlueth Are you OOS? If so Ucla does not offer aid and you are expected to front the entire 60k bill. The efc does not matter for schools that don’t meet full need
@10s4life or anyone else: If you are admitted to biophysics major, is a way to apply for honors or anything else as a freshman? Is it too late? Do they just put people in honors when they accept you or is there a way to apply? Also, if you can apply, do most people apply as freshman or do they wait until they are enrolled? Your advice has been so helpful so far! Thanks!
@MomLA2018 You apply to honors after you SIR. Pretty much everyone who “applies” gets in. So the honors college is not like how honors is at asu (where the honors is much different and more prestigious than the normal school) nor is it like taking AP classes in high school to stand out. Honors at Ucla is only for L&S and basically means you take harder classes because you want to. The extra “advising” isn’t worth it because counseling is easily accessable at Ucla. The classes have more work and are harder to get good grades in for not much recognition. Graduating from the honors college has a denotion on the diploma but is not considered graduating with honors. That is only given for Latin honors of cum laude, magna and summa. It’s better to take “normal” classes and try for Latin honors than do the honors college. Most students drop the honors college once they get to Ucla. Since your son is biophysics I can assure you the normal physics 1 series is enough to stretch even the smartest students.
@10s4life – thanks! Yes, I am sure it is hard enough! We are OOS (Louisiana) and it is so hard to know what matters and does not matter at the different schools. Again, we really appreciate your info.
Accepted. Major: Psychology.
SAT super score: 1520 (CR 720, M 800); Single score: 1510. (CR 720, M 790).
GPA Unweighted: 3.89, Weighted: 4.06–our school does not have any honors class until Junior year n we do not have A+. The highest Weighted GPA we could get is about 4.3.
I had two B+s is Freshmen year and one B in Junior first sem–regret so much.
I took all IB classes–2 HL and 4 SL–from junior to senior classes except for some electives.
Demographics: Asian, Minnesota resident.
My biggest appeal, I think, is my history of video game addiction during middle school, where I maintained about 1.30 GPA out of 4.0. I had changed as I immigrated to the US with the help of my psychiatrist father.
I have numerous research experience with my own 20 page research on smartphone addiction published in research competition.
Recommendation: average high but not absolute best as I was considered smart but not top.
Leadership: student council total of 3 years, including one year of secretary. Asian Culture Club President (12) and VP (11). Internet Addiction recov center student leader (11,12). Peer Mentor (10,11,12).–I tried to focus on mentorship/counseling to fit my psych interest.
Honors: math team Top 3rd in state, physics bowl team 4th in region, Individual Research competition publication, contributor of psychology and physics Research publication at college.
Hope it helps for anyone wondering.
Hey @10s4life , I was accepted to UCLA OOS and was wondering if it is possible to graduate within 3 years to save money and time since the tuition high. I’m a humanities major and I’m coming in with about 68 units from AP exams if that means anything.
Same I am soooo sad 
@thisisitman If you take 4 classes a quarter and use your AP units for major related classes then yes. GEs are not fulfilled by AP classes. Also summer sessions are useful for oos since for summer you pay instate rates. 3 years and a quarter is more realistic though
accepted into microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics!!!
-In state student
-black female, regular-upper middle class
-SAT: math-590, English 700 (no subject tests)
-AP scholar: APUSH-5, Psych-5, English Lang-5
-took no APs freshman year (was not allowed), 1 sophomore year, 3 junior, 4 senior (my school does not offer a ton but enough to challenge urself)
-EC: chamber choir 4 years (also Vice President and section leader, won many awards in the group like outstanding solo award & service award), Christian club co-president (I was one of three but they didn’t need to know that lol), experience berkeley mentorship program, torch & Laurel mentorship program, church youth volunteer person, U go girl society member, NAACP ACT-SO participant, I have more but I can’t think! honestly didn’t have toooooo many ECs but with the ones I had I was pretty involved
-great essays, I had them tweaked and edited a lot by my berkeley mentors
Also accepted to UCR, UCSB, and UCSD
Waiting for: UCB, NYU, Howard, USC, Harvard, and Stanford
Forgot to mention; my 9-12 cumulative GPA was 4.3 and my 10-12 was 4.5? Have had straight A’s except for one B+ this past semester
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Does UCLA send physical acceptance letters? I don’t know why but I really value having a physical acceptance letter and I was hoping UCLA would be sending one.
@10s4life UCLA actually does offer aid for out of state students. However, the out of state portion of tuition is not considered when making aid calculations, so an out of state student who is eligible for aid will still have the out of state supplemental tuition portion of their costs to cover whether they are aid eligible or not.
@10s4life how much support do you get at UCLA? Are the professors helpful? Are they good at teaching or is it mostly TA’s teaching? Also, is UCLA hands on or mostly theoretical?(I’m majoring in electrical engineering). I am having a tough time deciding between UCLA and U of Michigan. Thanks!
@pablo2017 They send acceptance packages. Of the UCs it’s deifnitely the nicest.