<p>My stats are: 2050 SAT, 4.5 UC weighted GPA, and I got rejected in the Comp Sci (College of engineering) major. My alternate major was Biology in letters and sciences and do you think if my first major was Bio and not Comp Sci that I would be accepted?</p>
<p>4.5 UC weighted* my bad</p>
<p>Not necessarily. S rejected from L&S major with 30 ACT and 4.45 weighted GPA. </p>
<p>UCLA doesn’t consider your alternative major if you choose the engineering school and L&S. You could have possibly gotten in if biology was your first choice.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got waitlisted with a 4.4 GPA and 2240 SAT, for L&S. Just hard this year.</p>
<p>Comp Sci is the most selective major at UCLA, followed closely by CSE, ME, AE and CE (last year, it was 12.4% acceptance rate)
Average stats are ~2300 SAT and ~3.99 unweighted GPA with many, many AP courses, along with strong EC’s and above average essays. This was simply a case of your stats not being good enough.
Depending on your circumstances and resume, you could have been admitted for bio, its just that the odds would have been against you b/c your stats were around the average mean for admission
Also, a 4.5 weighted UC GPA isn’t possible to achieve ^^</p>
<p>Be glad you were not admitted(even through the back door like my kid’s friend). He was admitted to L&S and now flunking midterms on basic intro class for CS. The result is he has to drop the class and retake next semester otherwise he won’t have the GPA to be admitted to CS. It might take him 6 years to graduate.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle
- its not possible to be admitted to L&S CS at UCLA (as there isn’t CS in L&S), so I feel like your friend might have been talking about UCB, which typically is considered to be brutally difficult
- CS 31 is a class in which people get a whole range of grades. Just because CS wasn’t your kid’s friend’s strong point doesn’t mean that everyone will have it the same way </p>
<h1>1, I don’t think I wrote he was admitted to L&S CS, I wrote he was admitted to L&S and he was taking Intro to Computer Science but was flunking midterm so he had to withdraw from the class.</h1>
<h1>2, did I say everyone? I’m not sure what’s your point is. My coworker’s son flunk out of a pre-med classes twice, he is now a music major. Both his parents went to HYPM and are physicians. I think they were flabbergasted. So I guess you could say pre-med was not his strong point either.</h1>
<p>OutofBoundsError, I saw other thread that you started that you are not even at UCLA yet. This makes a lot of sense now.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle
- You edited your comment after i posted.
- You said “Be glad you were not admitted” with the warrant that your friends son is having difficulty. Just because your friends son is having difficulty doesn’t mean that other people will have the same amount of difficulty. Other people might actually be glad about being admitted. Also, I don’t see how the story of the music major is relevant.
- Yup, I’m not a student at UCLA. Neither are you. What’s your point? </p>
<p>Out ofBoundError,
- I never edited after I posted, I edit the grammar. I think you misread it and jumped to conclusion.
- People are glad about being admitted because they don’t know what they are getting into. My friend’s son got SAT 2200+ and top 2% GPA at a reasonable good high school. Mom graduated from Harvard, Dad graduated from MIT and they are physicians. But his kids flunked premed classes twice what does that tell you. You might be in the same boat. Come back and tell me after you take some classes there.
- So wait until you take some classes at UCLA before right now you are just postulating.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle
Impossible to argue with flawless logic like yours. From now on, I’ll also start using a minuscule sample size and use that as a representation for the entire population. Thanks for educating me! </p>
<p>Ya @OutofBoundsError, base your entire future plans on this one kid that can’t pass a class. 
And the parents are so impressive so how can this happen? It must be the school cause the genes are so awesome. lol.</p>