<p>I didn’t got any e-mail. Does that mean I am rejected already?:(</p>
<p>No letters of interest from UCSD. Only weekly emails from engineering school that started with “we’re excited you applied” and shares info on why the school is so great.</p>
<p>Hello LALEW5: </p>
<p>My son applied to UCLA for aerospace engineering last year and was admitted and also received the likely letter everyone is talking about. We attended the Open House. Since my son lives in LA, he was not inclined to go to UCLA even though both of his parents graduated from there. But we attended the Open House and kept an open mind. We were very impressed with the Dean of the School of Engineering as well as all of the department heads of the various engineering departments, until it came to the department head for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She was nice enough, just not as dynamic as the other department heads. Also, we did not like the fact that aerospace engineering is not its own department. In the afternoon you get to attend small meetings for your major, and the professor for aerospace and mechanichal engineering was just not very impressive. UCLA last year admitted just 60 students for aerospace engineering each year, so it is a very small department. There are over 100 students per year in the Mechanical Engineering department. At the end of the day, I asked my son what he thought and he said " I felt like they treated the aerospace department like a forgotten department". My husband said he felt like they treated it like a step-child, and I felt like they treated it like a poor relation. Don’t get me wrong, UCLA is a great school, and we all love UCLA, but we just felt like it was not the best place to go for aerospace engineering. And my husband is an engineer himself. My son did not apply to UCSD and UCI (he wanted to attend a school that had Division 1 football), but he got wailisted to Cal Poly, and admitted to UC Boulder. He is attending UC Boulder and loving it, and the aerospace engineering program there is excellent. As a freshman he had already been exposed to so many cool things in that department that he never would have done at UCLA at this point in his academic career. So we feel he made the right choice for him. I know Purdue is an excellent program, my son just had no interest in going to college in the Midwest. Boulder is ranked 16th for aerospace engineering when considering all colleges, and is ranked 12th when considering public institutions only. And no, UCLA is not higher ranked for aerospace engineering than CU.</p>
<p>cool, if this means im in then i feel great that i can go to my dream school</p>
<p>If you didn’t get an email (from what I have read), it does not mean that you will not be accepted. From reading all the threads on this topic from years past, it does seem that there are students who did not receive it, but were ultimately accepted into the program.</p>
<p>Just for people who haven’t read any previous posts: these likely letters are given only to accepted students to the ENGINEERING school (even if you apply undecided). So if you applied to any other schools then don’t worry. Everyone’s on the same boat.</p>
<p>I’ve already told my parents and many of my friends that I’ve basically been accepted. It would sure be embarrassing if I were to be rejected.</p>
<p>About that letter of interest from UCSD…
Can someone copy and paste their letter into this forum? I would like to see what it looks like because I think I MAY have received it.</p>
<p>@ mickjagger This is the letter that I received from UCSD. Although its not a for sure acceptance like UCLA because I’ve seen many people in this website say they were rejected after receiving this letter:</p>
<p>We’re excited that you have applied for Fall 2011 admission to the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego! As a top applicant to the university, we know you’d like to know a little more about our school.</p>
<p>The Jacobs School is a premier research school set apart by our young, innovative culture and integrative engineering approach. The Jacobs School ranks 7th in the world among all public engineering schools according to ARWU. As the largest engineering school in the prestigious University of California system, our faculty are renowned in their fields, they are passionate about what they do, and they are committed to providing inspired education and dedicated mentorship. With $133 million in federal, state and industry research support, the Jacobs School ranks 7th in the nation for research expenditures per faculty member, allowing us to lead the way in research areas like energy sustainability (U.S. News, 2009).</p>
<p>The Jacobs School provides an education that focuses on engineering fundamentals beginning in the freshman year, and we offer a broad range of opportunities for hands-on engineering experience. Our education extends beyond the classroom to research in our world-class laboratories, active student organizations, team engineering programs, and corporate internship opportunities - all of which develop skills that make our graduates highly competitive in industry and academia.</p>
<p>Over the next several weeks, we will be sending you weekly emails to let you know what’s so great about being a student at the Jacobs School.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
Engineering Student Services
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering</p>
<p>impetuous</p>
<p>Does that mean that if you applied to the engineering department and did not receive this email you did not get accepted?</p>
<p>Thanks Rousse54!
