Chance me! UC's for an OOS!

de_la_noche
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:32:25 +0000

With regard to UCLA’s new hollistic approach to admissions, this is the first year they are using this, which will show hugely different admissions statistics.

They used to not look at minority status, which shows why there was a huge decline in African Americans being accepted to UCLA, but now, they are going to take EVERYTHING into consideration. They also used to admit people if they had a certain SAT score and GPA, and not even look at anything else. But now, they look at everything hollistically. So a 4.5 2360 student could easily be rejected from UCLA if academics was the only strong point of theirs.

Berkeley is very similar to UCLA in this approach, although UCLA’s is still much more hollistic. The other UCs still use the point system, which is good for some people but is a huge disadvantage for others.

Does this help?