UCSD Rejection letter = FAKE, product of a troll

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<p>I agree with the post by lbc123.</p>

<p>Here's the alleged UCSD denial response:
"Here's some important information: It appears from your application that you may be ineligible to be considered a TAG applicant. But we still want to encourage you to apply as a regular transfer. Depending on completion of transfer admission requirements as well as competitiveness in the applicant pool, UC San Diego could be a great choice for you."</p>

<p>I just did some analysis, and I think it's all crafted by a troll -- a very clever one -- trying to deceive all of us. I'm almost certain that h/she wrote that, used photoshop's white-out and indent features to insert it onto his TAG response, then took a screenshot. Call me psychotic, but I really just don't buy that rejection letter. </p>

<p>I'm tired and so this isn't going to be great analysis, but let's break it down piece by piece: </p>

<p>"Here's some important information" -- To me that just doesn't seem like the right type of introductory statement for what would precede a rejection.
"It appears...that you may be ineligible." Really? I think that it'd be clearly defined whether one qualified for TAG or not, if UCSD decided to do TAG preevaluations.
For instance, this is what my UC Riverside posted response says: "After a detailed review of your application, we have determined that you do not meet one or more of
the minimum TAG criteria." See how much more sharp that is? Anyway, continuing on:
But we still want to encourage you to apply as a regular transfer. Like many others, over the past few years I've been exposed to countless written language by the UC officials -- in admissions letters, e-mails, TAG instructions and guidelines, curriculums, etc. -- and rarely in their written notifications do they write sentences that short. Plus, that sentence also sounds almost too*superficial: "But we still want to encourage you to apply as a regular transfer." Also, the UC in its written language would almost certainly write out the full "transfer student," and not just "regular transfer." Using solely "transfer" to describe the student is usually what we hear in **spoken* language [e.g. in conversations with admissions counselors, such as: "Are you a transfer or freshman"?]</p>

<p>"Depending on completion of transfer admission requirements as well as competitiveness in the applicant pool" The wording of this sentence also sounds fishy. The way I've always read language sent from the UC, to me it seems as if something like that would say "competitiveness of the applicant pool, not in. Also, given this written notification is a DECISION, if it was real it'd probably include the word "your" before completion, i.e. "Depending on yourcompletion of transfer admission requirements."
"UC San Diego could be a great choice for you." I think "great" is also too superficial. </p>

<p>LASTLY, probably the most suspicious part about this all: Looking at the posts by those who were denied: WingedYoshi, doomman, and julietx3, all those usernames were registered TODAY. And look at the time between all of their posts. One of domman's posts begins with "Gladly will provide a screen cap." Would someone just denied really be that happy? lol. </p>

<p>I apologize for my choppily worded analysis...it's a start and anyone feel free to add on to it or point out specific things/nuances you guys see. We'll all be in correspondence about this tomorrow I'm sure.</p>

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<p>haha honestly, i was pretty shocked too, when i saw that UCSD sent out two different letters. Maybe we should just call them tomorrow and ask is they actually did that or not.</p>

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<p>dude, oliver, i agree with you. when i read it, i was kind of like ***…this sounds like something I would write, but i brushed it off thinking that no one could be that pathetic.</p>

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<p>good work detective!</p>

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<p>The ■■■■■■ strike again!</p>

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<p>LOL. Thats all College Confidential needs…a conspiracy theory. lol smh</p>

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<p>WOW thanks a lot for including my name in that list. In no way did I post that I was denied, I have the original letter. I clearly said that the other two have claimed to have it and that I, along with everyone else have the original. I even asked for print screens. I have been talking in the thread before UCSD even came out (about my experiences with davis, etc). There were other people talking to them too! Thanks for the misrepresentation. =/</p>

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<p>This is getting alittle ridiculous. I said gladly cause everyone was doubting the letter so I want to show everyone the version I got. Would you like me to make a video of me logging on and clicking the website just to prove the letter I got was real? I signed up here to see if anyone else got results from the ucsd tag which was answered today. I’m calling tomorrow just to find out what happens because I do find the wording of it very unsure. No ■■■■■■■■ here</p>

