@McKilla99, think about it, if 4,000 alumni are sent out and 119000 people applied that means invites were sent to the top 3% (4,000/119000). This year UCLA will have a 14 percent acceptance rate so if you are top 3% you are in good shape.
If you look at Fall 2015 admits, if you had a 3.9-4.0 (with advanced classes) it states on the UCLA site that the acceptance rate was 50%.
@McKilla99, look at the stats for domestic applicants
http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof15.htm
@Mysonsdad the alumni scholarship can’t just be based on GPA and SAT/ACT scores. I got an invite but my GPA (4.33 uncapped) is nowhere near the top 3 percent of applicants considering that the 75th percentile is a 4.60. However, I do believe that my ECs and essays were very strong, so perhaps that was taken into consideration. I also did get into umich so I guess I could be considered “competitive” for admission, assuming that UCLA is similar to Michigan in terms of admission.
But still, I really really hope that getting the alumni scholarship means a good thing as UCLA is my first choice school, but I’m not getting my hopes up yet.
Good luck!!!
I’m just curious, has anyone asked either UCLA undergrad admissions or the alumni association office if the invites are based on a prescreening or just random selection?
Nothing about college admission is random.
@bruin2020, I didn’t say it went by gpa and SAT/ACT. Top 3% can mean a lot of things including obviously EC’s. The other stats I posted I figured I would throw in in case @McKilla99 had good stats. UCLA is much harder to get into than UM. Congratulations, no matter how you look at it, you’re top 3% for UCLA.
@Mysonsdad my stats are impressive enough, but I’m relatively lacking in ECs. Nevertheless, like @bruin2020 I got into UMich CoE. I suppose we have to wait and see if we get in or not in March.
@Mysonsdad I don’t think that the alumni scholarship is sent to the top 3% of applicants as Regents is also top 2-3%, however many of the people who revived the alumni invite, including me, did not get a regents invite. Perhaps the alumni invite is for the top 10% of applicants?
Regents was sent to the top 1.5%. According to another post on here, 4,000 students got an invite for alumni which includes the 1.5% Regents invite people. Do you think that ad comm at UCLA said, “Let’s find some totally undeserving people and invite them to apply for a scholarship even though they don’t have much of a chance of getting in?” Especially when you consider that everyone can apply for it anyway. Top 3-4% doesn’t mean just stats, it means something about your app stuck out among the other 97%. The other thread said applicants invited for alumni have about a 70% chance of getting in. I don’t want to give you false hope, but I think you are definitely among a good group of applicants.
My D got the Alumni scholarship email invitation and while I think it CAN be a good indicator that the applicant is being considered in a positive light for admission, my opinion is that it is based on the major they are applying to. For instance my D applied to TFT for film; but I read that the 30 or so invitations to interview for the film class have already gone out and she didn’t get one. So alumni scholarship invitation or not, even though it’s from the TFT program, she’s probably out of the running. Sad 
She hasn’t even finished and turned in the Scholarship yet but it’s kind of hard to be motivated to complete it “just in case” when you already have this info. She will complete it though - “just in case.”
Yo when do we hear back
I wouldn’t read too much into it. Everyone at my school who applied got the email.
@juve1897 I think last year it was March 21st so I guess it would be around the same time this year.
@bubsbubbles at my school only around 7 kids got the invite even though over 30 applied, so I’m hoping that it’s not just conincedental
Only the top students at my school got the invite.
@daniel04 did you get an alumni scholarship too?
@10s4life the UCSB Chancellors invite came in the mail yesterday (13th).
@daniel04, it is an acceptance. According to past years, they have the kids stand up and tell them they are accepted
@10s4life, yeah it’s in the mail. Your portal will stay say under review.
Does anyone know if we can use the same essay from our UC application on the alumni scholarship?
@daniel04 based on what I’ve been reading from college confidential and ask.mrs’s uc admissions blog, only a fraction of the applicants get the UCLA alumni scholarship. According to mrs.sun, getting the invite means that something stuck out in your application and you are the type of applicant that the alumni association wants to give a scholarship to. But nobody knows for sure!
Sorry for asking a silly question but when people say they received their notifications via mail, do they mean paper-mail or email?
@Otterma I got mine as an email but I’ve heard the top candidates get postcards in regular mail.