<p>Davis reads the essay to look for attributes for which their admissions formula will assign points, but otherwise it doesn’t matter if the grammar is terrible, the story abysmally dull, or the vocabulary childish. </p>
<p>If the essay mentions that one parent fought or lost to cancer during your high school time, it would be picked up to assign points into the formula. </p>
<p>If you mention that you did crazy hours of charitable work, encountered a situation that totally changed your life, and did a brilliant job describing how this affected you, it is wasted effort as far as UCD; no points for charity and no points for essay quality. </p>
<p>See <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/608083-estimate-your-admissions-decision-ucd.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/608083-estimate-your-admissions-decision-ucd.html</a> for information on how the admissions committee evaluates candidates.</p>