A safe space for all of us rejects that do not have a 5.0 GPA, 36 ACT or 2400/1600 SAT and cure cancer all while playing varsity tennis, soccer, and cross country. Good luck on your admissions to other colleges too!
I got wait-listed from UCLA.
I got waitlisted from Uchicago (and UCSD) but rejected from ucla
top schools: accepted to calpoly slo and ut austin for biomed engineering
Accepted to UCSD, UCD, and UCI but rejected from UCLA
and now we wait for Cal…rip
Rejected from Northwestern, waitlisted at Chicago, rejected from UCLA.
Expected the first two, but I thought I’d probably get into UCLA
GPA: 3.9 UW / 4.35 W
UC GPA: ~4.6
ACT: 35
SAT II: 800, 750, 740
IB Diploma, varsity rower, research internship at a local university, volunteer hours etc.
More salty than disappointed, how’s everyone else doing?
I was expecting the rejection letter. My GPA (3.5 UW, 4.26 W) did me in and probably undermined everything else on my app (35 ACT, 750+ on 4 subject tests, great essays about grilling burgers). Pretty salty, but I guess GPA is king, after all.
Rejected. GPA 4.45, SAT 2300, ACT 36, in-state, tons of extra-curriculars, leadership, volunteering and research too. Admitted to Penn, Regents Davis, Regents Irvine, UCSD, Honors Boston College, Honors USC with merit scholarship. Glad to have choices but UCLA was still my number one and I’m so bummed!
That is koo-koo. What is acceptable to UCLA???
Rejected… but I was accepted to Cornell so I can still try to be scholarly, just broke and scholarly… sighh UCLA whyyyyyyy):
@b4sicallyid0work, @jj0909 I would be interested in knowing what you guys put down as Intended Majors? I know two students who got into top 2 colleges (arguably) which require a great deal of intellectual vitality and uniqueness in a non-STEM area but were denied by UCLA. It’s truly weird.
Rejected as well, but low key was expecting to be waitlisted at least. 33 ACT, 2130 SAT, 4.2 GPA…lots of other things so I’m a bit bummed. Are any of you guys appealing the decision?
@SillyJillie423 You have to put denials in context of your intended majors. For some competitive majors, even near perfect stats students get denied. I have seen that happen all the time. So what I am saying is it really depends on your major.
As I follow-up to my above post, I “think” I figured out why my kid “might” have been rejected by UCLA. UCLA, being a competitive school, might have checked my kid’s Facebook page and his blogs which he specifically mentioned in his essays as examples of his work. On there, he happily posted in his Profile and content section that he already decided to attend Stanford with a large photo etc. If I were a UCLA Admissions Officer, I would also reject him flat out on the ground opening spots at UCLA should be offered to someone who has not already made up his mind. Therefore, a lesson to be learned is that if you are waiting for decisions from some schools where you actually might want to go (not in our case), don’t proclaim on your Facebook, LinkedIn page and your blogs especially if you mentioned them in your essays you will be going to so and so college before other schools issue decisions.
rejected with a 34 act, unique family background, tons of extracurriculars, full pay OOS. someone with lesser stats from my school got in. took four rejections yesterday and idk how to move on
Waitlisted, which means a frustrating process of waiting till late May. Sick!
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I suggest you remove the part “cancer” from your post. It is quite insulting.
Those who had applied to UCLA worked as hard as everyone else, including you, but students who got cancer, did not choose to get one, but they still had to fight against it to stay alive. It just is not good for you to have that “cancer” word posted on your post. It does not help you. By having that word, you are implying that those students who have had cancer but still got into UCLA, got into schools not because of their hard work, but because they just got cancer. No, they worked as hard as everyone else.
From a mother of a cancer survivor high school senior, who had to beat 30% change of survival rate to remain alive, but still had to work hard (or harder) to maintain academic level along with his peers, who never had to have gallons and gallons of chemotherapy drugs pumped into their bodies.
@shibafu I think you misinterpreted what he said. He was sarcastically implying that to get into UCLA you need to have perfect scores, perfect activities, and needed to have some extraordinary accomplishment–such as curing cancer, or establishing world peace. I’m pretty sure he was just using it as hyperbole to show how hard it is to get into a school like UCLA.
My kid found out that he really wasn’t reject by UCLA; he was waitlisted. He initially thought he was rejected but the letter went on to offer him a option of waiting. He rightfully declined so that someone who want to attend UCLA can take the spot.
where do you guys plan to go?
Would anyone be willing to read my appeal? I’ll send it to you over PM. I’d be very appreciative.