As much as my daughter loved UCLA when we visited, she hasn’t seen much about their aerospace program to move it high on her list. Your info helps a lot. I told her she should go to the open house with an open mind, but there’s only so much time to visit schools before decisions have to be made. She got into Cal Poly, Purdue, and Boulder (plus UCI and Davis). Waiting for UCSD. Hasn’t been to Purdue or Boulder yet - but Boulder is high on her, depending on what financial support they offer (Purdue at least made it UC comparable). Glad to hear your son loves it. It does have a wonderful reputation.</p>
<p>So if you don’t receive an email from the engineering department from UCLA (or UCSD, for that matter), you’re not in? Or are these engineering emails sent to the students who are the cream of the crop? My daughter has applied to both schools (biomedical engineering; she did get accepted to UC Irvine). </p>
<p>Congrats to all who did receive emails!</p>
<p>Oops, sorry 33dmjjm, I just saw your post and asked the same question…</p>
<p>LaLew5: If you or your daughter have any questions, please go ahead and send me a private message. My son also got into UC Davis, did not apply to UCSD or UCI or Purdue. He did get a small scholarship from CU, the Chancellor’s scholarship, but we had been hoping for the Presidential scholarship. It is still more expensive than UC’s but if you figure he will probably be able to graduate in four years instead of 5 (at UCLA the Dean of the Engineering school told the parents the average time it took to graduate was four and a half years), plus the fact he can get a masters in five years (taking concurrent graduate school classes in his fourth year at CU), it is pretty comparable. And the tuition is frozen at the freshman year level, unlike the UC’s which will just keep going up and up. Good luck with your decision…</p>
<p>@SanDMom2011 - My D has received both the emails from UCLA/UCSD. In our research, we’ve read over countless similar threads like this and it does seem, for engineering, that there have been students who have been admitted to UCLA who did not receive the email. I could totally be wrong. This whole college application/acceptance/rejection experience has been completely random, bizarre, and confusing for us. Quite a few universities, like Stanford, send out likely letters to a few of their applicants but not all who they plan to accept. This may be the case for UCLA and UCSD too. My daughter didn’t view the UCSD email as a likely letter though. </p>
<p>Also, I hope everyone remembers to check their spam folders. You’d be surprised at the amount of important college emails that my child has found in hers.</p>
<p>Thank you, itscomplicated, for your insight. I guess I have a sliver of hope for my D. Only a few more days to wait…that will seem like years. I agree with your assessment of this whole college application process being random, bizarre and confusing. I only have the one kid, so this will be the only go-around for us. </p>
<p>May your daughter be accepted to the #1 school on her list!</p>
<p>let’s not forget that even though you do not get into the first choice of UC (may it be Berkeley, Los Angeles or San Diego or …)
you can always work hard and transfer after the first or second year
and if you intend to go to graduate school, you can also get in after working hard for your bachelor’s degree
so there are still tons of opportunity down the road …</p>
<p>I agree 100% that there seems to be reason to this madness. I got a call from Berkley engineering department and invited to apply for UCSD medical scholars program but did not get into UCI honors program nor have heard anything from UCSB or UCLA. Accepted for ME at Cal Poly but have heard nothing from UC Davis. For those who have other children I suggest you look out of state. I have been accepted to great engineering programs OOS and have already received scholarships between $12,000-$25,000/year. They will end up being less expensive than UC’s…just a thought</p>
<p>this whole application/acceptance/rejection thing is insane …</p>
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<p>The UCSD e-mail had a place to click for more information–it said the top 2,000 applicants were receiving the e-mail. Does anyone know how many people apply to their college of engineering?</p>