<p>Can’t comment on the validity, but if you want to appeal, do it. What’s the worst thing that happens? You get rejected? If so you just have to move on but at least you’ll know you did all you could and have no regrets. If UCSB is your top choice a few years at CC won’t be terrible and you’ll be saving a lot of money. At the end of the day it’s where you graduate from and how you perform there that matters.</p>
<p>I still want to appeal, but I have no new test scores etc to support it. In 10th grade my parents split up and my dad moved to a different country, and we sold our house and moved somewhere else. During 10th and 11th grade I was dealing with depression and self harm, which I haven’t completely overcome yet.</p>
<p>This did not significantly affect my academics, but I could talk about how despite all of this going on I was still able to perform well in school. I would then talk about what I have learned from this experience and so on.</p>
<p>I don’t want to focus on the issues I had themselves, but more on what I have learned from them and how I overcame them. Would this be enough for an appeal? I would also add 2 teacher recommendations and my transcripts.</p>
<p>I am on the waitlist, so if my appeal gets denied, will I still be on the waitlist or will I be completely out of the race? I just want to make sure I tried everything I could to get accepted, ucsb is my absolute dream school.</p>
<p>to cgsw23;
I think that is exactly what they are looking for: something that was difficult and how you overcame it. Also how it might have interfered with you doing all that you could. But don’t use as an excuse but how you over came and learned from it. I also read to include why UCSB specifically is the school for you (major or minor offered) that it is your first choice and you would attend if given the chance.
Good luck and remember - it is not the end of the world. There are other choices for you and it will all turn out ok.</p>
<p>Anybody think it’d be a good idea for me to send an appeal for the following? : (I’m waitlisted by the way)</p>
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<li><p>I have like 20 cello awards that weren’t mentioned on accident through my app. and a lot where they are gold, silver, bronze rating I got like all gold and the pass/fail I passed the testing for those and got Branch Honors and a Senior Award, <- just this month for the senior award. And I’ve been playing for 9 years.</p></li>
<li><p>My senior grades so far are all pretty high As with one lowish B exception. </p></li>
<li><p>I don’t know if this would mean anything but I’ve also had a lot of health issues this year including something they can’t figure out what it is at all and have had to go and miss school quite a bit to see specialists and stuff. (I don’t know if this might be a positive thing when added to the fact that I got great grades this year so far pretty much?)</p></li>
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<p>Sooooo any opinions?</p>
<p>I have a 2130 SAT, and a 3.875. I do qualify for the statewide path for UC’s (I’m in the top 9% of high school graduates). I have been rejected by all of my schools thus far that I’ve applied to (UCD, UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCLA) No, waitlisting. As far as EC background, I have 2 years of JV water polo, 2 years of JV swim team, 1 year of Varsity water polo, and just recently this year 1 year varsity lacrosse (I made the team after picking up the sport 3 weeks before tryouts). I had almost a decade of classical piano experience for which I received a certificate for complete a certain degree of mastery. I am also in yearbook. I have community service hours and foreign exchange experience. Sophomore and Junior Year I tried to take as hard of classes as possible (AP Chem, AP Bio, Honors English classes, Calculus AB, etc.) And i got A’s, B’s, and 2 C’s in total. I got a 4 on the AP Chem test, a 3 on the AP Spanish test, and 5’s on the AP Bio and AP Calc tests. I ran into some family troubles last year and ended up pulling worse grades than I could have. This year I wanted to get back on the wagon, and signed up for harder courses again (AP Gov, AP Econ, AP Stats, Honors Physics, etc.). Halfway through first quarter, during a water polo game, I got kicked in the head and suffered a concussion. I was put in bedrest for 9 weeks which is almost an entire quarter total. I lost half of first quarter, and half of second quarter. As a result, I was forced to drop classes including AP Gov, and Physics Honors and was left with a 3 class schedule for the rest of the semester. Although I mentioned this in the additional comments section in sparse detail, I was wondering if this was grounds for appeals? I really want to go to UCSB, but would also go to UCD or UCSD. Is this a sufficient reason to appeal?</p>
<p>Even if it wouldn’t be a valid enough reason, do it. If you’ve been rejected by all these schools (and with your stats I seriously do not understand why) then appeal because who knows you might get into one of them after all.</p>