Rejected - Appeal?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>Hi I recently got rejected from UCLA. These are my stats:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.8 out of 4.0 (weighted)
ACT: 30 (Math 34, Science 34, Reading 27, English 26)
SAT II: Bio - 680, Math Level 2 - 780
AP - Bio (5), Comp Sci (4), taking Calc AB, Environmental, Macro</p>

<p>EC: Business Professionals of America (9-12), Finance Club (11-12, President), Aspiring Medical Professionals (11-12), UNICEF (11-12, Volunteer Coordinator), NeuquaLaw (Law Club 12, Co-Founder and Vice-President), Volunteered for 640 hrs at doctor’s office</p>

<p>Awards: BPA state contestant (9-12), BPA National contestant (12th, found out after I submitted my app), BPA Ambassador Torch Award (11, I’m also doing it this year, next month), UNICEF national video contest winner (11), YouthAboutBuiness national champion (team event, 11)</p>

<p>Major: I applied for a BIOLOGY and BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING major At UCLA. I initially wanted to become a doctor so I wrote my essays on why I wanted to become a doctor for the first prompt and for the second prompt, I wrote about my experiences with YouthAboutBusiness. However, after conducting my college interviews, I realized that Medicine wouldn’t be the best fit for me. So, now I have decided to pursue business and I want to major in FINANCE/ECONOMICS. Also, is it possible to get a business minor at UCLA?</p>

<p>Other Info: Illinois Resident, but Dad has CA residency, Asian, Male</p>

<p>Does anyone have any advice for me, how should I fill out the appeal? Should I call an admissions officer and explain my situation, that I want to switch majors? Can I still get into UCLA or are there no hopes? </p>

<p>Could Someone Please help me out ASAP?! UCLA is my top choice and I would really like to go there since my family is also planning on moving there, regardless of my college decisions.</p>

<p>Thanks you so much for taking your time to read my scenario!! Once again can someone please reply to my situation?</p>

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<p>An appeal is only considered when there is info not present during application review. So that would be like if you were undergoing family problems during some semester resulting in bad grades, or something. You don’t have a sufficient basis for an appeal. Biology and economics are both in the college of letters and science, which means that your choice of major was irrelevant (and your appeal seems to be based on a change of interest). UCLA clearly made their decision based on other factors that you can’t address right now. I would recommend that you let UCLA go and focus on the colleges that you’ve gotten into and those still to come.</p>

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<p>I’m sorry but as clearly stated on the UCLA appeal site and in my past experiences, change of major is NOT a ground for appeal. It has to be family/medical problems that affected and caused you to not reach your academic best that you DID NOT mention in your application already.</p>

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<p>^ Wrong, appeals aren’t meant to be pity letters of family issues/medical problems. Though many appeals are just pity letters either way. You do have a chance with an appeal based off your awards that you weren’t able to mention on the app. But most of the rejections are only revoked when the appeals were based of that there were transcript errors with an applicants app. But everyone still has a fairly equal chance for an appeals and writing a pity letter wouldn’t hurt. I think anything is possible now after seeing my friend get his rejection revoked when he had only a 1600 on SAT and another friend actually getting in with a 1580</p>