My admission was withdrawn from UCI!

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Hi guys! I found out that my admission was withdrawn from UCI. I feel so numb rn. I know it’s all my fault… I got F’s both semester for AP CAl.

Here’s a rough draft (I know there are some grammatical errors) of my letter of Appeal stating why I received those F’s. I was wondering if anyone was able to appeal their admission withdrawal? Or if there’s anything else I should do? I live 2 hours away from UCI so I don’t know if I should physically send them the letter or just send it to them through the website. I really don’t want to go to a CC.

To the Admissions Committee at the University of California Irvine,

I fully understand and regret that I have not fulfilled the conditions stated in the freshmen contract, but I urge you to reconsider the withdrawal of my admission. My health senior year hindered my ability to perform well in school. I was experiencing problems within myself and my family.

On ***** I received a call from my sister. She wanted to commit suicide. After my friend, ******** committed suicide on ******** I promised myself I would always be there for my friends and family. I told myself I wouldn’t allow this to happen again. So when I received the call from my sister, I was shattered. My sister was also my best friend and I blamed myself for being oblivious to her sufferings. This incident brought back emotions from Hairo’s death and my personal experience with suicide causing me to feeling depressed and lacking motivation.

This incident caused me to focus more on my family’s well being. Instead of going through my normal school routine, I was always checking up on my sister and I wanted to be with her 24/7. This incident changed my whole family situation as everyone’s main focus was towards my sister. While my mom was busy with work, I had to take care of her after school so I wasn’t able to go to tutoring. I acted strong for my sister but in the inside I was falling apart too. Due to having to look after her, I wasn’t able to do things/activities that made me happy. I didn’t want to talk to anyone because I was afraid it would add more problems to the situation. Every time my phone rang, I feared it was going to be someone calling me to say they found my sister dead.

In addition, I was always sick during my senior year causing me to be absent a lot. I was absent a lot due to my health and because of it, I missed a lot of important lessons and tests. My ulcer came back 1st semester and I was in constant pain. On April 10th, I also found out I was pre-diabetic. I had high cholesterol, a weakened immune system, a thyroid problem, and other complications. I was told to live a different lifestyle. Eating was a way for me to mask my emotions so when I was told I had to eat less and to eat heatlhy, it was a struggle. I was always in a constant battle with myself.

All I really needed was someone to talk to about my problems but instead I bottled everything up. So when I finally talked to a friend about what had happened, I did everything I can to raise my grades up. I studied all day, and focused everything on school. I was able to raise all my grades up except AP calculus. I have always struggled in math but I decided to take AP calculus to challenge myself. I took the course thinking I was going to be in class everyday. I entered senior year without knowing my sister wanted to commit suicide and without knowing my health was going to be bad.

I urge you to consider reinstating me under academic probation. I will assure you, that if I do get readmitted to UC Irvine, I will excel in my studies and achieve success as I am slowly adapting to my new eating lifestyle as well as finally being open to people about my problems.

I have always dreamt of going to UC Irvine and it is unfortunate that the hardships I was facing my senior year, hindered me from my goals. Thank you so much and I look forward to hearing back from the admissions committee.

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I think your appeal is well-written, and I am sorry you have had to struggle through so much sickness and worry. I am glad you are doing better and hope you will have success at whichever college you wind up at. I did see one word you could change. In the sentence with “when I finally talked to a friend”, change “can” to “could”.

In another thread, someone said that UCI had more students SIR than they can accommodate this year. If that is true, then, unfortunately, it is going to be extra tough to get admitted.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/2002302-uci-withdrew-my-admission-wrongly.html#latest

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I agree that your appeal is well-written and I also agree the UCI is probably “thinning the herd” so to speak since they received more SIR’s than expected. There have been at least 3 other posters that have had their acceptance withdrawn from UCI for this Fall.

I have 2 questions:

  1. Did you notify the UC’s of the 1st semester F as required after you submitted your application?

Freshmen: If you change schools, add or drop a course, or fail to earn a C or better in a course after you submit your application, you must notify the UC Application Center by email or postal mail. Your correspondence must include your name, UC Application ID number and your signature (if you mail a letter), and will be available to all the campuses to which you applied.

If you receive an offer of admission, be sure to confirm with the campus admission office that they are aware of the deficient grade or schedule changes. Although you must notify the campus of these changes, we cannot guarantee that a campus can go back to review an application after correspondence has been received. Make sure to save a copy of your correspondence just in case.

Email: docs@applyUCsupport.net

Postal mail:

UC Application Center
P.O. Box 1432
Bakersfield, CA 93302

  1. Did you notify UCI after your 2nd semester F and prior to submitting your final transcripts?

If you did notify the UC’s/UCI, do you have the correspondence you can submit with your appeal?

