UCLA Supplemental Questionnaire 2024

@Gumbymom So I know this is super late considering decisions come out in less than a week but I was hoping to gain some insight as to why I received this supplemental questionnaire request in late January. I was given two prompts: the talent and hardship ones. I didn’t undergo a hardship during high school nor did I mention anything about one, however, I did have a massive upward trend between freshman and junior year (2.67 to 4.0 unweighted), something I simply attributed to an eye-opening volunteering experience I had teaching impoverished children. But even this didn’t exactly affect my UC GPA, which is still decent: 4.2. My SAT is in the mid to high 1400s and I have 800s in both the Math 2 and Physics subject tests, and imho, really good ECs: own a business with ~25k in revenue, varsity sport all 4 years, couple of jobs, an app on the google play store, tutor, etc.

I poured my heart out in my talent essay (prob my best college essay), but only wrote a little over a paragraph for the hardship prompt (referring back to some of my PIQs) because I didn’t want to force anything. Could my upward trend be the reason I got this prompt? Or maybe because they thought I had undergone some hardship but was able to perform well after? I really want to get into UCLA and this request sort of made me think I had a chance but the fact that I go to a very competitive school (in-state) and my race (take a wild guess) make me think otherwise.

@Gumbymom ^

I think both talent and your upward grade trend probably contributed to you receiving the supplemental questionnaire. Obviously there was something on your application that UCLA wanted more information about by sending you the supplemental.

Best of luck with your decision.

@Gumbymom Thank you so much, also do you happen to know the acceptance rates for applicants who get this request? Or is there some other way of determining who gets in?

I do not know the acceptance rate for applicants that receive the supplemental. You can check on last year’s decision thread to see if anyone posting received the supplemental and their decision.