UCLA Class of 2024 Discussion

zcx0603
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:03:26 +0000

@10s4life Really Thank you for providing me with such a detailed explanation. I’m Harry Zhang, an incoming international freshman at UCLA class of 2024. I’m really anxious and worried about if my offer of admission will be rescinded.

I want to provide you with some insights into the IB scandal this year. In March 2020, the IBO announced that 2020 MAY IB exams would be canceled due to COVID-19, and instead, the students’ IB final grades will be calculated with the algorithm the IBO developed. This solution seemed to be lenient and great at first, but in July when the IBO released 166,000 students results, there were a majority of students had grades that were so different from their original predicted scores (me for example, I have a drop of 11 points from my predicted scores ).

And when many IB teachers and students around the world demanded IBO to make its “score calculating algorithm” public, the IBO refused to do so. This has led to 0% transparency in the IB grading system, and over 166,000 IB students’ future and their entrance to the universities would be determined and destroyed by “a secret algorithm” that is hidden by IB officials. Under the pandemic, this has put more anxiety and depression on all IB students. Non-transparency in the score calculating process has directly led to over 30,000 IB students/parents/ teachers to sign the petition online for justice in the IB education system and to protest the disgraceful thing IBO is doing. (here’s the link: http://■■■■■■■/ftQh5ZSF ) Also, you can search #IBScandal on twitter. There have been thousands of tweets protesting the IB 2020 May results.

I have reported my IB final grades to UCLA’s admission office and tried to contact UCLA admission committee and admission officers, either by the phone or emails, to report my situation right now, but has heard no response. I also contacted my school’s IB coordinator to explain my situation to UCLA and am still waiting for the response.

I’m really anxious and helpless right now because I know that IB graduated students only take a small portion of UCLA admitted freshman this year (class of 2024), and the IB scandal may not be heard by anyone at UCLA campus or admission committee. However, I still want us, the IB graduates, to have justice and get a chance that we deserved to enjoy UCLA’s education opportunity. I don’t want all my 2 yrs’ efforts into IB died in vain.

I feel apprehensive about whether my offer of admission will be rescinded because of words written in the admission contract. I also heard one of my friends (who was admitted to the UCLA class of 2023) that her offer was rescinded due to her IB final grades. But this year’s IB final grades should not be reviewed as normal as the previous year. I would really appreciate it if you can help me report this situation to the UCLA admission committee. Thank you.