If you did not, then it is highly unlikely they will they will change their mind since you did not follow through even with your extenuating circumstances. At this point, you have nothing to lose, so I would submit your appeal and hope for the best but make sure you have a backup plan (apply tomorrow to your local community college for Fall 2017).

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I messaged them about the F I received first semester. And my admission councelor said “to feel better, you would need a 3.0 weighted GPA in order to satisfy the freshmen conditions. You can do it!” I made a mistake not notifying them about my F second semester. I honestly thought I was going to pass my AP cal test but didn’t.

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Did UCI send you a reply regarding the 1st semester F? Your counselor did not specify that you need to a C or higher in the course (not use a 3.0 weighted) and offer to contact UCI in your behalf to try to work out an acceptable option like retaking the course in the summer to keep your provisional admission??

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No they didn’t. That’s all my admission counselor told me. (3.0 GPA weighted) That’s why I thought I was okay, and didn’t take any actions toward my F first semester.

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This is an expert of your UCI provisional contract. It is up to you not just your counselor to be aware of the contract criteria and stipulations. A hard lesson to learn, but you need to take responsibility and cannot on rely on the others.

UCI Freshman Provisional Admission Contract 2017-2018

Please read this contract before submitting your Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) and be sure to keep it for your records. Submitting a positive SIR and accepting this offer of admission certifies that you understand and agree to comply with all of the conditions of this provisional admission contract.

CONDITIONS FOR ADMISSION TO UCI

  1. You must:

Meet all provisional requirements as expressed in this contract, and in your personalized Freshman Conditions as found in your MyAdmission account at www.admissions.uci.edu.
Receive a high school diploma or equivalency.
Complete all senior year courses as listed on your application.
Maintain at least a weighted 3.0 senior year GPA in UC-approved courses.
The following situations may result in the withdrawal of your admission offer:
a) any D or F grades in your senior year a-g courses,
b) taking courses that are less rigorous than reported on your application,
c) not maintaining UC Eligibility.

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IF YOU HAVEN’T SUBMITTED YOUR APPEAL YET THEN TAKE THIS ADVICE. I know you read the appeal letter about the guy whose father had a heart attack and forced him to work for money, its relatively obvious considering the similarities. Now I’m not saying it’s necessarily bad to take inspiration from another source, but please change your wording, like a lot of it.

A lot of people got rescinded, a lot of people read that appeal, and a lot of people are heavily formatting their appeals off of it since that person was miraculously reinstated. If a lot of people mirrored that format then it is going to make yours seem weaker, so if you wanna end up going to Irvine I strongly recommend you to word it to your style of writing, you seem to have relatively fine writing skills anyways.

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also to clarify: the first paragraph and last two are dead giveaways, don’t let your appeal be eviscerated just because it seems like 100 other students’ appeals. Also short and sweet, the counselors know fluff. good luck w everything.

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Thank you! Yeah, I did get inspiration from him, but only the beginning and the end. I’ll change it rn! and “short and sweet”? Do you mean I should shorten my letter? What fluff should I take out?

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Basically you’re going to need to re-read it and decide for yourself what seems excessive and sounds like a sob story, bc tbh they’ll know since they’re reading hundreds of these things haha. With that in mind shortening gets you straight to the point, which is actually something they want (a lot). Also yeah definitely change the parts that bear resemblence to the other appeal, they’ll notice.

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The core issue is you had two Fs in both semesters. It’s hard for UCI to accept you.
Your life is not screwed. You can attend community college and transfer to a UC or CSU campus later. Your health problem (with concrete proofs) may help explaining your poor grades but helping your sister does not give a good excuse.

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As others have said, UCI received more than expected SIRs this year, and it is going to be very difficult to convince them to change this decision. While you wait for the appeal, I recommend that you start planning for other options. I’m sorry that you are going through this, but even if things look bad right now, make arrangements to attend a community college.If you really want to go there, TAG UCI. (I think UCI is still doing TAG.)

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Yeah I’ve already applied to my local CC. I should have SIR to a CSU for back up since my friend had the same grade as me and her acceptance didn’t get rescinded. But what is TAG? And can I “TAG” another UC? Because I think I’m done with UCI.

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TAG is Transfer Admission Guarantee for 6 of the 9 UC campuses (some campuses have excluded majors for TAG). You need to meet the TAG GPA and required courses for transfer and you are then guaranteed admission. I still think UCI would be possible if you try to transfer with TAG or no TAG , if you get a competitive GPA at your CC.

http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/guarantee/index.html

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Okay thank you! Im actually slowly learning to accept the fact I won’t be attending UCI but thanks for all the replies. I’m currently jealous since 2 other people also failed AP cal from my school, and when they called, the admissions from UCI said they were fine.