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I know many of students that turned in their apps last night it was due. They heard as soon as results were out.
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<p>lies. (10 char)</p>
<p>i've heard that it is very important to report your grades ASAP when they tell you to, cause that will delay your results. </p>
<p>anyway, i finally submitted my app today (11/19).
took 4 weeks to work on the personal statement, 5 drafts, and about 7 proofreaders.</p>
<p>dhl3: I knew a some people (4, in fact) that literally turned in their apps days, if not MINUTES before Nov. 30. They all heard from the UCs on May 1.</p>
<p>i see.
well then, what do you suppose UCLA mean by "rolling basis"?</p>
<p>I don't know. And at least I don't assume what it means, as many people have presented examples here that completely makes your claim invalid.</p>
<p>well i was only making my statement based on what the site says.
so are you saying UCLA's presenting a fraud info to people?</p>
<p>don't get tased :P</p>
<p>dude your so stuck on the "rolling basis" deal...you completely forgot about all the other UC's in California...My friend that is there now IS AT UCLA and she submited it towards the end of the filing period and got her results sooner that her friend who submitted hers the first day... We arent saying that the site doesnt say "rolling basis" we are saying that there is very little corelation between the day you file.... you keep posting about stuff which very well sounds legit and a lot of people beleive it but its like your stating as fact...."filing earlier increases your chances, going over 30-50 words is ok on the essay" </p>
<p>give your opinion instead of comign off as you are stating fact...or try to write in a tone which doesnt come off as if you are stating fact....</p>
<p>I've talked to tons of admissions officers who have said the exact contrary to what you say in some of your post....and you may have very well spoken to a great deal of officers as well given your breadth of knowledge....but it is probably more likeley that when tens of thousands of applicants are applying the the UC's that they arent going to make sure that one person doesnt get there decision earlier than another person.. i think they have time to do somthing much more important...they spend on average 20 minutes on each app so think about 50,000 students going 50 words over on their PS's.thats 2.5 MILLION words.... they make it clear that they want it to be close to 1000 words and more students then not will follow this...Following directions is one of the MOST important things one could probably do to enhance their chances.....</p>
<p>You make it sound like as if adcoms actually read every single words of the essay. 50 words going over... that's like 2 lines more.. which takes approxmiately 1 to 3 seconds to read (except they dont actually read, they just very briefly scan through it, whatnot, most of them don't even read the essay past the first paragraph, considering the fact that essays do not play a significant factor for the admission).</p>
<p>dhl3, you're saying I'm lying? How ignorant and immature. I know for a fact people who submitted their app the last 2 days, then heard from UCLA the first day it came out. I watched them submit, and I watched them check.</p>
<p>maybe they were TAP.</p>
<p>No, these people weren't TAP. They were life science majors. Just calm down about the rolling basis deal. You submitted yours, now give yourself a pat on the back. And goodluck to all of us this May 1, 2007.</p>
<p>"considering the fact that essays do not play a significant factor for the admission"</p>
<p>whoever is applying to LA or CAL in an impacted major and believes this is shooting themselves in the foot.</p>
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<p>well say that to the UCLA site for giving out fraud info.</p>
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"considering the fact that essays do not play a significant factor for the admission"</p>
<p>whoever is applying to LA or CAL in an impacted major and believes this is shooting themselves in the foot.
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<p>I guess 98% of the people in this board will need to shoot themselves in the foot then.</p>
<p>We've had numerous argument regarding the importance of essay in transfer admission, way way way before you joined this forum, and we've come to a general consensus that essays as a matter of fact DO NOT play a signficant factor in the admission.</p>
<p>I'm not the one to make such conclusion, but just as a big picture so people hear knows which factor is the most important (assuming you have 60 units completed):</p>
<p>GPA: 55%
Pre-reqs courses (majority/all completed): 35%
Essays/Ecs: 10%</p>
<p>This is solely on my opinion, carefully judged through other people's posts, claims, and experience. The actual figure may be different, but i believe my figure is fairly reasonable.</p>
<p>GPA comes first, followed by Pre-reqs, and then Essays/ECs goes in last.</p>
<p>*Haas may be different since they require an additional essay and it's crazily impacted O.O their admissions process is just complicated i would have to make a separate stats for them hehehe</p>
<p>This debate is unnecessary. Just do the best you can and hope for the best. What else is there to do?? Nobody on here is an adcom so nobody can say for sure the exact emphasis placed on each catagory.</p>
<p>I love you, sweetny007 :)
That is just about the sweetest thing you could ever say here~</p>
<p>When entering your GPA (self-reported), do we round (up/down)? Ex: 3.695 --> 3.7 or just 3.69?</p>
<p>Round it to the most accurate figure.
So that would mean 3.695</p>
<p>wait oh nvm..
well it really doesn't matter.
Do it 3.7</p>
<p>Makes your grade look better :P</p>
<p>"well say that to the UCLA site for giving out fraud info."</p>
<p>It's not fraud info. It's just that you and I don't know what it means. So stop the assumptions, and like sweetny said, good luck to all of you.</p>