I want to appeal and I was planning on writing about my honors classes. I took at least 10 honors classes during my 10-12 grade and while I was applying to my UC’s my counselor told me that I could not put in my application that I took honors classes. She basically told me that the honors classes my high school offers are not UC recognized. I earned really good grades in all of these classes and it just broke my heart that I could not list them as honors. Do you think this is a good reason to appeal along with information about my own hardship and struggles?
I suggest you focus on choosing one of the schools you have been accepted at.
Well, I mean, wouldn’t those classes be on your transcript?
Honestly, it’s a waste of time, unless you have some major new accomplishment to notify UCLA about – say, you just won an major science prize… or got a book contract. Otherwise, UCLA has no reason to revisit its decisions. The school got 119,000 applications this year, and I bet the vast majority most of those students had honors classes.
That’s the same for everyone. The title of an “Honors” class is left to the school. You can call any class an Honors class if you want to but only a few are actually going to give you a GPA bump due to the UC regulations. I had the same deal last year where half of my honors classes were not UC Honors and thus did nothing for me.
However, the benefit you would gain from them is course rigor as even though your GPA got not bump you still were taking your school’s hardest classes.
Therefore your Honors classes have most likely have already been noted in your app and there is no basis for an appeal in them.
No point appealing. I won’t get a boost from any of my honors classes (picked the wrong ones), but that isn’t something worth worrying about. What was your uw gpa and test scores? That might give us an idea if there was another factor besides # of weighted courses that led to your rejection.
If UC didn’t recognize these classes as qualifying for honors level when you were applying, why are they going to change their mind if you appeal your admission result?
I doubt it had anything to do with your honors classes. Most schools request your transcripts and they would have seen the courses taken and your grades. Most likely it had to do with the fact that they had nearly 120,000 applications this year.