Dealing With "Unfair" College Rejection - UCLA

Dogcat73
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 05:12:43 +0000

I know 1280 is very diff from your stats, but there are also kids who got 1500+ on their SAT who got rejected or waitlisted like you… There are so many people in the world with perfect stats, but colleges don’t want the best student-- they want the best fit.

I was recently rejected (not waitlisted) from Emory, and all the people I know of who got in/waitlisted had less EC’s, lighter course work, lower SAT, and lower GPA. Emory is a great school and I worked hard on those supps but even I knew Emory was not my first choice (or anything near the sort). If you declined UCLA so quickly, I think the admissions officer can tell you’re not genuinely as passionate about UCLA as your friend might have been. Colleges are crapshoots-- its really unpredictable tbh, so it may not be your fault or anything related to you. perhaps this year UCLA wanted less business majors and more enviro majors (example), so who knows