@LKnomad That’s crazy ! How badly does your son want to go to this school ? I give you and your son a lot of credit because I know myself , and I don’t think I could be that patient .
@carolinamom2boys this is for the entire University of California system, so UCLA Berkeley, and UC Irvine!
Wow, good thing you’re so organized.
@LKnomad I’m so sorry . California is a whole different system than I’ve ever dealt with.
Congrats @crowlady ! What a relief! @texaspg , the Seattle area is full of successful people who went to state colleges-even directionals! and who have still done well in life. A former mayor of Seattle, who never even graduated college, now teaches at…Harvard. So I find the angst about top schools or life is over a bit much when I see it.
Congratulations @crowlady
@LKnomad, someone on here (maybe it was you) mentioned they had read that UC’s want verification on the apps of 10% of the applicants. I don’t know if you saw the LA Times yesterday, but they said 206,000 kids applied to UC this year. That means they want verification from over 20,000 kids. Seems like an awful lot. I still think once you win this it is a good sign.
It seems like they are making you go through a lot, especially for something that happened a while ago.
@petrichor11 @crowlady congratulations on the wonderful news. Always thrilled to hear about acceptances in this crazy stressful process
@mysonsdad yes I heard it was 10%. My son also got a postcard two days ago reminding him, so they are really working on getting people to respond. Ms Sun mentioned in her blog that the verification requests went out, so it must be a big undertaking.
My son listed awards, community service hours, music participation, and summer programs, all easy to verify. That they chose this is beyond idiotic.
@crowlady Congratulations and definitely happy dance time (-:, same for you @petrichor11 , woo hoo!!
@LKnomad Wow, I have worked in government (not CA) for years and the inanity and insanity of that verification process is completely nuts, and trust me I have seen some pretty inane things before. Best of luck to you and the patience of a saint you must have. Somebody in the UC admissions system clearly has nothing better to do with their time. Hang in there!
Do you all think the next phase of the verification is to send security teams to verify with people who did the survey?
I think less time is being spent on security clearance verifications.
@LKnomad, what if someone wrote about something they did, but then couldn’t prove it? They may not be admitted and yet would have done nothing wrong
Thanks for all the congrats! @carolinamom2boys for the record, I don’t have a daughter, though I have a few honorary daughters. Congrats to your daughter @petrichor11.
I am so sorry you are going through that perplexing verification process @lknomad – I would like to think it was such a fantastic essay that they want to give him a major award and are trying to be sure it stands up to media scrutiny.
@texaspg. He actually sent them a link to a blog where people were discussing the survey!!! It has tons of comments. And the comment were dated so you know that there were done after the survey.
Banging head into wall…
@mysonsdad. I have heard that they will sometimes chose something else to verify if there is a problem. To be honest, that is what I expected for my son. But this is showing that you may be right. If they do not verify my son’s application this will turn into a law suit. I promise you that.
200,000 applications?? 
Hope you pass the inquest! Holy cow, it seems over the top!
@crowlady if only! Sadly it was random.
I do think it is a fabulous essay and when the actual event happened I was contacted by a reporter from MSNBC about it. Too bad I opted not to talk to them. That would be easy to verify.
@sseamom, 200,000 is the number of kids, including transfers and foreign students who applied for at least one school in the UC system. Most kids apply for more than one school , so UCLA had 119,000 applicants, UCSD 102,000, Berkeley had 101,000. Last year I thought it was insane that UCLA had 92,000 applicants, but this year UC Santa Barbara had 94,000. Crazy. I predict that within two years UCLA will be as hard to get into as Stanford was in 2010.
Congrats @crowlady, may I ask: Florida?
Thank you everyone for the warm welcome!!!
Congratulations to your S, @crowlady! And thank you, everyone, for the congratulations for D. It’s nice to be wanted. It’s equally nice that she and S are now tied in the acceptances column. It’s not a competition, except that with these two, everything is a competition.
@LKnomad, I am impressed at (and somewhat terrified by) your level of patience and organisation. It looks a bit like they’re coming up with hoops just to see how many he can jump through. The fact that he’s making it through them has to show something extra-positive on his application, I would think.