Admission is based on a lot of issues. It is hard to know what causes any particular rejection.
@Muad_dib: “I’m guessing the essay was your downfall.” @Ohm888: “Don’t take this the wrong way but your English is wobbly.”
However, I think that these two comments may have noticed one possible issue. @beatyou1314, your English is way better than my second language, but is still not as good as it should be to get into a very top university such as UCLA (or UC Berkeley). You probably need to take some ESL classes and work on your writing skills. I do understand that Computer Science is not the same thing at Journalism, but it is still valuable to be able to write clearly in whatever language your classes (and subsequently career) will be in.
I didn’t understand what this sentence is trying to say. Does this mean that you got 4 C’s? If so then you don’t have a 4.0. If not, then I can’t even guess what this says.
Regarding EC’s:
“and did 20 hours volunteering, including 10 hours math tutoring.”
20 hours of volunteering is not actually a large amount of volunteering, nor a complete list of ECs. My daughter was required to do many times more than this just to graduate from high school. ECs might have been another issue.
I honestly don’t know whether an appeal will allow you to get more detail regarding why your application was rejected. If so, then filing an appeal might give you useful information that will allow you to know what to do differently next time, and what to work on.
Click on [url=<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/glossary/igetc.html%5DIGETC%5B/url”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/glossary/igetc.html]IGETC[/url]
I did. I called them. The representative just said that “this year students are all very competitive, and computer science is an impacted major in ucla. I feel sorry to you. :)”
Um… am I missing something? Why are people not commenting on beatyou1314 not completing his/her IGETC?
IGETC requires 11 courses from the following as said on the university of california website:
English communication
Mathematical concepts and quantitative reasoning
Arts and humanities
Social and behavioral sciences
Physical and biological sciences
Language other than English
@beatyou1314, you mentioned that you did not take the life science or biological science course? Then you did not complete your IGETC and that might be or is the reason why you did not get accepted.
Forget your PS or your ECs, not completing IGETC when it’s recommended is not acceptable… last time I remember. Someone please correct me if I am wrong about this.
