<p>yeah im so grateful hollistic came out. </p>
<p>i have a 3.8 w, 2140, 610, 730 as my pure stats, but i have 2 years of microsoft internship, 4 years tutoring, 4 years free tutoring and my essays were about micrsooft so im hoping they make up for my gpa</p>
<p>well peppers SD looks for different things, and i personally think UCLA is better at picking well-rounded students that stand out, rather than students that merely make the cutoff points. </p>
<p>UCLA is able to look at the person as a whole, whereas in UCSD a student is (in my opinion) just a number. but this could just be because im biased and bitter at this moment ha. :)</p>
<p>wow microsoft internship? paid/unpaid? haha how did you manage that! and was it intense?</p>
<p>wow look its the spanish inquisition ahhaa</p>
<p>hopefully... alot of people came back with bad news from SD ... imagine LA? the selectivity must be off the hook</p>
<p>well SD makes strange decisions sometimes. and it isnt surprising to come across lots of people that were rejected by SD but accepted by CAL or LA.</p>
<p>unpaid sexy rec letter too. too bad i couldnt send it. yeah 2 yeasr i made xbox video game sounds! i think thats what got me into ucsd and it hink thats what wil help me out alot at UCLA. </p>
<p>and thank god i got 2140 on my last sat try rofl</p>
<p>2140 is pretty sweet to begin with</p>
<p>i know. im just hoping they can get past my 3.8 w! everyhting else on my app is solid. but at least i can say i took 6 aps and 7 honors at Arcadia that might help</p>
<p>i shouldve been just an AP student. im starting to think that IB doesnt get far in UCs :( what a waste of time</p>
<p>3.8 uw is really good imo im almost a whole point beneath you </p>
<p>and im about 400 points below your SATs</p>
<p>doesn't IB apply more to east coast schools? im not sure my school doesnt offer IBs</p>
<p>no 3.8 w : ( prettty sad</p>
<p>flong stop complaining! you're getting in! :)</p>
<p>fineeeeeeee</p>
<p>what are your majors?</p>
<p>pre buis econ</p>
<p>I know that SD is different, but honestly how much more different can it be? I'm just afraid that too many people are looking too much into this "holistic review" thing, and are going to be disappointed by the results. Sure it will help <em>some</em> applicants, but it will help those that have special circumstances or stellar EC's that may not shine out from their academics in the previous format of admissions.</p>
<p>Again, I know this forum is meant to be a support group for all of us, but we shouldn't be dispensing too much of this hope in the very large off chance that it doesn't pander out to acceptances. I like how we are all trying to keep each other afloat, but it crosses the line when we tell candidates who, based on past year's data would most likely not get in, that holistic review will grant them admissions. Holistic review will reverse otherwise rejections for a small minority of applicants, most of whom are going to be allegedly URMs (at least, that's the going rumor as to why UCLA did it). We have to take this with a grain of salt in that it will not drastically alter the situation for many of us. </p>
<p>Also, true, UCSD's point system doesn't necessarily play out in LA/Berkeley admissions, but this pertains mostly to upper tier candidates who are supposedly judged "overqualified", very VERY rarely under average candidates. Those remain by far exceptions, not the rule.</p>
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<p>which races exactly are URMs? i know hispanics, African americans etc but are those basically the only ones?</p>
<p>Pretty much. That and Native Americans, although they seem to have gotten preference before anyways.</p>
<p>yeah as Peppers said UCSD is kinda the stepping stone to LA</p>