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<p>False, for the most part. Amazing how much info on this site is incorrect.</p>
<p>UCLA scores you in three categories: academic achievement (GPA, SAT); personal accomplishment (ECs, awards, etc); and challenges overcome. You can’t get in by just owning the SAT IIs, which UCLA no longer even requires for admission. Matter of fact, you can’t get in by just having the raw numbers. That’s not me speaking, that’s Murphy Hall.</p>
<p>Are you kidding me, idk how I got in then you guys would probably think Im EXTREMELY underqualified</p>
<p>OP im on the same boat
im ranked top 5%
and have a unweighted GPA of 4.0
my SAT was 2350
this just baffles me</p>
<p>@legacy: Haha, on this site an “overqualified”, or even “qualified” student doesn’t really exist. Not even perfect stats and glorious ECs with sparkling recs can make you safe, but I suppose it’s somewhat true. </p>
<p>You shouldn’t sell your accomplishments short, you must’ve impressed the adcoms somehow if you got in.</p>
<p>You have to remember there are other factors that go into acceptance: ELC (100 points), first generation going to college (100 pts), disadvantaged background (100pts), URM, other hardships. With so many qualified applicants this difference in points could make a difference in acceptance.</p>
<p>dude holy crap siick stats, you definitely should take a deuce in front of admissions office door to show how ****sssed u are… gl on berkeley though (berkeley’s way better anyways)…</p>
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<p>Uhhh, no. OP is correct. Please cite your sources before you spread the very misinformation whose volume amazes you. UCs consider test scores and GPA more important than ECs.</p>
<p>From College Board ([College</a> Search - University of California: Los Angeles - UCLA - Admission](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)):
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<p>^Collegeboard’s info regarding UCLA has been found to be a decade old and the university has taken a more “holistic” approach since then that is more favourable to URMs.</p>
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^same here, but I wanted UCLA more, so im very happy with the end result :)</p>
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<p>^same here, but I wanted UCLA more, so im very happy with the end result </p>
<p>Haha, as did I.</p>
<p>But to the OP, as someone said before, applications are reviewed hollistically. In addition, although you say that you wrote amazing essays, that’s rather subjective. I’m not saying they aren’t, but they might not have made as big of an impact on the admissions committee as you thought.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I’d say your statistics are certainly qualified, but I don’t think there’s anything that’s overqualified in these top-ranking universities.
UCLA and every other big name college has seen every type of applicant, I’m sure.</p>
<p>Lastly, major makes a difference. If you applied to one of the more selective schools within UCLA, that may have had a factor.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering, does UCLA reject people who don’t get into their major from the school entirely? If engineering is so hard to get into, does that mean that those good students who aren’t quite good enough for engineering just get completely shut down by UCLA? I think one of my friends applied for computer science but somehow got placed into cognitive science. Maybe he selected the wrong one on accident? Haha…</p>
<p>And I feel the same way as Thelegacy… I’m out of state, and somehow I got in with a GPA that’s slightly lower than average. Although my course rigor was as hard as it could get… </p>
<p>I think other than one person, everyone else in my school who applied for UCLA got in and we’re obviously all out of state. Makes me wonder if UCLA is really trying hard to get more out of state students. But then again, there are only about six or seven people who applied to UCLA here.</p>
<p>11 AP + 1 honor 10-12, 4.5W GPA, 34 ACT and I got rejected (computer science). It happens. But, and I hope this is the case for everybody else in this position, we’re still going to get a great education even within the UC system. You could probably find happiness at any college that you go to, no matter what it seems like now.</p>
<p>^with the current budget crisis, there’s a reason why more out of state students are being accepted to UCLA and CAL every year…i think cal was about 20% OOS last year.</p>
<p>“I’m just wondering, does UCLA reject people who don’t get into their major from the school entirely? If engineering is so hard to get into, does that mean that those good students who aren’t quite good enough for engineering just get completely shut down by UCLA?”</p>
<p>Yes…Same with most schools and engineering dept. I think UCSD might be different and accepts first to school and then dept</p>
<p>Engineering isn’t a department, it’s a separate college within the University.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I think UCLA has such a limited space for students that they don’t really go through the effort of admitting reject engineering majors to their second choices. I believe UCSD does admit to the college first, and then to a specific school.</p>
<p>I see where your anger comes from and I would be angry too. But you do understand that UCLA is the most applied to University in the country right? Tons of qualified students are applying for a limited number of spots and no matter how good your GPA and SAT scores are there is only a limited amount of people that can get accepted, So alot of people are going to get their feelings hurt once those letters start rolling in. Also, you can always try to appeal, although I wouldn’t count on it. And dont feel bad, you still have Cal in the mix, dont take this so hard, just be grateful that your even have able to have the opportunity to attend college unlike so many kids that dont. So let nature take its course, everything happens for a reason. Who knows, you might meet the love of your life at Washington university or CAL. Things happens for a reason, just dont kill yourself mentally over what happend with UCLA. Been there, done that.</p>
<p>I have posted this before, so I apologize if you have already read it. If you are interested in how Berkeley (and I would imagine UCLA) makes there admissions decisions I found a link to this study on the Berkeley site a while back. The link takes you to the press release and then at the bottom of the press release is a link to the actual study. It is quite lengthy but also quite interesting. Towards the end is where they detail how they go through the applications. I found the part about giving points for various EC’s and how they compare you to the other applicants from your own school particularly interesting. <a href=“http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_hout.shtml[/url]”>http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_hout.shtml</a></p>
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<p>I work in the Office of Admissions and oversee merit scholarships. Does that count as a “source?”</p>
<p>Your hostile tone is immature and unnecessary. I do hope you grow up a bit by the time you graduate high school.</p>
<p>1x612nt13 gets pwnd by an admissions officer… I find that delicious.</p>