<p>Got rejected from sb and i was wondering if it was worth appealing. I never added the things i had to overcome so i was planning on telling sb that.
I applied as a biology major. Could I ask them if they could reconsider me as a public health major?
I just want basic answers if its worth appealing. I didnt get waitlisted</p>
<p>Unless you originally applied as an engineering major, changing your major won’t help you in the appeals process. </p>
<p>Honestly I’m not even sure if UCSB has a “public health” major (I could be wrong though).</p>
<p>Appeal if you have new info (ie a changed grade, new leadership role, some sort of hardship). But, honestly, if you really want to go to UCSB, just appeal. It can’t hurt. </p>
<p>My senior grades were worst though so that won’t help. I guess I’ll just write the new information about my surgery.
Btw does anyone know how i would appeal?</p>
<p>Go do some more volunteer work this weekend too. Lulz. Anything that could help!</p>
<p>I’m not sure how the process works, but I’m sure you can’t find some info with a quick google. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Giving new information is something that can work, but it depends on what it is. </p>
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<p>Here is the link that describes the process: <a href=“http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/applying/appeal-process”>http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/applying/appeal-process</a></p>
<p>Good luck if you decide to go that way!</p>
<p>■■■■ lol. I already applied for my community college yesterday but i really hope they take my appeal. I’ll just write about my surgery and how i had some kind of cancer but it wasn’t harmful. I didnt want to put it on my orginal app cause i didnt know it was important</p>
<p>I just have one lasting question guys… Should I change my major?
Honestly I just want to get into UCSB.
Will changing my major help my appeal?
My major is biology at this moment.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it will help, but you could certainly say you would go undeclared L&S if necessary, but since Biology is L&S and I think they do their weeding through the lower division courses (isn’t that a major where you have to get a certain gpa in certain courses to declare the actual major?) I don’t know that that is a problem. You could call admissions and ask, though.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>PS I just read that for the first time in years community colleges are underenrolled and canceling classes for lack of students, so if it doesn’t work out you might want to go in over the summer and get some hard to get into requirement classes out of the way – but I do wish you the best on your appeal!</p>
<p>Appealing can’t hurt. See Ms. Sun’s blog on that subject. There are sample appeal letters there. The appeal has to present “new and compelling” information.<br>
I suspect that Bio had something to do with your rejection. I know a 2011 hs grad who was an unweighted 4.0 who was rejected as a freshman applying to Bio. She didn’t have very strong EC’s and I think one of her essays was on the negative side. I think Bio is pretty hard to get into in general and one of the most popular majors there. If you aren’t accepted as Bio, like my D (BioPsych), you have to apply in once you are there and you have to take a lot of pre-req classes. She’s had to carefully plan these out and this is one reason she goes summer quarter every year.<br>
Since she lost her honors status due to a gpa dip below 3.6, she will be crashing for spring quarter. Luckily, this quarter sees more drops due to a change in the weather I think, so she’s got a better chance at least. </p>
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Actually Letters and Science does not take intended major into account when making admission decisions for frosh.</p>
<p>If you really do want to go to UCSB, why not appeal? You have absolutely nothing to lose, and maybe you’ll get in!</p>
<h1>'s from last year’s (2013) admissions at UCSB-from Ms. Sun’s blog:</h1>
<p>Waitlist - 3,650 waitlist offers went out; 2,002 students opted in; 563 were admitted.</p>
<p>Appeal - 915 appeals received; 45 students were admitted (although most were already on waitlist and were admitted from the waitlist rather than on appeal).</p>
<p>Admission Cancellation - 67 students had their acceptance canceled (mostly due to poor academic performance in senior year).</p>
<p>I mean i had a 4.0 unweighted junior year but i had a 3.1 unweighted sophomore year. I’m explaining that I had shoulder surgery and they found a cancer in my shoulder but it wasn’t serious. And I’m attaching my x ray. I should’ve wrote this on my application but i didn’t want the admissions people to think I’m using excuses. </p>
<p>Thanks for everyone’s opinions. </p>
<p>@MIM2012 Oh i see. Honestly i just want to get into UCSB so i don’t care what major I get in. I’ll just switch and stay an extra year if I have to.
And wow those appeal rates aren’t looking good but it does say that a lot of people who appealed got in via waitlist. </p>
<p>@oldschoolboy I can’t speak for UCSB and what they see, but what I see here on these threads about reasons to appeal make your reason sound better than most.</p>
<p>And if you were concerned about the cancer before you found out it wasn’t serious, I wouldn’t dismiss it as you just did ‘they found cancer but it wasn’t serious’, I would at least say ‘they found cancer and it was some time before they determined it wasn’t serious’ or something like that. It wasn’t the cancer that messed up your focus on grades, from what I am inferring, it was finding out you had cancer, and the uncertainty of how bad that cancer was.</p>
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If the appeal doesn’t work out then take a look at my posthttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-santa-barbara/468098-backdoor-way-to-get-into-ucsb-p1.html and see if its right for you.</p>
<p>@mikemac My mom won’t let me go all the way there just for community college so that option is out haha</p>