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<p>wow so who’s telling the truth? I think the rejection letter is real, because my friend told me that she didn’t make it to ucsd, so I thought there must be a rejection letter. She didn’t say that she got the ineligibility letter, but I just assumed that she got one since that was after I saw the screen shot. So now I can’t exactly say what she meant by ‘she didn’t make it to ucsd’ if the rejection letter was fake. Right now I can’t contact her cuz it’s too late, but I will text/call her tomorrow to see if the rejection letter was real. By the way, I will also try calling ucsd tomorrow to see if it’s real.</p>

<p>And personally, I do think there should be a rejection letter because ucsd should’ve not taken that long to send us their decisions if they were simply going to send us the same letter. And all other schools like uci and ucsb, sent us ambiguous letter, but still they too had two different letters, but why not sd? I might be wrong and I don’t know if they are lying, but I just think that there should be rejection letter also :/</p>

<p>And doomman, can you really make a video of you logging on and clicking the website? haha that might clear things up, but if the letter was real, wow, I would feel sorry for not trusting ):</p>

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<p>So the OP is hypothesizing that they could still possibly be doomed because the rejection notice didn’t quite sound like a rejection notice.</p>

<p>lmao damn that’s paranoia at its finest. Man you’re not hearing till somewhere between March and May, and likely closer to the very last day of their ‘deadline’. Stop crappiing your pants now! You’re gonna get all Fs and lose it in the process XD</p>

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<p>so is there a rejection letter or not?</p>

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<p>umm… im not happy to show that i got rejected from UCSD… and im a real student that register today because I ACTUALLY had something to say…Ive been on the this site a long time looking up information… but i actually had questions this time…</p>

<p>anyways…
So I called the UCSD office…</p>

<p>They told me that they didn’t reject really anyone… They aren’t even really looking at the TAG forms. It is just telling you that you are have the requirements. If you got another letter like I did, it just means something in the automated system detected there might be something that makes you ineligible…BUT it doesn’t mean you are rejected.</p>

<p>BOTTOM LINE… regardless of what you got from UCSD TAG… STILL CHECK THE TAG AND IGETC CERTIFICATION BOX ON THE APPLICATION… that is the most important thing… they are using the REAL UC APPLICATION as a TAG form as well. they aren’t using the TAG AGREEMENT at all. We didnt even need to do the TAG form for UCSD… SO FOR THOSE who still want to do TAG for UCSD… you can still check the box on the application to qualify.</p>

<p>hope this helps !</p>

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<p>That’s nice and all, but you could have just *****ING CALLED UCSD. It really concerns me that many of you want to transfer into a higher level university and yet instead manning up and just calling UCSD admissions (saving you and everyone else a load of time), you want to play child detective.</p>

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<p>Eh… nothing concrete in that analysis. I think it’s weak. But on that note, I don’t really care. Both letters lead me to think we shouldn’t trust that we’re in or out or whatever. We could be speculating till April. It is what it is… nobody is going to know if they are for sure in until spring. None of this is going to make anybody any more certain.</p>

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<p>hahahahahahaa i really really love this thread. also, a UCSD counselor is visiting my cc tomoro! along with the questions i already have, does anybody want me to ask something? :></p>

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<p>^ Ask If a lot of hot guys go there :)</p>

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<p>LOOOOLLL! i would seriously die of awkwardness.
and well i’ve heard that the guys there are MUCH better looking than the girls…but i have a boyfriend so its not like i should be looking anyways ;]</p>

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<p>@redoplease “ask do you have to finish all your prereqs for transfer” for me please! Thank you !</p>

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<p>^The answer to that is no. I’ve asked and they told me you can take the remaining prereqs at UCSD. You can also finish your prereqs by doing cross enrollment at a CCC.</p>

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<p>You are soo lucky that a UCSD counselor is coming to your cc! could you please ask him that… when they were reviewing our TAGs (if they actually did so), did they check for the unit cap for people who had attended a four year college prior to cc? Just wondering if they evaluated courses from four year college already or are they going to wait till later.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot!!</p>