<p>Also for next year’s applicants, who will begin nervously reading this thread about 51 weeks from now when next year’s HSSEAS Open House/Likely Letters go out –</p>
<p>Can people post in the next few days what’s the experience of their classmates who received/didn’t receive The Letter? My daughter received one, it mentioned the Mech & Aerospace Engineering (her first choice major) meeting following the general meeting and she was admitted to UCLA HSSEAS/MAE. The kids she knows who got The Letter also got in – doesn’t know about the kids who didn’t get the letter, but I’ll post if I hear.</p>
<p>My D got letter and got accepted. HOWEVER, her letter did NOT mention a specific discipline section afterward, and she got into her second choice major. She wasn’t planning to attend the open house because felt she had some better options for her first choice major (aerospace), but now she may have to reconsider and see what the material major is all about. Congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>Every letter is the same, except for the identifying information (name, address, reservation ID#), and also the name of the department you were accepted in to.</p>
<p>It reads something like “Upon conclusion of the General Meeting, a presentation will be given by the Electrical Engineering Department, after which you will be escorted to lunch and to a subsequent informal meeting with students, faculty, and alumni.”</p>
<p>So that’s the part that mentions the “specific discipline section” afterward.</p>
<p>Since LaLew5’s D did not get into her first choice major, and her email did not say “Upon conclusion of the General Meeting, a presentation will be given by the _____ Engineering Department,” I believe that means (as many already suspected), that you were not only admitted but were admitted to your first choice major, if your email lists a specific discipline after talking about the General Meeting.</p>
<p>If you were admitted to your second choice major then you are invited to the department session of the department of the major you were admitted into.</p>
<p>I had the same experience as roboteer; received an e-mail listing a presentation by my first choice major and later accepted to my first choice major.</p>
<p>I seem to remember the Dean of the Materials Engineering department. He seemed very charismatic… Very enthusiastic about drumming up students for his department. I think it is a small department. But does she really want to be a materials engineering major? I do not know why she did not get accepted into aerospace at UCLA. She had terrific stats. Maybe she should consider the other schools she got into then. I know my son who is an aerospace engineering major would not want to do any other form of engineering. He didn’t even list a second major on his applications, because he felt like if he couldn’t get into it, he did not want to be considered for another type of engineering. Good luck to her with all of her decisions and choices!</p>
<p>aerospace engineering is a part of the MAE department (mech and aerospace engineering). I’m pretty sure your S or D can switch in, especially since the GE/pre-reqs are practically the same.</p>
<p>Oops! read that wrong, MatSci instead of Mech… well, even in that case, switching early isn’t a big ordeal as long as you aren’t switching in bioengineering it seems.</p>
<p>Hi. I spoke to a reputable teacher who knows a lot about this and he said that these letters are not guarantees of admission. The people who receive these letters are selected from the “probable admits” pool, and if an applicant receives one, it only means that he/she is not outright rejected. Even though this year everyone at my HS who received the letter received admittance, this is not always the case. This teacher said that two years ago, two of his students who received the invitation did not eventually receive acceptance into UCLA. This argument is also confirmed by a friends dad who is a high-level admissions officer at a UC campus who says that these letters do not guarantee acceptance.</p>
<p>Sorry to be the one who has to break the fun, but this is what I have heard. All this letter means is that you are not outright rejected and you are being considered for UCLA.</p>
<p>Also, I write this since I think you guys should know. I am not a ■■■■■ but am an opinion that should be noted.</p>
<p>Of course there is no guarantee, but if you get the letter you’re pretty much in. I’m not talking 50/50 chance or even 90/10. It’s like 99.99%. Of course, they reserve the right to change their mind, which is why they don’t explicitly say you are admitted. </p>
<p>No one has ever said that the invitations to the Open House are a guarantee, but I’d be willing to bet my life on it. </p>
<p>And my sources are better than yours. Trust me.</p>
<p>I actually agree with your argument but i disagree with your statistics. 99.99% is much too high – it means only 1 student in 10,000 who receives the letter will be rejected. Personally, with what I have heard, I think the percentage should at lowest be 99% – 1 student in 100 will be rejected. </p>
<p>The point of my post was to show that the admit rate for those who receive letters is not 100%, as CC may imply. It does little to dispute the fact that after receiving a letter, one is very likely to receive admission.</p>
<p>Okay, then let’s make it 99.9% It’s definitely better than 99%. Last year they admitted about 2400. I know for a fact that 24 of them didn’t get rejected, and I am pretty sure that 2.4 of them didn’t get rejected either.</p>
<p>My point is, if you get the letter, you’re in, barring some abnormality with your application that gets caught later in the process.</p>
<p>Now if you DON’T get the letter, it doesn’t mean you’re NOT in. I also know of some cases where people who didn’t get the letter still got in.</p>
<p>There is a guy who goes to my school who received this letter but did not receive admission. However, he did not meet the A-G requirements and was most likely rejected because of that. In addition, there is another person on collegeconfidential that I do not know at all who received it and did not receive admission. See posts 76 through 81 on this thread.</p>
<p>This Letter business has affected me negatively. I have not started on my essay that is due tomorrow Hopefully UCLA releases the acceptance/rejection letters soon because I just do not feel like doing anything until I have the acceptance/rejection letter in my hand…</p>
<p>you’re not the only one twiddling their thumbs in the hope that your email provider is just taking a little longer than usual to receive mail. i’m going nuts every time my iphone dings.</p>
<p>It is a likely letter. Note that the invitation is to an event that UCLA itself reports is for ADMITTED students. Anyone who gets one is in. Subject to outright lying on the app or some other craziness. Relax, anyone who got one is in.</p>
<p>Hey I got this letter but I was wondering if Berkeley sends these letters too? I didn’t get one from Berkeley, so am I screwed for Cal? Cal Engineering is harder to get in so I’m worried.</p>
Hopefully UCLA releases the acceptance/rejection letters soon because I just do not feel like doing anything until I have the acceptance/rejection letter in my hand…</p>