LA Times Article on Rescinded Admissions

[jv1122]

<p>See if you can figure out where I’m mentioned. =). </p>

<p>It’s a good article, take the advice seriously.</p>

<p><a href=“No slack for student slackers”>No slack for student slackers;

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A graduate of Lancaster High School recalled how he got a D in advanced placement calculus in the fall of his senior year and then dropped the class for the second semester. As a result, UCLA, his dream school, canceled his acceptance, although UC San Diego, where he just finished his freshman year, did not.</p>

<p>The student, who asked not to be identified, said he is very happy as a biology major at UC San Diego but that he still has some resentment about what happened last spring. </p>

<p>“I don’t think that one class should have changed everything,” he said.

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<p>So… how did you like your first year at UCSD?</p>

[jv1122]

<p>It’s been absolutely amazing, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that it’s probably better than what i would have experienced at UCLA.</p>

[atlantiz]

<p>interesting. what makes you say that your first year experience was “probably better than what i would have experienced at UCLA”. im just curious. i had a hell of a time at ucsd as a frosh too!</p>

[jv1122]

<p>Well, a lot of the activities I was involved with aren’t available at UCLA. Some of the resources that I have here are nothing compared to the same kind of resources that are at UCLA.</p>

<p>Not to mention the amazing group of people I’ve met at UCSD, it’d be hard to match that. </p>

<p>School rankings mean NOTHING, I can now understand that, and wish I understood it when I was in my college admissions process.</p>

[ihavenolife]

<p>wait… how were you able to still go to UCSD? By that time, wasn’t it too late to send in the SIR?</p>

[jv1122]

<p>I hadn’t submitted my SIR to anyone when I knew I had gotten a D first semester, so when I got rescinded from LA, I submitted my SIR to UCSD.</p>