Hi,
I was rejected from UCLA last week and I want to appeal. The link to appeal was supposed to up today May 1, 2017 but it is not up. Does anyone know why? Or will it be up later today?
Wondering the same thing! I got accepted, but to my alt major. Wondering if I can appeal to be reconsidered for my first-choice major, so I’m waiting for it to go live.
Just called an the automated message said it should be available after 5pm. Good luck!
oh it works now. What does it mean you can’t edit it after midnight?
Hi everyone!
I sent my appeal in yesterday. I’m trying not to get my hopes up too much. On what basis did you guys appeal?
@niiima After the midnight of the day you submitted it, you can’t go in to edit your statement anymore.
@hopeful0830 I stated some achievements/roles related to my major that I failed to communicate on my original statement. What about you?
Still trying to figure out a reason to appeal. UCLA is my dream school. What majors did you guys apply to?
Was accepted to Cal and will most likely be attending, but I thought I’d appeal UCLA anyways. I wrote about how my academic interests are more aligned with UCLA’s program and how my relevant research experience that was not touched on enough in my application will allow me to become involved with similar opportunities on campus. Not sure if this is the correct way to go about appealing or if I touched on the right stuff, but I really just submitted on a whim. I’ll make sure to update this forum if/when I receive a response so we all have a ballpark range as to when we may receive our decision. Best of luck to everyone!
Hi everyone I’m a fellow appealer ! Appealing as a Spanish Community and Culture major.
Hi, I also sent my appeal in as soon as the portal opened.
Major: Chemical Engineering
GPA: 3.76 (in UC Davis’s College of Engineering)
Appealed mainly on the basis that two of my family members passed away during my time at UC Davis which I did not mention at all in my original application. I also mentioned a little bit about how comparing my GPA at UC Davis vs a community college puts me at an unfair disadvantage because a 4.0 GPA is nearly impossible to get in any UC Engineering program.
What do you guys think my chances are?
@Hunter097 sounds good.Good luck!
I also sent in my appeal May 1st, almost as soon as I got the rejection letter T.T
Major: Business Econ
GPA: 3.73
School: Santa Monica College
Do you know how long it usually takes for them to give out appeal decisions?
@hchung0719 In previous years people have gotten responses as early as May 30th I believe.
Has anyone called regarding their applications? Did they give you a reason or any indication why they didn’t accept you?
@chocstraw I called twice because I did not feel the first time I called I was given enough information. But both times I called I got the same answer. There was a lot of applicants and it was a competitive year.
@futurelawyer218 ah so I guess we got the same answer. From what I gathered, it seemed like they would give more information, people in the past were given explicit reasons. Is it unreasonable to think that this makes an appeal a good idea?
One could interpret ‘new and compelling information that was not present on the original application’ as a better sample of writing and a good appeal letter in general.
Personally, I feel like my essays were not good, and do not represent me as a student. If I were to write an appeal letter, maybe the new & compelling info would be that I am actually capable of writing compelling personal statements about my dedication and interest in UCLA.
That sort of answer makes me believe that it came down to personal statements.
@chocstraw I feel like UCLA admissions in general are hyper-randomized. Like I had a 4.00 GPA, all prereqs except one completed, at least decent personal statements, full-time work, and they rejected me as you may have seen xD If I had to guess, they didn’t like that I was taking English 102 the semester before transfer.
I don’t know. I’m realizing that it was probably entirely the tone of my essays. Now that I think about it, it’s very easy to make mistakes in tone and general outlook that might not read very well without context. I think that you have a very good case, especially if you’re working full time in LA.
I have a very hard time believing that English would weigh that heavily against you. It was the easiest class I took.
Did you call and get any sort of information?
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back to the tone of the essay. I did write a lot about how much I love UCLA. But I also wrote about how I was basically a fuckup and then went to community college and turned it around. I am grateful for community colleges and feel that they provide a great service. However, having gone to CC for basically jerking off in high school, I feel like it implicitly devalues those that had to go to CC for financial reasons or other obligations. I chose this, most people didn’t, or don’t have any options. You’re inherently an asshole for having opportunities and pissing them away. I don’t know if that makes any sense, but I didn’t look forward enough, I spent too much time looking towards the past. Some of it might have read as a sob story. In reality, I barely think about the past in my day-to-day life. I am optimistic about the future, and spend most of my time trying to push my productivity looking forward. However, being self aware isn’t necessarily redeeming.
For whatever reason, I erroneously thought that this would come off as an upward trend or a success story. There’s nothing successful about fucking up and getting back on track. It’s more akin to just being a normal person; it’s just what people do. It probably came off as self-absorbed and a little ridiculous. Who knows. Maybe it wasn’t bad, and I just fell through the cracks, there’s a good chance that you did too. May I ask, are you International or OOS?
@chockstraw According to stuff on different UC sites over the years, you will never get rejected due to essays. They either help or are neutral. So i think you were either borderline and essays didn’t help, or there was something else. Writing about messing up and turning it around is an ok topic.
If the essays help everyone else, but they don’t help you, that’s the same thing as them counting against you. +1 for someone else is -1 for you.