If I hear, "I got merit aid from [need only school]!" one more time...

momfirst3
Fri, 21 May 2010 17:14:12 +0000

Totally agree with Calmom. The admissions to the UC’s this year were brutal. I have three children and my youngest was applying this year. This was by far the most difficult year to gain admission to the UC’s. Even though my son was class rank #1, National AP Scholar with 14 AP’s, scored a 35 on his ACT, CSF/NHS member, 4 year Varsity tennis player (two time captain with many honors) and was a nationally ranked tennis player, he put UCSB on his application just in case. He did get accepted to UCSD, UCLA and UCB but he was waitlisted at MIT and Columbia. He will be going to Berkeley. That being said, I don’t think anyone can make any sense out of admission decisions. I just told all my kids to just be themselves on the applications and that they would end up where they were supposed to end up. The bottom line is the top kids in California can no longer assume they will be accepted into UCB or UCLA. Everyone should have at least one safety school on their list, especially in these current times.