<p>How did everyone feel about their interview with the UCLA Alumni Committee? How many people were on your panel? Did you feel that the questions were challenging? How did you respond to them? Were you able to think on your feet clearly? </p>
<p>Also, how many awards are given at the district level and how many applicants make it from each district to the state finals? </p>
<p>Feel free to express your opinions and to ask questions about the scholarship. This was intended to be an open thread. I will try to share my own experience with the interview and the application. </p>
<p>Good luck/Congratulations to everyone that will be/was interviewed this week! I'm sure you guys did better than you thought. If you were a winner or a state finalist, feel free to share about your accomplishment!</p>
<p>interesting. My son got UCSD and a super
Fin Aid offer. then UCLA came with no finaid offer. then CAL came with the same one as UCSD. then the Nevada Alumni assciation emailed to have my son write an essay, short one for money for UCLA. then UCLA’s finaid came and is same as the other two.</p>
<p>he’s not written them for scholarship. suggested he should, mabye he’ll change his mind. we were going to visit SD and LA, but he heard Berkelely and said that’ll work for him and he’s been goofing and said if he takes off two or three weekends for Triton Day, Bruin Day and the over night he’s got at CAL ,he said he might get a D in his Calc 3 multivariable . If he gets a D in anything this semester, he’s not going to any UC. Idiot I warned him about senioritis and not to do it. swear, it took him four weeks toopen his math book. sheesh, now he’s doing 21 hours/week homework math lab so he can get an A on 2nd midterm on 11th and final first week of May. all this and he might blow the whole thing anyway. unreal. whine whine whine.
I digress. so let us know about this alumni thing. NV’s
alumn is not what yours is. no clue what kind of money. I told junior to apply and if they give him $32K/year to do LA. that’s what we have to come up with out of state…</p>
<p>@zimsam Yes, I slightly remember. They were all questions that required you to think on your feet. Do not expect to be asked questions that you would have received for your Ivy League alumni interviews. Honestly, as long as you have an idea of how you’re going to portray your life experiences to them, you should be able to answer the questions. I would post the questions, but at the same time, I want the interviews to be a surprise for future UCLA Alumni Finalists who are planning on applying for this scholarship. I hope that’s okay with you. I’m sure someone on this thread will post some of their own though so hopefully that can help you.</p>
<p>As a current area chair for the scholarship, I just really gald I have a chance to talk to those future Bruins. They are smart and I wished we can give them more money. Every year, there is a mandatory question and other alumni judges will come up with their own. I like to ask questions came from our alumni judges so that we can keep it interesting.</p>
<p>@BruinsAR – we are trying to do just that . . . give more money. Each alumni “chapter”, so to speak, gets its funding through its members. Different groups have more money, and the amount of the scholarship depends upon what each group can give.</p>
<p>A lot of the Alumni scholarships come from the area in which the new Bruin lives. </p>
<p>Questions depend entirely upon who is doing the interviewing, and the ultimate candidate receiving the award is dependent upon the criteria each interviewer who is making the selection thinks important to the interviewer.</p>
<p>So . . . a suggestion and a request. </p>
<p>Suggestion is – when being interviewed, see if you can figure out what is important to the person who is interviewing you – you can usually tell by the questions that are asked.</p>
<p>Request to the candidates who have been interviewed is, what kinds of questions do you dig being asked?</p>
<p>We don’t have a script. Or a checklist. And each interviewer really sets his or her own criteria for ranking.</p>